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The Latest Breaking News from Jerusalem

Israel Says Expecting One Million Gazans To Flee New Offensive

Israel estimates that its imminent offensive on Gaza City would displace one million Palestinians, a senior military official said Wednesday, as Gaza's civil defence reported dozens killed across the territory.

International Business Times

Israelis stage 'day of disruption' against reservists call-up for Gaza City operation

The IDF said last month that Defence Minister Israel Katz had approved plans for an expanded military operation into Gaza City and that 60,000 reservists would be called up to support it.

Euronews

UK summons Israeli ambassador over West Bank settlement plan

The E1 settlement east of Jerusalem would effectively cut the West Bank in two.

Evening Standard

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Israel Approves Major West Bank Settlement Project

Israel approved a major settlement project on Wednesday in an area of the occupied West Bank that the international community has warned threatens the viability of a future Palestinian state.

International Business Times

Who Is Anna Bouyzk? Woman Attacks Neighbour with Anti-Semitic Slurs and Said His Dead Daughter Deserved To Die

Anna Bouyzk, wife of biotech entrepreneur Mark Bouzyk, is accused of hurling anti-Semitic slurs at her neighbour David Lubin, whose daughter, a 20-year-old IDF soldier, was killed in Jerusalem.

International Business Times UK

Pilgrims, or posers? How medieval satire exposed people who lied about their travels to Rome and the Holy Land

Situated at the end of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route – known in English as St. James’ Way, or simply “the Camino” – the Galician city of Santiago de Compostela is constantly filled with pilgrims who have completed their journeys.

The Conversation

‘Not in our name’: Fury grows in Israel over Netanyahu’s defiant bid to ‘finish the job’ in Gaza

SPECIAL DISPATCH: As Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to back down over military expansion into Gaza, hostages' families tell Bel Trew in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem why their government has got it wrong – and call for an end to suffering for Israelis and Palestinians

The Independent UK

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Far-right Israeli football fans set off pyrotechnics in Latvia’s capital

Beitar Jerusalem fans, who have a history of anti-Arab racism, set off fireworks as Latvian police intervened.

Al Jazeera

Israel's security cabinet approves plans to take over Gaza City

Israel's security cabinet has approved taking control of Gaza City, located in the north of the enclave, in another escalation to the war. Netanyahu earlier noted that Israel planned to take over the entirety of the enclave and eventually hand it off to "friendly Arab forces" instead of Hamas.

Euronews

Israel pushes for more illegal settlements in occupied West Bank amid raids

Plans to expand in the E1 area east of occupied East Jerusalem would bisect area and isolate Palestinian communities.

Al Jazeera

Israel’s assault on humanitarian norms

Letters: Dr Lee Mordechai and Prof Liat Kozma of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem respond to an article from a senior aid official in Gaza

The Guardian - UK

Israeli protesters demand Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal outside Netanyahu’s office

Israeli protesters rallied outside Benjamin Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem on Monday, 4 August, calling to end the war in Gaza, return all hostages under a comprehensive deal, and cancel the motion to sack attorney general Gali Baharav-Miara.

The Independent UK

Israel minister who led prayers at a controversial holy site has a record of provocative actions

Israel's far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has led prayers at Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site, sparking international condemnation

The Independent UK

The 10 most important and interesting Iron Maiden shows ever, by manager Rod Smallwood

Iron Maiden's longtime manager Rod Smallwood tells ten stories of ten landmark shows

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Reason

Mark Twain's Travel Log From the Holy Land

Christianity would be wonderful, Twain suggests in The Innocents Abroad, if it weren't for Christians.

The Independent UK

Families of Americans slain in the West Bank lose hope for justice

Families of Palestinian-Americans killed in the West Bank are demanding justice

The National (Scotland)

John Swinney reveals 'sorrow' as priest he knows hurt in Israeli attack

JOHN Swinney has written to the patriarch of Jerusalem to express his “profound sorrow” at an Israeli attack which injured a priest he knows.

International Business Times

Top Holy Land Clerics Visit Gaza After Deadly Church Strike

Two of the most senior Christian leaders in the Holy Land travelled to Gaza on Friday after Israeli fire killed three at the Palestinian territory's only Catholic church, provoking international condemnation.

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Evening Standard

Food distribution system for Palestinians ‘like hunger games’, says archbishop

Archbishop of Jerusalem Hosam Naoum was speaking at the Church of England’s General Synod.

The Independent UK

Gaza aid hubs ‘like hunger games’ for Palestinians, says archbishop

More than 600 deaths have been recorded at the ‘horrifying’ aid distribution points

The Conversation

Cancellations at Canadian film festivals raise questions about accountability

Film festivals are unique cultural institutions, spaces to see diverse films by local and global filmmakers and an important market for distributors. These films are often difficult to see, or even know about, outside of festival circuits.

Reason

Conflicts and Contrasts Make Jerusalem Endlessly Fascinating

The City of Peace has been a locus of conflict for a very long time—a story that continues to this day.

Al Jazeera

‘Lucky to be alive’: The 12-year-old shot by Israeli snipers in Jerusalem

Two young members of a Palestinian family were left with life-altering injuries when Israeli police opened fire.

The Conversation

Friday essay: ‘whose agony is greater than mine?’ Testimonies of Gaza and October 7 ask us to recognise shared humanity

In 1962, poet and Auschwitz survivor Yehiel Dinur took the stand in Jerusalem in the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Dinur was a much-anticipated witness, bearing the audience’s hope this man, a poet, would be able to explain – to capture and to transmit – the experience of…

The Independent UK

Ottolenghi co-founder Sami Tamimi: ‘We must use all the tools we have to keep Palestine alive through food’

Chef and author Sami Tamimi speaks to Lauren Taylor about preserving Palestinian culture through his new cookbook, ‘Boustany’, and why food is his way of keeping hope alive

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