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Israel Tackles Existential Threat Posed By 16-Year-Old Palestinian Girl
Israeli military court extended the detention of Ahed Tamimi, a 16-year-old girl who has become the face of Palestinian resistance to Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank for many who follow the weekly protests in her village through social med ...[Read more]
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Detained Palestinian teen in viral photo to be sentenced in a court with a 99.74 percent conviction rate
Fawzi al-Junaidi, 16, will be taken in for a hearing in Israel’s military court today, after being held for more than a week in Israeli detention. Junaidi was detained during clashes that erupted in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on Dec. 7, the ...[Read more]
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Two more Tamimi family members are said to be arrested, as Ahed, 16, appears in court
Today the arrest of Ahed Tamimi, 16, in occupied Nabi Saleh early Tuesday morning, after a video surfaced showing her slapping an Israeli soldier, is gaining global attention, including from the Washington Post. Ahed’s arrest by Israeli soldiers was fol ...[Read more]
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Ibrahim Abu Thurayya: an icon of dignity and defiance
Abu Thurayya was actually one of four people killed by Israel on the same day. All were protesting against Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Yet because both of his legs had previously been amputated, the local and in ...[Read more]
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Wheelchair-bound man with no legs killed by IDF in Gaza during Jerusalem protest
A disabled Palestinian man missing both legs is among those killed by Israeli security forces that opened fire on demonstrators in the West Bank and along the border with Gaza, Gaza’s health ministry said. Abu Thurayeh, 29, was shot dead east of Gaza Ci ...[Read more]
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UN tells Israel to let in nuclear inspectors
The UN general assembly has overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling on Israel to open its nuclear programme for inspection. The resolution, approved by a vote of 174 to six with six abstentions, calls on Israel to join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Tr ...[Read more]
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Tens of thousands of Israelis protest against Netanyahu, corruption
About 20,000 Israelis demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Saturday against government corruption and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who is under criminal investigation over allegations of abuse of office. The demonstration was by far the largest of weekly anti ...[Read more]
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Israel, Middle East Leaders Tried to Trap US into War With Iran – John Kerry
Israel and Egypt lobbied the US to bomb Iran before the 2015 nuclear accord was reached, but Washington saw the proposition as a “trap,” former US Secretary of State John Kerry revealed Tuesday night. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was "gen ...[Read more]
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Israeli minister: Criticizing Israel is the new anti-Semitism
“In the past, we saw European leaders speaking against the Jews. Now, we see them speaking against Israel. It is the same anti-Semitism of blood libels, spreading lies, distorting reality and brainwashing people into hating Israel and the Jews,” Shake ...[Read more]
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Israeli forces executed another teenage girl at a checkpoint in Hebron on Sunday
raeli forces executed another teenage girl at a checkpoint in Hebron on Sunday. Her name was Dania Ersheid, she was 17 and a student at Al-Rayyan Girls’ High School. A witness at the scene, standing in back of Ersheid in line at the checkpoint adjacent ...[Read more]
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In unprecedented move, eight European countries to demand compensation from Israel for West Bank demolitions
Eight European Union countries wrote an official protest letter to Israel, demanding over €30,000 ($35,400) in compensation for confiscating and demolishing structures and infrastructure which the countries had built in Area C of the West Bank, which is ...[Read more]
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