Tag: Israel

Israeli legislators keep low profile on East Jerusalem construction plans (Mazal Mualem, Al Monitor)

Jerusalem’s Planning and Construction Committee approved Oct. 13 the expropriation of land across the Green Line for the construction of new residential complexes in East Jerusalem....

West Bank: Israeli forces kill 16-year-old Palestinian from Gaza (Mustafa Abu Sneineh, Middle East Eye)

Israeli forces killed a teenage Palestinian near the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem on Thursday night, according to reports in Palestinian media. A spokesperson...

Facebook to investigate Israel-Palestine content suppression (Middle East Eye)

Facebook will allow an independent body to launch an investigation into content moderation of Arabic and Hebrew posts after the tech giant was accused of...

Russia and Israel to continue talks on security in Middle East, says foreign minister (TASS)

Russia is interested in continuing consultations with Israel on security issues in the Middle East, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated on Friday in...

Intel: Israel sees bad faith in Iran’s delay to return to nuclear talks (Jared Szuba, Al Monitor)

Israeli officials visiting Washington this week discussed what they see as a need to apply more pressure on Iran as the window of opportunity...

Palestinian Authority asks AU to revoke Israel’s observer status (Al Monitor)

The Palestinian Authority asked the African Union on Thursday to revoke Israel’s observer status in the organization. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Malki wrote a letter to the AU...

Diverse Israeli cabinet produces unheard-of alliances (Afif Abu Much, Al Monitor)

Over 2,500 medical residents announced their resignation Oct. 7, following the failure of talks with Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz to shorten the length of their shifts....

Israel, Sudan discuss next steps for normalization (Rina Bassist, Al Monitor)

Sudanese Justice Minister Nasredeen Abdulbari met Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Idan Roll and Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej in Abu Dhabi Oct. 13 in a...

Palestinians alarmed by Israel settlement plan on Jerusalem airport (Ahmad Melhem, Al-Monitor)

Israel is promoting the construction of more than 9,000 new settlement units on the land of Jerusalem airport, or what is known as Qalandia Airport or Atarot...

Israel’s Lapid discusses Iran, Abraham Accords, US-Israel ties in Washington (Rina Bassist, Al-Monitor)

An unnamed State Department official said this morning that the United States is working to expand the Abraham Accords normalizing relations between Israel and...

Deaths reported after Israeli airstrike in Syria’s Homs province (Al Jazeera)

An Israeli airstrike in central Syria has killed one Syrian soldier and three pro-Iranian fighters, according to a UK-based war monitor. The Syrian state news...

Israel ‘reserves the right’ to act against Iran: Yair Lapid (Al Jazeera)

Israel “reserves the right” to act against Iran, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid has said, suggesting that “force” may be necessary to stop the...

The Arrangements Law and the Palestinian Economies (Haggay Etkes, INSS)

Publicly, Israeli governments attach great importance to the economic situation of the Palestinians as related to political-security stability. However, the public debates on trade...

Iran kicks off air defense drills amid tensions with Israel, Azerbaijan (Jared Szuba, Al-Monitor)

Iran’s Army and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps kicked off an annual air defense exercise in the country’s central desert on Tuesday to demonstrate Tehran’s...

Israeli energy minister hails water agreement in Jordan (Rina Bassist, Al-Monitor)

Israel and Jordan agreed today on a plan for Israel to double the quantity of fresh water it provides to the drought-stricken Hashemite Kingdom....

Israel offers Sheikh Jarrah residents to remain tenants for 15 years (Taghreed Ali, Al-Monitor)

In what Palestinians are calling a dangerous Israeli precedent, the Israeli Supreme Court gave four families facing eviction in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem until...