An Israeli court has banned screenings of a controversial documentary film about 2002 clashes in the occupied West Bank by prominent director Mohammed Bakri, in a ruling seen by AFP Tuesday.
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The EU on Thursday called on Israel to cease demolishing Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank and lift a threat to demolish Palestinian schools, calling them “an impediment towards the two-state solution.”
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The Israeli army said Friday it was holding the body of a Palestinian shot dead in a West Bank clash earlier this week, ending days of uncertainty over his fate.
Read moreFrench President Emmanuel Macron asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to refrain from annexing Palestinian territory in the West Bank and elsewhere during a telephone call, Macron’s office said on Friday.
Read moreOmar Yaghi was 8 months old when he died, unable to travel from Gaza to Israel for life-saving heart surgery after Palestinian officials cut coordination with the Jewish state.
Read moreGerman Foreign Minister Heiko Maas traveled to Jerusalem on Wednesday to voice European “concern” over Israel’s annexation plans for the occupied West Bank.
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Researchers in Israel and Sweden have found a new way to piece together the Dead Sea Scrolls by testing DNA in the parchments themselves.
Read moreWhen Nima Amraa returned to the Gaza Strip from neighboring Egypt earlier this month, she was surprised to learn she was being placed in a makeshift quarantine center set up by the ruling Hamas group.
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Palestinians on Friday rejected U.S. allegations of incitement after a day of clashes left three Palestinians dead and more than a dozen Israelis wounded.
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Israel has postponed a move to annex large parts of the West Bank, a government minister said Wednesday, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to act quickly on the Trump administration’s Mideast plan despite fierce opposition from Palestinians and other countries.
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Emboldened by the White House, Israel is barreling toward a showdown with the international community over its half-century-old settlement crusade in the West Bank.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lambasted President Trump’s Middle East peace as “absolutely unacceptable” in comments published Wednesday.
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Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah will join forces Tuesday in a rare meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah against President Donald Trump’s long-awaited Middle East peace plan, officials said.
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Producers of the game show “Jeopardy!” have apologized for a clue that waded into political hot water involving Israeli control of the West Bank, saying an incorrect version of the show was sent to television stations.
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Abdullah Abu Rahma has been arrested by Israeli soldiers eight times in the last five years, spending months in prison and paying tens of thousands of dollars in fines for organizing protests.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pledge to annex the heart of the West Bank if he wins re-election next week could inflame the Middle East and extinguish any remaining Palestinian hope of establishing a separate state.
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Democratic Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib sharply criticized Israel on Monday for denying them entry to the country and called on fellow members of Congress to visit, though they cannot.
Read moreIsraeli work crews on Monday began demolishing dozens of Palestinian homes in an east Jerusalem neighborhood, in one of the largest operations of its kind in years.
Read moreThe new Palestinian prime minister on Tuesday accused the United States of declaring “financial war” on his people and said an American peace plan purported to be in the works will be “born dead.”
Read moreSyria and other nations slammed President Trump’s abrupt declaration that Washington will recognize Israel’s sovereignty over Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Syria saying Friday the statement was “irresponsible” and a threat to international peace and stability.
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