A new ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations) report urges the European Union (EU) to adjust its policy towards the Israeli/Palestinian conflict in order to salvage the two-state solution while it is still possible.

The Nakba, our catastrophe and dispossession in 1948, confirmed time and again by UN reports, resolutions, historians and military archives, cannot be denied. In order to achieve peace, it is time for Israel to recognize its responsibility for this crime, as a first step towards accountability and a just solution to this conflict.

The Shamasna family appeared in court this Monday, 20 May 2013, to appeal the 2012 DistrictCourt decision to evict the family from their home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem.  

Thaer Halahleh, a 34-year old detainee and former long term hunger striker has contracted Hepatitis C as a result of medical malpractice during his stay in Israel’s Askalan Prison, reports Fares Ziad—a lawyer for Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association. 

Four illegal settler outposts in the occupied Palestinian territories are to be legalized by the Israeli Civil Administration, the Israeli anti-settlement organization Peace Now reported on Thursday 16 May 2013.