Palestine

Hotels are places normally associated with pleasure, relaxation and luxury - weddings, parties, holidays - or more mundane activities like business trips and conferences. They are omnipresent and ordinary, but when circumstances are extraordinary, as they are in the middle of the current COVID-19 crisis, hotels have to adapt quickly…

The Palestinian Authority Health Ministry has had 10,000 coronavirus test kits and ventilators delivered from China, according to Wafa news agency.The chief of the PA’s General Intelligence Service Majed Faraj arranged for the shipment to arrive from China to contain the spread of the virus in their territory.“Before these test…

Glasgow, United Kingdom - Jeremy Corbyn's chequered leadership of the British Labour Party has officially come to an end after Keir Starmer was elected to replace him following a protracted four-month contest. Corbyn, a staunch socialist who presided over Labour for nearly five years, stood down in the aftermath of…

( Middle East Monitor ) – Within the next few days, Palestinian prisoners held by Israel may be hit by the coronavirus pandemic, causing major unrest in the prisons. This is the reality facing prison staff and their prisoners at a time when governments around the world and international organisations…

Palestinian United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) employees in Gaza wearing protective masks and gloves due to the COVID-19 pandemic, transport food aid rations to be delivered to refugee family homes rather than distributed at a UN center, on March 31, 2020. (Photo: Ashraf Amra/ APA…

Jeremy LavyGordon Alexander Dyce Lavy was born in Nablus, Palestine. His father was a doctor as well as a clergyman.He was educated at Seaford College and moved on to study medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew’s, London. After house jobs he did his deferred national service in ……

28 March 2020 - Nickolay Mladenov, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, has praised the coordination between the Israeli and Palestine authorities in reacting to the COVID-19 pandemic. Mr. Mladenov's comments were made during a telephone conversation with the other members of the Middle East Quartet,…

When the leader of Yemen's Houthi rebels recently offered a surprise prisoner exchange to Saudi Arabia, the announcement brought to light the case of dozens of Palestinians on trial in the kingdom, where they are accused of "supporting terrorism". In a televised address to mark the fifth anniversary of the…

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Demonstrating that the technologies of settler colonialism never take a break, Israeli Occupation forces have demolished an emergency clinic set up by Palestinians in a small town inside the Palestinian West Bank, according to the Israeli peace organization, Btselem. It writes, “This morning, Thursday, 26…

“Oh little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie” is no longer just a Christmas carol. It is now the daily experience of all Bethlehemites. An eerie stillness has descended on Bethlehem and the surrounding towns. Virtually every public and private gathering place has been closed on the…