Middle East Eye Profile picture
Sep 15, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read Read on X
#BREAKING: Israel, UAE and Bahrain sign deal in Washington to make diplomatic relations official
middleeasteye.net/news/israel-ua…
• At the White House ceremony Trump promoted the deal as the "dawn of a new Middle East"
• Netanyahu: Israel is filled with "profound gratitude" for the normalisation deal
• The agreement will be presented to the Israeli cabinet and parliament before it takes effect
• Palestinians held protests against the deal across the occupied Palestinian territories on Tuesday
• Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh on Monday condemned the normalisation agreements and dubbed it a "black day" for the Arab world middleeasteye.net/news/israel-ua…
• Speaking next to Netanyahu, Trump said many Arab countries are moving to normalising ties with Israel "very quickly"
• Trump refused to identify the countries, but he suggested that Saudi Arabia may be amongst them middleeasteye.net/news/trump-fiv…

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with Middle East Eye

Middle East Eye Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @MiddleEastEye

May 10
🔴 LIVE DAY 217 #Israel #Palestine

- Unrwa office closes after Israeli settler arson attack
- Netanyahu says country ready to "fight with fingernails" after US warns arms could be halted

Follow our live coverage here ⤵️ middleeasteye.net/live/gaza-live…
UTS trustees, affiliate college to Columbia University, endorse divestment from ‘companies profiting from the war in Palestine’

More here ⤵️ middleeasteye.net/live/gaza-live…
Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda and AJ+ win Peabody Award for their coverage of the impact Israel's war on Gaza has had on Palestinians.

More here ⤵️ middleeasteye.net/live/gaza-live…
Read 28 tweets
May 7
🔴 LIVE DAY 214 #Israel #Palestine

- Israeli forces storm Rafah border crossing
- 12 Palestinians killed in overnight Israeli attacks on Rafah
= Two Israeli soldiers killed in Hezbollah drone attack

Follow our live coverage ⤵️
middleeasteye.net/live/gaza-live…
🔴 #BREAKING: Israeli forces storm the Rafah crossing

🔴 UPDATE #Israel #Palestine

The Israeli military said it has captured the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing and raised the Israeli flag.

Live updates here ⤵️
middleeasteye.net/live/gaza-live…
Read 18 tweets
May 3
🧵: In his latest column, MEE’s editor-in-chief David Hearst writes that the anti-Gaza war protest movement has revived the Palestinian national cause and a new generation of American Jews are challenging the claim that Zionism owns their narrative⤵️
middleeasteye.net/opinion/campus…
The parallels between the 1968 protest movement against the Vietnam War and today’s global protest against the Gaza War are many, writes Hearst
Like the Tet Offensive, the mass prison breakout of Gaza, engineered by al-Qassam Brigades on 7 October, went out of control within hours, says Hearst
Read 12 tweets
May 2
🧵: An investigation by MEE reveals that a company owned by an influential Egyptian businessman and ally of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is making around $2m a day from Palestinians fleeing Israel's war on Gaza ⤵️ Image
Hala for Consulting and Tourism Services, the company owned by Sinai tribal leader and business tycoon Ibrahim al-Organi, has been charging Palestinians crossing Rafah to Egypt at least $5,000 per adult and $2,500 per child under 16 Image
Hala has a monopoly on providing transfer services at the Rafah crossing, the only Gaza exit not bordered with Israel and the single route out of the enclave for Palestinians.

In the past three months alone, the company is estimated to have made at least $118m from Palestinians
Read 12 tweets
Apr 24
🧵: Palestinians have accused Israel’s far-right government and army of complicity following devastating weekend assaults by Israeli settlers.

The attacks, which were undeterred by US sanctions, mark a troubling escalation of violence in the West Bank ⤵️
middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-s…
Image
On Friday, Amer Jabr was shot in the thigh during an assault by Israeli settlers on his home in the village al-Mughayyir.

His home is one of the many that were destroyed in the latest surge in settler violence, triggered by the disappearance and death of a teenage settler
Image
Image
Netanyahu denounced the killing of the teenage settler as a heinous crime, promising to find the culprits but omitted any mention of settler attacks on Palestinian families.

Despite the US imposing sanctions on far-right Israeli settlers linked to violence, the sanctions have not deterred attacks
Read 12 tweets
Apr 9
🔴 LIVE DAY 186 #Israel #Palestine

- Hamas to study Israeli truce proposal despite disagreements
- Scores of dead bodies recovered in Khan Younis after Israeli withdrawal
- France, Egypt, Jordan warn against Rafah invasion

Follow our live coverage ⤵️
middleeasteye.net/live/israel-wa…
🔴 UPDATE #Israel #Palestine

Speaking to the conservative Real America’s Voice network, Donald Trump said that "any Jewish person that votes for Biden does not love Israel and frankly, should be spoken to."

More here ⤵️
middleeasteye.net/live/israel-wa…
🔴 UPDATE #Israel #Palestine

Human Rights Watch said that the Israeli government has been using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, referring to it as a war crime in its latest report.

Read more ⤵️
middleeasteye.net/live/israel-wa…
Read 8 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us!

:(