Gaza: poverty and unemployment rates at 75 percent
Middle East Monitor / October 18, 2019
The Ministry of Social Development in the Gaza Strip said yesterday that the rates of poverty and unemployment in the Gaza Strip reached nearly 75 percent in 2019.
In a press release it added that 70 per cent of the population of the Gaza Strip is food insecure. This,...
The PA is tainting Palestinian resistance
Ramona Wadi
Middle East Monitor / October 16, 2019
It was only a matter of time before the Palestinian Authority would renege on its word and accept the deducted tax revenues from the Israeli government. After all, the PA is primarily concerned with prolonging its existence, even as it keeps losing any semblance...
Israel arrests Al-Aqsa Mosque preacher
Middle East Monitor / October 17, 2019
Israeli occupation forces yesterday arrested Sheikh Ismail Nawahda, a preacher at Al-Aqsa Mosque, at the Qalandia checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, Wafa news agency reported.
Another 22 Palestinians were also detained yesterday from across the occupied West Bank, the news agency added.
Sheikh Nawahda was taken...
Partying on ethnically cleansed land
Tamara Nassar
The Electronic Intifada / October 16, 2019
Palestinians are calling for the boycott of a music festival taking place where Israel plans to ethnically cleanse tens of thousands of Palestinian Bedouins.
The InDnegev music festival is scheduled to take place in the Naqab desert in southern Israel from 24 to 26 October.
The area is...
Bedouin mass eviction is part of Israel’s concerted efforts to drive Palestinians from their...
Jonathan Cook
The National / Ocober 15, 2019
Thousands have been driven out of their homes because their numbers pose a major demographic threat to the state.
The decades-long struggle by tens of thousands of Israelis against being uprooted from their homes – some for the second or third time – should be...
The last lifeline: The real reason behind Abbas’ call for elections
Ramzy Baroud
Middle East Monitor / October 14, 2019
The call by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for elections in the Occupied Territories is a political ploy. There will be no true, democratic elections under Abbas’ leadership. The real question is: why did he make the call in the first place?
On...
How serious is the decision to halt agreements with Israel ?
Mohsen M. Saleh
Middle East Monitor / August 8, 2019
The decision of the leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority (PA) to stop implementing the agreements signed with the Israeli side, has made its way to the front pages. President Abbas announced the decision on 25...
In leaked video footage… Israeli policemen: Our goal is to provoke further confrontations
Quds News Network / October 14, 2019
Occupied Jerusalem (QNN)- Israeli police officers in the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Isawiyah were caught on camera admitting that there was no purpose to an ongoing police operation in the neighborhood other than deliberately provoking the residents.
The video footage, which was seen by...
Ook Koerden hebben recht op zelfbeschikking
Koerden in het noorden van Syrië – het enige deel van het land dat de afgelopen jaren een betrekkelijke rust heeft gekend – liggen momenteel zwaar onder vuur van de Turkse strijdkrachten. Voor onze ogen voltrekt zich een groot humanitair drama. Een veelbelovend politiek experiment wordt om zeep gebracht.
In...
Palestinian PM says will block Israeli military from Area A ‘with our bodies’
The National / October 13, 2019
Mohammad Shtayyeh said he would put a stop to 'such invasions' of that area of the occupied West Bank
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has pledged to stop Israeli soldiers from entering Area A of the occupied West Bank, the part of the territory...
