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Breaking News Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian in West Bank
Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian on Saturday in the occupied West Bank, the military and a Palestinian security official said. An Israeli military spokeswoman said soldiers saw two Palestinians throwing a fire bomb towards a road near the Palestinian city of Nablus and “identifying an immediate threat shot toward the suspects’ lower extremities.” The…
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Breaking News Kidnap Ringleader Gets Life in Killings of 3 Israeli Teens
An Israeli military court on Tuesday sentenced a Palestinian to life imprisonment over the killing of three Israeli youths, whose abduction in the occupied West Bank set off a chain of events leading to the 50-day Gaza war last summer. The court found that Hussam Kawasmeh, a member of the militant Hamas Islamist group, planned…
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Breaking News American Diplomatic Convoy Stoned by Jewish Settlers on West Bank
(Reuters) — Jewish settlers threw stones at the cars of a U.S. diplomatic delegation which came to inspect vandalism to nearby Palestinian-owned trees in the occupied West Bank on Friday, Israeli police said. The U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv and consulate in Jerusalem had no immediate comment on the incident outside Adei Ad settlement, which caused…
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Breaking News Palestinian Crushed to Death at West Bank Checkpoint
A Palestinian man was crushed to death as he tried to get through West Bank checkpoint to go to work in Israel. Ahmad Samih Bdeir, 39, a construction worker from the village of Farun in the northern West Bank, died Wednesday morning at the Efraim checkpoint, also known as al-Tayba, near Tulkarem in the northern…
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Breaking News Palestinian Home Firebombed in ‘Revenge’ Attack
A Palestinian home near Hebron was set alight by a firebomb in what is believed to be a price tag attack. The Molotov cocktail was thrown through the living room window of the house at about 4 a.m. on Wednesday, while the home’s 10 residents were sleeping. Most of the living room was destroyed by…
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Breaking News Israel Troops Kill Palestinian Stone-Thrower
Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian who had been hurling rocks at cars on a highway in the occupied West Bank on Monday, a military spokeswoman said. She said troops shouted at a group of Palestinians throwing stones on a main road near Palestinian villages and Jewish settlements to halt and then fired warning…
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Breaking News Israelis Save Stricken Palestinian Boy at Border
Israeli paramedics and the Israel Defense Forces saved the life of a Palestinian baby who collapsed at the border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan. The family was taking the 6-month-old baby with heart problems to Jordan on Saturday morning to receive medical attention when he suffered what is believed to be a heart…
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Breaking News 11-Year-Old Ayala Shapira Faces Medical Ordeal After Firebomb Attack
Two Palestinian teens were arrested in connection with the firebomb attack on a West Bank road that left an 11-year-old Israeli girl fighting for her life. The Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet security service said in a statement released Saturday night that the two were arrested Thursday night in the hours following the…
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