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A new book dives into the myriad laws that protect Palestinian refugees and their right of return. Its proposed solution, though, may be hard to swallow.

Elections or not, the PA is intensifying its authoritarian rule online The run-up to PA elections has alarmingly shown what Palestinian political activism is facing in the digital age: more surveillance, more repression. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a tour in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 15, 2020. (Flash90) When Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for elections in January, the news was met with profound skepticism. Abbas has previously declared elections without goin...

Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israels military correspondent. Members of the Mujahideen Brigades terror group take part in a military drill on the beach in Gaza City, on April 24, 2021. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90) Israel’s leadership had wanted to focus on other things: the formation of a government, the ongoing fight against Iranian entrenchment in Syria, the Biden administration’s plans to reenter the 2015 nuclear agreement with Tehran. Instead, for the past three days, all eyes have been o...

2 shares Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks after a meeting of the Palestinian leadership, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, January 22, 2020. (AP Photo/ Majdi Mohammed) Facebook said Wednesday it had disabled accounts used by the Palestinian Authority’s internal intelligence organization to spy on journalists, human rights activists and political opponents. In a report, the US social media giant also said it had identified and disabled “politically motivated” esp...

Lazar Berman is The Times of Israels diplomatic reporter In this Jan. 25, 2011 file photo, demonstrators deface a poster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Alexandria, Egypt. (AP Photo) Ten years ago, in late 2010 and early 2011, the Arab world experienced a series of convulsions that tore apart the Middle East as we knew it. Starting in Tunisia, where a young fruit vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire to protest corruption and police abuse, angry demonstrations spread througho...

Why does international support for the ICC stop at Palestine? By opposing an investigation in the occupied territories, powerful states are contradicting their own positions on the ICC simply to protect a political ally. A young Palestinian boy walks among the debris of a house, which witnesses said was hit in an Israeli air strike, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Aug. 2, 2014. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90) The decision last month of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor, Fatou B...

10 shares Then-US vice president Joe Biden, left, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, at the presidential compound in Ramallah, West Bank, March 9, 2016. (Debbie Hill, Pool via AP) US President Joe Biden on Wednesday promised to press for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as he restored aid to the Palestinians. In a call with Jordan’s King Abdullah II, a longstanding US ally who recently faced down dissent within the royal family, Biden “affirmed th...

5 shares Palestinian health workers at a hospital in the West Bank town of Nablus, where health workers were vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) earlier today, after the delivery of vaccine doses from Israel, February 3, 2021. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90) Around 61,440 doses of coronavirus vaccine earmarked for the Palestinian Authority reached Ramallah on Wednesday after arriving in Ben Gurion airport earlier the same day. “The delivery of the vaccines is now making its...

97 shares Palestinian workers enter Israel through the Mitar checkpoint in the West Bank city of Hebron, on May 3, 2020. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90) Israel on Sunday will begin its campaign to vaccinate some 120,000 Palestinians who are legally employed in Israel and West Bank settlements, Israel’s military liaison to the Palestinians announced Wednesday. The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), which is in charge of Palestinian civilian affairs, said it will ...

299 shares In this September 21, 2018 file photo, protesters arrive on a truck with tires to burn near the the fence of Gaza Strip border with Israel during a protest. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File) Israeli leaders on Wednesday denounced the International Criminal Court after its top prosecutor opened a probe into alleged Israeli and Palestinian war crimes, while the Palestinians and rights groups hailed the move. Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s announcement of the investigation, which will foc...