A Palestinian has threatened to set himself and his family on fire in protest of an Israeli eviction order, Anadolu News Agency reports. Israeli municipal authorities issued an order to expel Mahmoud Al-Salihiya and his family from their house and a plant nursery in Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood to build a school in their place. Years-long attempts by the family to have the order revoked have failed.

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[Opinion] Israeli NSO spyware found on phones of Jordanian, Bahraini women’s rights activists

The American Trap: My Battle to Expose America’s Secret Economic War Against the Rest of the World.  Frédéric Pierucci (with Mathieu Aron).  Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2020.It becomes more clear with more and more readings that the “American trap” is the US dollar, and that for some it is no secret.

[Opinion] The American Trap: My Battle to Expose America’s Secret Economic War Against the Rest of the World - Book Review

Palestinian prisoners held by Israel are taking part in a mass hunger strike today, Monday, in protest against the state's refusal to release critically ill Nasser Abu Hamid, Anadolu has reported. Abu Hamid, 49, is suffering from cancer and is in a coma.

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Israeli occupation forces shot and killed a Palestinian young man on Monday afternoon, near the Gush Etzion illegal settlement, south of Bethlehem, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.Security sources told WAFA that Israeli forces gunned down Faleh Jaradat, a resident of the southern Hebron-district town of Sa‘ir.

Israeli Forces Shoot, Kill Palestinian Young Man near Bethlehem

Suleiman Hathalin, a 75-year-old anti-Israeli occupation activist succumbed on Monday morning to wounds sustained after been  deliberately run-over by Israeli police at the entrance to Umm al Kheir village in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, two weeks ago. Palestinian Ministry of Health today issued a statement confirming Hathalin's death.  It said he sustained injuries in the head, chest, stomach and hips.

Elderly Palestinian anti-occupation activist succumbs to wounds

An article by Gideon Rachman in the Financial Times last July is a prime example of  western intelligentsia’s limited understanding of China’s unhindered rise as a superpower. “Becoming a superpower is a complicated business. It poses a series of connected questions about capabilities, intentions and will,” Rachman wrote.To help us understand what this claim precisely means, the FT writer uses an analogy.

[Opinion] The Myth of Apolitical China: Why the West Refuses to Accept China’s Superpower Status

The Canadian Zionist Cultural Association (CZCA) was caught supporting a foreign military in violation of charity law. But it’s unclear if the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) will apply its rules to the Israel focused registered charity.In the summer Palestinian-Canadian refugee Khaled Mouammar and Rabbi David Mivasair submitted a formal legal complaint to the CRA concerning the charitable status of CZCA.

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