The Palestinian journalist Muhammad Al-Qeeq is near death, after entering his 48th day of hunger strike at a hospital in Afula, Israel, according to Amnesty International. His hunger strike against Israeli detention began Nov. 24, 2015, after soldiers blew the front door of his house off and arrested him.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t like U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s speech to the Security Council criticizing the Israeli occupation, as Carlos Latuff illustrates.
On the same day that Israel demolishes six Bedouin homes in the West Bank it also announces plans to appropriate a large tract of Palestinian land in the Jordan Valley.
Carlos Latuff explores the debate among US presidential candidates over the US/Israel relationship.