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Breaking News Americans for Peace Now Calls Illegal Israeli Settlements ‘Plague’
Americans for Peace Now called the expansion of Israeli settlements a “plague” in a Facebook post. On March 30, the group posted a photo to its Facebook page showing the expansion of the West Bank settlement of Modiin Illit between 1997 and 2014. Evoking the upcoming Passover holiday, the photo featured a caption calling the…
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Breaking News Palestinian Teen Dies of Injuries Sustained Last Week in West Bank Clash
A Palestinian teenager died on Wednesday of a gunshot wound sustained a week ago during a confrontation with Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, hospital officials said. The officials at Ramallah Hospital said Ali Safi, 17, had been shot through the chest. Witnesses said soldiers had responded to stone-throwing at a protest against a…
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Breaking News Fatah Leader Urges Arab-Israelis to Vote for Arab List
A Fatah leader in the West Bank urged Arab-Israelis to vote for the Joint Arab List in the Israeli elections, as did a Lebanese newspaper. In voicing an opinion about the election, Hatem Abdul Qader broke with Fatah’s longstanding policy of not intervening in Israeli politics, according to the Times of Israel. Qader said the…
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Breaking News 30 Hamas Activists Arrested in West Bank Round-Up
Palestinian security forces detained dozens of supporters of Hamas in raids across the West Bank overnight, the Islamist group said on Monday, calling it the biggest round-up in years as internal Palestinian tensions rise. A spokesman for the Palestinian Authority’s security services confirmed that 30 people had been detained but denied the arrests were political….
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Breaking News Palestinians Vote To Suspend Security Cooperation With Israel
Palestinian leaders in the West Bank said on Thursday they would halt the security coordination with Israel which is widely credited with keeping order in the territory and preventing attacks in Israel. The Palestinian Central Council, whose votes are usually binding on the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, said it made the decision because Israel had breached…
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Israel News Zionist Group’s Vote Could Bare Israel’s Secret Funding of Settlements
It’s an unwritten arrangement Diaspora Jewish leaders and Israel have kept for decades — though few Jews know about it: The government of Israel uses one of world Jewry’s main Zionist funding instruments to hide money that it channels secretly to exclusively Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. The funding body is the World…
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Israel News Gleaming Billion-Dollar Palestinian City Finally Sees Water on Horizon
Rawabi, the sparkling new — but still empty — Palestinian city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, has announced that the crucial element keeping its streets and high-rises desolate and devoid of residents may finally be addressed. “At Last Universal Rights to Water Realized at Rawabi,” reads the headline in the project’s winter newsletter, which was…
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Culture The Occupations and Preoccupations of Arkadi Zaides
In the video clip, a Jewish boy of no more than 12, seemingly drunk on Purim wine and missing a shoe, kicks and slaps the exterior of a Palestinian home in Hebron. A man in a kippah, perhaps the boy’s father, appears and drags the boy away. The man turns to a soldier off camera…
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