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Palestinian student elections provide rare test of voter mood

Candidates linked to the Islamist group Hamas won the largest share of seats on a university student council on Wednesday, in a ballot that offered a rare test of voter sentiment for Palestinians, who had their last parliamentary elections almost two decades ago.

Reuters

Commentary: Taxpayer money shouldn’t support illegal Israeli settlements

On March 7, 2023, I was walking with another international activist near Tuba village in Masafer Yatta, a group of villages at the southernmost end of the West Bank, when we were set upon by Israeli settlers from the nearby illegal outpost of Havat Ma’on. One settler chased my companion,…

Tribune News Service

Why Hamas was not Israel's target in Gaza airstrikes - this time

Israel's latest round of airstrikes against Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip left familiar images of towering spirals of smoke and wailing sirens but none of the buildings left in rubble by the jets belonged to its main enemy, Hamas.

Reuters

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A precious resource: how Israel uses water to control the West Bank

In occupied West Bank villages, Israeli-owned farms are flourishing, while Palestinians often do not have enough water to drink

The Guardian - UK

Israeli forces kill Palestinian man in West Bank raid

Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man during a raid in the city of Nablus early on Monday, the Palestinian health ministry said, the latest incident in more than a year of surging violence in the occupied West Bank.

Reuters

Israel, Islamic Jihad reach Egyptian-brokered cease-fire to end five days of fighting

Israel and the Islamic Jihad militant group in the Gaza Strip agree to an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire, ending five days of intense fighting that killed 33 Palestinians and two people in Israel.

ABC News

Israel apologises for death of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh who was shot in the West Bank

Israel has apologised for the death of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh who was shot and killed in the West Bank.

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Israel’s demolition surge: Schools become a primary target

The demolition of schools amounts to coercive transfer of families with children from their villages and homes.

Al Jazeera

Israel To Turn Biblical Site In The West Bank Into An Archeological Park

Investment of the archeological site in the West Bank is a historical that once serves as the capital of the Kingdom of Israel.

Zenger

Berlin to hold talks with Israel after destruction of Palestinian school

Berlin will hold talks with Israeli authorities after the destruction of a Palestinian school in the West Bank, a German foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday.

Reuters

Israel publishes tenders for new West Bank settlement units

Israel has published tenders for more than 1,000 new housing units in settlements in the occupied West Bank, despite a commitment it made in U.S.-backed talks in February that discussion of new settlement units would be halted for the next four months.

Reuters

World Food Programme to suspend aid to Palestinians due to funding shortage

The World Food Programme (WFP) will suspend food aid to over 200,000 Palestinians from next month due to a "severe" shortage of funds, the group's senior official for the Palestinian territories said on Sunday.

Reuters

Biblical Site Under Threat Amid Ongoing Palestinian Construction

The building plan on a biblical site in the West Bank cites as a possible threat as destruction of Jewish sites is very common.

Zenger

Who was Khader Adnan, the Palestinian who died on hunger strike?

Khader Adnan, a spokesperson for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, has died after a nearly three-month-long hunger strike.

Al Jazeera

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Intelligence Info Led to Israel's Arrest of Jordanian MP in West Bank

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said on Monday that the arrest of Jordanian MP Imad al-Adwan, who is suspected of smuggling weapons to the West Bank, was "based on intelligence information." Sunday's arrest at an Israeli-controlled border crossing threatened new strains on relations between Israel and Jordan that are often…

The Independent UK

Police say 5 wounded in ramming attack near Jerusalem market

Israeli police say five people have been wounded in a car ramming attack near a popular market in Jerusalem as Israel was set to mark its Memorial Day for fallen soldiers

Asharq Al-Awsat

Israeli Police Say 5 Wounded in Ramming Attack near Jerusalem Market

A car ramming attack Monday near a popular Jerusalem market wounded five people and the driver was shot and killed, Israeli police said, as the country was set to memorialize its fallen soldiers. The statement said the driver of the car was shot and killed at the scene near the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Jordan Following up on Arrest of MP in Israel on Suspicion of Arms, Gold Smuggling

Israel has detained a Jordanian lawmaker on suspicion of smuggling arms and gold into the West Bank and Amman is working to secure his release, the kingdom's foreign ministry said on Sunday. Imad al-Adwan, a member of parliament who had crossed a main border crossing along the Jordan River earlier…

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Jordan says Israel detains lawmaker on suspicion of arms smuggling

Israel has detained a Jordanian lawmaker on suspicion of smuggling arms and gold into the West Bank and Amman is working to secure his release, the kingdom's foreign ministry said on Sunday.

The Independent UK

Government and media ‘must make it clear’ terrorism is ‘completely unacceptable’

Benjamin Shaw, whose sister and two of his nieces were killed in the West Bank, spoke out during a ministerial visit to his north London home.

The Independent UK

For Palestinians, holiest Ramadan night starts at checkpoint

For many Palestinians, the journey to one of Islam’s most sacred sites on the holiest night of Ramadan begins in a dust-choked, garbage-strewn maelstrom

The Independent UK

Father and husband of killed British-Israelis has no regrets about moving to country: ‘It was fate’

Lucy Dee, 48, died three days after her daughters, Rina, 15, and Maia, 20, were shot and killed in the West Bank on 7 April

The Independent UK

Father and husband of killed British-Israelis ‘100% glad’ they moved to country

Lucy Dee, 48, died three days after her daughters, Rina, 15, and Maia, 20, were shot and killed in the West Bank on April 7.

The Independent UK

Family of murdered British-Israelis thank Government as they return home to UK

Lucy Dee, 48, and two of her daughters, Maia, 20 and Rina, 15, were shot dead by terrorists in the West Bank

Foreign Affairs

Israel’s One-State Reality

It’s time to give up on the two-state solution.

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