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Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
Kushner's New Ideas for Palestine are Israeli PM Netanyahu's Old Ones

Kushner’s New Ideas for Palestine are Israeli PM Netanyahu’s Old Ones

Middle East Monitor

By Oraib Al-Rantawi @OraibAlRantawi | – Kushner’s new ideas are not different from Netanyahu’s old ones. The inexperienced US president’s son-in-law, with poor charisma, who, as a result of family connections, jumped to the top of the American leadership hierarchy and took over a handful of the most complex foreign policy files (the Palestinian issue […]

Israel/ Palestine
Do Israel Pharmaceutical Firms Test Medicines on Palestinian Prisoners?

Do Israel Pharmaceutical Firms Test Medicines on Palestinian Prisoners?

Middle East Monitor

Israeli Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian has charged that the Israeli occupation authorities issues permits to large pharmaceutical firms to carry out tests on Palestinian and Arab prisoners, Felesteen.ps reported. The Times of Israel also reported that in a recording from the event the Hebrew University lecturer also revealed that the Israeli military firms are testing weapons […]

Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders returns Palestine to the Center of Political Debate in the US

Bernie Sanders returns Palestine to the Center of Political Debate in the US

Middle East Monitor

By Ray Hanania | – Last month, leading Israeli journalist Tal Schneider told a teleconference hosted by Americans for Peace Now that the issue of the occupation and Palestinian rights has almost vanished from the Israeli political conversation. In previous years, it loomed heavy over nearly every election campaign. The shift in Israeli politics has […]

Israel/ Palestine
European Union has Documented Israeli War Crimes, but When Will it Punish Them?

European Union has Documented Israeli War Crimes, but When Will it Punish Them?

Middle East Monitor

By Kamel Hawwash | – The lack of action to bring Israel to account for more than seven decades’ worth of crimes against the Palestinian people is obvious. “Enough is enough” is an overused phrase, but in the case of the people of occupied Palestine, it does not even scratch the surface in terms of […]

Donald Trump
Netanyahu’s Likud Party uses Trump Photo in Israeli Election Billboard

Netanyahu’s Likud Party uses Trump Photo in Israeli Election Billboard

Middle East Monitor

A giant billboard of a smiling Donald Trump shaking hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu loomed over parts of Tel Aviv on Sunday, part of the Israeli leader’s re-election campaign. Trump is popular in Israel because of his tough policies towards the Palestinians and Iran and his transfer last May of the American Embassy from […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Siege of Gaza producing "Grotesque" Medical Crisis: European Doctors

Israeli Siege of Gaza producing “Grotesque” Medical Crisis: European Doctors

Middle East Monitor

A group of eminent medical and health professionals has drawn attention to the devastating situation in the hospitals across the Gaza Strip. In a letter to the British Medical Journal, Derek A Summerfield et al referred to the fact that last August they published a rapid response at bmj.com to publicise “the cumulatively devastating effects […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israel demolishes Bedouin village Al-Araqeeb for 139th time, Plans Expulsion of 36,000

Israel demolishes Bedouin village Al-Araqeeb for 139th time, Plans Expulsion of 36,000

Middle East Monitor

Israeli bulldozers demolished the unrecognised Bedouin village of Al-Araqeeb in the Negev desert in southern Israel for the 139th time yesterday morning. Villagers of Al-Araqeeb reported that Israeli forces and the “Yoav” unit from the Israeli Negev Development Authority stormed the village, escorting bulldozers and vehicles that carried out the demolition. Women, children, and the […]

Yemen
UN: Saudi-Led War on Yemen has Killed 6,700 Children, Left 358,000 Severely Malnourished

UN: Saudi-Led War on Yemen has Killed 6,700 Children, Left 358,000 Severely Malnourished

Middle East Monitor

More than 6700 children have been killed since the outbreak of the Yemen war in 2015, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) announced yesterday. “Around 358,000 Yemeni children suffer from severe acute malnutrition,” UNICEF said on Twitter, stressing that the victims required “immediate treatment.” The UN organisation called for “halting attacks” against children […]

Israel/ Palestine
One Dead as Israeli Squatter Mob Shoots Palestinians in Occupied West Bank

One Dead as Israeli Squatter Mob Shoots Palestinians in Occupied West Bank

Middle East Monitor

Hamdi Taleb Na’asan, a 38 year old farmer, was killed by Israeli settlers in the West Bank village of al-Mughayer. Israeli settlers shot and killed a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, Palestinian officials and the Israeli military said. The incident followed a confrontation between settlers and Palestinians near the city of […]

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