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Breaking News Mike Huckabee Visits SodaStream Factory and Meets With Kidnapped Teens’ Parents
Former U.S. presidential candidate Mike Huckabee called on President Obama to halt dialogue with Hamas, which is believed to be responsible for the abduction of three Israeli teens. Huckabee, the ex-Republican governor of Arkansas, arrived in Israel on Sunday for a weeklong visit to focus attention on the kidnappings. He has visited Israel more than…
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Breaking News Israel Scales Back Crackdown Amid Growing Anger
Israel scaled back a search for three missing teenagers in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday after 11 days of operations raised fears of a general uprising and undermined Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Israel has accused Abbas’s political rivals, the Islamist group Hamas, of orchestrating the abduction of the Jewish youths on June 12. It…
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Breaking News Kidnapped Teen’s Mother Tells U.N. Council of ‘Nightmare’
The mother of kidnapped Israeli teen Naftali Frenkel told the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva that every boy and girl deserves to come home to their families. “It is wrong to take children – innocent boys and girls – and use them as instruments in any struggle,” Rachel Frenkel told the council on…
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Breaking News Israel Detains 37 Palestinians in KIdnap Push
Israel’s army said it detained another 37 Palestinians overnight as it searched for three missing teenagers and extended a crackdown on the Hamas Islamist group it accuses of kidnapping them. There were no reports of clashes between the soldiers and Palestinians in the raids in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where the military says it has…
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Breaking News Benjamin Netanyahu Slams Presbyterians for Israel Divestment
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) vote to divest from three companies that do business with Israeli West Bank security forces. Netanyahu, speaking Sunday to Jewish journalists from around the world at the inaugural Jewish Media Summit in Jerusalem, said the vote late Friday to divest from Caterpillar, Motorola Solutions and…
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Breaking News Netanyahu: Israel Has ‘Unequivocal Proof’ Hamas Responsible for Kidnappings
Israel has “unequivocal proof” that Hamas is responsible for the kidnapping of three Israeli teens more than a week ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet. The proof and information have been shared by Israel with several countries and soon it will be made public, Netanyahu said Sunday at the start of the weekly…
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Breaking News Israel Detains Dozens More — Raids Media House
Israel sent more troops to the occupied West Bank on Saturday to search for three missing teenagers it says were abducted by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas. The army said it had also arrested another 10 Palestinians during its hunt – the latest in a series of detentions and raids that have raised tensions and triggered…
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Breaking News 15-Year-Old Palestinian Killed for Throwing Stones as Israel Crackdown Grows
Israeli troops killed a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank on Friday and arrested 25 people, pursuing a crackdown on Islamist militants and house-to-house searches for three Israeli teenagers who went missing eight days ago. Palestinian medics said Mohammed Dudin, 15, was killed in the village of Dura, near the city of Hebron in…
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