Palestinian Territories

Articles

• Why Trump Wants Sudan to Befriend Israel
  27 October 2020, by siawi3

  With Sudan in desperate straits - a collapsing economy, hyperinflation looming and a nationwide food crisis - the administration of US President Donald Trump and the Israeli government have seen an opportunity. Palestinians call it a new stab in back

• Palestinian Maher al-Akhras Wins Freedom After 103 Day Hunger Strike
  9 November 2020, by siawi3

  Palestinian prisoner Maher Al-Akhras announced the suspension of his 103-day hunger strike, following an agreement to release him on November 26.

• Israel-Palestine: THERE IS A FIELD
  11 November 2020, by siawi3

  In October 2000, a police officer shot and killed unarmed 17-year old Asel Asleh. His story is tragically familiar for Americans, but Asel was not killed in Ferguson, New York City, Atlanta, or Minneapolis. Asel was a Palestinian teenager who was murdered by Israeli police as he participated in a demonstration, calling for an end to the Israeli occupation and settler-colonization.

• Israël: Palestinian women’s organization leader Khitam Saafin placed in administrative detention for 6 months
  12 November 2020, by siawi3

  Saafin was sent to administrative detention by an Israeli military commander just days after her arrest during which several other activists and leftist figures were also abducted and detained

• Palestinians oppose Pompeo’s visit to illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank
  23 November 2020, by siawi3

  Israel has built hundreds of illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian lands of West Bank and Eastern Jerusalem since their capture in the 1967 war. It has also built infrastructure including segregation walls and settler-only roads and checkpoints in the name of security around these settlements dividing Palestinian land into small Bantustans. Today there are more than 600,000 Israelis living in these settlements in complete violation of international law related to occupied territories.

• Palestine - Israel: How a Campaign to Legalize West Bank Outposts Settled Into Gantz’s Party
  3 December 2020, by siawi3

  The authorities have let most outposts take root while supporting them or looking the other way. According to Peace Now, there are 124 outposts in the West Bank today.

• Palestine: Palestinian rights and the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism
  8 December 2020, by siawi3

  In recent years, the fight against antisemitism has been increasingly instrumentalised by the Israeli government and its supporters in an effort to delegitimise the Palestinian cause and silence defenders of Palestinian rights. There is a huge difference between a condition where Jews are singled out, oppressed and suppressed as a minority by antisemitic regimes or groups, and a condition where the self-determination of a Jewish population in Palestine/Israel has been implemented in the form of an ethnic exclusivist and territorially expansionist state.

• Israel: Solidarity as a verb: Why and How and Where to?
  11 December 2020, by siawi3

  The need to confront the systematic violation of people’s rights around the world and the powers behind it, is leading to the unity of the different movements seeking justice and laying the ground for collective learning and strategizing, generating new forms of solidarity.

• New roads pave way for massive growth of Israeli settlements
  13 December 2020, by siawi3

  Stopping the road projects is key to preserving hope for a two-state solution. The new infrastructure could facilitate plans for more than 50,000 settler housing units in the West Bank and another 6,000 in east Jerusalem. In the coming years, Israelis will be able to commute into Jerusalem and Tel Aviv from settlements deep inside the West Bank via highways, tunnels and overpasses that cut a wide berth around Palestinian towns.

• When the People Rose: How the Intifada Changed the Political Discourse around Palestine
  21 December 2020, by siawi3

  December 8, thirty-three years ago, the First Palestinian Intifada (uprising) broke out. Thousands of Palestinians, mostly youth, were killed by the Israeli army during the seven years of Intifada, where Israel treated non-violent protesters and rock-throwing children, who were demanding their freedom, as if enemy combatants.

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