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Far-right minister says Israel 'in charge' during visit to Jerusalem holy site

Israel's hard-right Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited a site in Jerusalem holy to both Muslims and Jews on Sunday and declared Israel was "in charge", drawing condemnation from Palestinians after months of escalating tension and violence.

Reuters

Far-right Israeli cabinet minister visits sensitive Jerusalem holy site

An extremist Israeli Cabinet minister visited a sensitive Jerusalem holy site on Sunday at a time of heightened tensions with the Palestinians.

France 24

Extremist Israel Cabinet minister visits sensitive Jerusalem holy site

An extremist Israeli Cabinet minister has visited a sensitive Jerusalem holy site at a time of heightened tensions with the Palestinians

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Far-right Israelis shut down Jerusalem’s Old City with flag march

Palestinians forced to stay away to avoid repeat of previous years, when far-right carried out dozens of attacks.

Al Jazeera

Netanyahu: ‘Expanded Campaign’ Possible Amid Enemy Rocket Onslaught

Netanyahu is ready for the possibility of an expanded campaign and harsh strikes against

Zenger

EU delegation cancels event in Israel over Ben-Gvir’s involvement

Delegation calls off Europe Day reception, saying it did not want to offer a platform to far-right Israeli minister.

Al Jazeera

EU in Israel cancels Europe Day event over far-right minister's participation

The European Union delegation in Israel on Monday cancelled its Europe Day diplomatic reception over the planned participation of far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who criticised the decision as a form of "silencing".

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EU cancels Tel Aviv event in protest over radical minister

The European Union says it has canceled a reception at an event in Tel Aviv marking Europe Day to prevent a radical ultranationalist Israeli minister from giving an address

The Independent UK

Netanyahu’s ‘national guard’ deal with Ben-Gvir raises fears of intercommunal violence

Political rivals have denounced the national guard plans as creating a personal ‘militia’ for extremist minister

The Guardian - UK

Israel would no longer be the country 'my son died for': memorials marred by anger

Tensions ran high as ceremonies commemorating slain Israeli soldiers and victims of attacks turned into protests on Tuesday, far from the decades-old tradition of Memorial Day unity.

Reuters

Commentary: Violence casts a shadow over holidays in the Holy Land. Will it fuel a new intifada?

Holy days in the Holy Land should be sacred refuges from escalating tensions and violence, but ironically, they are often just the opposite, producing some of the brutal hell that especially torments Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East.

Chicago Tribune

Israel bans non-Muslims from Al-Aqsa until end of Ramadan

Defence minister and security chiefs unanimously recommended the measure, PM Netanyahu says after violence at holy site.

Al Jazeera

Who are the Jewish groups who enter Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa compound?

Al Jazeera looks at the hardline ‘Temple Mount’ Jewish groups and why Palestinians protest their presence.

Al Jazeera

Netanyahu reverses decision to fire Israeli defence minister

Decision comes as Israel hit with rocket strikes from Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria in recent days

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Netanyahu Vows to Restore Security in Israel after Surging Violence

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to restore security "on all fronts" after surging violence that included rocket fire from Lebanon and Syria and two more deaths on Monday. Netanyahu also reinstated the defense minister whose firing he announced last month, AFP said. Heavy clashes, shootings, rocket strikes and a…

Reuters

Thousands of Israelis march to illegal West Bank outpost as tensions mount

Thousands of Israelis, including ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing government, marched to an evacuated Jewish outpost in the West Bank on Monday in support of settlements viewed as illegal under international law.

France 24

Israeli troops kill Palestinian teen in raid as settlers march through West Bank

Thousands of Israelis led by at least seven Cabinet ministers marched Monday to an evacuated West Bank settlement, in a defiant signal that Israel’s most right-wing government in history is determined to accelerate settlement building on occupied lands despite international opposition.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Pinned to the right

One would not have expected Benjamin Netanyahu and Kevin McCarthy to have very much in common. One is the second son of a famed and brilliant scholar, whose elder brother, by all accounts his father’s favorite, was killed in one of most audacious and celebrated rescue missions in his nation’s…

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Al Jazeera

‘Death to Christians’: Violence steps up under new Israeli gov’t

Christian leaders in Jerusalem say Israeli attackers felt more emboldened under the far-right ruling coalition.

The Independent UK

Al-Aqsa mosque raid by Israeli police draws international condemnation

Far-right Israeli minister responds: ‘It’s time to rip heads off in Gaza’

Al Jazeera

Analysis: Why does Israel’s Ben-Gvir want a ‘national guard’?

Palestinians, Israeli opposition worry about formation of armed force directly under the far-right minister’s control.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Israel Detains Passover Sacrifice Campaigner as Al-Aqsa Tensions Simmer

An Israeli campaigner for Jewish prayer rights at the Jerusalem compound that houses Al-Aqsa mosque was detained on Monday, in an apparent bid to preempt any attempt to hold a Passover sacrifice at the site while Palestinians mark Ramadan. The compound, revered by Jews as a vestige of their two…

Reuters

Israel detains Passover sacrifice campaigner as Al Aqsa tensions simmer

An Israeli campaigner for Jewish prayer rights at the Jerusalem compound that houses Al Aqsa mosque was detained on Monday, in an apparent bid to preempt any attempt to hold a Passover sacrifice at the site while Palestinians mark Ramadan.

France 24

Israel greenlights new national guard demanded by far-right security minister

The Israeli government approved Sunday the formation of a national guard, which opponents warn would function as a "private militia" of firebrand National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir who had pushed for the decision.

Al Jazeera

Israeli cabinet approves Ben-Gvir’s ‘national guard’ plan

Critics warn the far-right security minister may use his national guard against Palestinian citizens of Israel.

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