At Any Price: Israeli Taxpayers Funding “Price Tag” Settler Violence

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Occupation/Human rights

At Any Price: Israeli Taxpayers Funding “Price Tag” Settler Violence,

“Israeli taxpayers are funding nonprofits that actively promote a policy of disrupting IDF operations and harming Palestinians,” writes Liat Schlesinger. Read the full report here.

Palestinian campaign of disobedience continues in Israeli prisons,

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israel’s Rimon and Nafha jails on Tuesday continued a campaign of disobedience that was declared on Monday, the Palestinian Authority Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs said.

Declining Israeli prison conditions may escalate tension with Palestine,

“Sanctions imposed on Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails have pushed prisoners to go on a hunger strike until their demands are met,” writes Adnan Abu Amer.

A Decade Behind the Separation Wall: Jerusalem’s 100,000 Outcasts,

Ten years after the separation wall was built in Jerusalem, it transpires that the state and municipality have broken almost all their promises to the tens of thousands of Palestinians left on the eastern side of the fence.

Bedouin tent burned in alleged 'price tag' attack,

A tent belonging to a Bedouin in the West Bank was torched in an apparent ‘revenge’ attack.

Settler Group Planning 3-story Building in Heart of Palestinian East Jerusalem Neighborhood,

Ateret Cohanim, an organization that purchases properties in Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem in order to settle Jews in them, has obtained an eviction order against a Palestinian family living in a building the organization now owns in the Batan al-Hawa neighborhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem.

US-Israel relations, Iran

Opinion: Israel only stands to lose from 'defeating' Obama,

“Thwarting the nuclear agreement and humiliating the White House will not help stop the nuclear program in any way, and will only weaken the American foreign policy vis-à-vis Iran’s support for terror and its deep involvement in all centers of stability in the Middle East,” writes retired Israeli Major General Israel Ziv.

Palestinian politics

Abbas’s son highlighted in Palestinian corruption claims,

The son of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has been tied to a corruption scandal involving leaked documents that appear to show attempts by Palestinian officials to misuse public funds.