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Breaking News Palestinian Teenager Killed in Clash With IDF in West Bank
A Palestinian teenager was killed on Monday in a clash with Israeli soldiers near the West Bank town of Bethlehem, a Palestinian hospital source said. Violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Jerusalem has intensified in the past few weeks and the teenager’s reported death was the latest in a series of incidents that has…
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Breaking News 4 Israelis and 2 Palestinians Injured in Riots Following West Bank Murder
An Israeli police officer, three Jewish settlers and two Palestinians were injured in riots and clashes in the West Bank and Jerusalem. A Palestinian rioter hit the officer from the Israel Police’s Border Police division in his head on Friday, Army Radio reported, during confrontations near the Lions’ Gate in Jerusalem. Earlier on Friday, two…
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Breaking News Fatah Unit Claims Responsibility for Murder of Israeli Couple in West Bank
A unit within Fatah’s armed wing assumed responsibility for the murder of an Israeli couple near the West Bank settlement of Itamar. The , a group affiliated with Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, announced on Friday that its men on Thursday night opened fire on the car of Eitam and Na’ama Henkin, a couple in their…
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Breaking News Israeli Couple Shot Dead While Driving Through West Bank
An Israeli couple was shot dead while driving through the occupied West Bank late on Thursday and Israeli forces were searching the area for the suspected Palestinian attackers, authorities said. The couple’s four children, aged between four-months and nine-years old, were also in the car but were unharmed when the gunman opened fire near the…
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Breaking News Israel Moves to Legalize Bloc of Unauthorized West Bank Settlements
Israel intends to make legal a bloc of unauthorized West Bank settlement outposts. The outposts cover approximately two square miles and include hundreds of buildings near the settlement of Shiloh in the north-central West Bank, Haaretz reported Thursday. Plans to authorize the outposts came to light in the state’s response to a Supreme Court petition…
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News After Arson Murders, West Bank Village Waits in Vain for Justice
Over the past month and a half, residents of this tight-knit village in Israeli-occupied territory have oscillated between grief and anxiety. First came the July 31 death by arson of 18-month-old Ali Saad Dawabsheh as the lives of his other family members hung in the balance; then the death of Ali’s father, Saad Dawabsheh, from…
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Breaking News Israeli Troops Critically Wound Palestinian Protester on West Bank
A Palestinian man who hurled a firebomb at an Israeli car near a settlement was critically injured by soldiers who fired back at him, in one of several violent clashes in the West Bank and Jerusalem. Passengers escaped injury in the incident Thursday night near the settlement of Itamar in Samaria, where Israel Defense Forces…
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Breaking News Israeli Defense Chief Walks Back Comments on Knowing Identity of Duma Attackers
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon walked back comments he reportedly made saying that Israeli military authorities know who is responsible for the arson attack that killed a baby and his parents. Security forces have a “general idea” of who perpetrated the attack on a home in the West Bank village of Duma, he told reporters…
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