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Blinken Visits Mideast, North Africa to Tackle Ukrainian War, Iran, Peace Deals

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel next week to the Middle East and North Africa where he will discuss a range of regional and global priorities, including Ukraine, Iran, the Abraham Accords and normalization agreements with Israel, preserving the prospects for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,…

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Palestinians Vote in Second Phase of Municipal Elections

Polls opened Saturday in towns and cities in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in a rare democratic exercise following a decade and a half of delays to Palestinian elections. It is the second phase of municipal elections after a first round of voting in December in 154 West Bank villages. Saturday's…

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Blinken to visit Israel, West Bank, Morocco and Algeria

Ukraine war, Arab-Israeli normalisation and two-state solution on agenda during secretary of state’s visit, US says.

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Palestinian PM Warns Against Turning Ukrainian Refugees Into New Settlers

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh warned against promoting Israeli settlements in the West Bank with Ukrainian Jews. Speaking at the weekly cabinet meeting, Shtayyeh said Israel exploited the Ukraine crisis to transfer Ukrainian refugees into new settlers in Palestine. Shtayyeh was commenting on reports about the arrival of Ukrainians to…

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‘It’s not a problem any more’: Israel’s increasingly porous West Bank fence

Questions raised over point of barrier as Israel turns blind eye to many crossings for economic reasons

The Guardian - UK

Israeli Commander: Palestinians Will Lose in Another Intifada

Israeli army battalion commander Eliav Elbaz said on Saturday that Palestinians will lose a lot if they decide to go back and fight another intifada, as happened in 2000. Elbaz’ warning came in statements to the Israeli Walla website, which reported that these assessments are based on a secret tour…

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US Ambassador Says Settlements are a ‘Stupid Thing’

The US ambassador to Tel Aviv, Tom Nides, announced Wednesday that the West Bank settlement growth is “infuriating,” warning that it is a “stupid thing” that impedes a two-state solution. Speaking at a virtual event of the Americans for Peace Now organization, Nides said that he couldn’t stop the settlements,…

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Israeli top court to rule on Palestinians' bid to stop displacement from West Bank homes

Israel's Supreme Court held a hearing on Tuesday on petitions against a long-running bid by the Israeli army to displace over 1,000 Palestinian inhabitants from a rural part of the occupied West Bank it designated for military exercises.

Reuters

‘Devastating’: How Israel is pulling Palestinian families apart

Al Jazeera looks into Israel’s family reunification law that affects Palestinian couples and families.

Al Jazeera

Israeli forces kill 2 Palestinians in West Bank clashes

The Palestinian Health Ministry says Israeli forces killed two Palestinians and wounded several others during separate raids in the occupied West Bank

The Independent UK

Several Palestinians including teen killed by Israeli forces

Teenage boy Nader Rayan and two men killed in raids in the occupied West Bank and Israel.

Al Jazeera

Palestinian teen shot, killed by Israel troops

Israeli troops killed two Palestinians in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank Tuesday, the Palestinian health ministry said, the latest in a flurry of deadly clashes in the territory.

Bangkok Post

Israeli forces kill two Palestinians in West Bank violence

Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, in what Israeli border police described as clashes that erupted during a raid to detain suspected militants.

Reuters

Israeli Troops Kill Teenager in West Bank

Israeli troops shot and killed a teenager and wounded at least three other Palestinians during an early morning raid in a West Bank refugee camp, the Palestinian Health Ministry said Tuesday. It identified the deceased as 16-year-old Nader Rayan. The Israeli military referred questions to the paramilitary Border Police, who…

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Gantz Places Jewish Extremist under Administrative Detention

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz has signed an order keeping a Jewish settler under administrative detention. The settler is accused of participating in a terrorist attack on Palestinians and Israeli activists from the “Rabbis for Human Rights” organization in the West Bank village of Burin in January. The 21-year-old is…

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Israel Renews Law to Keep Out Palestinian Spouses

Israel's parliament has renewed a temporary law dating back to 2003 that bars Israeli citizens from extending citizenship or even residency to Palestinian spouses from the occupied West Bank and Gaza. Israel says the law, which was first enacted during a Palestinian uprising, is needed for security. Critics view it…

The Independent UK

Israel renews law to keep out Palestinian spouses

Israel’s parliament has renewed a temporary law dating back to 2003 that bars Israeli citizens from extending citizenship or even residency to Palestinian spouses from the occupied West Bank and Gaza

Asharq Al-Awsat

Druze Pop Star Seeks to Bridge Palestinian and Israeli Divide

"Yalla, yalla, raise your hands!" Israeli Druze singer Mike Sharif shouts in Arabic to the Palestinian crowd swaying to a Hebrew hit at a wedding in the occupied West Bank. The scene, all the more unusual as it took place in Yatta, a Palestinian village near Hebron and site of…

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Trump-Era Israeli Settlement Growth Proceeds in His Absence

The growth of Israel’s West Bank settler population accelerated last year, according to figures released by a pro-settler group on Thursday, despite renewed American pressure to rein in construction on occupied territory that the Palestinians want for a future state. The figures show that a settlement surge initiated when President…

Al Jazeera

‘Love for a free life’: Why Palestinian prisoners hunger strike

Al Jazeera speaks to recently freed Palestinian hunger strikers Miqdad Qawasmi and Hisham Abu Hawwash.

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Palestinian Shot Last Week by Israeli Troops Dies of Wounds

A Palestinian man shot by Israeli forces in clashes last week died from his wounds early on Wednesday, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. Ahmed Seif, 23, was shot in the stomach three times during clashes with Israeli troops in the village of Burqa, near Nablus, in the occupied West…

Al Jazeera

Israeli troops demolish Palestinian homes in West Bank

Israel demolishes the homes of two people accused of carrying out a deadly attack in the occupied West Bank last year.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Israeli Troops Demolish Homes of Palestinian Attackers

The Israeli military said Tuesday it has demolished the homes of two Palestinians accused of carrying out a deadly shooting attack in the occupied West Bank last year. The residences of Mohammed Jaradat and Jit Jaradat in the West Bank were demolished Monday, the military said. The men are accused…

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Palestinian Fashion Designer Helps Women in Bethlehem to Start Up

Nadya Hazboun, a brilliant Palestinian fashion designer, is making huge efforts to preserve the Palestinian identity using the clothes and accessories she creates. She is also sharing her skills with other Palestinian women in her hometown Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. As part of a project funded by the…

Reason

Say Opera Houses Announce They "No Longer Engage With Artists That Support Israel,"

given what the opera houses view as Israel's improper control over the West Bank.

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