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Fast Forward Palestinian Driving Explosives-Laden Truck Tries To Enter Israel From West Bank
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian man was arrested trying to enter Israel through a West Bank checkpoint with a truck carrying “powerful” explosives. On Wednesday, security guards found the explosives embedded in the truck’s air conditioning system during a routine check of its roof. The vehicle, which was attempting to enter Israel at a northern…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Assailant Shot In Head By Israeli Civilian In West Bank
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian man attempting to stab an Israeli man at a West Bank gas station was shot in the head by an armed civilian who witnessed the attack. The assailant, identified as a 31-year-old resident of Nablus, was taken to the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem in serious condition following the early…
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Fast Forward Arab-Israeli Lawmaker Calls For West Bank Palestinians To Join Gaza Protests
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Arab-Israeli lawmaker Hanin Zoabi called on West Bank Palestinians to join the protests on the Gaza border. Zoabi, a member of Knesset from the Joint Arab List party also called Israel a “fascist” country and called for an investigation into the deaths of Palestinian protesters during a news conference at the United…
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Fast Forward Case Closed Against Parents Who Shot Palestinians During West Bank Family Hike
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The case against two Israeli fathers who shot into a mob of Palestinians, killing one, while escorting a West Bank hike in honor of a boy’s bar mitzvah has been closed. The Central District Attorney’s Office determined that the father shot his firearm in self-defense. On November 30, at least 30 Palestinian…
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Fast Forward West Bank Construction Starts Rose Dramatically In 2017: Report
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Construction starts in West Bank settlements rose dramatically during 2017, with most of the new housing starts in isolated settlements. Peace Now in its annual settlement construction report released on Sunday reported that 2,783 new housing units began construction in the West Bank in 2017, around 17 percent higher than the yearly…
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Fast Forward 2 Israelis Killed In Palestinian Car Ramming Attack In West Bank
A Palestinian motorist killed two Israelis and injured at least one other person in the occupied West Bank on Friday in what witnesses described as a deliberate ramming attack but may have been an accident, Israel’s Army Radio said. The incident took place near the Jewish settlement of Mevo Dotan, west of the Palestinian town…
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Fast Forward When Jewish Pilgrims Visit West Bank — And Nothing Goes Wrong
The Israeli armored convoy rolls into the West Bank town of Jericho and comes to a halt outside a building with a Palestinian flag fluttering over it. At first glance, it might have looked like another incursion. But then out of the bus guarded by Israeli troops emerge Jewish pilgrims, on a visit to the…
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Fast Forward Israel Supreme Court Delays Demolition Of West Bank Settlement
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Supreme Court delayed by three months the scheduled demolition of homes in a West Bank outpost built completely or in part on Palestinian-owned land. The court on Wednesday agreed to a government request to postpone the demolition in the Netiv Haavot outpost while it prepares temporary housing for the 15 families…
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