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August 9, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Today, Israel assassinated a top Palestinian commander, Ibrahim Nabulsi, in Nablus, along with two other fighters, Islam Sabbouh, and Hussein Taha. This bloody action is intrinsically linked to the bloody events in Gaza...
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August 8, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
It seemed that it was all but a done deal: Israel was finally managing to bend the Arabs to its will, and Palestine was becoming a marginal issue that...
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August 6, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's recent tour in Africa was meant to be a game changer, not only in terms of Russia's relations with the continent, but in the...
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August 1, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Until recently, Israeli politics did not matter to Palestinians. Though the Palestinian people maintained their political agency under the most demoralising conditions, their collective action rarely influenced outcomes in...
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July 25, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
To describe US President Joe Biden's recent visit to Israel and Palestine as a "failure" in terms of activating the dormant "peace process" is to use a misnomer. For...
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The new United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese, is faced with a colossal task. She is...
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July 20, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
In a blog entry, reflecting on the G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting in Bali, Indonesia, on 7-8 July, the High Representative of the European Union, Josep Borrell, seems to have...
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July 18, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
"We regret we failed to protect you." This was part of a statement issued by United Nations human rights experts on 14 July, urging the Israeli government to release...
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July 13, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The collapse of the short-lived Israeli government of Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid validates the argument that the political crisis in Israel was not entirely instigated and sustained by...
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July 12, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The G7 summit in Elmau, Germany, June 26-28, and the NATO summit in Madrid, Spain, two days later, were practically useless in terms of providing actual solutions to ongoing...
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July 5, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Fifteen years have passed since Israel imposed a total siege on the Gaza Strip, subjecting nearly two million Palestinians to one of the longest and most cruel politically-motivated blockades...
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June 29, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Dedicated to the memory of Ghassan Kanafani, an iconic Palestinian leader and engaged intellectual who was assassinated by the Israeli Mossad on July 8, 1972
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This is, said Italian socialist Antonio Gramsci, the "interregnum"; the rare and seismic moment in history when great transitions occur, when empires collapse and others rise, and when new...
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June 20, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The Palestine National Football Team has, once more, done the seemingly impossible by qualifying for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup. By any standards, this is a great achievement, especially...
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June 13, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
While it is true that Zionism is a modern political ideology that has exploited religion to achieve specific colonial objectives in Palestine, prophecies continue to be a critical component...
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June 8, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Starting on 31 May, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov embarked on a tour of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, where he visited Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab...
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June 6, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
What took place between May 2021 and May 2022 is nothing less than a paradigm shift in Palestinian resistance. Thanks to the popular and inclusive nature of Palestinian mobilisation...
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May 31, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The distance between Ukraine and Mali is measured in thousands of kilometres, but the geopolitical distance is much closer. So close, in fact, that it appears as if the...
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May 30, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Israel's Supreme Court has decided that the Palestinian region of Masafer Yatta in the southern hills of Hebron is to be appropriated entirely by the Israeli military and that...
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May 23, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The Nakba is back on the Palestinian agenda. For nearly three decades, Palestinians were told that the Nakba – or Catastrophe – is a thing of the past. That...
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The position of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, has never been occupied by a woman. Until 1...
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May 16, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Israel's coalition government of right-wing Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, is on the verge of collapse, which is unsurprising. Israeli politics, after all, is among the most fractious in the...
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May 11, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The Russia-Ukraine war has turned quickly into a global conflict. One of the likely outcomes of this is the redefinition of the current world order, which has been in...
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Like typical analyses offered by western intelligence when trying to assess risks or understand major political phenomena in the Middle East, Israeli intelligence is equally short-sighted. It insists on...
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Palestinians are justifiably worried that the mandate granted to the United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, might be coming to an end. UNRWA's mission, which has been in...
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April 29, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
While international news headlines remain largely focused on the war in Ukraine, little attention is given to the horrific consequences of the war which are felt in many regions...
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April 26, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
Ever since 15 April, the Israeli occupation army and police have raided Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem on a daily basis. Under the pretence of providing protection for provocative...
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April 19, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
A young journalist friend of mine in Gaza, Mohammed Rafik Mhawesh, told me that food prices in the besieged territory have rocketed in recent weeks. Already impoverished families are...
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April 14, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
The meeting between Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi in the eastern Chinese city of Huangshan on 30 March is likely to go down...
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April 12, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
There is a reason why Israel is insistent on linking the series of attacks carried out by Palestinians recently to a specific location, namely the Jenin refugee camp in...
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April 5, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
When Russian and Ukrainian delegations meeting in Turkey on 29 March reached an initial understanding regarding a list of countries that could serve as security guarantors for Kyiv should...
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April 2, 2022
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
When a gruesome six-minute video of Ukrainian soldiers shooting and torturing handcuffed and tied-up Russian soldiers circulated online, outraged people on social media and elsewhere compared this barbaric behaviour...
