Quarterly Updates

                In August, the European Union (EU) released its

                On 20 November, Human Rights Watch released a 65-page report titled “Bed and Breakfast on Stolen Land: Tourist Rental Listings in West Bank Settlements”,

                With the United States cutting aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) (see United States), a number of countries donated and pledged to donate to fill the $446 million deficit.

                In December, Russia presented itself as a possible broker between Hamas and Fatah.

                Paraguay’s Foreign Minister Luis Castiglioni announced on 5 September that Paraguay was reversing former Paraguayan president Horacio Cartes’ decision to move the country’s embassy to Jerusalem.

                The Palestinian and Israeli human rights organizations B’Tselem and al-Haq received the 2018 Human Rights Prize of the French Republic on 10 December in a ceremony at the French M

                The president of the Czech Republic Miloš Zeman said in a speech in front of the Knesset that he would work towards having the Czech Republic move

                Brazilian president-elect Jair Bolsonaro, who has displayed close relations to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S.

                The Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on 7 November that after a meeting with Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Maliki it had decided to enhan

                Following the Trump administration’s decision to move the U.S.

Overview of Violence

                The World Bank’s “Economic Monitoring Report to the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee” released on 27 September detailed the economic decline in Palestin

                Both Israelis and Palestinians filed war crime complaints to the International Criminal Court (ICC) during this extended quarter.

                On 17 October the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted to confirm the State of Palestine as the next chair of the Group of 77 and China (see Intra-Palestinian Relations).

                By the end of 2018, U.S. president Donald Trump’s peace plan had still not been revealed nor had a date been set for when it would.

                (For update of Operation Northern Shield see Israel).

                King Abdullah II of Jordan decided to not renew 2 annexes of the 1994 peace treaty between Israel and Jordan after protest had been held for a couple of days in Jordan.

                The Qunaytra crossing connecting Syria to the occupied Golan Heights and to Jordan re-opened (10/15) for the first time in 4 year in October.

                In Israel the biggest political story relates to the Israeli attack on Gaza amid the cease-fire negotiations on 8 November (see Palestinian-Israeli Conflict and Intra-Palestinian Relations).

Reconciliation Process