Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on December 26th that he planned to vaccinate approximately 150,000 individuals each day for the coming week, with a goal of vaccinating 2 million Israelis by the end of January 2021. If this goal were to be reached, it would equate to approximately a
The Algerian Prime Minister, Abdelaziz Djerad, claimed on December 12, 2020 that the normalization of relations between Morocco and Israel “…are foreign maneuvers to destabilize Algeria” and that “there is now a desire by the Zionist entity to come closer to [Algeria’s] borders.” His statement follows the recognition of Morocco’s
On December 4, 2020, Ali Abu Aliya, a fourteen-year-old Palestinian, was shot by Israeli troops during a protest against Israeli occupation and land theft in the village of al-Mughayyi. Abu Aliya was taken to the Palestine Medical Center where he later died due to his wounds, according to the Palestinian
On November 14th, the secretary general of the Polisario Front, a group fighting for the independence of Western Sahara, declared an end to a ceasefire with Morocco that had lasted for three decades. The ceasefire began in 1991, with intervention from the United Nations, and was issued on the basis
Jordanians will head to the polls on November 10th to vote in the parliamentary election. Amidst the pandemic and growing concerns of a collapsing healthcare system, many have called on the government to postpone the elections, but the government has refused to do so. This refusal to postpone may result
On November 1, 2020, Algerians voted in a referendum to an amendment to the constitution that would limit presidential terms to two and create an anti-corruption body. The following day, the National Independent Elections Authority announced that the referendum was passed with a vote of 66.8%. However, less than a
On October 17th, hundreds of people gathered in Martyr’s Square in Beirut, Lebanon in protest of an ineffective government. These protests looked eerily similar to those sparked at about the same time last year, when the Lebanese government proposed a new tax on messaging service applications like WhatsApp. Just as
On October 2, 2020, Amnesty International released a report that detailed the conditions Ethiopian migrants experienced in Saudi detention camps, specifically within the Al-Dayer and Jizan camps. Amnesty International was able to interview 12 Ethiopian migrants within these Saudi detention camps from June to July of 2020 and verified the
On September 23, 2020, the United Nations (UN) announced that they would be reducing aid that was directed towards 300 health facilities within Yemen due to a lack of funding. This announcement follows the shutdown of 1/3 of UN humanitarian programs within Yemen that occurred from April to August; the
