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January 14, 2021 |
Dr Mustafa Fetouri On 20 January, Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. This will end four years of Donald Trump's foreign policy that has...
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US Lebanon has submitted an official complaint with the United Nations (UN) against Israel's continued violations of the country's sovereignty, the Lebanese National News Agency reported. On Tuesday, the agency...
A report published by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on Wednesday confirmed that the death toll from the Israeli raids in Syria last night "rose to at...
Clashes erupted Wednesday between Israeli security forces and Israeli Palestinians when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in a northern city, Anadolu reports. Hundreds of Palestinians, including members of a...
Israeli military bulldozers on Wednesday destroyed two acres of farmland and dozens of olive trees in the West Bank city of Hebron, according to local residents. At least 80...
Emirates airline has suspended a Tunisian pilot for refusing to fly to Israel
The administration of US President-elect Joe Biden has asked Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to renew legitimacy and hold general elections, Israel's Channel 20 reported. The station quoted a senior official...
Saudi Arabia has condemned Israel's approval of the construction of 800 new illegal settlement units in the occupied West Bank, calling it a threat to a peaceful political solution....
![A Palestinian supporter of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP) holds up a portrait of Mohammed Mahmoud Musleh Al-Aswad — 'Guevara of Gaza' during a rally in Gaza on 11 December 2011 [MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Guevara-of-Gaza.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
January 13, 2021 |
Nabil Al-Sahli Former Israeli Minister of Defence Moshe Dayan once said, "We run Gaza by day, and Guevara and his comrades run it at night." His words summarise the courage of...
The Palestinian Authority (PA) yesterday welcomed the Arab-EU ministerial meeting on the Palestinian issue, PA's Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki told Palestinian official radio. The meeting included Germany, France, Egypt...
Most Israeli parties have declared their refusal to unite or merge with the Blue and White (Kahol Lavan) alliance chaired by Alternate Prime Minister and Defence Minister Benny Gantz, local...
Gaza, where the dense and poor population of 2 million is vulnerable to contagions, has logged 14,000 coronavirus cases and 65 deaths, mostly since August
Israeli Prime Benjamin Netanyahu has removed a photo of him with outgoing US President Donald Trump from the banner of his Twitter account, Reuters reported yesterday. Analysts have said the move...
The Lod District Court in Israel on Monday banned the screening of a documentary about Israel's brutal 2002 campaign in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin. 'Jenin, Jenin'...
An online petition has been launched in an effort to force Israel to address its discriminatory vaccine distribution policy and provide Palestinians living under its brutal occupation access to...
A former Minister of State Property in Tunisia has warned that Israel intends to demand a huge amount of financial compensation from the government in respect of the property...
The Assad regime claimed that Israel carried out airstrikes on a number of sites in Syria's eastern Deir-Ez-Zor province, state media reported early Wednesday, reports Anadolu Agency. The Israeli...
France on Tuesday condemned Israel's plan to advance construction of 800 more Jewish settler homes in the occupied West Bank in a move to cement the projects shortly before...
Sheldon Adelson, a major funder of the US Republican Party and supporter of both Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has died in Malibu, California, aged 87....
![Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian protester during a demonstration against the Israeli settlement expansion in the village of Jbara, south of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank, on 1 September 2020. [JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/GettyImages-1228295708.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Blog
January 12, 2021 |
Ramona Wadi "Shocking scenes of violence" was how the Jewish Insider described last week's storming of the Capitol Building in Washington DC by supporters of outgoing US President Donald Trump. It...
Israel has been branded an "apartheid" state that "promotes and perpetuates Jewish supremacy between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River." Human rights group B'Tselem has detailed in a...
Israel in 2020 suffered its highest-ever budget deficit of $50.4 billion (160.3 billion shekels), the Finance Ministry announced. Due to the harsh economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic, the...
Efforts by Britain's Conservative government to force universities to adopt the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, and to cut their funding if they don't, have...
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman has bragged about his support for Israeli occupation of Palestinian and Syrian lands, as well as Israeli settlement, Anadolu news agency reported yesterday. During the...
Palestinians in Gaza protest outside UNRWA's headquarters against the organisation's plans to reduce services to refugees because of its budget deficit
The Palestinian Authority (PA) yesterday called on the Security Council to bear its responsibility regarding Israel's explorations beneath Al-Aqsa Mosque, RT reported. In a statement, the PA's Foreign Ministry said: "The...
![Palestinian activist Issa Amro [Issa Amro/MEMO]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Issa-Amro.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Interviews
January 12, 2021 |
Anjuman Rahman While US President Donald Trump was busy inciting a mob to attack the Capitol Building in Washington DC, Palestinian activist Issa Amro was convicted on three counts of protesting...
Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh yesterday condemned the import of Israeli settlement products by Arab states, saying he would take those who deal with settlements to international...
Beny Steinmetz, Israeli-French mining tycoon, yesterday appeared in a Swiss court over corruption claims that he paid millions of dollars to Guinean officials for mining franchises, international news agencies...
![A woman and two school girls attempt to flee from tear gas fired by Israeli forces in the West Bank on 17 November 2019 [HAZEM BADER/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/palestinian-children-flee-tear-gas.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
January 12, 2021 |
Martin Kemp The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is Britain's largest children's NGO. It is under pressure to renounce its relationship with J C Bamford Excavators...
Iranian police asked Interpol to issue a red notice against four suspects it believes are involved in the assassination of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Earlier, head of the National Security...
![An Arab-Israeli man arrives at a poling station, decorated with portraits of Israeli politicians, to cast his ballot for the parliamentary election in the Bedouin town of Rahat near the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on 2 March 2020. [HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/GettyImages-1204647444.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Article
January 12, 2021 |
Nasser Nasser The suffering of the Palestinians within Israel is not limited to the injustice and racism to which they are exposed — such as the Jewish Nation State Law, for...