Israeli agritech profits from military occupation
Maureen Clare Murphy
The Electronic Intifada / January 17, 2020
Israeli agritech companies “are deeply complicit in the occupation of Palestinian and Syrian land,” according to a new report by the corporate watchdog Who Profits.
Technology developed in the context of the occupation is used by Israel’s seemingly benign precision agriculture industry. This civilian...
Israel announces 7 nature reserves in West Bank and expansion of 12 others
Middle East Monitor / January 16, 2020
The Israeli defence minister, Naftali Bennett approved the creation of 7 nature reserves and the expansion of 12 others in Area C of the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli defence minister, Naftali Bennett, on Wednesday approved the creation of seven nature reserves and the expansion...
Sealed off and forgotten: What you should know about Israel’s ‘Firing Zones’ in the...
Ramzy Baroud
Middle East Monitor / January 13, 2020
A seemingly ordinary news story, published in the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, on January 7, shed light on a long-forgotten, yet crucial, subject: Israel’s so-called “firing zones” in the West Bank.
“Israel has impounded the only vehicle available to a medical team that provides assistance to 1,500...
Israel’s fear of prosecution strengthens Palestine narratives
Ramona Wadi
Middle East Monitor / January 16, 2020
Israeli media has reported that the International Criminal Court (ICC) could issue secret arrest warrants for Israeli officials involved in war crimes against the Palestinian people. According to a senior Israeli official who spoke to Israel Hayom, “The very fact that an ICC investigation will...
The race to annexation
Nasser Nasser
Middle East Monitor / January 15, 2020
We are witnessing the “annexation of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley” fever and the left in Israel is running to catch up to Israel. This is the meaning of what one of Israel’s senior investigative journalist, Raviv Drucker, revealed in Haaretz yesterday,...
Acting head of UN Palestinian refugee agency says US, Israel working against it
Middle East Monitor / January 16, 2020
The interim head of the UN agency that aids Palestinian refugees accused the United States on Thursday of lobbying foreign parliaments to stop donations to the organisation, to which Washington cut off funding in 2018, Reuters reports.
Christian Saunders, in an interview with Reuters in his...
Gaza farmers: ‘Israel destroyed all of our crops’
Middle East Monitor / January 16, 2020
After the dams which were built in areas controlled by Israel to block rainwater streaming through valleys crossing the Gaza Strip had been opened twice, Gazan farmers claim that all of their crops were completely destroyed.
Speaking to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, Palestinian farmer, Mahmoud Shamali, explained: “The opening...
PLO: Israel blocks 250 bodies of Palestine martyrs
Middle East Monitor / January 16, 2020
PLO’s Committee of Prisoners and Freed Prisoners announced on Wednesday that Israel continues to block 250 bodies of Palestinian martyrs in its ‘cemeteries of numbers’, Al Watan Voice reported.
According to Hassan Abed-Rabbu, spokesman of the committee, burying the Palestinian martyrs in the ‘cemeteries of numbers’ contradicts...
ICC chief prosecutor dismisses anti-Semitism allegation
Middle East Monitor / January 16, 2020
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has rejected the charge of anti-Semitism following its announcement to launch a full investigation into alleged Israeli war crimes in the Palestinian Territories.
The landmark decision was met with hostility in Tel-Aviv. Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, dismissed the court’s decision, stating that it...
