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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The man is accused of trying to recruit people to launch terrorist attacks in Israel An Israeli man has been indicted on charges of spying for Iran and preparing terrorist attacks. Shin Bet, the country's internal security service, said the man had been in…

Submitted by the Event OrganizerA presentation of Orde Wingate’s fighting in Palestine. He “taught us everything we know.” (Moshe Dayan, IDF Chief of Staff). Streams live on Facebook starting at 8pm on Thursday, April 9, 2020. Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be…

Salam Khashan’s shifts at the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza can exceed 24 hours. “When I am in the ER, and I call for a bed because I have, for example, a patient with hypoglycemia who needs to be admitted, they usually answer that we don't have a bed,” the…

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,…