US promotes meeting between MBS and Netanyahu
Middle East Monitor / February 7, 2020
Extensive diplomatic talks are taking place between the US, Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, to set up a summit in Cairo to include an exclusive meeting between Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed Bin Salman, according to senior Arab diplomatic sources...
PA seeks to replace Israel agricultural products with Jordan goods
Middle East Monitor / February 7, 2020
The Palestinian Authority (PA) is seeking to replace Israeli agricultural products in the local market with Jordanian goods, agriculture minister, Riyad Al-Atari, announced yesterday.
Speaking in a meeting with Jordanian counterpart Ibrahim Al-Shehadeh in Ramallah, Al-Atari discussed the close trade ties between the two countries. The...
Israel attacks children’s rights NGO as ‘terror supporter’
Middle East Monitor / February 7, 2020
Israel has launched an attack on a renowned children’s rights organisation, prompted by an invitation by Belgium to host the NGO at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
Defence for Children International-Palestine (DCIP) works to highlight human rights violations experienced by Palestinian children under...
Palestinian bodies submit report on Israel apartheid to UN human rights council
Middle East Monitor / February 7, 2020
A group of Palestinian and international civil society organisations have sent a joint submission on Israeli apartheid to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
According to the press release issued by the Gaza Strip-based Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), the 13 human rights groups...
Israel public want unity government between Likud, Blue and White
Middle East Monitor / February 7, 2020
A new poll of Israeli voters suggests that the public’s preferred result for the forthcoming election is a national unity government of Likud and Blue and White.
According to the poll, conducted on behalf of the Jerusalem Post and Maariv, asked what government they preferred be formed...
Decades after a Palestinian American activist was assassinated in California, two suspects in his...
David Sheen
The Intercept / February 6 2020
Alex Odeh was born in 1944 in British Mandate Palestine to a Christian family in the West Bank village of Jifna, near Ramallah, just four years before the founding of Israel. He immigrated in 1972 to the United States, where he became a...
Israel soldiers turn Palestinians away from Al-Aqsa Mosque
Middle East Monitor / February 7, 2020
Hundreds of Palestinian worshippers making their way to Al-Aqsa Mosque for Friday prayers were prevented from entering the holy site.
Stationed at the entrance of Jerusalem, Israeli occupation forces stopped buses ferrying Palestinians to the holy site for morning prayers and forced them to U-turn...
Blue and White MK: Joint List isn’t our partner
Middle East Monitor / February 7, 2020
A senior Blue and White lawmaker affirmed yesterday that the party has no intention of cooperating with the Joint List after the coming election.
As reported by right-wing news outlet Arutz Sheva, MK Yoaz Hendel was being interviewed by Radio 103FM on the subject of next month’s elections,...
Israel minister: PA would collapse without security coordination
Middle East Monitor / February 7, 2020
Israel’s Interior Minister Aryeh Deri said the Palestinian Authority would collapse within a week if it stopped security coordination with Tel Aviv.
“The security coordination is important for Israel, but it is more important for the Palestinian Authority,” Deri said in a radio interview...
