Okba Mohammad:The Syrian armed conflict is 13 years old, with the various sides backed by regional and international powers such as Iran, Russia, the United States and Israel. Since the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel, the dynamic has changed and its intensity has [...]Read the full article
Arthur Neslen:“We demand that the slaughter of Palestinian media workers – the suppression of living memory, in fact – be halted, and that those responsible for it be held accountable.”Read the full article
Recent moves by Israel’s right-wing government to weaken the power of the judiciary and further erode human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is pushing the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors to seek EU citizenship and move back to the countries where their grandparents were once [...]Read the full article
From the cyberattacks on Israeli hospitals that affected thousands of people, to those that paralysed most of Iran’s petrol pumps for several days, cyber warfare in the Middle East is on the rise and its targets are increasingly [...]Read the full article
“The Palestinian labour market continues to present a grim picture. Unemployment is rampant and protection is failing. Stifled by occupation, it can meet neither the needs nor the aspirations of the Palestinian people.”Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:Aside from a few nuances and the uncertainties regarding the formation of a new government, the one overall conclusion we can draw from these elections is that we can expect to see more of the same, in other words, more fait accompli tactics being deployed by Israel and more hardships for the [...]Read the full article
Every day, almost 64,000 Palestinian workers have to cross checkpoints, like the one in Bethlehem, in the West Bank. They are forced to endure these extreme conditions to reach their jobs on the other side of the Green Line, in Israeli cities or East [...]Read the full article
Seven decades after the creation of the Hebrew state, the country has a flourishing economy. But this growth comes at a price: a large section of the Israeli population is no longer able to keep up and is living on credit.Read the full article
A government-backed bill facilitating recourse to the death penalty for terrorists was adopted on first reading by the Israeli Parliament. The text has been denounced by NGOs as contravening human rights and discriminating against [...]Read the full article
“This is the social empowerment of the small farmers. It is both economic, helping them to become more competitive and develop their business, and political, by supporting Palestinian traditions and identity”.Read the full article
“All we ask of Israel is to study our asylum applications in a legal and open way. They will see whether we are economic migrants or refugees.”Read the full article
“Palestinian streets are likely explode in fury and protests, but whether that will lead to a long-term Intifada or not will depend on a whole set of factors that would be difficult to assess at the moment.”Read the full article
“The combined weight of the continued occupation and the settlements does not permit the development of a viable, productive Palestinian economy, which could provide sufficient opportunities in terms of decent work. If current trends continue, the scope for such opportunities will shrink [...]Read the full article
Some 12,000 Palestinian Bedouins living in West Bank communities around Jerusalem, Jericho and Ramallah are fighting against the prospect of evictionRead the full article
Yuli Novak:When I served with the IDF, I believed with all my heart that any casualties were a necessary evil. If there were mistakes, they would be investigated. But things have changedRead the full article
As Israeli air strikes enter a second week, hospitals in the Gaza Strip are running out of fuel and electricity, have been forced to rely on local donations to stay afloat, and may have to suspend some emergency services in the coming [...]Read the full article
Yuli Novak:
