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Thursday briefing: Israel and Palestine are on the verge of a new escalation in violence – this is how we got here

In today’s newsletter: Attacks on Palestinians and Israelis have risen in recent months, and heightened political tensions – will the crisis escalate yet further?

The Guardian - UK

Fears of escalating Israeli-Palestinian violence after deadly West Bank raid

Israeli jets strike Gaza after Palestinian militants fire rockets across border in the wake of the worst single-day death toll in the occupied West Bank for years

The Independent UK

What the Rise of Drone Warfare Means for Palestinians

Whether armed or not, drones function as a form of psychological terror for those living underneath them.

Foreign Policy

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Israel accused of trying to ‘topple’ the Palestinian Authority – as it bans public waving of Palestinian flag

In recent days, Israel has withheld millions of dollars of Palestinian tax revenues and stripped Palestinian officials of VIP privileges. Now, the country’s firebrand security minister has banned public displays of the Palestinian flag

The Independent UK

Palestinian villagers in Masafer Yatta face immediate expulsion

Palestinian residents of Masafer Yatta, in the occupied West Bank, have been told they will be displaced imminently.

Al Jazeera

Israeli army kills 2 Palestinians in West Bank confrontation

Palestinian health officials say Israeli forces have killed two Palestinians during a confrontation that erupted when troops entered a village in the occupied West Bank

The Independent UK

Watchdog: Under 1% of Israel army probes yield prosecution

An Israeli rights group says that Israeli soldiers accused of harming Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza over the last five years have been indicted in less than 1% of the hundreds of complaints against them

The Independent UK

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Shireen Abu Akleh documentary to raise pressure on Biden over inquiry

Film offers most detailed account yet of journalist’s killing by Israeli army, including video of moments surrounding shooting

The Guardian - US

How zoning laws allow the Israeli Army to demolish Palestinian villages

More than a thousand Bedouin Palestinians living in the hills of Mount Hebron in the West Bank are at risk of losing their homes under zoning laws that allow the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to evict them at any time. In the 1980s, the IDF declared their homeland a so-called…

France 24

Joe Biden was a fierce critic of South African apartheid – now he’s accused of ignoring similar policies in Israel

Several of the world’s leading human rights groups have accused Israel of committing the crime of apartheid, writes Richard Hall

The Independent UK

‘This is apartheid’: Israeli human rights group hang billboards for Biden’s visit

The US is accused of tolerating human rights abuses in the region

The Independent UK

Why Israel Is Afraid of Palestinian Funerals

Shireen Abu Akleh was neither a terrorist nor a dissident. But Israeli authorities treated the journalist’s funeral as a threat to their security.

Foreign Policy

Reconstruction of Al Jazeera Reporter’s Killing Points to Israeli Fire

Who killed Shireen Abu Akleh? Almost two weeks after the death of the veteran Palestinian-American reporter for Al Jazeera, a reconstruction by The Associated Press lends support to assertions from both Palestinian authorities and Abu Akleh's colleagues that the bullet that cut her down came from an Israeli gun. Any…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Reconstruction of reporter's killing points to Israeli fire

Who killed Shireen Abu Akleh

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Al Jazeera

Macron urges rapid Israeli probe into Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing

France urges Israel to complete probe into killing of Al Jazeera journalist, despite UN call for an independent probe.

The Conversation

How media reports of 'clashes' mislead Americans about Israeli-Palestinian violence

Israeli police attacked mourners carrying the coffin of slain Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on May 13, 2022, beating pallbearers with batons and kicking them when they fell to the ground.

WEKU

An independent probe points to Israeli gunfire in the death of a journalist

One open-source research team said its initial findings lent support to Palestinian witnesses who said Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by Israeli fire.

The Independent UK

Independent probe points to Israeli fire in journalist death

As Israel and the Palestinians wrangle over the investigation into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, several independent groups have launched their own probes

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Chicago Sun-Times

Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh shot to death by Israeli forces, colleagues and witnesses said. Then the spin started.

The Al Jazeera’s correspondent’s shooting death barely made the local news last week.

Al Jazeera

Abu Akleh killing: Analysis refutes video blaming Palestinians

Video verification shows that Palestinian fighters were not in the vicinity of Shireen Abu Akleh when she was shot.

Al Jazeera

Israel army reverses assertion Palestinian fire killed Abu Akleh

Israeli army chief Aviv Kochavi now says it was unclear who fired the shot that killed Shireen Abu Akleh.

Al Jazeera

Rights groups slam Israeli ruling that allows razing of villages

Israel’s top court rejects petition against the expulsion of Palestinian residents from villages in the West Bank.

Newsroom.co.nz

A selective concern for human rights

NZ has made a concerted effort to support the Ukrainian people. But why Ukraine, and not other situations where the application of the rule of law is equally urgent?

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