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Israel/ Palestine
With 130 Gaza Palestinians having lost limbs to Israeli Snipers in past Year, Qatar opens Amputee Rehab Center

With 130 Gaza Palestinians having lost limbs to Israeli Snipers in past Year, Qatar opens Amputee Rehab Center

Middle East Monitor

More than 130 Gazans have lost their limbs during border protests in the past year. Qatar is inaugurating the Gaza Strip’s first prosthetic hospital and disability rehab centre after many delays. Officials from the oil-rich Arab nation attended the opening Monday in Gaza City. Qatar built the hospital after its then-emir visited Gaza in 2012. […]

Saudi Arabia
Revolutionary Sudan granted $3 bn. by Saudis & Emirates, Hostile to Democracy

Revolutionary Sudan granted $3 bn. by Saudis & Emirates, Hostile to Democracy

Middle East Monitor

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) said on Sunday they had agreed to send Sudan $3 billion worth of aid, throwing a lifeline to its new military leaders after protests led to the ouster of President Omar al-Bashir. The two countries will deposit $500 million with the Sudanese central bank and send the […]

Israel/ Palestine
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls for slashing US Aid to Israel over Netanyahu Reelection

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls for slashing US Aid to Israel over Netanyahu Reelection

Middle East Monitor

US Congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has proposed the US cut military and economic aid worth $3 billion a year from Israel in response to the re-election of Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister. “I think these are part of conversations we are having in our caucus, but I think what we are really seeing is an ascent […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Army Covered up Squatters’ Murder of Wounded Palestinian Father

Israeli Army Covered up Squatters’ Murder of Wounded Palestinian Father

Middle East Monitor

The Israeli army covered up the killing of a Palestinian father by illegal Israeli settlers, Israeli NGO B’Tselem has claimed. Twenty-three-year-old Mohammed Abd Al-Fatah was killed near Huwara, a village located off route 60 south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on 3 April. Though media reports at the time stated that a “would-be […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel's Netanyahu campaigned on Destroying every Palestinian Dream: Now for the Implementation

Israel’s Netanyahu campaigned on Destroying every Palestinian Dream: Now for the Implementation

Middle East Monitor

By Motasem A Dalloul | @AbujomaaGaza | – After securing 36 seats in the Knesset, and with other right-wing parties winning at least 30, it is obvious that the leader of Israel’s Likud party, Benjamin Netanyahu, is going to form the next — his fifth — government. Although he is not as pragmatic a leader […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel: Likud PR company with Squatter Links boasts Secret Cameras Suppressed Arab-Israeli Turnout

Israel: Likud PR company with Squatter Links boasts Secret Cameras Suppressed Arab-Israeli Turnout

Middle East Monitor

An Israeli public relations firm has admitted that it was behind the Likud campaign to place secret cameras in Arab-Israeli polling stations during Tuesday’s election, boasting that the move caused low turnout among Palestinian citizens of Israel. The Kaizler Inbar PR company said yesterday on its Facebook page that it had orchestrated the stunt, explaining: […]

Israel/ Palestine
Far Right, Expansionist Netanyahu Poised to win 5th Term as Israeli PM

Far Right, Expansionist Netanyahu Poised to win 5th Term as Israeli PM

Middle East Monitor

Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have won the Israeli national elections, securing a record fifth term in office despite having to run against popular rival Benny Gantz, the country’s three main television channels said on Wednesday. With 97 percent of the votes counted, none of the candidates’ parties had captured a ruling majority, but […]

Israel/ Palestine
Dem Pres. Hopeful Beto:  "Netanyahu is Racist, siding with  far right party"

Dem Pres. Hopeful Beto: “Netanyahu is Racist, siding with far right party”

Middle East Monitor

US presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke has slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and called him a racist just days before the Israeli general election. In a campaign speech at the University of Iowa, the former Texas congressman said: “The US-Israel relationship is one of the most important relationships that we have on the planet.” “And […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli PM Netanyahu vows to usurp much of Palestinian West Bank

Israeli PM Netanyahu vows to usurp much of Palestinian West Bank

Middle East Monitor

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that he would annex Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank if he wins another term in office, a last-minute pre-election promise likely to enrage Palestinians and the Arab world. In an interview with Israeli Channel 12 News three days ahead of the 9 April poll, Netanyahu […]

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