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News Family Claims American Teen Held as Jewish Extremist Is Being Tortured by Israel
Israeli security authorities are holding a 17-year-old American Jewish citizen named Elisha Odess in seclusion, where his family alleges he’s been interrogated using harsh methods that amount to torture, amid a crackdown on Jewish extremists. Odess, who was born in Israel and holds dual Israeli citizenship, “has been abused so severely that he tried committing…
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Breaking News 3 Palestinians Killed in Clashes With Israel
Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian who tried to ram them with a car and another who took part in a violent demonstration in the occupied West Bank on Friday, the military and medical officials said. In the Gaza Strip, Israeli army fire killed another Palestinian during a border protest, medics said. A campaign of…
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Breaking News Czechs Reject Labeling of West Bank Settlement Products
The Czech parliament’s lower house called on the government on Thursday to ignore EU rules on labeling goods from Israeli settlements, joining Hungary in breaking ranks over the divisive regulations. The Czech Assembly said new EU guidelines which require the labeling of exports from Israeli settlements in the West Bank were “motivated by a political…
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Breaking News 2 Palestinians Shot Dead in Separate Car-Ramming Attacks
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Israeli security forces shot dead two Palestinians who tried to ram them with their cars during an arrest raid in the West Bank Wednesday, the Israeli army and police and Palestinian medical sources said. Soldiers shot and killed the driver of a car who tried to run them over in one…
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Breaking News Israel Applies Lethal Response to Wave of Palestinian Attacks
By now, the news alerts are all too familiar: “Stabbing near Old City: Israeli wounded, attacker shot dead,” read a recent bulletin. Another came by text message on Wednesday: “Stabbing attack: 2 wounded, one light, terrorist shot dead.” Over the past 2-1/2 months, since a wave of violence by Palestinians targeting Israelis began on Oct….
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Breaking News 3 Palestinians Killed as West Bank Attacks Rage
The Israeli army killed a Palestinian who it said tried to ram his car into soldiers near Hebron on Friday, and medics said another Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces during a violent demonstration in the flashpoint West Bank city. A campaign of stabbings, shootings and car-rammings by Palestinians has killed 19 Israelis and…
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Breaking News Palestinian Shot Dead After Stabbing Israeli
A Palestinian man stabbed and critically wounded an Israeli in the West Bank city of Hebron on Monday and was then shot dead by security forces, Israeli police said. Such incidents have become a daily occurrence in Israel, Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank since the eruption two months ago of a wave of Palestinian…
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Breaking News Four Israelis Wounded in 3 West Bank Attacks
Four Israelis were wounded in three separate attacks on Friday. Two Israeli soldiers sustained minor injuries when a Palestinian assailant hit them with his car near the West Bank village of Silwad. The driver was shot at the scene, the Times of Israel reported. In a separate incident, a Palestinian attacker was shot dead after…
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