Protecting Palestinian records from Israeli destruction

Palestinian archives in Gaza, with vital records, were in great danger of being destroyed by Israel in its relentless bombardment campaign – after they had also  been subjected to many cyber-attacks. At the same time Israel declared the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) organisation non grata and had to operate…

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Tzafon (north) market in Tel Aviv

Gaza fall-out: Israeli agricultural exports face ‘collapse’ as world rejects products

Israeli farmers issue a warning that the country’s agricultural export industry is facing a looming collapse becauseof international opposition to the Gaza invasion, the mass killings of Palestinian civilians and the almost total physical destruction of environment and infrastructure . Recent reports show the impact of boycotting Israel, and why the Israeli ‘brand’ may never recover.

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President Donald Trump holds the charter during a signing ceremony for his Board of Peace initiative at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026 in Davos-Klosters, Congress Centre, Switzerland, 22 January © World Economic Forum / Valeriano Di Domenico (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, cropped from the original)

Trump’s new Board of Peace plan challenges UN peace roles well beyond Gaza

The BPP Executive Director, Dr Brian Brivati, argues that most of the international legal questions raised by “Trump’s Board of Peace” (BoP) and the related National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), flow from the BoP Charter, which purports to supply authority for Gaza’s transitional governance while also gesturing toward a far broader conflict-resolution role.

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The world’s shame in Gaza: time for the Europeans and Arabs to act against Israel

The International Crisis Group examines Israel’s continuing campaign of death and destruction in Gaza, the US Administration’s failure to restrain or stop Israel, the ambivalent and possibly destructive US policies towards the Palestinians, and urges the European and Arab nations to take concrete measures to restrain Israel through trade and cultural sanctions and to hold…

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