![Book Launch of Ramzy's Baroud latest book - The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story on 27 March, 2018 [Jehan Alfarra/Middle East Monitor]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/104A1259.jpg?resize=400%2C385&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
![Firefighters and Palestinians inspect the scene after the raid by Israeli soldiers in Nablus, West Bank on August 09, 2022. [Issam Rimawi - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AA-20220809-28604635-28604627-ISRAELI_FORCES_KILL_TWO_PALESTINIANS_IN_WEST_BANK.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Today, Israel assassinated a top Palestinian commander, Ibrahim Nabulsi, in Nablus, along with two other fighters, Islam Sabbouh, and Hussein Taha. This bloody action is intrinsically linked to the bloody events in Gaza...![Smoke and flames rise as Israel carries out air strikes in Gaza on 5 August 2022 [Abed Zagout/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AA-20220805-28581831-28581828-ISRAELI_AIRSTRIKES_OVER_GAZA_STRIP.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
It seemed that it was all but a done deal: Israel was finally managing to bend the Arabs to its will, and Palestine was becoming a marginal issue that...![Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (R) meets Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia Demeke Mekonnen (L) at Russian Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on July 27, 2022. [Minasse Wondimu Hailu - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/AA-20220727-28513398-28513385-RUSSIAN_FOREIGN_MINISTER_SERGEY_LAVROV_IN_ETHIOPIA.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's recent tour in Africa was meant to be a game changer, not only in terms of Russia's relations with the continent, but in the...![Israeli Prime Minster Naftali Bennett (L) and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (R) attend a traditional group photo with minsters of the new Israeli government on June 14, 2021 in Jerusalem, Israel [Amir Levy/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/GettyImages-1233444138.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Until recently, Israeli politics did not matter to Palestinians. Though the Palestinian people maintained their political agency under the most demoralising conditions, their collective action rarely influenced outcomes in...![US President Joe Biden (L) and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem, West Bank on July 15, 2022 [Palestinian Presidency/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/AA-20220715-28423919-28423917-US_PRESIDENT_JOE_BIDEN_IN_WEST_BANK.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
To describe US President Joe Biden's recent visit to Israel and Palestine as a "failure" in terms of activating the dormant "peace process" is to use a misnomer. For...![UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese [HillelNeuer/twitter]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Francesca-Albanese.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The new United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese, is faced with a colossal task. She is...![High Representative of the European Union Josep Borrell in Brussels, Belgium on March 21, 2022 [Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/20220321_2_52724372_74953489.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
In a blog entry, reflecting on the G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting in Bali, Indonesia, on 7-8 July, the High Representative of the European Union, Josep Borrell, seems to have...![Palestinian Ahmed Manasra is seen during his hearing in Be'er Sheva, Israel on April 13, 2022. [Mostafa Alkharouf - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/AA-20220413-27554636-27554617-PALESTINIAN_PRISONER_AHMED_MANASRAS_HEARING_IN_BEER_SHEVA.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
"We regret we failed to protect you." This was part of a statement issued by United Nations human rights experts on 14 July, urging the Israeli government to release...![Naftali Bennett, Israeli's new prime minister and leader of the Yamina party, right, speaks with Yair Lapid, Israeli's new foreign affair minister and leader of the Yesh Atid party, during a meeting of the new government at the Knesset in Jerusalem, Israel, on Sunday, June 13, 2021 [Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/GettyImages-1233437125.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The collapse of the short-lived Israeli government of Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid validates the argument that the political crisis in Israel was not entirely instigated and sustained by...
The G7 summit in Elmau, Germany, June 26-28, and the NATO summit in Madrid, Spain, two days later, were practically useless in terms of providing actual solutions to ongoing...![Palestinians in Gaza protest against the closures imposed by Israeli occupation on 22 July 2019 [Mohammed Asad/Middle East Monitor]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019_7-22-Gaza-takes-a-stand-against-the-siege651A8744.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Fifteen years have passed since Israel imposed a total siege on the Gaza Strip, subjecting nearly two million Palestinians to one of the longest and most cruel politically-motivated blockades...![Late Palestinian novelist Ghassan Kanafani [Twitter]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ghassan-Kanafani-DhmbMEZVMAAhZCm.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Dedicated to the memory of Ghassan Kanafani, an iconic Palestinian leader and engaged intellectual who was assassinated by the Israeli Mossad on July 8, 1972![US linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky in Curitiba, Brazil on 20 September 2018 [HEULER ANDREY/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Noam-Chomsky.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
This is, said Italian socialist Antonio Gramsci, the "interregnum"; the rare and seismic moment in history when great transitions occur, when empires collapse and others rise, and when new...![Palestine's players pose for a group picture during the FIFA Arab Cup 2021 group C football match between Morocco and Palestine at the Al-Janoub Stadium in the Qatari city of Al-Wakrah on December 1, 2021 [KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/GettyImages-1236933938-e1655754958589.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The Palestine National Football Team has, once more, done the seemingly impossible by qualifying for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup. By any standards, this is a great achievement, especially...
While it is true that Zionism is a modern political ideology that has exploited religion to achieve specific colonial objectives in Palestine, prophecies continue to be a critical component...
