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Breaking News 3 Palestinians Killed After Gun and Car-Ram Attacks in West Bank
Three Palestinians carried out back-to-back gun and car-ramming attacks on Israelis near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Monday and were shot dead by the army, it said. Two of the Palestinians, armed with a handgun and an improvised machine-pistol, were killed after opening fire at civilians and soldiers who were waiting…
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Breaking News Did Waze App Lead Israeli Soldiers Into Fierce West Bank Firefight?
A Palestinian man was killed and ten security officers were injured during the rescue of two Israeli soldiers who accidentally entered a Palestinian refugee camp after apparently being directed there by the Waze Smartphone app. The two soldiers, an army driver and squad commander who were in uniform and carrying ammunition, entered the Qalandiyah refugee…
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Breaking News Kenya President Irks Palestinians With Visit to West Bank Settlement
Kenya’s president was validating Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem with his visits there on his first official trip to Israel, Palestinian leaders said. Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi said Thursday that the Palestinians plan to complain to the African Union and other regional organizations about Uhuru Kenyatta’s trip this week, The Associated…
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Breaking News President Obama Signs Anti-BDS Bill — Won’t Apply to Settlements
President Barack Obama signed a bill that punishes the BDS campaign against Israel, but said he will not apply a segment that extends protections to West Bank settlements. The Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, aimed at removing unfair barriers to competitive U.S. trade, passed the U.S. House of Representatives in December and…
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Breaking News Home of Ezra Schwartz Killer Is Razed by Israel
Israeli army bulldozers on Tuesday demolished the homes of two Palestinians who killed five people in attacks in the occupied West Bank and Israel last year, the military said. Mohammed al-Haroub shot at cars near an Israeli settlement bloc in the West Bank on Nov. 20, the military said, killing an Israeli, an American student…
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News Wave of Violence Turns West Bank Supermarket From ‘Model of Coexistence’ Into Place of Fear
On a recent Sunday afternoon at a Rami Levy supermarket in the West Bank, an Israeli soldier patrolled next to a rack of toothpaste, on a two-for-one sale. Outside, Israeli and Palestinian customers walked through a new black metal detector on their way in; it was installed just an hour before. Rami Levy, the founder…
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Breaking News Jewish Extremist Claims Firebomb Confession Was Coerced
The main suspect in the deadly firebombing of a Palestinian family’s home in the West Bank village of Duma said he was tortured during his interrogations and that is why he confessed. Amiram Ben-Uliel, 21, of Jerusalem, was charged in January with three counts of murder. Three members of the Dawabshe family — an 18-month-old…
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Breaking News Another Suspect Arrested in Connection to Fatal West Bank Stabbing of American Citizen
A third suspect has been arrested in the stabbing attack at a West Bank supermarket that left a dual American-Israeli citizen dead. The suspect, who reportedly was turned away from the Rami Levi supermarket in Shaar Binyamin, north of Jerusalem, by a security guard, was arrested after the attack on Thursday, the Israeli media reported…
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