Quarterly Updates

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

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

                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

               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.

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

Deducting Taxes for the Palestinian Authority

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

Peace Plan

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

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

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

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

Overview of Violence

Reconciliation

Eurovision

                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.

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

              At the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference, Romania’s prime minister Viorica Dăncilă said that Romania would move its emba

               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

               A Salvadorian of Palestinian origin, Nayib Bukele, won the presidential election in El Salvador on 3 February. President-elect Bukele will take office on 1 June 2019.

               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

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

Group of 77 and China

                In August, the European Union (EU) released its

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

                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).

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

                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.

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

                (For update of Operation Northern Shield see Israel).