Top news stories from Israel/Palestine: May 24, 2019

What We’re Reading

How the U.S. Helped Israel Learn to Love Occupying Palestinian Territory,

The U.S. has built up joint Israeli-Palestinian security cooperation. The idea: peace for all. The reality: repression of Palestinians by their own forces as well as Israel’s.

And What if the Trump Plan Should Work After All?,

“For the authors of the plan, success would be removing the Palestinians and their predicament from the international agenda at the lowest price possible,” writes Anshel Pfeffer.

Israel to pay photographers attacked by IDF soldiers in Nabi Saleh,

Two photographers, one Israeli and one Palestinian, were attacked and had stones thrown at them by Israeli officers and soldiers in 2015. Despite sending on the officers to jail, the state had said the journalists ‘led a riot,’ a claim it retracted as part of the settlement.

In another instance of collective punishment, Israel again reduces fishing zone off Gaza’s shores to 10 nautical miles,

Israel has again implemented a punitive reduction of the fishing zone it enforces in Gaza’s territorial waters.