Jared Kushner is in the Middle East this week for a five-nation tour accompanied by US Middle East Envoy, Jason Greenblatt. The pair are reportedly in the region to gauge the level of support among Arab statesmen for President Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ between the Israelis and Palestinians. Jared Kushner, son-in-law and senior aide to President Donald Trump, has told Sky News’... 

Two of the five Israeli soldiers accused of severely beating restrained Palestinian prisoners have reached a plea agreement with military prosecutors. They’ll be demoted in ranks and get six and a half months in jail. The soldiers are the first of the five belonging to the ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda Battalion to admit to beating a father and his teenage son who remain in Israeli custody without... 

Members of Israel’s Labour party went to the polls on Monday to elect the party’s Knesset slate. The latest surveys show that the Likud party, which dominated Israeli politics for its first three decades of statehood, is likely to see modest results in April’s election. In 2015, Labour, in alliance with the small Hatnua faction, won 24 seats. This year, the Likud party has won 30. Some members... 

The Israeli ministry for military affairs says it has begun the construction of an upgraded barrier along the Gaza Strip amid mounting tensions near the fence separating the impoverished Palestinian enclave from the occupied territories. “On Thursday, we began working on the final component of the barrier project along the Gaza border,” Brigadier-General Eran Ophir, head of the Israeli military’s... 

An Israeli ‘apartheid hospital’ is drawing condemnation for making Palestinians exit a bus to be searched before entering its grounds, with thousands of activists demanding an end to the discriminatory policy. Bus 18 stops outside the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon and people suspected of being Palestinian must show their identification and get off the bus to go through a security check,... 

Israel has just inaugurated a 5-kilometer double land racially segregated highway outside Jerusalem, with Arabs and Jews divided by a 26 foot central wall, part of the ongoing larger campaign to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians from the entire region. News of Route 4370’s opening this past week was completely suppressed in the West’s Jewish lobby controlled media, and news of it has only appeared... 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier engaged in a new war of words, trading mutual accusations. Meeting with Christian IDF soldiers on Sunday as acting Defence Minister, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the row with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who earlier questioned the morality of “Jews in Israel”. Turkish... 

A group of migrants was discovered by villagers in Turkey’s northwestern Edirne province in a run-down and naked state, saying that they were beaten up and stripped of their clothes and belongings by the Greek police. The migrants including Yemeni and Palestinian nationals were found late Monday while walking in open fields by locals of Kiremitçi Salih village in Uzunköprü district on the... 

At least 217 Palestinians have been shot and killed by Jews in Israel since March 2017, and have wounded another 22,897 with live fire, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has announced—staggering figures which have been completely suppressed by the controlled media. Last Friday, another five Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli soldiers and 170 others wounded... 

At least three people, including a 12-year-old, were killed by Israeli troops as some 20,000 Palestinians rallied at the Gaza border. Amid the clashes, the IAF struck ‘terrorist targets’ in retaliation for border breach attempts. Thousands of Palestinian activists assembled near the Gazan-Israeli border, with some trying to breach the fence amid a heavy Israeli security presence, burning tires... 

Palestinian protesters have shot down an Israeli surveillance drone, amid heavy clashes during the latest weekly Great March of Return protest, in which the IDF killed two people and injured over 300 more at the border fence. Thousands of Palestinians once again descended on the Israeli-Gazan border on Friday for the latest showdown with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The Israeli forces responded... 

The right wing Jewish lobby-controlled Trump administration has deliberately turned a blind eye to the Israeli construction of over 10,000 new Jews-only houses being built on land being stolen by the Jews from the Palestinian West Bank, a racist construction program that is one of the primary causes of the conflict in the region. According to a report in the Jerusalem Post, the Trump administration... 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on May 16 said the United Nations has “finished” and “collapsed” in the face of Israeli brutality in the Gaza Strip. “The U.N. is finished, ended, collapsed. At this moment I cannot reach the U.N. secretary general despite having a good friendship [with him],” Erdoğan said at a fast-breaking dinner in Ankara. “We will never allow Jerusalem to... 

The Israeli Air Force has carried out a series of airstrikes against Hamas military facilities in northern Gaza in retaliation for “heavy machine gun fire” that reportedly targeted the city of Sderot. The strikes targeted four Hamas-affiliated buildings and infrastructure objects in a military compound of the Sunni organization, while three more sorties were launched at a weapons production facility,... 

So a Palestinian baby has died from breathing in teargas as 57 others were shot dead in Gaza during protests on the day the US embassy opened in Jerusalem. Is America and other NATO states going to strike Israel now for gassing children like they did in Syria? Or are Syrian lives more valuable than Palestinian ones? The other 57 Palestinians were killed in gunfire by the Israeli army, the Gaza Health...