“Palestinians’ need for aid is exclusively a result of decade-long conflict with Israel. However, aid to both Israel and Palestine is militarized, furthering and prolonging conflict rather than addressing its root causes,” write Alaa Tartir and Nora Murad.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly instructed that plans for thousands of housing units in the capital, including many in East Jerusalem, be activated, ending a freeze that has lasted several months. The report said the plans pertain to thousands of apartments planned for Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, such as Ramot, Pisgat Ze’ev, Har Homa and Gilo.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved on Thursday an expansion project for the settlement of Beit El in the West Bank, okaying the construction of 300 new housing units in the community.

The majority of funding in 2015 to Im Tirtzu, a frequent and outspoken critic of Israeli human rights organizations, came from two U.S. groups close to Netanyahu and the GOP.

Israel’s economy is paying a price as its government fails to reach a permanent peace deal with its neighbors, a senior World Bank group official said in an interview this week with The Times of Israel.

Britain’s High Court has ruled that the UK government acted “unlawfully” by attempting to stop local councils from supporting boycotts of Israel.

In certain cases – such as ‘Black Friday’ in Rafah – the IDF has not yet even decided whether to investigate or not.

In his latest monologue, Assaf Harel asks Israelis to stop a moment before criticizing Palestinians, and think what they would do when faced with the realities that Palestinians regularly face in their lives.

US officials focused, during their encounter with Abbas, on the need to end incitement and to cut the salaries of Palestinian “detainees and deceased”, who had perpetrated attacks against Israelis, instead of tackling the principle of the two-state solution. Abbas refused to comply with the salaries demand, saying that he was only ready to revive the US-Palestinian-Israeli committee, which is in charge of monitoring “incitement.”

Arriving at an Israeli-Palestinian peace will “take time,” President Donald Trump’s top two negotiators said after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Hundreds of former generals and senior security officials warned that proposed US legislation to cut funding to the Palestinian Authority unless it stops payments to terrorists may harm Israel’s security.

Implementing the Hamas-Dahlan understandings depends on Egyptian help and Emirati largesse. This effectively puts Cairo, Abu Dhabi and Hamas in the same camp, even as Egypt and the UAE point to Doha’s sponsorship of the Palestinian Islamists as a reason for their blockade of Qatar.

A senior Palestinian official on Thursday rejected Israeli accusations that the Palestinian Authority incites violence against Israelis, countering that the Israeli government has a “longstanding policy” of promoting and glorifying terror.