Bennett: Israel is working to apply sovereignty to all of Area C
Middle east Monitor / January 9, 2020
Israeli Defence Minister Naftali Bennett said yesterday that “Area C” of the occupied West Bank belongs to Israel, Anadolu reported.
“I solemnly declare that Area C belongs to Israel,” Bennett said at a conference on settlement construction, adding that he has repeatedly called for imposing Israeli...
US envoy: Next plan is to let Israel annex West Bank
Middle East Monitor / January 9, 2020
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said yesterday that America’s next step, after recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and Israel’s sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, is the annexation of the occupied West Bank, Ma’an reported.
In a press conference held jointly with the Israeli Defence...
Israel issues home demolition notices to Palestinian families in Jerusalem
Middle East Monitor / January 8, 2020
The Israeli-run Municipality of Jerusalem delivered at least 12 home demolition notices to Palestinian residents in the city’s Isawiyeh neighbourhood today, Maan News Agency has reported.
The notices were issued under the pretext that the homes were built without a permit. Palestinians are rarely granted building permits by...
Israeli settlers cut 50 olive trees in occupied West Bank
Middle East Monitor / January 9, 2020
Israeli settlers yesterday chopped down more than 50 perennial olive trees in the occupied West Bank’s northern village of Nablus.
The Palestinian official in charge of the settlement file in the northern West Bank, Ghassan Douglas, told Wafa that the settlers from the Jewish illegal settlement...
Justice at Last? ‘Panic’ in Israel as the ICC takes ‘momentous step’ in the...
Ramzy Baroud
Middle East Monitor / January 6, 2020
At long last, Fatou Bensouda, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has uttered the long-anticipated conclusion that “all the statutory criteria under the Rome statute for the opening of an investigation (into alleged war crimes in the Occupied Palestinian...
‘2019 the worst for Gaza on humanitarian, economic levels’
Middle East Monitor / January 8, 2020
Palestinian MP Jamal Al-Khodari, head of the Popular Committee Against the Siege on Gaza, said yesterday that 2019 was the worst year for Palestinians in Gaza since the start of the Israeli imposed siege 13 years ago.
In a statement, Al-Khodari said that the...
Israel’s renewed campaign against UNRWA is an attack on Palestinian education and liberation
Ramona Wadi
Middle East Monitor / January 7, 2020
The international community has still not caught up with, or refuses to acknowledge, Israel’s commitment to countering each purported victory for the Palestinians with yet more violations. These countermeasures implemented by Israel, notably to prevent the UN Relief and Works Agency for...
Undercover police arrest prominent Israeli anti-occupation activist
Middle East Monitor / January 7, 2020
Undercover Israeli police officers arrested prominent Israeli anti-occupation activist Jonathan Pollak at his workplace yesterday morning, reported +972 Magazine, “after he repeatedly refused to appear in court over a private prosecution filed against him by a far-right organisation”.
According to witness accounts, “three officers arrived...
