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Breaking News Israel Says It Lacks Evidence To Try Suspects in Palestinian Murders
Israel is still trying to gather evidence against far-right Jews arrested for a lethal arson attack in July on a Palestinian home in the occupied West Bank, the public security minister said on Friday, playing down prospects of an imminent trial. A police announcement on Thursday that several “youths belonging to a Jewish terror group”…
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Breaking News Israel Seeks Germany Aid in West Bank Labeling Feud
A senior Israeli offical called on Germany on Thursday to urge other European countries to oppose EU plans to require products from Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories to be so labeled. “Obviously, there is no question of Germany following this disastrous move,” Israeli Knesset speaker Yuli Yoel Edelstein told Reuters after a forum on…
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Breaking News Jewish Suspects in Palestinian Family Murders Complain of Mistreatment
Members of a “Jewish terror group” have been arrested over a July arson attack on a Palestinian home in the Israeli-occupied West Bank that killed a toddler and his parents, Israeli police said on Thursday. A police statement did not say how many suspects were in custody. It said a court order banning disclosure of…
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Breaking News Ezra Schwartz Was Going to Illegal West Bank Outpost When Murdered
An American student killed in a terror attack last month was on his way to do community service at an illegal West Bank outpost, Haaretz has found, adding to the mounting questions about what precautions are taken by study abroad programs in Israel when their participants travel to particularly dangerous areas. An investigation by Haaretz…
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News Will Ezra Schwartz Murder Cause Schools To Rethink Security in Israel?
As violence rises in Israel and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, parents of American Jewish students studying there say that they are relying on the security protocols of the programs to which they have entrusted their children. It is not yet clear, however, whether such protocols were followed by Yeshivat Ashreinu, the school the American teenager…
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Breaking News 2 Palestinians Killed in West Bank
Israeli security forces shot dead two knife-wielding Palestinian assailants on Tuesday in the occupied West Bank, Israeli authorities said, as a wave of Palestinian stabbings, car rammings and shootings entered its third month. Nineteen Israelis and a U.S. citizen have been killed since Oct. 1. Israeli forces have killed 97 Palestinians, of whom 58 were…
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News West Bank Wineries to Europe: ‘Label This!’
Sitting in the warehouse of his winery in the Israeli- occupied West Bank, Amichai Lourie picked up a bottle of 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon and pointed to a label where the name of his settlement, “Shiloh,” was scrawled in white ink. The European Union has said that it will label goods from exclusively Jewish West Bank…
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Breaking News Teenage Palestinian Girl Run Down After Trying To Stab Settlers
Three Palestinians carrying out knife attacks on Israelis were killed in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, Israeli police and the military said, as an eight-week-old wave of violence showed no signs of dying down. A surge in street violence since Oct. 1 has challenged Israel’s security system and alarmed the United States, whose Secretary…
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