Israel’s crackdown on Palestinians in Negev/Naqab threatens Bedouins and its own government

Mustafa Abu Sneineh Middle East Eye  /  January 13, 2022 As Palestinian citizens fight forestation project in the Negev/Naqab, the plan faces backlash from Palestinian Knesset...

Only 50 homes destroyed in Israel’s 2021 attack on Gaza rebuilt, others remain in...

Reuters  /  January 13, 2022 Palestinian Zeyad Abu Odah watched with a smile as his four-storey house, destroyed in an Israeli air strike in last...

Israel: Supreme Court reduces sentence for Jewish settler who threw stun grenades at Palestinians

Middle East Monitor  /  January 13, 2022 Israel's Supreme Court has reduced the sentence of an extremist Jewish settler convicted of throwing stun grenades into...

Islamic Development Bank to donate $33m for Palestine projects

Middle East Monitor  /  January 13, 2022 The Islamic Development Bank is to donate $33 million to support projects in the occupied West Bank and...

Israel to demolish mosque, homes, cut power in East Jerusalem

Middle East Monitor  /  January 13, 2022 Israeli authorities yesterday issued a decision to demolish an under-construction mosque in Jerusalem's north-eastern town of Issawiya. Local sources...

Hebron/Al-Khalil: far-right Jewish settler appointed as tour guide for US army officers

Middle East Monitor  /  January 13, 2022 US army officers were given a tour of the Palestinian city of Hebron/Al-Khalil last week by a far-right...

Boycott of Israel-sponsored Sydney Festival gains momentum

Nora Barrows-Friedman The Electronic Intifada  /  January 12, 2022 Artists are continuing to pull their performances from the Sydney Festival in Australia over its sponsorship by the Israeli...

Danger rises for Gaza’s fishers

Ahmed al-Sammak The Electronic Intifada  /  January 12, 2022  Beirut al-Aqraa was two miles out at sea on 24 December when his fishing boat started to...

Blind to apartheid, Tom Friedman offers Israel as model for U.S. democracy

Philip Weiss Mondoweiss  /  January 12, 2022 Offering the new Israeli government as a model for fixing American democracy, Tom Friedman leaves out that numerous human...

Israeli forces violently suppress Palestinian protest in Naqab

Zena al-Tahhan Al-Jazeera  /  January 13, 2022 Dozens of Bedouin Palestinian protesters wounded by Israeli forces who fired rubber-coated bullets, tear gas and stun grenades. Beer al...