High Representative Valentin Inzko 15 Nov told UNSC country stagnating due to failure to form govt, adopt Middle East & North Africa Israel/Palestine PA President Abbas and Hamas politburo head Meshal met 24 In protest at Palestine’s 31 Oct admission to UNESCO Israel froze transfers of tax and customs revenues UNSC Membership Committee 11 Nov report showed no majority on Palestinian full membership. Intermittent violence along Gaza border including 2 Palestinians killed 3 Nov by IDF following sniper

Middle East & North Africa Israel/Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas asked Hamas’ Ismail Haniyeh to form new Palestinian Authority (PA) government 21 February. Israeli government prevented new Palestinian legislature from meeting 18 February, characterised PA as Violence escalated with 8 killed in Israeli raids on Palestinian towns and villages in West Bank, clashes

It has insisted it did everything possible to avoid causing civilian casualties, and has accused Palestinian The report cites alleged incidents of settler violence and access of Palestinians to agricultural land Inquiry postponed The Palestinians and Israel each accuse the other of committing war crimes during The war left more than 2,100 Palestinians dead, the majority civilians, according to the UN. Schabas had a “clear and documented bias”, Israel said, since he had previously done paid work for the Palestine

JERUSALEM — Israeli forces shot and killed a 19-year-old Palestinian man when clashes broke out during Palestinian officials identified the dead man as Jihad Jaafari, a resident of the Deheishe refugee camp Bakri told Voice of Palestine radio. Tensions between Israel and the Palestinian Authority have been rising in recent weeks. There has also been a wave of attacks against Israelis in recent months by Palestinians using knives,

Many of them were connected to pro-Palestinian protests, which would suggest that the acts were direct