PALESTINIANS waged a general strike in the besieged Gaza Strip today as protests continued to rage against the “dismal” Middle East peace plan announced by US President Donald Trump on Tuesday.
His so-called “deal of the century” has been met by global condemnation with international governments and progressives branding it as “shameful” and unworkable.
Gaza came to a virtual standstill with government and financial institutions closed, while schools and universities suspended classes.
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
For those who lived in Yanoun, its disappearance is not just a local tragedy, but a stark symbol of escalating violence, displacement and impunity across the occupied West Bank, says JANE HARRIES


