COVID-19 Special: Coronavirus in the West Bank and Gaza
Israel currently has the worldwide highest COVID-19 vaccination rate per person. But that does not include Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Facing international criticism, the government now started vaccinating Palestinian workers.
Can a new generation change Palestinian politics?
Young Palestinians are so frustrated with ossified political institutions that they prioritize replacing out-of-touch leaders, even before achieving national independence. Will upcoming elections bring new blood?
Israel’s vaccine apartheid is killing Palestinians
Israel y Palestina coinciden en una primavera decisiva en las urnas
Por primera vez en tres lustros, los palestinos votan el próximo 22 de mayo en un guiño de Abás a la administración Biden.
Palestinian leader’s path to elections is fraught with peril
Both Palestinian authorities have suppressed dissent through torture and arbitrary arrests in the areas under their control, and Israel routinely detains Palestinian activists and cracks down on protests and boycott movements.
It’s a mistake to believe that Biden will be a friend of Palestine
President Biden, then, may offer Palestinians a brief respite from the onslaught of the Trump years, but it is a mistake to believe that he will be a friend of Palestine.
How an Israeli smear campaign is ripping away funds from Palestinian farmers
Israel lobby groups are targeting the funding sources of a major Palestinian agricultural union — by dubiously claiming it has ties to ‘terrorists.’ Other Palestinian organizations are facing the same attacks.
Netanyahu courts Arab voters in election-year turnabout
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has spent much of his long career casting Israel’s Arab minority as a potential fifth column led by terrorist sympathizers, is now openly courting their support as he seeks reelection in the country’s fourth vote in less than two years.
Measuring a response
Amid the coronavirus contagion, Israel’s strategy to confront the pandemic leaves out a large segment of beneficiaries: the Palestinian people, reports Lamis El-Sharqawy