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Israel replaces Al-Aqsa mosques metal detectors with surveillance cameras, Palestinians reject new measures

July 25th, 20170 JERUSALEM - Palestinians have vowed to continue protests and confrontations with Israeli forces in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank, in rejection of new...

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U.N.: Solution is needed by this Friday to curb escalating violence in Jerusalem

July 24th, 20170 NEW YORK - United Nations Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov warned on Monday that a solution was needed by Friday to the Jerusalem mosque crisis, which he said...

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Al-Aqsa standoff: Palestinian anger mounts over holy site restrictions

July 21st, 20170 JERUSALEM — For the first time in decades, Israel closed the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City to worshipers on Friday, July 14. The closure followed...

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Palestinian driver shot dead after ramming car into Israeli soldiers

July 18th, 20170 JERUSALEM - A Palestinian driver rammed his vehicle into a group of Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday and was shot dead by the troops, the Israeli...

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Israeli ‘counter-terrorism boot camp’ a tourist attraction in occupied West Bank

July 17th, 20170 GUSH ETZION SETTLEMENT, WEST BANK – Taking in the scene of a simulated fruit market in an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, a group of tourists ponders...

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50 years later, the 1967 Naksa continues to shape policies and inflict misery

June 10th, 20171 DEARBORN — The 1967 Six Day War was one of the most salient events of the Arab-Israeli conflict, its effect evident through its shaping of Israeli and Arab political...

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Trump delays moving U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem by six months

June 1st, 20170 WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an order on Thursday to keep the U.S. Embassy in Israel in Tel Aviv temporarily instead of relocating it to Jerusalem, despite his...

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Jewish nation-state bill: Israel’s precarious identity is Palestine’s nightmare

May 19th, 20170 The Israeli Knesset (parliament) has hurriedly passed a new bill that defines Israel as the "national home of the Jewish people." Although the association between...

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Palestinian killed as settler opens fire during clashes

May 19th, 20170 WEST BANK — A Palestinian man was killed in the occupied West Bank on Thursday when an Israeli settler opened fire as protesters crowded around his car and pelted it...

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Trump visit seen as long shot to revive Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking

May 19th, 20171 JERUSALEM — Just four months after taking office, Donald Trump will make the earliest foray into Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking by any U.S. president next week. But...

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Palestinian killed as settler opens fire during peaceful protest

May 18th, 20170 WEST BANK ― A Palestinian man was killed in the occupied West Bank on Thursday when an Israeli settler opened fire as protesters crowded around his car and pelted it...

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‘I had no choice:’ Odeh accepts plea deal, resists admission of guilt

April 27th, 20170 DETROIT— Hours before Rasmea Odeh entered her plea in court on Tuesday, dozens of supporters, ranging from organizers and Chicago-based defense team members, rallied...

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BREAKING: Federal government drop charges against AMP staffers

April 24th, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C.- Federal authorities have dropped charges against AMP (American Muslims for Palestine) staffers Taher Herzallah and Kareem El-Hosseiny. The two men,...

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Israeli troops kill Palestinian who rammed West Bank bus stop

April 20th, 20170 BETHLEHEM ― Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian driver who rammed his car into a bus stop in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday injuring a pedestrian, the...

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More than a thousand Palestinians in Israeli jails begin hunger strike

April 17th, 20170 WEST BANK ― Hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli jails began a hunger strike on Monday in response to a call by prominent prisoner Marwan Barghouti, widely seen as a...

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Two JDL members arrested for brutally beating Palestinian man outside AIPAC conference

April 1st, 20170 WASHINGTON, D.C. ― A 55-year old Palestinian-American instructor at a North Carolina community college was “brutally beaten” by members of the Jewish Defense...

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Israeli ban targeting boycott supporters raises alarm abroad

March 24th, 20170 JERUSALEM — A law barring foreigners from entering Israel if they back boycotts against the country is causing alarm among liberal American Jews and others who...

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Obama transferred $221 million to Palestinian Authority in his final hours in office

January 26th, 20170 WASHINGTON — In his last hours in office, the Obama administration transferred $221 million to the Palestinian Authority that despite opposition from GOP members of...

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Israel pushes ahead with settlement expansion

September 6th, 20080 JERUSALEM (IPS) � Israel has published tenders for the construction of 1,761 illegal housing units for Israeli settlers in occupied east Jerusalem alone, according...

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Free Gaza boats challenge Israel’s siege

August 29th, 20080 An international group of peace activists took on Israel's crushing siege of the Gaza Strip. After two years of organizing two ships to sail to Gaza's shores,...

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Netanyahu climbdown in Al-Aqsa standoff, thousands of worshipers surge into holy site