Palestinian prisoner released after 113 days on hunger strike
Middle East Monitor / January 15, 2020
Palestinian prisoner Ahmad Zahran has been released after spending 113 days on hunger strike in Israeli detention, the head of the Palestinian Commission of Prisoners and ex-Prisoners’ Affairs, Qadri Abu Bakr, announced yesterday.
“Following a 113-day hunger strike Zaher was able to reach an agreement...
UK’s Lord Polak says new Tory government is opportunity for pro-Israel lobbyists
Middle East Monitor / January 15, 2020
A veteran pro-Israel lobbyist in Westminster believes the recently-elected Conservative government represents an important opportunity to advance Israel’s interests amongst British decision-makers.
Lord Polak, a Tory peer, and president of Conservative Friends of Israel, was speaking to right-wing news outlet JNS days after a speech in...
Labour’s ‘anti-Semitism crisis’ will continue until all pro-Palestine members are silenced
Asa Winstanley
Middle East Monitor / December 16, 2019
There’s no getting away from the fact that last Thursday’s General Election was a disaster for the left in Britain. Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party lost almost as many seats as it did in the calamitous 1983 election.
Labour’s leader at the time was...
Hamas: PA arrested 195 members in one week
Middle East Monitor / January 14, 2020
Hamas yesterday said that the local security forces of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the occupied West Bank had arrested 195 its members in a week.
The Hamas explained in a statement that the detainees were “ex-prisoners, former political detainees, and university students from...
Tibi: Joint List will not back Gantz if he plans to annex Jordan Valley
Middle East Monitor / January 14, 2020
Arab Member of the Israeli Knesset Ahmed Tibi has pledged that the Arab parties will not back a government coalition led by the Blue and White party if it advances proposals to annex the Jordan Valley, Ma’an news agency reported.
During a Knesset session to discuss...
Jordan’s king: Dialogue with Israel ‘paused’ for 2 years
Middle East Monitor / January 14, 2020
In an interview with France24 broadcast yesterday, Jordanian King Abdullah II has said that dialogue with Israel had been “on pause” for two years.
The king said the reason for the lack of dialogue is the absence of an Israeli government, stressing that “there has been no bilateral...
Israel threatens to kill Nasrallah over repeated warnings to occupation state
Middle East Monitor / January 14, 2020
Israeli minister of intelligence and foreign affairs, Israel Katz, on Monday threatened that Israel would assassinate Hassan Nasrallah over his repeated warnings to the occupation state.
On his Twitter account, Katz posted: “Nasrallah does not stop attacking Netanyahu and threatening Israel. As his ordeal worsens, his arrogance increases.”
The member...
