The city of Frankfurt, Germany, passed a bill on Friday outlawing municipal funding for and the use of public spaces for activities that aim to boycott Israel, according to the Jerusalem Post. The Jerusalem Post reported that the anti-Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement bill was initiated and pushed by …
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Clashes erupted in the villages of Burham and Jibiya — both located in the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah — in the predawn hours of Friday morning, as Israeli settlers raided the towns under Israeli army protection. Locals from the villages told Ma’an that Israeli forces raided Burham …
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On Tuesday, 15 August 2017, Jerusalem Municipality employees went with a Border Police escort to four East Jerusalem neighborhoods where they demolished dwellings and other structures, citing construction without a permit as pretext. All the while, the municipality does whatever is in its power to keep Palestinians from building lawfully. …
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Demolition follows on heels of destruction of two other educational facilities in Area C On the evening of Tuesday, 22 August 2017, at around 7:00 P.M. Israeli Civil Administration officials and security forces arrived at the village of Jub a-Dib, southeast of Bethlehem. The forces demolished the community’s recently constructed …
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Data issued by the Israeli Civil Administration indicated that 3,455 settlement units were built on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reported yesterday that all of these buildings – which include settler homes and the Israeli occupation’s state and army institutions – were built …
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Israel’s Channel 2 reported that yesterday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave authorisation for Knesset members to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque next Tuesday. Netanyahu issued an order prohibiting members of the Knesset from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque in October 2015, since the outbreak of the uprising in Jerusalem. In July he temporarily …
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The Palestinian government Friday denounced the Torah scrolls-placing ceremony in East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan as purely politically motivated. Government’s spokesperson Yousef al-Mahmoud slammed Israeli officials’ attendance of a ceremony to place Torah scrolls in a synagogue in the predominantly Palestinian neighborhood as a “ new act of Israeli aggression …
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The visit of the US peace delegation headed by Trump’s son-in-law and chief advisor Jared Kushner to discuss means to resume the long-stalled peace process dominated the front page headlines in Palestinian Arabic dailies. Al-Quds reported President Mahmoud Abbas, who met the US delegation in Ramallah, stating: “We know that …
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Comments come as US delegation arrives in region to jump start talks amid Palestinian grumblings about lack of clarity WASHINGTON — Committing to the two-state solution would bias Washington in Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, a US official said Wednesday, as a high-level delegation arrived in the region to try and jump …
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White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said on Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump is “committed” to achieving peace in the Middle East. Kushner, also Trump’s son-in-law, made the remarks while meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, along with U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Dina Powell, and Middle East …
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