Quarterly Updates

Overview of Violence

Demolitions in East Jerusalem

               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

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

               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

              South Africa’s foreign affairs minister Lindiwe Sisulu said on 5 April that the country was not planning on reinstating its ambassador

                France’s outgoing ambassador to the U.S.

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

               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.

Peace Plan

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

Palestinian Authority

New PA Prime Minister

Israeli Campaigns in Syria

                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.

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

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

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

               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).

                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

                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