May 18, 2019 |
Rebecca Stead During the 1967 Six Day War, the West Bank and East Jerusalem were occupied by Israel. Fifty-two years later this brutal military occupation remains in place, with the West...
May 18, 2019 |
Rebecca Stead Palestinian citizens of Israel – who number around 1.8 million people and amount to just over 20 per cent of Israel's population – are often ignored by the broader...
October 16, 2018 |
Rebecca Stead Here are just seven of the most common myths about Israel’s Separation Wall and the reality they conceal.
August 10, 2018 |
Rebecca Stead For 11 years, Israel has imposed an unforgiving siege on the Gaza Strip. With severely restricted access in and out of the enclave — via land, air and,...
On the 6 December, US President Donald Trump recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, causing widespread controversy and anger across the world. Whilst the announcement was nearly unanimously...
October 28, 2015 |
Jessica Purkiss Set up under the 1993 Oslo Accords, security coordination involves the sharing of intelligence between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The PA was also established under Oslo. Before the...
May 11, 2014 Middle East Monitor
FACT SHEET According to hundreds of Palestinian, Arab, Israeli, and Western sources, both written and oral, Zionist forces committed dozens of massacres against Palestinians during what was called the...
May 11, 2014 |
Maha Salah FACT SHEET Although the Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel have the right to vote in the Israeli elections, many have chosen not to, due to the fact that Israeli...
May 11, 2014 Middle East Monitor
– Israel's anti-African protests, which have turned into full-fledged race-riots, started about a year ago. – In January 2011, the daughters of Nigerian migrant workers were attacked by a...
May 11, 2014 |
Sawsan Ramahi FACT SHEET The recent escalation of Israeli attacks on Muslim and Christian religious sites in Palestine, including Jerusalem, other cities in the occupied West Bank and the area occupied...
FACT SHEET 1.1 – The issue of Palestinian prisoners is one of the worst consequences of the Israeli occupation. Since 1967, over 700,000 Palestinians, 20% of the population of...
FACT SHEET Sheikh Raed Salah came to Britain at the invitation of the Middle East Monitor (MEMO) last June for a 10 day speaking tour. He was invited to...
May 11, 2014 |
Sawsan Ramahi Human beings are endowed with essential basic rights. These include the right to freedom, equality and prosperous natural living conditions. As such, every individual has a public duty to...
FACT SHEET Over the past two decades, Palestinians have sat around the "negotiating table" on numerous occasions with successive Israeli governments and with a stated view of achieving a...
May 11, 2014 |
Shazia Arshad FACT SHEET As candidates prepared for elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) in 2006, the Israeli authorities began a campaign of detention and imprisonment to thwart the growing...
May 11, 2014 |
Shazia Arshad The imprisonment of Palestinian children is a common feature of Israel's occupation of the West Bank. Defence for Children International (DCI) estimates that since 2000 around 7,500 Palestinian children...
Her upbringing and education Ahlam al-Tamimi was born on 20/10/1980 in the Jordanian city of al-Zarqa to a Palestinian family with roots in the Palestinian village of al-Nabi Saleh...
May 11, 2014 Middle East Monitor
Freedom for Samir Al-Qantar in a 2008 exchange deal between Lebanon's Hezbollah and Israel was one of the last of such deals between Israel and an Arab entity prior...
May 11, 2014 Middle East Monitor
Palestinian Parliament members Detained at the Red Cross in Jerusalem On July 1st 2010 four democratically elected members of the Palestinian Legislative Council sought refuge in the compound of...
May 11, 2014 Middle East Monitor
FACT SHEET For almost half of its existence as a state, of all its neighbours Israel has enjoyed its most cordial relations with Egypt, particularly under the presidency of...
May 11, 2014 Middle East Monitor
Ever since the founding of the Zionist state of Israel in Palestine in 1948, Israeli governments have been trying to make life as uncomfortable as possible for the indigenous...
May 11, 2014 |
Shazia Arshad Illegal settlements continue to be built across the West Bank and bring with them even more problems, including increasing incidents of settler violence. The illegal settlers colonising the West...
May 11, 2014 |
Sawsan Ramahi In the framework of Israel's policy of Judaising Jerusalem and making the Holy City its eternal capital, Israel has pursued a number of measures following its occupation and illegal...
FACT SHEET Raed Salah was born in 1958 in the Palestinian town of Umm al-Fahm where he received his early education. He was a founder of the Islamic movement...
May 11, 2014 Silvia Nicolaou Garcia
Introduction The Middle East Monitor (MEMO) has obtained primary evidence of how Israeli forces and Palestinian security services have embarked on a campaign of arrests against Hamas supporters in...
IntroductionThe Palestinian economy is in a state of total collapse with a 31% rate of unemployment in the West Bank. As a result, despite the difficult circumstances they face,...
Introduction Since the beginning of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967 the number of Palestinians detained is in excess of 700,000 men, women...
Background 'The Peace Process' is the term that has come to be used to describe Middle Eastern diplomacy and peace negotiations following the 1967 War in which Israel on...
May 11, 2014 |
Samira Shackle As the Middle East Monitor (MEMO) highlights the human cost of Operation Cast Lead (War Diaries), Israel has during the last two weeks intensified its air strikes at civilian...
May 11, 2014 |
Amelia Smith The supreme judge in Palestine, Tayseer Al-Tamimi, has denounced what he calls the "repeated crimes of the Israeli occupation authorities against all things Palestinian, be they human beings, stones...
May 11, 2014 |
Samira Shackle URGENT MEDIA FACT SHEET BREAKING NEWS ON VIVA PALESTINA Friday, 8th January 2010 The Viva Palestina Convoy left London on 6th December 2009 to deliver humanitarian to Gaza ;...
May 11, 2014 Middle East Monitor
Monday 2nd of November 2009 marked the 92nd anniversary since Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued the Declaration to establish a national home for the Jews in Palestine. The Balfour...