In the Media

When Secretary-General Antonio Guterres proposed the appointment of former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad as UN’s Special Representative in Libya back in February, the proposal was shot down by US Ambassador Nikki Haley, purely because he was a Palestinian.

Netanyahu has reportedly proposed to transfer some Arab villages to PA control and to annex Jewish settlements.

Palestinians criticise Oren Hazan who said on Facebook that family of a West Bank attacker should be executed.

Tareq Baconi, a fellow for Al-Shabaka, a Palestinian policy network, and author of the upcoming book “Hamas: The Politics of Resistance,” joins The Takeaway to discuss the electricity crisis in Gaza.

Fifty years after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, the Palestinian national movement seems to be at a crossroads. Repeated efforts to negotiate a two-state solution have faltered, and the traditional instruments of Palestinian nationalism—the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Fatah, and, since 1994, the Palestinian Authority (PA)—face crises of confidence.

Palestinians are marking 50 years since the 1967 occupation of their remaining lands this week.

The Hamas movement accused the Palestinian Authority (PA) of “continuing its violations against Palestinians in West Bank,” in a statement on Monday, which said that two Palestinians were summoned for questioning overnight, while the PA has continued to detain several Palestinians in PA jails, denying the detainees “all of their their rights,” including the right to receive family visits, Hamas said.

For Palestinians, governance depends on where you live and who you are. Efforts to fix this situation often end up only entrenching it further

President Donald Trump broke one of his major foreign policy campaign promises Thursday, signing a waiver that delays the move of the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem for at least another six months — the clearest sign yet that Trump is serious about forging what he calls the “ultimate deal” in the Middle East.