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News & Analysis
HSBC announced it will stop processing payments made to London-based Palestine charity organizations Interpal, a leading British charity focusing on providing relief funds to Palestinians throughout the year, but especially in the month of Ramadan.
on April 28, 2020
News & Analysis
Israel is asking for its $3.8 billion in US military funding early this year. While one one of the most severe public health crises in modern history unfolds, will the Trump administration decide to expedite foreign funding to a military occupation?
on April 27, 2020
News & Analysis
Foreign Minister of Norway: “We need to work together to prevent this from being a bigger humanitarian and health disaster than we think it can be, especially in Gaza, but also in the West Bank."
on April 7, 2020
News & Analysis
Republican and Democratic U.S. senators introduced legislation on Thursday to provide $3.3 billion in annual aid to Israel, attempting to put into law another military funding agreement between the two countries.
on January 13, 2020
News & Analysis
Over the weekend, the Israeli government approved $11.5 million to go toward illegal Jewish-only settlements in the occupied West Bank. Despite being built on their land, Palestinians are barred from entering these settlements.
on December 2, 2019
Op-Eds & Analysis
Israel is a powerful nation with the most advanced and capable military in the Middle East. It is the single greatest beneficiary of American military assistance, receiving $3.8 billion, some 25 percent of its defense budget, from American taxpayers each year. The security of Israel is obviously important to the United States, with missile defense programs like Iron Dome and David’s Sling as success stories.
on December 11, 2017
News Roundup
The State Department is reviewing a last-minute decision by former Secretary of State John Kerry to send $221 million dollars to the Palestinians late last week over the objections of congressional Republicans.
on January 25, 2017
Op-Eds & Analysis
For all the chatter about animosity between U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Washington Post reports that “a senior Israeli official will arrive in Washington next week for a final round of negotiations involving the largest military aid package the United States has ever given any country and that will last more than a decade”...
on August 3, 2016
Videos
Two years after Israel's attack on Gaza, Palestinian families remain living in shipping containers designed as temporary shelter. Yousef Najjar and his family are still displaced after Israel destroyed his village of Khuza'a.
on July 13, 2016