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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.

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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…

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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

The Independent UK

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…

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‘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…

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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.

Al Jazeera

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…

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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.

Reason

Israeli Forces Kill Two Palestinians in West Bank

Israeli forces and armed Palestinians exchanged fire during an Israeli arrest raid in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank early Tuesday, leaving two Palestinians dead, Israeli and Palestinian officials said. One of those killed in the Jenin camp was identified as a 22-year-old member of the Islamic Jihad…

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Israeli forces kill Palestinian gunman in West Bank raid, Palestinian health ministry says

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian fighter on Tuesday in a raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said.

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Israel Controls Palestinians Using ‘Organized Violence’

Israel is controlling the fate of five million Palestinians in the occupied territories and practicing systematic, active and continuous violence against them, an Israeli human rights group said. B’Tselem accused Israel of subjecting Palestinian lives to a daily routine of violence – some of it overt, but more often implicit.

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Palestinians Warn Against Israel’s Exploitation of World’s Preoccupation with Ukraine

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry warned against Israel’s exploitation of the world’s preoccupation with the situation in Ukraine to expand its aggression, violence and crimes against Palestinians. In a statement on Thursday, it slammed the continuous seizure of Palestinian lands and growing settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, in general,…

The Independent UK

Palestinian boy buried after being killed by Israeli fire

A large crowd of mourners buried a 14-year-old Palestinian boy in the occupied West Bank, a day after he was shot dead by Israeli troops

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Palestinian Boy Killed by Israeli Fire After Alleged Attack

A 14-year-old Palestinian boy was killed by Israeli gunfire in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, Palestinian health officials said, allegedly after throwing firebombs at passing Israeli vehicles. The Palestinian Health Ministry said Mohammed Shehadeh was killed in Al-Khader, a town near Bethlehem. It gave no further details. The Israeli…

Al Jazeera

Israeli forces kill Palestinian boy, 14, in West Bank: Ministry

The Palestinian health ministry says Mohammed Shehadeh killed by Israeli forces in Al-Khader near Bethleham.

Reuters

Israeli troops kill West Bank boy, army says they shot firebomber

Israeli troops killed a Palestinian boy in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the Palestinian health ministry said, in an incident the army described as the shooting of a firebomber.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: A rogue military unit is Israel's weakest link

It's not very often that an event in the West Bank village of Jililya garners the attention of members of the U.S. Congress from Wisconsin. But the killing of a 78-year-old Palestinian American from Milwaukee by soldiers of Israel's ultra-Orthodox battalion has embarrassed Jerusalem, infuriated the U.S. State Department and…

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Israeli Police Scatter Palestinian Protesters in Sheikh Jarrah Neighborhood

Israeli police on horseback scattered protesters Friday in the flashpoint east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, where demonstrators poured in to support Palestinians facing eviction by Jewish settlers. The scuffles there came alongside protests elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, according to AFP. Tensions that erupted in Sheikh Jarrah last…

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Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian in West Bank Confrontation

Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the Palestinian health ministry said, during what the Israeli military described as a violent confrontation. The military said dozens of Palestinians hurled rocks at soldiers stationed at an army post near the village of Nabi Saleh.…

Reuters

Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian in West Bank confrontation

Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the Palestinian health ministry said, during what the Israeli military described as a violent confrontation.

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