Quarterly Updates

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

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

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

                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.

Israeli Campaigns in Syria

Palestinian Authority

New PA Prime Minister

Overview of Violence

               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

             Israel declared that it had finished Operation Northern Shield, destroying tunnels leading from Lebanon to Israel on 13 January (see Israel).

               As tension rose at Haram al-Sharif in February and March, so did tensions in Jordanian-Israeli relations.

               The Arab League announced at the end of the quarter that it had decided at a summit in Tunis to supply the Palestinian Au

Peace Plan

               With the Egyptian-mediated reconciliation process between Fatah and Hamas at a standstill, Qatar offered itself as a mediator between the 2 parties at a press conference in Gaza.

              After January’s Israeli strikes on Iranian positions in Syria, the Iranian secretary of the National Security Council Ali Shamkhani said, “If

              On 21 March, U.S. president Donald Trump tweeted that his administration was recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights (see United States).

For Egypt-Israel security cooperation in Sinai and the creation of the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum, see Israel.

Deducting Taxes for the Palestinian Authority

Reconciliation

Group of 77 and China

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

                With all the U.S. cuts in funding of aid to Palestinians over the past year (see United States), Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank depended on different donors in 2019. The most recent development in the U.S. cutting of aid to Palestinians was that the U.S.

Eurovision

               Honduras’s President Juan Orlando Hernández called Jerusalem the capital of Israel on 24 March and said Honduras would open a tra

               Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro, who during his presidential campaign had promised to move Brazil’s embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, backtracked on his promise and

               The UK released a statement saying it was adding Hezbollah in its entirety to its list of terrorist organizations.

               The resident of the National Assembly of Venezuela and U.S.-supported, self-declared president of Venezuela Juan Guaidó told the Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom

               The Dutch government announced on 9 February that it would begin recognizing the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, as b

               After an increase in anti-Semitic incidents in France, the French President Emmanuel Macron announced in a speech on 20 February that France

               After Israel heavily bombarded positions inside of Syria in January (see Israel), the spokesperson for the Russian foreign ministry said

               After the Irish senate in December 2018 passed a bill banning the purchase of goods and services from Israeli settlements in the West Bank, the Irish lower house