The EU and the [so-called] Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process in a Post-Mogherini Era
Grace Wermenbol
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace / October 3, 2019
Under the leadership of Josep Borrell, the newly-nominated High Representative of the European Union, the EU will continue its reactionary political approach to the Middle East peace process.
Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell, who is in line to replace Federica Mogherini as High...
The Bedouin Authority plans to place displaced Bedouins in transitional camps
Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality / October 10, 2019
According to the official explanation of plans 624-0765792 and 652-0767921 “Temporary Housing Solutions and Public Buildings for the Bedouin Population in the Negev” proffered on the Israeli Planning Administration’s website, the purpose of the plan is:
“to provide temporary housing solutions for Bedouin populations presently...
UN expert calls for ban on Israeli products from settlements
Edith Lederer
AP / October 23, 2019
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. independent expert on human rights in the Palestinian territories called Wednesday for an international ban on all products made in Israeli settlements as a step to potentially end Israel’s 52-year “illegal occupation.”
Michael Lynk told the General Assembly’s human rights...
Gaza’s private sector operating at 15% production capacity due to siege
Middle East Monitor / October 25, 2019
The head of the Palestinian Businessmen Association, Ali al-Hayek, said that the private sector in Gaza is operating at a production capacity of no less than 15% due to the continued division and siege.
The bad conditions in Gaza are still affecting the economy,...
Americans overwhelmingly reject anti-BDS laws, poll finds
Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada / October 23, 2019
Americans overwhelmingly reject laws designed to penalize supporters of BDS – the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement for Palestinian rights, according to a new poll.
More than 70 percent of respondents oppose laws that target BDS activism as an infringement on the constitutional right...
Israeli leaks disrupt setting up naval force in Gulf
Middle East Monitor / October 24, 2019
The US administration has criticised leaks by Israeli officials about Tel Aviv’s partnership in a naval force being set up to protect vessels in the Gulf waters, Ma’an reported yesterday.
Monitors said the leaks caused problems because many Gulf states do not want to disclose...
Hebrew sources: Tel Aviv getting ready for direct Iranian attack with cruise missiles or...
Middle East Monitor / October 24, 2019
Israeli Army radio station revealed that Tel Aviv is preparing for a direct Iranian attack by a cruise missile or a drone in response to the recent Israeli attacks on Iranian-backed armed groups in the region that were attributed to the occupying state.
Unlike...
Increase in destruction of Palestinian property in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem
OCHA / October 23, 2019
The Monthly Humanitarian Bulletin | September 2019
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid (OCHA)
Demolitions and the story of a West Bank family
Aziz, is a 25 years old Palestinian from Khirbet ar Ras al Ahmar, a small Bedouin community in the northern Jordan Valley. Over...
The War on Truth: How Israel’s social media trolls conquered Facebook
Ramzy Baroud
Middle East Monitor / October 20, 2019
On October 9, the social media platform, Facebook, deleted the page of the popular Palestinian news website, the Palestinian Information Center (PIC). This act, which was carried out without even contacting the page administrators, confirms that Facebook’s war on pro-Palestine voices is continuing unabated.
PIC had nearly...
Palestine workers forced to pay to work in Israel
Middle East Monitor / October 23, 2019
Some 20,000 Palestinian workers paid $140 million to brokers and employers in order to get permits allowing them to work in Israel, Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed yesterday.
The workers make up 33 per cent of all Palestinian labourers in Israel, the paper added.
According to the report,...
