Why the UK’s blacklisting of Hamas hurts its own peace policy
A motion to label the entire Hamas movement as “terrorists” is an attempt to score political points at the cost of a peacemaking strategy for Israel-Palestine.
Gaza crisis
Israel’s West Bank annexation: Preparing EU policy for the day after
West Bank annexation will bring an end to the EU’s cherished two-state solution. International norms and the EU’s own laws will now need to underpin post-annexation relations with Israel.
Defeating covid-19 in Gaza: Is it enough?
Urgent intervention can mitigate the worst effects of the pandemic. But the EU should also help Gaza escape its man-made crisis.
Gaza’s fragile calm: The search for lasting stability
Introduction War threatens to engulf Gaza’s fragile calm. In each of the three recent conflicts that have shaken the Gaza Strip, fighting between Palestinian factions…
25 Oct
Is Gaza once again on the brink of war?
To take stock of the recent escalation in Gaza and international stabilisation efforts
Jerusalem protests: violence in the vacuum
There is still the chance, just, to limit further instability and bloodshed in Israel-Palestine
16 Mar
Law in the Service of Injustice
A Private Roundtable with B'Tselem
Rethinking reconstruction in Gaza
Almost a year on from 2014's Israel-Gaza conflict, the Strip is still far from recovery
25 Jun
Mesa redonda con Yehuda Shaul de Breaking the Silence
El pasado martes 23 de junio ECFR Madrid y Eslgobal debatieron con Yehuda Shaul, co-fundador de la ONG israelí “Breaking the Silence”, acerca de su nuevo libro “El Libro Negro de la Ocupación”. Entre los expertos que asistieron se contó con periodistas, profesores, activistas, cooperantes y analistas
How to Revive EU Policy on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
EU needs to better demonstrate the incompatibility of occupation policies with the continued development of relations with the EU
Publications
Gaza’s fragile calm: The search for lasting stability
Introduction War threatens to engulf Gaza’s fragile calm. In each of the three recent conflicts that have shaken the Gaza Strip, fighting between Palestinian factions…
Articles
Why the UK’s blacklisting of Hamas hurts its own peace policy
A motion to label the entire Hamas movement as “terrorists” is an attempt to score political points at the cost of a peacemaking strategy for Israel-Palestine.
Israel’s West Bank annexation: Preparing EU policy for the day after
West Bank annexation will bring an end to the EU’s cherished two-state solution. International norms and the EU’s own laws will now need to underpin post-annexation relations with Israel.
Defeating covid-19 in Gaza: Is it enough?
Urgent intervention can mitigate the worst effects of the pandemic. But the EU should also help Gaza escape its man-made crisis.
Jerusalem protests: violence in the vacuum
There is still the chance, just, to limit further instability and bloodshed in Israel-Palestine
Rethinking reconstruction in Gaza
Almost a year on from 2014's Israel-Gaza conflict, the Strip is still far from recovery
How to Revive EU Policy on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
EU needs to better demonstrate the incompatibility of occupation policies with the continued development of relations with the EU
Palestinian options at the United Nations and the International Court of Justice
President Mahmoud Abbas might want to consider asking the UN General Assembly to seek advice from the International Court of Justice
Gaza reconstruction: The new Israeli strategy
Blockade to ease, with severe oversight of rebuilding materials by Israel in what is basically an upgrade of Strip’s prison status
Palestine and the International Criminal Court
After a long process, various options are still open for Palestine with respect to joining the ICC
Children and civilian casualties in Gaza and Syria
The casualty figures in Gaza are as grim as you think
Events
25 Oct
Is Gaza once again on the brink of war?
To take stock of the recent escalation in Gaza and international stabilisation efforts
16 Mar
Law in the Service of Injustice
A Private Roundtable with B'Tselem
25 Jun
Mesa redonda con Yehuda Shaul de Breaking the Silence
El pasado martes 23 de junio ECFR Madrid y Eslgobal debatieron con Yehuda Shaul, co-fundador de la ONG israelí “Breaking the Silence”, acerca de su nuevo libro “El Libro Negro de la Ocupación”. Entre los expertos que asistieron se contó con periodistas, profesores, activistas, cooperantes y analistas
5 May
Troubled Post-election Israel
What impact on the peace process, the region, and Israel’s international relations?”
5 May
Israele: lo scenario post-elezioni
Le conseguenze sul processo di pace, regione e rapporti internazionali
In the media
While the UAE boasts of having prevented Israeli annexation of parts of the West Bank, Israel’s occupation and Netanyahu’s aggressive settlement policy plays no role
The peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates is mostly celebrated. However, it does not eliminate a single conflict, writes René Wildangel in his op-ed.
While the deal has been welcome, official statements have also stressed this development should be a catalyst for renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace-making
Hugh Lovatt tells that European policymakers had been taken by surprise by the UAE-Israel peace agreement
With the stakes made even higher by the coronavirus, now is the time for concerted international engagement with Israel, the PA, and Hamas, to address the deeply entrenched political obstacles that have kept Gaza perpetually on the edge of collapse
The coronavirus continues to represent a significant danger to an already fragile Gaza Strip. It threatens to exasperate a manmade socio-economic and humanitarian crisis. For Hamas, this will require it to balance its competing roles as both resistance movement and de facto government of the Strip, writes Hugh Lovatt.