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When the coronavirus crisis hit, it met Israeli-Palestinian ties at the latest in a series of low points. As the pandemic began rapidly spreading on both sides of the Green Line in early March, Jerusalem appeared to be marching just as quickly toward plans to annex large swaths of the…

The unity government agreement inked on Monday by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz will allow Israel to initiate legislation to annex large parts of the West Bank starting in the beginning of July. According to clause 29 of the deal, Netanyahu “will be able…

West Bank Israeli settlers unleash cattle on Palestinian-owned farmlands IMEMC/Agencies 15 Apr — Israeli colonial settlers unleashed their cattle, on Wednesday, onto Palestinian-owned farmlands in the northern Alghour area of the Jordan Valley, in the West Bank. Local legal activist, Aref Daraghma, told Palestinian Wafa News Agency that tens of…

“Colonialism is not a thinking machine,nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties.It is violence in its natural state…” — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1963) This past month Israeli soldiers dumped a Palestinian worker at a checkpoint on the border of the West Bank, shivering from fever and…

Israeli forces take position during clashes with Palestinian protesters in the occupied West Bank village of Kfar Qaddum, near Nablus, on 3 April. Shadi Jarar’ah APA imagesThere has been a sharp uptick in Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Even after UN Secretary-General…

West Bank UN: Settler violence against Palestinians has increased during COVID-19 JPost 4 Apr by Tovah Lazaroff — Settler and Jewish extremist violence against West Bank Palestinians has spiked by 78% during the last two weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic when compared to the rest of this year, the United Nations has…

I am a journalist focused on U.S. foreign policy in the Muslim-majority world, and I have spent years trying not to write about Israel and Palestine.  I couldn’t possibly get it right, I told myself. I imagine the assumptions my byline triggers for some readers — that anyone with a…

You are here The Electronic Intifada 1 April 2020 Israeli Border Police control Palestinian movement at a checkpoint at the Damascus Gate to ​Jerusalem’s Old City as Israel imposed increased restrictions amid the novel coronavirus pandemic on 26 March. Oren Ziv ActiveStillsThe arrival of the coronavirus pandemic in the West Bank…

When the Palestinian Authority (PA) first announced a state of emergency over the coronavirus in early March, an initial panic swept over the occupied territory, as checkpoints and borders with Israel were closed, and entire cities were shut down. In the early days of the outbreak, which was initially contained…