Tag: West Bank
Cast of ‘Fauda’ talks Season 3, filming in areas resembling Gaza and coronavirus isolation
Cast members of the hit Israeli series “Fauda” opened up on Friday about the thrills and obstacles filming the show’s third season, now streaming on Netflix, a possible Season 4 and how they’re coping...
Pro-Israel groups move to counter EU ruling about labeling Israeli products
A team of more than 400 lawyers from the Lawfare Project, a nonprofit human and civil-rights litigation and advocacy group, have partnered with nearly 1,000 legislators working for the Israel Allies Foundation to fight the a...
UNHRC worked with NGOs with terror ties to compile blacklist of firms
NGOs with terrorist ties were involved in the posting on Wednesday of the U.N. Human Rights Council’s blacklist of 112 companies with ties to Israeli settlements released on Wednesday, according to an Israeli Ministry of Strategic...
Breaking down the UNHRC blacklist
In the halls of the United Nations, they’re calling it a “database,” but it’s more commonly and accurately known as a “blacklist.” It’s a list of more than 100 companies conducting business activities with...
House Democrats send letter to Trump, objecting to Mideast peace plan
About 100 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday expressing their “strong disapproval” of his Mideast peace plan, the details of which were released...
Ambassador Friedman: Israel ‘does not have to wait’ to annex settlements
U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said on Tuesday that Israel “does not have to wait” to annex settlements in the West Bank and Jordan Valley.
“The waiting period would be the time it takes...
Nadler: Conditioning US assistance to Israel is ‘wrong’
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) said on Monday that conditioning U.S. assistance to Israel is “wrong.”
“We have a $38 billion commitment over 10 years for military aid to Israel,” Nadler, who is the chairman of...
Warren says ‘everything on the table’ to halt settlement expansion
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said on Oct. 19 that all options will be considered to prevent Israel from ramping up settlement building in the West Bank, including cutting aid to the...
Turkey: OIC to meet to discuss Israel’s annexation announcement
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will hold an extraordinary meeting on Sunday to discuss Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement last week that Israel will annex parts of the West Bank, the Turkish...
Israeli teen killed, family members injured in West Bank bombing
Israeli security forces have been searching for terrorists behind an explosion on Friday near a natural spring in the West Bank that killed a teenage Israeli girl, and seriously injured her father and brother.
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