17 Aug 2020; MEMO: After two years under house arrest, Palestinian resistance icon Raed Salah yesterday began a 17-month jail term on incitement charges, Anadolu reported.
The sentence was scheduled to start in March, but was postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak.
17 Aug 2020; MEMO: The UAE State Security Agency has secretly arrested scores of Emiratis, Palestinians and Jordanians living in the UAE for opposing Abu-Dhabi’s peace deal with Israel.
The Emirates Leaks website quoted human rights sources as saying that the Emirati citizens were arrested after expressing their opposition to the deal either in private meetings or on social media.
17 Aug 2020; MEMO: Fuel shortages in the besieged Gaza Strip are forcing the enclave’s only electricity plant to shut down tomorrow morning, the Palestinian Power Authority announced yesterday.
In a statement, the Power Authority said the plant “will completely stop as its fuel is expected to run out.”
The Power Authority said that the Israeli occupation “stopped fuel supplies for the electricity plant entering on Wednesday.”
17 Aug 2020; MEMO: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel on Saturday signed the first commercial cooperation agreement since Abu-Dhabi and Tel Aviv announced a peace deal on Thursday.
The UAE’s Apex National Investment company has signed a “strategic commercial agreement” with Israel’s TeraGroup to conduct research into COVID-19, the UAE’s WAM news agency reported.
17 Aug 2020; MEMO: Two US helicopters today attacked a Syrian army checkpoint in northeastern Syria near the Kurdish-held city of Qamishli, killing one soldier and injuring two others, Reuters reported state media saying.
The incident happened shortly after a US patrol was prevented from passing by an army checkpoint in the area, state media said.
17 Aug 2020; MEMO: Israeli authorities have revealed a mega settlements plan, Arab48 reported yesterday, which will connect major illegal settlement blocs.
The Arabic news site reported Israel’s Ynet News as saying that one of the settlement projects aimed to connect the settlement bloc of Benyamin in occupied Ramallah with the occupied city of Jerusalem.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Israel is preparing for direct flights, over Saudi Arabia, to the United Arab Emirates as part of its normalisation deal with the UAE.
Israel and the UAE announced on Thursday that they will normalise diplomatic relations under a U.S.-sponsored deal whose implementation could reshape Middle East politics from the Palestinian issue to the fight against Iran. The UAE would only be third Arab state in more than 70 years to establish relations with Israel.
BEIRUT, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Lebanese economy minister announced on Monday that 2,500 people have applied to insurance companies for compensation totalling 425 million U.S. dollars for the damage caused by the Beirut explosions.
Raoul Nehme said the number of applications is expected to reach 10,000, the National News Agency reported.
Nehme's remarks came during his meeting with President Michel Aoun and a delegation representing insurance companies.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that a deal to establish full diplomatic ties with the United Arab Emirates proves that Israel doesn’t need to retreat from occupied land sought by the Palestinians in order to achieve peace and normalization with Arab states.
BEIRUT (AP) — More than 15 years after the truck bomb assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in Beirut, a U.N.-backed tribunal in the Netherlands is announcing verdicts this week in the trial of four members of the militant group Hezbollah allegedly involved in the killing, which deeply divided the tiny country.
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