Arab MK forced out of Israel parliament after dispute over Gaza offensive
Middle East Monitor / November 14, 2019
Yuli Edelstein, speaker of the Israeli Knesset, yesterday dismissed Arab MK Ahmed Tibi from the Knesset plenum after he heckled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, local media reported.
Arab member of the Knesset shouted “you are lying and inciting against us” during Netanyahu’s speech in which...
Pro-BDS event held in University of Massachusetts despite backlash
Middle East Monitor / November 13, 2019
Some of America’s most high-profile civil rights activists who took part in an event yesterday warning against efforts to outlaw the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement now face a backlash from vocal anti-Palestine groups. Harvard professor Cornell West and other BDS supporters who took part in...
Israel kills 8 members of same family in Gaza
Middle East Monitor / November 14, 2019
Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip have killed eight members of the same family, the Ministry of Health announced today.
Witnesses said Israeli occupation fighters targeted the Al-Sawarka family home at 1:15am local time today, destroying it.
The house is located east of the...
Israel is silencing the last voices trying to stop abuses against Palestinians
Jonathan Cook
CounterPunch / November 12, 2019
It has been a week of appalling abuses committed by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank – little different from the other 2,670 weeks endured by Palestinians since the occupation began in 1967.
The difference this past week was that several entirely unexceptional human rights...
Video : the UN says Gaza will be unlivable in 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfBiOuDvWeY
The shared trauma of Palestinian life
Majed Abusalama
Mondoweiss / November 12, 2019
The most alarming messages to me and my siblings are those messages that come in the middle of the night.
My mother, Halima, is writing to us in our private family chat group that the Israeli bombardment of Gaza started again. She tells us our...
EU’s top court upholds right to boycott Israeli settlement goods
Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada / November 12, 2019
The European Court of Justice ruled on Tuesday that goods from Israeli colonies on occupied Palestinian land must be labelled as originating from settlements.
The judgment is a severe blow to Israel’s efforts to legitimize its colonies in the occupied West Bank and Syria’s Golan...
Israel hopes to gain what, exactly, with its resumption of assassinations?
Adnan Abu Amer
Middle East Monitor / November 12, 2019
In a surprise attack today, the Israeli air force assassinated Bahaa Abu Al-Ata, an Islamic Jihad military official in northern Gaza. Israel accused him of firing rockets. Al-Ata’s wife was also killed in the attack. The killings have prompted Palestinian resistance...
Gaza death toll rises to 18 and the resistance continues to retaliate
Qudsnen / November 13, 2019
Gaza (QNN)- Seven civilians were killed in two separate Israeli attacks on Wednesday, raising the total number of martyrs, who have been killed by the Israelis since the start of the escalation, to 18.
The Ministry of Health stated that 18 Palestinians were killed, including a...
