Jerusalem (AFP) – The World Bank warned Tuesday that the Gaza Strip’s economy is in “free fall” as cuts to aid and salaries add to an already crippling Israeli blockade on the Hamas-run enclave. The bank’s report will be presented to the international donor group for Palestinians, known as the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee, at […]
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Israel/ Palestine
Bolton Attacked the Int’l Criminal Court for Fear Palestinians will Get Justice
By Philip Leech-Ngo | – U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton is at it again. He recently issued a blistering rebuke of the International Criminal Court (ICC): “We will let the ICC die on its own. After all, for all intents and purposes, the ICC is already dead to us.” Is this another example of […]
Palestinian Schools & Clinics at Risk if Trump Cuts not Made Up: UNRWA
A UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees said schools and health centres are at risk if it is unable to plug a $185 million funding gap needed to keep operating until the end of the year, the agency’s head said on Monday, Reuters reports. “Currently we have money in the bank … will last I […]
“No one will leave:” Palestinian Bedouin reject Israeli Ultimatum to Abandon their Town in Palestine
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — The Israeli Civil Administration ordered on Sunday the Bedouin residents of Khan al-Ahmar village, east of Jerusalem, to demolish their homes and to evacuate the area before the start of October. According to local sources, staff members of the Israeli Civil Administration under the protection of Israeli forces stormed Khan al-Ahmar and […]
Jared Kushner is Wrong: Collective Punishment of Palestinians will not Lead to Peace
By Bill Law @BillLaw49 | – Last week, exactly 25 years after the signing of the Oslo Peace Accord, Jared Kushner commented on the punitive measures that his father-in-law, the President of the United States, had taken against the Palestinian people. “There were,” said Kushner, “too many false realities that were created — that people […]
Spain to Recognize Palestinian State, work for European Union Acceptance
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Spain has become the latest country to voice its readiness to recognize the State of Palestine and that it will promote a European Union (EU) move to recognize Palestine as an independent state. Spain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, spoke at a conference of EU leaders in Austria, saying that the […]
Palestinian Poet whom Israel Imprisoned for her Resistance Verse finally Released from Jail
Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour was released early on Thursday after serving a month and a half in an Israeli prison over posting a resistance poem on social media in 2016, accused of ‘incitement to violence’ and ‘supporting terror’ through her social media posts. “I feel happy to be free after at least three years of […]
The Cost of Exposing Israel’s Illegal Squatter Settlements
New York (Human Rights Watch) – All Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are illegal; some are more illegal than others. Take Mitzpe Yair, which violates not only international law but also Israeli law, because it was built without the government’s permission. On August 31, I took a bus tour organized by Breaking the […]
Trump Closes Palestinian Mission in Revenge for Abbas taking Israel to Int’l Criminal Court
Washington (AFP) – The Palestinian diplomatic mission in Washington ceased operations on Thursday following a demand by the United States to shut down but expressed hope the closure would be short-lived. State Department officials on Monday ordered the office shuttered, in a bid to pressure the Palestinians to enter peace talks with Israel. It was […]
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