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