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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday called on Israel to take “urgent” action to stop settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. Blinken, in San Francisco for an Asia-Pacific summit, made the plea in a telephone…
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Israel’s security forces continued their siege of Jericho on Saturday for the eighth day in a row, tightening their grip on the city through checkpoints at its entrances. Similar checkpoints can be found throughout the West Bank, where…
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Kayed Odeh, 40, the owner of a construction material store in the town of Hiwara, was at work on Jan. 24 when about 20 settlers attacked his shop and car. Armed with sticks, rifles, pepper spray and teargas cans, the settlers caused…
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Retired general Yair Golan spent a significant part of his military career serving in the occupied West Bank, protecting Jewish settlements. Today, he is one of their most vocal critics. Golan, a former deputy military chief, is now a…
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UN human rights experts on Wednesday condemned the record-high levels of violence carried out by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories this year. They also criticized the Israeli government for its lack of…
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A video clip documenting an exceptional dialogue between a Palestinian woman in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem and a settler who came to rob her of her home provoked Egyptian businessman Naguib Sawirus. The video, shared by…
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