Amman- Hundreds of Jordanians demonstrated in downtown Amman on Friday, calling on the government to cancel an agreement in which Israel began pumping natural gas to the kingdom this year. Jordanian security forces prevented the protesters from reaching symbolic al-Nakheel Square in the capital, where the turnout had been expected to
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Acting head of UN Palestinian agency says ‘difficult’ year ahead
Gaza- The interim head of the UN agency that aids Palestinian refugees on Thursday accused pro-Israel groups of lobbying foreign parliaments to stop donations, even as it struggled to recover from losing United States funding in 2018. Christian Saunders, in an interview with Reuters in his Gaza office, also said Israel
Israeli court orders closed-door hearings in NSO surveillance firm case
TEL AVIV - Amnesty International’s legal bid to have Israel revoke the export license of the Israeli NSO surveillance firm will be heard behind closed doors, an Israeli court ruled on Thursday. A Tel Aviv District judge cited national security concerns in ordering the restriction, accepting the Israeli Defence Ministry’s request
Israeli Finance Minister Kahlon will not seek reelection
Israeli education minister implies homosexuality is unnatural
JERUSALEM - Several Israeli school districts held impromptu tolerance classes on Sunday after the country’s education minister, an Orthodox rabbi, angered LGBT campaigners by implying homosexuality was unnatural. The furor over the remarks by Education Minister Rafael Peretz - who last year spoke favorably about gay “conversion therapy”, a widely discredited