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  • December 27, 2019

    A year in review: will 2020 be a game changer in Palestine?

    This has been a defining year for Palestine and Israel. Despite the usual political stagnation of the Palestinian leadership, two factors contributed to making 2019 particularly eventful and, looking...

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  • December 27, 2019

    Christmas mass in Gaza

    Palestinians come together for Christians mass in Gaza...

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  • December 27, 2019

    Imprisoned Barghouthi to run in Palestine presidential election

    Imprisoned senior Fatah leader, Marwan Barghouti, will run against the incumbent Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the country’s upcoming presidential election, member of Fatah’s Revolutionary Council announced yesterday. Hatem...

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  • December 27, 2019

    Gaza halts Great March of Return for three months

    Gaza’s weekly March of Return protests have been suspended for a period of three months, organisers the Commission of the Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege of...

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  • December 27, 2019

    Georgia to open cultural centre in Jerusalem 

    Georgia’s Israel embassy confirmed yesterday that it will open a cultural centre in Jerusalem, becoming the eighth country to do so. Following the announcement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s...

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  • December 27, 2019

    Algeria sees business as usual despite weeks of protests 

    Millions of Algerians cast their votes on 12 December and chose 74-year-old former Prime Minister Abdelmadjid Tebboune as their country’s first freely-elected President since independence from France in 1962....

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  • December 27, 2019

    Morocco: YouTuber jailed for ‘insulting the king’ 

    A Moroccan YouTuber was handed a four-year prison sentence yesterday for “insulting the king” in a video, according to his lawyer. The YouTuber Mohamed Sekkaki, known as Moul Kaskita,...

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  • December 27, 2019

    UK charges father of British volunteer for YPG over terrorism

    The father of a British citizen who volunteered with the Syrian Kurdish militia the Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) has been charged with terrorism offences in the UK. Paul Newey,...

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  • December 27, 2019

    Israel: Netanyahu wins 72% of vote to remain Likud party leader

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has won a resounding victory against his rival Gideon Sa’ar in the primary election for the leadership of Israel’s ruling Likud party. Local Makan reported today that Netanyahu...

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  • December 27, 2019

    Israel expert says PA president regrets calling for elections 

    The head of the Palestinian Studies Forum at the Moshe Dayan Centre for Middle Eastern and African Studies, retired Colonel Michael Milstein, said Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas made...

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