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Prisoner dies after 17 years in Israeli detention Tamara Nassar

The Electronic Intifada  /  November 13, 2020 A Palestinian prisoner died on Tuesday after 17 years in Israeli detention. Kamal Abu Waar, 46, died at the Shamir Medical Center in Tel Aviv. He was diagnosed with throat cancer last year. Abu Waar was being held at the Gilboa prison in...

Trends in Congress spell hope for Palestinians

Kathryn Shihadah If Americans Knew  /  November 14, 2020 Capitol Hill has for years been a no-questions-asked, pro-Israel fortress, with Israel advocates pushing out people like like Paul Findley, Pete McCloskey, and Cynthia McKinney when they spoke out about Palestinian human rights. Now that tide may be turning, and...

Israel’s alternative to one- and two-state solutions

Adnan Abu Amer Middle East Monitor  /  November 13, 2020 With the ongoing impasse in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, some new proposals have been published covering an alternative to an independent Palestinian state. This has clearly been done with Biden's victory and the end of the Trump era in mind. The latest...

[creeping annexation] Israel to accelerate settlement building fearing possible freeze by Biden

Middle East Monitor  /  November 14, 2020 Israeli occupation authorities have ordered preparations for expediting settlement construction before a possible freeze by President-elect Joe Biden upon entering the White House, Israeli media has revealed. As vice president, Israeli daily Haaretz reported, Biden had a crucial role in suspending new construction in...

[creeping annexation] Israel builds new settler-only road, steals 2sq km of Palestinian land

Middle East Monitor  /  November 13, 2020 A new road for Israeli settlers is being built illegally by the occupation forces on Palestinian land in the south of the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency reported. The new road will run from the illegal Jewish settlement of Avigal and pass through the village of...

WHO slams Israel for health violations against Palestine

Middle East Monitor  /  November 13, 2020 The World Health Organisation (WHO) yesterday condemned Israel for its violations of health rights in the Palestinian territories and in the occupied Golan Heights during the coronavirus pandemic. Representatives from dozens of countries, including Malaysia, Lebanon and Venezuela delivered speeches slamming Israel...

‘Dangerous precedent’: Palestinian premier warns Pompeo over settlement visit

MEE Staff Middle East Eye  /  November 13, 2020 Mike Pompeo's visit, a first for a US secretary of state, will 'legitimise' Israeli settlements despite international consensus over their illegality, warns Prime Minister Shtayyeh. Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh slammed US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's plan to visit illegal Israeli...

Pompeo to become first US secretary of state to visit illegal Jewish settlement

MEE Staff Middle East Eye  /  November 13, 2020 The move comes in the last months of the staunchly pro-Israel Trump administration. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is set to visit an illegal Jewish settlement in the Palestinian West Bank and the Syrian Golan Heights, both occupied by Israel since...

dossier ‘Israel & de bom’ (36 pagina’s)

Nederlands Palestina Komitee  /  november 2020 Israel heeft er de afgelopen jaren alles aan gedaan om de confrontatie met Iran tot een gevaarlijk niveau op te voeren. In 1979 maakte de Islamitische Revolutie niet alleen een eind aan de nauwe samenwerking tussen Teheran en Tel Aviv, sindsdien zijn beide...

The PA needs to clarify its concept of ‘negotiations’ in abandoned Palestine

Ramona Wadi Middle East Monitor  /  November 12, 2020 The US "deal of the century" may be scrapped when President-elect Joe Biden takes office in January, but its ramifications will not necessarily be anathema to the incoming administration. Just as outgoing President Donald Trump utilised decades of international and...