Blog #Palestine

The Trump Administration is making it clear that it is working together with the Israeli government to impose a Greater Israel rather than the two-state solution on the 1967 border In two weeks’ time, the US Consulate General in Jerusalem will be absorbed by the American Embassy to Israel, which was moved to Jerusalem in May, 2018. The Palestinian leadership (PL) has shown resentment towards the move which has been in the works for months.

Britain promised Palestinian homeland to the Zionist movement through the 1917 Balfour Declaration, even before its occupation of historic Palestine, Britain did so against their will. But to this day, Britain refuses to apologise for its role in the ongoing predicament of Palestinians.

Former Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman last week warned that the next confrontation with the Gaza Strip must be the last.

Since assuming office, US President Donald Trump has pushed a hard-line policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Washington has recognized Jerusalem as the Israeli capital and opened an embassy there in May 2018, moves widely criticized by the international community. The draft of the deal consists of 175 to 200 pages, stressing that less than five people know about its full contents including the American President Donald Trump

Israel's Supreme Court has been enabling the state to continue implementing illegal policies while ignoring the defects in Israel's "planning policy" in the West Bank. From 2006 through to 2018 reveal Israel demolished at least 1,401 Palestinian residential units in the West Bank alone, leaving more than 6,000 people without a home.

Israeli eviction of Palestinians from their homes was termed a “large-scale, systematic ethnic cleansing”. This came after evidences showed Isreali occupiers are digging beneath the Al Aqsa mosque in a bide to demolish it and the houses of the surrounding Palestinians

Israel’s Minister of Internal Security said plans to occupy the Gaza Strip are on the table for the Cabinet to consider, he said that the country prefers calm and the possibility of reaching a deal that guarantees security for all Israelis. He also suggested that occupying Gaza would give Israel a better chance to maintain such calm. “We must be ready to pay the costs of such a step.”

The Israeli police siege on the Dome of the Rock, located in the Old City's Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, sparked tensions between police and Palestinian worshipers which resulted to the director of the mosque been hospitalized after an assault Israeli police

The Palestinian Authority (PA) said that Israel’s storming of Ramallah is an attempt to coerce it into accepting the “Deal of the Century”. Muslims across the globe have seen speeches of the PA as a mere lip service and see their strategy wrong toward the liberation of Palestine

Israel was the most condemned country at the UN in 2018 with the General Assembly passing at least 20 resolutions against Tel Aviv for human rights abuses, illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian territory and its continued occupation of East Jerusalem says Anadolu Agency.

Facebook barred Isreali Prime Minister's son Yair Netanyahu for 24 hours for anti-Muslim posts and comments.

Australia is set to formally recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, Australian public television station SBS reported on Tuesday.