Ben Lynfield covered Israeli and Palestinian politics for The Independent and served as Middle Eastern affairs correspondent at the Jerusalem Post. He writes for publications in the region and has contributed to the Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy and the New Statesman.
Ben Lynfield
By Ben Lynfield
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News Battle over bodies: Israel is holding a dead Palestinian prisoner as leverage for Gaza hostages
Walid Daqqa, who died of cancer at 62, was a ‘uniting national figure’ for Palestinians. Now he’s a bargaining chip.
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News Unable to enter Israel since Oct. 7, Palestinians in Wadi Fukin have been left without a livelihood
Faced with the West Bank's worst economic crisis in generations, Palestinians describe how 'everything is stopped'
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Fast Forward At unusual counterprotest, right-wing demonstrators air grievances against Israel’s courts
“This is not just about the reform,” said one protester. 'It is about control of the country, about whether the right can rule'
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Fast Forward As Israel reels from violent attack on Palestinians, settler leadership remains unapologetic
“In no way whatsoever do I condemn them,” said veteran settler activist Daniella Weiss about the settlers who rioted in Huwara
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Community Trump’s Aid Cuts Could End Lifesaving Medical Care For Palestinian Children
A version of this article originally appeared in Plus61J, an Australian Jewish publication. While receiving her dialysis treatment at East Jerusalem’s Augusta Victoria hospital last week, nine-year-old Amani Hababa broke into laughter. Two rednosed therapeutic clowns were singling her out for special attention, babbling nonsense verses, playing guitar and singing “Amani is the sweetest.” Six…
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Israel News Jerusalem Demolition Plan Could Force More Than 1,000 Arabs From Homes
Ras Khamis, a poor neighborhood in a neglected part of Jerusalem, might be mistaken for being outside the city altogether. It lies beyond the separation barrier that Israel has erected to fence itself off from Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, and the neighborhood’s Palestinian residents receive almost no city services. They burn their own…
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Israel News Palestinians Suffer in Cell Phone Dark Ages — and Point Finger of Blame at Israel
At the upscale November Café, near Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s house, the conversation and atmosphere are relaxed, and state-of-the-art smart phones rest on tables as their young owners sip cappuccino or fruit juice. But despite the veneer of normalcy, the pinch of Israel’s 45-year-old occupation of the West Bank is palpable here. For one…
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News Palestinians Mourn Neighborhood Razed by Israel in Shadow of Western Wall
Many Israelis marked the 46th anniversary of Jerusalem’s reunification, as they see it, with the fanfare that has become a staple of Jerusalem Day, the holiday first declared by the government in 1968 to mark the historic event. The May 8 celebration, which Israel’s chief rabbinate has also declared a religious holiday, was punctuated by…
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