LFI chair Steve McCabe has written in the Jewish Chronicle to oppose any annexation and and setting out five tests for a measured and effective response from the UK. Click here to read the original. As we approach a possible July announcement, a decision by the Israeli government to begin annexing parts of the West[…]
The number of new coronavirus cases in Israel topped 1,000 on Wednesday as the country began imposing new restrictions. On Thursday morning, the Health Ministry reported a further 195 cases, taking the total number to 26,452. The death toll in Israel rose by a further two to 324. There are currently 8,647 active cases, of which[…]
The Palestinian Authority has announced a five-day lockdown of the West Bank as coronavirus cases there surge. The lockdown, which will begin on Friday, comes as the number of infections in the West Bank rose to 2,435. Ten people have died, 12 remain in a serious condition and three are on ventilators. Seventy-eighty per cent of[…]
Benjamin Netanyahu’s drive to begin annexing parts of the West Bank appears to have stalled amid opposition from his Blue and White coalition partners, the Palestinians and the Arab world, and confusion in the White House. The “unity government” agreement signed in April – which allows Netanyahu to remain in power until next autumn – also[…]
A group of Labour parliamentarians have written to the foreign secretary urging a “comprehensive, internationally backed, programme of assistance to help stabilise the Palestinian economy” They also urge “medical and humanitarian assistance to help ensure that efforts by Palestinians and Israelis to contain the spread of the virus, in the West Bank, are maintained as restrictions[…]