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In Brief: Coalition talks imperilled as Islamists withdraw amid violence

Posted 12 May, 2021 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories
Mansour Abbas. President of Israel Spokesperson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The Islamist Ra’am party announced on Monday that it was suspending coalition talks with the anti-Netanyahu “change bloc” in the wake of Hamas rocket fire from Gaza. The move represents a potentially major blow to the hopes for an anti-Netanyahu government, which began last week when…

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Analysis: Hamas rockets reach Tel Aviv as tensions reach boiling point

Posted 12 May, 2021 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories
 Iron Dome intercepts rockets from Gaza. Credit: Nehemia Gershuni, www.NGPhoto.biz, CC-BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. The past week has seen a major escalation of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, as confrontations and violence in Jerusalem have been followed by more than 1,000 rockets being fired indiscriminately into Israel by Gaza-based terror groups. Israel has responded with strikes…

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Analysis: First Palestinian elections since 2006 postponed once again

Posted 5 May, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Mahmoud Abbas. Credits: World Economic Forum, CC BY-SA 2.0 Elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council and presidency, respectively scheduled for 22 May and 31 July, have been postponed indefinitely – and effectively cancelled. What happened Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas announced on Thursday that the elections, which would have been the first to take place since 2006,…

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In Brief: Covid progress in Israel as Gaza sees surge in cases

Posted 29 April, 2021 in Analysis, Israel, Palestinian Territories
CDC/ Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Israel saw zero coronavirus deaths on 22 April, the first day in 10 months without a single death due to the virus. With a total death toll of over 6,000, Israel’s daily death toll has been decreasing since January, when daily deaths averaged at about…

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Analysis: Weekend of violence and rockets amid election uncertainty

Posted 29 April, 2021 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Iron Dome intercepts rockets from Gaza. Credit: Nehemia Gershuni, www.NGPhoto.biz, CC-BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Following several nights of rocket fire from Gaza, Israel has warned Hamas that it will face major retaliation should the attacks continue. Gaza-based armed factions launched more than 40 rockets into Israel over the weekend, against a background of continued unrest in Jerusalem…

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Rosie Cooper pushes FCDO on International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace

Posted 20 April, 2021 in Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Rosie Cooper LFI vice-chair Rosie Cooper today pushed Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa James Cleverly on potential UK membership of the international board of the International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. "It is now five months since the US Congress passed a $250 million Act to create the international fund for Israeli-Palestinian peace,…

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In Brief: Biden to reverse Trump’s Palestinian aid cut

Posted 15 April, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
President Joe Biden. White House, Public domain. The Biden administration has announced plans to restore $235m (£171m) of aid to Palestinians, in a reversal of a cut made by Donald Trump. UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, will receive two-thirds of the aid. UNRWA experienced a sharp financial crisis when the Trump administration slashed $360m in US…

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In Brief: Internationally led vaccine progress in the Palestinian Territories

Posted 30 March, 2021 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories
CDC/ Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The rollout of covid-19 vaccinations in the West Bank and Gaza received a boost on Monday as the Palestinian Authority received 100,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine from the Chinese government. The elderly, frontline medical staff and at-risk groups will be proritised, the PA…

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In Brief: Labour and Conservative Friends chairs call for international peace fund

Posted 30 March, 2021 in Analysis, Coexistence, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI chair Steve McCabe. Chris McAndrew, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Labour Friends of Israel chair Steve McCabe and Conservative Friends of Israel chair Stephen Crabb have written a joint op-ed in today’s Times Red Box, calling on the government to “seize the moment” at the G7 summit in Cornwall later this year by committing…

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In Brief: Vaccination progress in Israel and the Palestinian Territories

Posted 26 March, 2021 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories
CDC/ Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Israel’s success in rolling out covid-19 vaccinations has continued this week, with more than 100,000 West Bank Palestinians who work in Israel receiving their first dose so far in March. All Palestinians in East Jerusalem are likewise entitled to be vaccinated by Israel, while a…

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