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Fast Forward Gaza Residents Suffering From Severe Water Shortage Due to Conflict
Gaza residents are suffering from a severe water shortage as a result of the ongoing conflict there. Damage to wells and Gaza’s energy infrastructure has disrupted the pumping and distribution of water, cutting the coastal strip’s water supply by half, according to Haaretz. In addition, hundreds of thousands of displaced Gazans have been unable to…
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Fast Forward State Department Designates Gaza-Based Jihadist Group As Terrorist Organization
The U.S. State Department designated a Gaza-based jihadist umbrella group as a terrorist organization. The designation for the Mujahidin Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem, which has claimed responsibility for numerous attacks on Israel since the group’s founding in 2012, means that American individuals and organizations are barred from any transactions with the council…
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Opinion How Israelis and Palestinians Cope — With Two Different Wars
Getty Images The first thing I noticed when my shared taxi dropped me off in Jerusalem earlier this month were the flags. In the Beit Hakerem neighborhood where I was staying — a mostly secular Jewish area in southwest Jerusalem — balconies were strung with large Israeli flags and rows of miniature ones. Car antennas…
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Fast Forward Pro-Palestinian Protestors Prevent Israeli Ship From Unloading in California
Pro-Palestinian protesters prevented an Israeli cargo ship from unloading at a California port for two straight days. The protesters gathered Sunday at the Port of Oakland to stop a ship from Zim Integrated Shipping Services, Israel’s international maritime cargo company, from docking and unloading. The protest is under the auspices of the Block the Boat…
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Fast Forward Sydney Police Aim To Block Pro-Palestinian Protest at Israeli Film Fest
Police in Sydney launched a legal bid to stop a pro-Palestinian protest at the opening of the Israeli Film Festival. Officials of the Palestine Action Group said members are listed for a hearing Monday in the Supreme Court of New South Wales ahead of the group’s planned protest outside the cinema on Thursday. The Guardian…
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Opinion Better The Enemy You Know — Gaza’s Other Terror Groups
Getty Images (JTA) — After four weeks of a punishing Israel air and ground campaign that left nearly 2,000 dead and much of Gaza in ruins, Hamas has lived to see another day. For Israel, that might not be the worst thing. That’s because for all of Hamas’ violent extremism, it also governs a territory, maintains…
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Israel News Operation Protective Edge Cuts Away at Bottom Line
When he opened his Jerusalem restaurant last year, former butcher Pini Levi drew national acclaim for his dish of coiled, battered and fried spinal cord served with a fiery hot sauce. But over this summer of war in Gaza, Levi said his German Colony restaurant, Pini’s Kitchen, has taken such a drubbing he may have…
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Fast Forward Three Charged With Assault in Pro-Palestinian Calgary Rally Scuffle
Three pro-Palestinian activists were charged with assault stemming from a rally for Gaza in Calgary that turned violent. Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists had converged July 18 outside City Hall in the western Canada city when a small group of pro-Israel demonstrators gathered across the street. A series of scuffles broke out and three people were…
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