“In a letter addressed to Amazon CEO and President Jeff Bezos, Palestinian Minister of Finance, Shukri Bishara, and Minister of National Economy, Khaled Osaily, said they were astonished to learn of Amazon’s policy of offering free shipping to customers in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and in Israel, while charging Palestinians fees of as much as $24 when they list the “Palestinian Territories” as their country.”

“With great fanfare, President Trump finally unveiled his long-anticipated Middle East peace proposal. The proposal was labeled ‘The Deal of the Century’ because it was supposed to offer an even-handed and just solution to one of the world’s most intractable conflicts. Instead it does something very different. The ‘Deal of the Century’ resurrects and restores grand apartheid, a racist political system that should have been left in the dustbins of history.”

“The Australian Centre for International Justice (ACIJ) calls upon the Australian Government to support international justice and accountability and withdraw its request to intervene at the International Criminal Court (ICC).

On Friday 14 February, the Australian Government filed a request to intervene in proceedings at the ICC, arguing that the court has no jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute grave crimes in Palestine.”

Human rights activists from Palestine, Israel, Europe, USA, Canada, South Africa and Australia, have issued a call to people in the diamond industry not to attend International Diamond Week in Israel in February.

Palestinian civil society organisations, groups and individuals working for justice and peace in the Middle East call upon people in the diamond industry not to attend the International Diamond Week in Israel February 10th-12th 2020.

On December 20th the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, concluded there is reasonable basis to believe Israeli forces committed war crimes during the 2014 assault on Gaza which resulted in the deaths of over 2250 people mainly civilian including over 550 children and also in relation to the transfer of Israeli civilians into the West Bank since 13 June 2014.