Palestinian mosque in Jerusalem set ablaze in arson attack
Middle East Monitor / January 24, 2020
Suspected Jewish right-wing extremists attacked a Palestinian mosque in the Beit Safafa neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem pre-dawn today, reported Haaretz.
A blaze broke out inside the mosque, which was quickly brought under control by the emergency services, causing damage but no casualties.
In addition, graffiti was left...
Israeli war crimes rewarded with UN handshakes
Maureen Clare Murphy
The Electronic Intifada / January 24, 2020
The position of the United Nations seems to be: Israeli war crimes are bad, but we’re not going to do anything to stop them and we’re going to undermine meaningful efforts toward accountability.
One example of this is the unprecedented delay of...
Israel continues to flood Gaza farmland
Middle East Monitor / January 24, 2020
Israeli authorities have “for days now” been opening rainwater stores near the besieged Gaza Strip drowning Palestinian land, the enclave’s agriculture ministry reported yesterday.
The ministry added that the occupation forces were “controlling the opening and closing of the rainwater stores in Gaza,” noting...
PA to abandon all agreements if Israel annexes Jordan Valley
Middle East Monitor / January 23, 2020
Member of Fatah Central Committee and PA Minister Hussein Al-Sheikh yesterday warned that all deals signed with Israel will be scrapped should Tel Aviv annex the Jordan Valley, Safa news agency reported.
On Twitter, Al-Sheikh, who is close to the PA President Mahmoud Abbas, wrote:...
How can colleges fight Israel lobby’s threats?
Nora Barrows-Friedman
The Electronic Intifada / January 22, 2020
A right-wing Israel advocacy group has accused progressive professors at a Brooklyn, New York, community college of anti-Semitism.
It is threatening faculty members with legal action based on their perceived support of Palestinian rights.
These accusations are part of an expanding attack on students...
PA calls on ICC to deal with Israeli courts as tools of occupation, judges...
ICC judges dash hopes for swift probe of Israeli war crimes
Maureen Clare Murphy
The Electronic Intifada / January 22, 2020
Judges at the International Criminal Court have just knocked back any hopes for an expeditious investigation of war crimes in Palestine.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is using a Holocaust forum...
US opposes Israel annexation of West Bank before peace plan revealed
Middle East Monitor / January 23, 2020
The White House is opposing any Israeli move to annex parts of the occupied West Bank “before declaring its prospective plan to settle the Israel-Palestinian conflict, known as Deal of the Century,” a US official announced yesterday.
Israel’s Channel 13 quoted the American official, who...
PA calls on ICC to deal with Israeli courts as tools of occupation, judges...
Middle East Monitor / January 21, 2020
The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Tuesday called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to deal with the Israeli court as tools of the occupation and Israeli judges as war criminals.
In a statement issued by the PA’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, the ministry affirmed that...
