In Jenin in the Palestinian West Bank, Israel is building the first (illegal) permanent military base in Area A since the Oslo Accords in the 1990s. Tens of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank remain displaced from their homes, with no legal justification offered for blocking their return.
On 5 June, Palestinians mark Naksa Day, commemorating the forced displacement of about 300,000 Palestinians during the June 1967 war. The Naksa is still going.
Notorious prison needs reform, so Israel just relocated detainees; Netanyahu, Defense Minister Katzthreaten to ‘seize territory’ in Gaza; Jenin refugee camp ‘uninhabitable’; Israel refuses to fully open Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque for prayer on holiest day of Ramadan; US embassy tells US doctor in Gaza ‘not our role’ to protect hem from Israeli bombings; crises at Tufts and Yale; Motion Picture Academy hangs Hamdan Ballal out to dry; more.