Tag: COGAT
No quick alternative to UNRWA, Israeli defense official tells US
Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian, the Israeli Defense Ministry's coordinator of government activities in the territories (COGAT), told senior officials in the Biden administration that at this stage there is no alternative to the activities of UNRWA...
Israel issuing new ‘Job Seekers’ entry permit to Palestinians
Israel has started granting Palestinians in Judea and Samaria a new kind of entry permit, designed to decrease the number of illegal border crossings, Israeli media reported on Monday.
The “Job Seekers” permit is being...
Latest Hamas terror infrastructure ‘the most dangerous in recent years’
The large-scale Hamas terror plot uncovered by the Shin Bet intelligence agency and broken up in recent weeks is “the most dangerous tactical-operational infrastructure I recall in recent years,” a senior former Israel Defense...
Gantz, IDF approve addition of 4,000 Palestinians to Population Registry
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz directed Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alyan, the Israel Defense Forces’ Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), to approve the registration of some 4,000 Palestinians to the Palestinian Population...
Why is Israel’s government making concessions to the Palestinians?
In what appears to be a string of concessions to the Palestinians despite continuing rocket fire, violent border riots in the Gaza Strip, and Palestinian incitement and terrorism in Judea and Samaria, the Office...
Hamas ‘should be very worried’ by Israel’s maneuver towards Abbas
Hamas has good reason to be concerned by the recent meeting between Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, a former senior Israeli defense official told JNS.
According to...
Israel agrees to relax restrictions on the Gaza Strip
Israel approved a series of steps on Wednesday to relax restrictions on the Gaza Strip that were imposed since the IDF’s “Operation Guardian of the Walls” took place between May 10-21.
The easing includes expanding...
IDF increases number of Palestinians eligible to work inside Israel
The Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian, informed Palestinian Authority senior officials of a rise in the number of Palestinians eligible to work in Israel, the Israel Defense...
Palestinian elections could jeopardize Fatah’s rule in the West Bank
Should Palestinian elections go ahead in the territories, Fatah’s rule in the West Bank could be significantly jeopardized, an Israeli expert on the Palestinian arena has warned.
Michael Milshtein, head of the Palestinian Studies Forum...
The ongoing battle over illegal construction in Judea and Samaria
According to Gabi Harow, a resident of the Israeli settlement of Nokdim in Gush Etzion, there have been massive changes in the landscape since he moved to the community with his family in 2012.
“The...