This is the Forward’s coverage of the Palestinian people, an Arab ethnic group native to the Middle East. They are a party to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Fast Forward Abbas Seeks To Resubmit Statehood Bid to U.N. Security Council
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday he was discussing with Jordan plans to resubmit to the United Nations Security Council a resolution calling for the establishment of a Palestinian state that failed to win enough votes last week. Jordan remains a member of the Security Council while several other countries with revolving membership were…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Vows To Save Israeli Soldiers from International Criminal Court
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel “will not sit idly by” in the wake of Palestinian efforts to join the International Criminal Court. “The Palestinian Authority has chosen confrontation with Israel,” Netanyahu said Sunday morning at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting. “We will not allow IDF soldiers and commanders to be hauled…
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Fast Forward Israel Arrests Palestinian Militants Inspired by Islamic State
Israeli forces have detained three Islamic State-inspired militants in the occupied West Bank, the first known Palestinian cell linked to the Syria- and Iraq-based insurgent group, the Shin Bet internal security service said on Sunday. It said the three men, all in their early 20s and from Hebron, were arrested in November and told interrogators…
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Fast Forward Israel Freezes $125M in Palestinian Cash To Retaliate for ICC Move
Israel has decided to freeze a monthly revenue transfer to the Palestinians in response to President Mahmoud Abbas’s approach to the International Criminal Court and other international agencies, an Israeli official said on Saturday. The official said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanayhu had decided, in consultation with cabinet ministers, to freeze a planned monthly transfer of…
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Fast Forward Israel Plans To Target Top Palestinian Leaders for ‘War Crimes’
Israel is looking at ways to prosecute senior Palestinians for war crimes in the United States and elsewhere in response to Palestinian steps to join the International Criminal Court, an Israeli official said on Saturday. The Palestinians delivered to U.N. headquarters in New York on Friday documents on joining the Rome Statute of the International…
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Fast Forward Israel ‘Deeply Disappointed’ at French U.N. Vote for Palestinian Statehood Deadline
Israel’s government said it was “deeply disappointed” in France’s U.N. Security Council vote for Palestinian statehood. Aviv Shir-On, the Israeli foreign ministry’s deputy director for Europe, met Friday with Patrick Maisonnave, France’s ambassador to Israel, according to Israel Army Radio and Haaretz. A Jordanian bid to pass the resolution failed this week to garner the…
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Fast Forward Saudi Islamic Leader Plans Temple Mount Visit
The secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation plans to visit the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Iyad bin Amin Madani will be in Jerusalem on Monday, according to the OnIslam news site. There have been clashes in recent months over Muslim and Jewish access to the…
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Fast Forward Congress Warns Palestinians Over International Criminal Court Move
Republican and Democratic lawmakers in Congress said there would be repercussions for the Palestinian Authority in the wake of its application to join the International Criminal Court. “Congress must do everything in its power to block funds to the P.A. and to any U.N. entity that recognizes a non-existent State of Palestine to make it…
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