A Hamas-run military court on Tuesday sentenced three Gazans to death and three to prison, charging them with being informants for Israel.

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein threw his support behind a bill to annex Ma’aleh Adumim Monday.

Gregory Gause, an expert on Saudi Arabia, says Jerusalem’s vision of Arab states normalizing ties with Israel first and then pressuring Ramallah is doomed to fail, and little more than a bid to buy time.

“After recent attacks, Israel sealed off several towns throughout Hebron – a policy that has drawn widespread criticism,” writes Emily Mulder.

Israeli bulldozers escorted by Jerusalem municipality inspectors and Israeli police stormed two Jerusalem-area Palestinian neighborhoods of Silwan and Beit Hanina on Tuesday morning and demolished at least seven structures, reportedly without giving prior notice.

“A recent meeting between Israeli and Egyptian leaders has people wondering what kind of support the Egyptian public might have for normalizing relations between the countries and how normalization might affect the Palestinian issue,” writes Ahmad Hidji.

The Israeli and Palestinian former fighters of Combatants for Peace are using their personal stories to advocate a nonviolent, humanitarian approach to ending the Israeli occupation in the Palestinian territories.

An escalating five-year row between the United Arab Emirates and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is behind the Gulf state’s recent decision to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars from the Palestinian Authority, Middle East Eye can reveal.