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Israel hit Palestine with vicious sanctions late on Thursday in retaliation for the nation’s leadership signing international conventions.
An Israeli official said it would take debt payments out of Palestinian tax money collected by Israel and limit access to Palestinian deposits in Israeli banks.
The anonymous official didn’t put a figure on the sanction, but Israel collects about £59.5 million in tax on goods headed to Palestine — accounting for about two-thirds of the Palestinian budget.
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
ANSELM ELDERGILL looks at the legality of the wars in the Middle East and the means used to fight them. It is said that truth is the first casualty of war, so what is the truth with regard to the legality of America’s and Israel’s wars in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon?
On International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, HUGH LANNING warns that the US-led “Comprehensive Plan” entrenches decades of Western complicity in Israel’s domination and denial of Palestinian land and rights
