Lubna Masarwa

4 days ago | middleeasteye.net | Lubna Masarwa |Rayhan Uddin

Israel’s cabinet has for the first time voted to take sole responsibility for land registration in Area C of the occupied West Bank, a decision that has been described as effective Israeli annexation of the majority of Palestinian land. Under the 1995 Oslo Agreement, the West Bank was divided into three areas, with the Palestinian Authority (PA) exerting limited control of areas A and B, while Israel took full control of Area C. The latter area forms 60 percent of total land in the territory.

1 week ago | middleeasteye.net | Lubna Masarwa

The Israeli military’s former chief of staff has accused his successor of “sending soldiers to commit war crimes” in Gaza and torn into Israel’s government for “losing touch with Jewish morality”. In an interview with Israeli outlet Ynet on Thursday, Moshe Yaalon, who also served as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s defence minister between 2013 and 2016, said Israel had abandoned the captives held by Hamas and was carrying out a campaign of “ethnic cleansing” in Gaza.

1 week ago | middleeasteye.net | Omar Abdel-Mannan |Lubna Masarwa

For three years, I shared a house with a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto. It was a beautiful old Palestinian house in West Jerusalem, a house that Israelis had seized in the Nakba in 1948, which was divided into two. I lived in the front and he lived in the back. He used to wait for me every day in the garden that both sides of the house shared, and tell me stories about the ghetto - about the sense of destruction, and how he managed to sneak food to his family.

1 week ago | middleeasteye.net | Omar Abdel-Mannan |Lubna Masarwa

For three years, I shared a house with a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto. It was a beautiful old Palestinian house in West Jerusalem, a house that Israelis had seized in the Nakba in 1948, which was divided into two. I lived in the front and he lived in the back. He used to wait for me every day in the garden that both sides of the house shared, and tell me stories about the ghetto - about the sense of destruction, and how he managed to sneak food to his family.

1 week ago | middleeasteye.net | Lubna Masarwa |Huthifa Fayyad |Joseph A. Massad

Israel is poised to move forward with a highly contentious settlement project east of Jerusalem that would effectively divide the occupied West Bank in two, according to Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. “This is how we effectively kill the Palestinian state,” Smotrich, a far-right minister who also oversees settlement activity and civilian affairs in the West Bank, said during a conference on Tuesday.