Tag: Palestinian Authority
Danon slams claims that Israel is impeding Palestinian efforts to combat coronavirus
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations strongly criticized a letter by the Palestinians to the U.N. Security Council accusing Israel of impeding efforts by the Palestinian Authority to combat the coronavirus pandemic in the...
Report: Palestinians launch diplomatic offensive to prevent Israeli annexation
PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat said on Sunday that he was in talks with various international parties about the need to “preserve the two-state solution” in the face of possible annexation by Israel of territory...
Money for terrorists but not for coronavirus?
According to official Palestinian figures, the Palestinian Authority paid terrorists held by Israel NIS 517 million ($143 million) in 2019, compared to NIS 502 million ($140 million) in 2018. In January 2020 alone, they...
A pandemic anti-Semitism ceasefire? Not a chance
Two weeks ago, something highly unusual happened. The United Nations praised Israel. The cause for this remarkable exception to the general rule of the world body’s Israel-bashing was the cooperation between Israel and the...
Corona cases in Palestinian Authority reach 260
The number of Palestinians infected with coronavirus increased to 260, with one of those cases from the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry announced on Tuesday.
Kamal al-Shakhrah, a senior official with the P.A....
Israel-PA cooperation on coronavirus is encouraging, but will it last?
One thing is for sure: COVID-19 does not respect borders, or armistice lines for that matter. The deadly coronavirus strain that has already killed over 50,000 people around the world has yet to wreak...
Report: PA prime minister accuses IDF of spreading coronavirus to Palestinians
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh claimed on Sunday that the Israel Defense Forces are intentionally spreading coronavirus to Palestinians, according to Israeli media reports.
Shtayyeh said that there have been “testimonies that some of...
Coronavirus and the Palestinians
Alongside the dramatic health and political developments in Israel, there have also been developments on the Palestinian side, that while not as dramatic are worth watching. The coronavirus scare has captured Palestinian public opinion.
Aside...
Why the arrest of this Palestinian matters
You probably have never heard the name Hussam Khader. But you should. Because what’s happening to him has extremely important ramifications for Israel and for Middle East peace.
Khader, 59, is a leader of Fatah...
Palestinian prime minister: Trump’s peace plan ‘will be buried soon’
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh on Sunday criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace plan, saying it would be “buried very soon.”
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Shtayyeh said that the newly revealed Mideast...