Israel minister demands more demolitions of Palestinian structures: ‘I am not at the UN’
Middle East Monitor / January 7, 2020
Israeli Defence Minister Naftali Bennett yesterday vowed to demolish all Palestinian structures build without an impossible-to-obtain permit in “Area C” of the occupied West Bank, reported the Jerusalem Post.
Touring the Jordan Valley region of the occupied West Bank, Bennett joked: “I am not at...
Miles of Smiles sends 14 ambulances to Gaza
Middle East Monitor / January 7, 2020
Miles of Smiles Convoy announced yesterday that 14 ambulances equipped to meet the needs of the disabled had arrived in Gaza Strip.
“The ambulances entered into Gaza through the Rafah Crossing and were handed over to the Ministry of Health,” the statement said, noting...
Israeli justice… a futile chase
Stanley Cohen
CounterPunch / January 3, 2020
“Doctrine of Futility”
Seventeen years ago, 23 year old Rachel Corrie (a Washington State volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement) was crushed to death by an armoured military bulldozer as she stood on top of a mound of dirt trying to prevent the dozer from destroying a...
Jeffrey Epstein was blackmailing politicians for Israel’s Mossad, new book claims
Middle East Monitor / January 6, 2020
The deceased American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell were Israeli spies who used underage girls to blackmail politicians into giving information to Israel, according to their alleged Mossad handler.
The couple reportedly ran a “honey-trap” operation in...
Israel arrested 35, wounded 21 fishermen in Gaza in 2019
Middle East Monitor / January 6, 2020
Israeli occupation forces arrested 35 and wounded 21 Palestinian fishermen off the Gaza coast during 2019, the Coordinator of Palestinian Fishermen Zakariya Baker said yesterday.
Speaking to Quds Press, Baker said that all of these violations took place at sea, noting that the Israeli occupation...
Israel transfers Palestine prisoners from Rimon to Nafha
Middle East Monitor / January 6, 2020
Israeli occupation Special Forces yesterday raided Section 6 of Rimon Prison and transferred all the Palestinian prisoners to Nafha Prison in the Negev, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Committee (PPC) said.
Nafha Prison is located in the Negev, which is the largest desert in Palestine and...
Israel bans the athan 49 times at Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque
Middle East Monitor / January 6, 2020
Israeli settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque 23 times in December and banned the Muslim call to prayer from the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron 49 times, the Ministry of Religious Endowments said in its monthly report.
The report prepared by the Ministry’s Public Relations and Information...
Netanyahu, in apparent stumble, calls Israel ‘nuclear power’
Reuters / January 5, 2020
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - In an apparent slip of the tongue on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described Israel as a nuclear power before correcting himself with a bashful nod and an embarrassed smile.
Israel is widely believed to have an atomic arsenal but has never confirmed...
