Many Palestinians are skeptical that a change in the Israeli government due to replace Benjamin Netanyahu will improve their lives, especially amid the controversial comments of PM designate Naftali Bennett. Many Palestinians in the occupied [ More … ]
A growing US partisan divide over Israel-Palestine and a gap between public opinion and policymakers Most Americans and a significant majority of Democrats oppose unrestricted military aid to Israel if it continues to expand settlements in the occupied [ More … ]
While most Islamic and Arab as well as other states strongly condemned Israeli atrocities against civilians in Gaza and elsewhere in Palestine, Abu Dhabi adopted a low-key approach toward the latest round of Israeli violence [ More … ]
Israel’s bombing campaign has killed at least 213 Gaza, including 61 children. Palestinians across the West Bank and in east Jerusalem have mobilized in solidarity, staging protests and a general strike which, shuttering non-essential businesses. [ More … ]
The bustling Sheikh Jarrah, one of the historic Jerusalem neighborhoods built outside its Ottoman city walls, faces a new-old wave of Judaization and forced displacement by Jewish and settler groups which forge history in order [ More … ]
A new generation of Palestinians is rising under Netanyahu’s nose and it is saying ‘enough is enough’, says David Hearst, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye, in a recent article. “Ten years ago, [ More … ]
Amnesty International said evidence indicated Israel has launched ‘violent raids on al-Aqsa’ and ‘unprovoked attacks on peaceful demonstrators in Sheikh Jarrah.’ Amnesty International has condemned Israeli violence and forced evictions against Palestinians in occupied East [ More … ]
The recognition of Israel, even by “the once arch-enemies of Israel”, will exacerbate the impossibility of restoring the 1967 borders and further weaken the Palestinian position As the relationship between the Persian Gulf riparian Arab [ More … ]
Israeli prime minister’s deal has been met with Palestinian anger, and mistrust across Israel’s political spectrum for its lack of transparency. Meanwhile, the Palestinian prime minister said on Monday that the signing of normalization accords [ More … ]
The European Union said the new U.S. peace plan for the Middle East broke with “internationally agreed parameters”, and any Israeli annexation of Palestinian land would be subject to challenge. Meanwhile, the Organization of Islamic [ More … ]
Former US president, Jimmy Carter, announced on Friday that current US President Donald Trump’s “deal of the century” breaches international law, CNN and other international agencies reported. According to Carter, Trump’s deal “breaches international law [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will speak in the United Nations Security Council in the next two weeks about the U.S. Middle East peace plan, Palestinian U.N. envoy Riyad Mansour said on Wednesday. Mansour told reporters [ More … ]
The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly renewed the mandate for a UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees for another three years amid misconduct allegations and a cash shortfall triggered by a halt in US [ More … ]
The United States Congress has advanced a new resolution supporting a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians, which can be brought to the floor for a vote. According to a report in The Hill, lawmakers [ More … ]
The declaration puts the United States at odds with virtually all countries and UN Security Council resolutions The United States no longer believes that Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories are illegal, Secretary of State [ More … ]
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