Middle East Minute for November 6, 2020 - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Catch up on some of this week’s biggest headlines and a few upcoming events around the region with Al-Monitor. Turkey fines Facebook, Twitter and others for disregarding a controversial new law, Israel demolishes Palestinian homes in the West Bank, and Algeria votes yes to constitutional reforms.

In this picture taken on September 30, 2020 shows logos of social networking websites displayed on a mobile phone's screen in Istanbul. - Turkey on Thursday starts life under a new social media law that threatens to erase the local presence of Facebook and Twitter should they fail to take down contentious posts.The new legislation was pushed through by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AKP party and follows the government's crackdown on opposition newspapers and television channels. (Photo by Ozan KOS

Facebook, Twitter, other social media companies fined in Turkey

Diego Cupolo

Israel accelerates demolition of Palestinian homes

Akiva Eldar

Israeli soldiers guard the road leading to the Homesh yeshiva, located at the former settlement of Homesh, west of Nablus, West Bank, Dec. 30, 2021.

In legal repeal, Israel to permit settlers' return to north West Bank outposts

Rina Bassist

In Paris, reporting on Israeli politics and European affairs

Facebook rebuffs Turkey’s controversial social media law

Diego Cupolo