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April 30, 2019

Present Absentees: Karl Sabbagh

Address by Karl Sabbagh at MEMO’s ‘Present Absentees: Palestinian Citizens of Israel & the Nation-State Law’ conference held in London on April 27, 2019. Karl Sabbagh is a British-Palestinian...

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April 30, 2019

Rise in unemployment in Palestine in 2018

Unemployment in Palestine increased in 2018 to reach about 31 per cent of the labour force compared with about 28 per cent in 2017, where the number of unemployed...

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April 30, 2019

New Israel Knesset sworn in after election

Israel’s 21st Knesset is to be sworn in today, three weeks after the country’s general election on 9 April. The ceremony will take place at 16:00 local time [13:00...

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April 30, 2019

Murder among Palestinian citizens of Israel on the rise

Some 21 Palestinian citizens of Israel have been killed since the start of 2019, including five women, Arab48 reported yesterday. On Sunday, Israel Police found the body of 19-year-old...

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April 30, 2019

PA’s collapse will cause ‘chaos in the West Bank,’ warns former official

A former official has warned that the collapse of the Palestinian Authority will lead to “chaos” in the occupied West Bank. Ashraf Al-Ajrami made his comments to Israeli radio...

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April 30, 2019

NGO: Israel soldiers killed unarmed Palestinian bystander

Israeli occupation forces shot and killed an unarmed Palestinian civilian who was standing some 20 metres away from locals confronting soldiers with stone-throwing. Israeli human rights group B’Tselem published...

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April 30, 2019

Head of human rights group: ‘Israel is not a democracy’

The head of Israel’s most prominent human rights group has declared that “Israel is not a democracy”, writing in an op-ed for +972 Magazine. Hagai El-Ad, executive director of...

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April 30, 2019

PA officials on economic crisis: Stability is in Israel’s interest

Senior Palestinian Authority (PA) officials told Haaretz newspaper yesterday that President Mahmoud Abbas will continue to refuse partial tax revenues collected by Israel on the PA’s behalf, as long...

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April 30, 2019

Israel government to fund hotels in illegal West Bank settlements

The Israeli government will subsidise hotels in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, as part of a plan to attract more tourists to the area. According to an...

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April 30, 2019

Number of tourists in Palestine increasing

Palestinian Authority (PA) Ministry of Tourism Rola Ma’ay’a said that her ministry had succeeded to attract a large number of tourists from worldwide during the first quarter of 2019,...

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