Starting on 31 May, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov embarked on a tour of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, where he visited Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab...![An Israeli soldier pepper sprays a Palestinian demonstration in the city of Tubas on June 6, 2022 [JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/GettyImages-1241139211-scaled-e1654545319371.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
What took place between May 2021 and May 2022 is nothing less than a paradigm shift in Palestinian resistance. Thanks to the popular and inclusive nature of Palestinian mobilisation...
The distance between Ukraine and Mali is measured in thousands of kilometres, but the geopolitical distance is much closer. So close, in fact, that it appears as if the...![Israeli, foreign and Palestinian activists clash with security forces during a demonstration against the eviction of Palestinian villages to make way for an Israeli military training zone, in the southern hills of Yatta, south of the West Bank town of Hebron, on 20 May 2022. [HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/GettyImages-1240785728.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israel's Supreme Court has decided that the Palestinian region of Masafer Yatta in the southern hills of Hebron is to be appropriated entirely by the Israeli military and that...![People take part in a demonstration with Palestinian flags and banners on the 74th anniversary of the Nakba, in Ramallah, West Bank on May 15, 2022 [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/AA-20220515-27868469-27868443-DEMONSTRATIONS_ON_THE_74TH_ANNIVERSARY_OF_THE_NAKBA_IN_THE_WEST_BANK.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The Nakba is back on the Palestinian agenda. For nearly three decades, Palestinians were told that the Nakba – or Catastrophe – is a thing of the past. That...![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and alternate Prime Minister and Defence Minister Benny Gantz (L) issue a statement at the Israeli Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv on July 27, 2020 [TAL SHAHAR/POOL/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/GettyImages-1227805213-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Israel's coalition government of right-wing Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, is on the verge of collapse, which is unsurprising. Israeli politics, after all, is among the most fractious in the...
The Russia-Ukraine war has turned quickly into a global conflict. One of the likely outcomes of this is the redefinition of the current world order, which has been in...![Yahya Sinwar, the elected leader of Hamas appears during a ceremony for fighters killed by Israeli air strikes at Yarmouk football Stadium on May 24,2021 in Gaza City, Gaza [Laurent Van der Stockt/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/GettyImages-1321139945-scaled-e1652122123624.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Like typical analyses offered by western intelligence when trying to assess risks or understand major political phenomena in the Middle East, Israeli intelligence is equally short-sighted. It insists on...![A Palestinian woman walks past the shuttered headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza City on November 29, 2021 [MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/GettyImages-1236882715-scaled-e1651565324440.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Palestinians are justifiably worried that the mandate granted to the United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, might be coming to an end. UNRWA's mission, which has been in...![vEgyptian men work in a bakery at a market in Cairo, on March 17, 2022. [KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/GettyImages-1239260614-1.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
While international news headlines remain largely focused on the war in Ukraine, little attention is given to the horrific consequences of the war which are felt in many regions...![Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on April 10, 2022 [RONEN ZVULUN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/GettyImages-1239884651-scaled-e1650441909321.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Ever since 15 April, the Israeli occupation army and police have raided Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem on a daily basis. Under the pretence of providing protection for provocative...![A Palestinian man distributes free food for Poor families during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in al-Shijaiyah neighborhood in Gaza city, on 14 April 2021. [Ashraf Amra/Apaimages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/140421_ASH_2_00-17.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
A young journalist friend of mine in Gaza, Mohammed Rafik Mhawesh, told me that food prices in the besieged territory have rocketed in recent weeks. Already impoverished families are...![This screengrab taken on March 30, 2022 from video by state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) via AFPTV shows Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) meeting his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi during his first visit to China since Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine in February, at their meeting in Huangshan in China's Anhui province. [STR/CCTV/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/GettyImages-1239620057.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The meeting between Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi in the eastern Chinese city of Huangshan on 30 March is likely to go down...![Police officers take security measures at Dizengoff Street after a shooting in Tel Aviv, Israel on 7 April 2022. [Stringer - Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/AA-20220407-27500812-27500799-ARMED_ATTACK_LEAVES_AT_LEAST_2_DEAD_4_WOUNDED_IN_ISRAEL.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
There is a reason why Israel is insistent on linking the series of attacks carried out by Palestinians recently to a specific location, namely the Jenin refugee camp in...![Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (R) and US Secretary of state Antony Blinken in Jerusalem, on March 27, 2022 [JACQUELYN MARTIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/GettyImages-1239542992-scaled-e1649184550922.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
When Russian and Ukrainian delegations meeting in Turkey on 29 March reached an initial understanding regarding a list of countries that could serve as security guarantors for Kyiv should...![A demonstration in solidarity with Ukraine due to ongoing Russian attacks on the country on 9 March 2022 [Hussam Shbaro/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/20220309_2_52530955_74481009.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
When a gruesome six-minute video of Ukrainian soldiers shooting and torturing handcuffed and tied-up Russian soldiers circulated online, outraged people on social media and elsewhere compared this barbaric behaviour...