Highlights: 385 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the West Bank; 179 in Jerusalem; and 61…
This week the Senate Foreign Relations Committee adopted the United States-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act of 2020 (S. 3176). It’s a goodie bag for “The Only Democracy in the Middle East.”
The Palestinian Authority officially declared an end to the coronavirus lockdown in the occupied West Bank on Monday, nearly three months after the first state of emergency was declared.
After a lull in cases over the previous period this week saw a slight spike in cases of COVID-19, most alarmingly in Gaza where the coronavirus had been kept in check until now.
Joe Biden on BDS: “the BDS movement, which singles out Israel — home to millions of Jews — and too often veers into anti-Semitism, while letting Palestinians off the hook for their choices.”
Palestinian parents enroll their children in an UNRWA-run school after administrators asked parents to not…