By: Ben White The Israeli government and its allies are mobilising to try and thwart a United Nations list of companies complicit in illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). These efforts are taking place in parallel to significant initiatives by figures within and outside of the Israeli government …
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The seven were wounded in the village of Biddu, which has been under Israeli military siege since Tuesday. Israeli occupation forces shot, wounded seven Palestinian citizens in the village of Biddu in the outskirts of Jerusalem. The village of Biddu is one of the areas which the Israeli occupation put …
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Netanyahu promised settlers to release settlement plans frozen during former US administration Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told leaders of Israeli Jewish settlers that US pressure on Israel over settlement is “temporary,” officials at Netanyahu’s office told Haaretz on Wednesday. The officials also said that Netanyahu had convinced US to …
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Israeli law defines a life sentence as a 99-year term of imprisonment. The number of Palestinian prisoners sentenced to life in jail by Israel has reached 501, according to the Palestinian Information Centre. The last prisoner to be sentenced was Amjad Al-Najjar, who was also fined 35,000 shekels ($98,700), after …
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Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, executive committee member of the Palestine liberation Organization (PLO), released a statement on Thursday condemning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for being “more committed to settlement expansion then to peace.” The statement came following a speech by Netanyahu at an event “50 Years of Settlement in Judea …
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Clashes erupted Wednesday night near Joseph’s Tomb in the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus between Palestinian youths and Israeli forces, who were escorting hundreds of Israeli settlers to the area to perform religious rituals. According to locals, Israeli forces fired bullets, tear-gas and stun grenades at the youth …
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Palestinian Prime Minister Rami al-Hamdallah, met with UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Nickolay Mladenov, on Thursday at his office in Ramallah, where they discussed with the latest political developments and the progress in the national reconciliation process. Mladenov spoke Al-Hamdallah about his meeting with Hamas leaders …
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154 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque, under heavy guard protection from the Israeli Occupation Forces(IOF) on Thursday morning. Settlers raided the area from Al maghariba Gate, through small groups, and carried out suspicious and provocative tours in the Holy site. The first group of settlers storming included dozens of them in …
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Israeli Environment Minister, Ze’ev Elkin, called for the cancellation of facilities granted to the Palestinian Authority in response to the decision of accepting Palestine in the International Police Organization (Interpol). About 75 countries voted in favor, with 24 voting against and 34 abstaining on Wednesday. The Israeli Foreign Ministry, which …
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Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday at dawn, several Palestinians during invasions and searches of homes in the occupied West Bank, and clashed with many youngsters near Jerusalem. The Israeli army said it arrested, in Beit Surik village, northwest of occupied East Jerusalem, several relatives of Nimir al-Jamal, 37, who opened …
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