Quarterly Updates

               Jordanian prime minister Omar Razzaz criticized the unveiled 1st part of the U.S.

Reconciliation

Elections

               The European Union (EU) on several occasions this quarter criticized Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes and settlement expansion.

Military Action

Peace Plan

Palestinian and Syrian Refugees Protest in Lebanon

Overview of violence

Security Council

               Israeli attacks on Syria continued in the very beginning of this quarter.

               The German city Aachen withdrew the Aachen Art Prize of $10,900 given to artist Walid Raad.

               There were some big wins for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement this quarter, including the labeling of settlement products

               The United Kingdom (UK), along with the European Union and United Nations denounced Israel’s decision to expand 4 Israeli settlement

               A court in Canada ruled that wine made in Israeli settlements must be labeled as such rather than “Products of Israel,” calling the mislabeling “inaccurate and misleading.”

               In what appears to be a 1st, Israeli F-35 fighter jets attacked an Iraqi base said to be an Iranian-supported militia weapons warehouse 30 miles northeast of Bag

United Kingdom-Iran Rift

               In a joint press conference on 19 August with Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky announced tha

               Nicaragua announced on 7 August that the country would open an embassy in Palestine.

               A scandal in the already financially hit United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) rocked the agency this quarter.

               Both the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) continued to face financial trouble after the U.S. cut all funding to Palestinians in 2018.

                France’s outgoing ambassador to the U.S.

               Israel continued bombing targets in Syria this quarter after Israel Defense Forces chief of staff and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted to bombing targets in Syria in January for the 1st time (see Israel 1 January- 30 March 2019).

                After announcing in November 2018 that Airbnb was removing its listings in the occupied West Bank, the company released a statement saying it had reversed its decision as part of a legal settlement with hosts

                Qatar continued to support Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank this quarter.

               In May, Iranian president Hassan Rouhani announced that Iran would increase its uranium enrichment after 60 days since the signatories of th

Overview of Violence

                Tensions between Jordan and Israel continued from last quarter into this quarter as Israel continued its transgressions on the Haram al-Sharif compound (see Palestinian-Israeli Conflict). In the beginning of April, the U.S.

Peace Plan

                Oman’s foreign minister Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah said at the World Economic Forum in Jordan on 6 April that Palestinians should assure that Israe

                Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, passed a motion condemning the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement as anti-Semitic on 17 May.

                Unidentified sources told al-Akhbar newspaper that the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) had been instructed to begin 15 new

               On 13 June, the European Union (EU)’s advocate general Gerald Hogan made a non-binding legal recommendation to the European Court of Justice stipulating that the court “should rule that EU

               Former president of Egypt Mohamed Morsi, who was on trial in Egypt, died in a courtroom shortly after addressing the court on 17 June.

Palestinian Authority

New PA Prime Minister

               Amid political turmoil in Moldova, Moldova’s acting president Pavel Filip said on 9 June that his administration had “adopted the decision to relocate t

                The World Bank released a report, Economic Monitoring Report to the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee, on the Palestinian economy ahead of an Ad Hoc