Ramona Wadi is an independent researcher freelance journalist book reviewer and blogger. Her writing covers a range of themes in relation to Palestine Chile and Latin America. Her article appeared in MEMO.
Sunday 1-March-2020
Ever since Israel’s Operation Protective Edge military offensive in 2014 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strategy has been to seek the normalization of bombing the Gaza Strip.
Wednesday 26-February-2020
The European Union’s fluctuations on Israel’s colonial settlement expansion are more prominent since the bloc’s refusal to issue a statement regarding US President Donald Trump’s so-called deal of the century.
Saturday 1-February-2020
Palestinian prisoners – the bulwark of Palestinian resistance – have faced several levels of exclusion and exploitation throughout the decades.
Monday 27-January-2020
Prince Charles’ visit to the occupied Palestinian territories has garnered media attention.
Thursday 23-January-2020
The EU is predicting an increase in Israeli demolitions of Palestinian dwellings and structures in the occupied West Bank thus perpetuating the problem of displacement.
Wednesday 15-January-2020
In a recent meeting with representatives from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Secretary-General Saeb Erekat once again wasted an opportunity to demand the implementation of the Palestinian right of return.
Friday 10-January-2020
Israel’s main bone of contention with the International Criminal Court’s possible investigation into war crimes in occupied Palestine is about settlement expansion.
Sunday 5-January-2020
European Union (EU) funding for Palestinian human rights organisations is not without its caveats.
Thursday 2-January-2020
A mere two days before the International Criminal Court’s Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announced an investigation into Israel’s war crimes against the Palestinian people (as well as those alleged to have been committed by others in the Occupied Palestinian Territories) the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov was updating the Security Council on the futility of UN Resolution 2334 (2016).
Thursday 26-December-2019
Israel has reacted in typical belligerence to the International Criminal Court’s Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s announcement that there are sufficient grounds to investigate war crimes committed against Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Friday 20-December-2019
The latest report by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) is a stark reminder of how Israel’s colonization process in Palestine has created differences that are irreconcilable with the framework of human rights and international law.
Sunday 15-December-2019
December 8 1949 marked the establishment of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
Friday 6-December-2019
Israel marked the International Day of Persons with Disabilities by donating three pediatric wheelchairs to the UN Human Rights Council.
Tuesday 26-November-2019
During the Berlin European Council summit in 1999 the European Union declared “its readiness to consider the recognition of a Palestinian state in due course” and conditionally dependent upon the Oslo framework as well as “Israel’s security and Israel’s acceptance as an equal partner in the region.”
Saturday 16-November-2019
The resumption of Israel’s targeted assassination of resistance leaders in Gaza has been met with widespread acceptance and tacit agreement especially by the international community.
Sunday 10-November-2019
The olive harvest in Palestine is an annual reminder of Israeli settler vandalism and violence.