UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee condemned Israel’s occupation activity in East Jerusalem. The Jordanian-sponsored resolution called Israel the “occupying power” and said that the UN “regrets the failure of the Israeli occupying authorities to cease the persistent excavations, tunnelling, works, projects and other illegal practices in East Jerusalem, particularly in and around the Old City of …
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Israeli authorities have approved plans for the construction of 800 new housing units for Jews in illegal housing settlements across occupied East Jerusalem. The scheme includes plans to build 560 new units in Ma’ale Adumim, 140 in Ramot and about 100 in Har Homa and Pisgat Zeev settlements. The decision taken by Israeli Prime Minister …
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Israeli MK Yair Lapid has said that the Jordanian doctor who was killed by an Israeli embassy security guard in Amman did not harm anyone, Shehab News Agency reported yesterday. According to Israeli media Lapid, the head of Yesh Atid party and former finance minister, said: “It would be appropriate if Israel expressed sadness over …
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday indicated that he would push for the shutting down of the Jerusalem office of Doha-based news network Al Jazeera, accusing the network of inciting violence in its coverage of incidents at al-Aqsa mosque. “The Al Jazeera network continues to incite violence around the Temple Mount,” he wrote in a …
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The Gaza Strip’s healthcare system is failing amid an ongoing electricity crisis that has seen the territory’s two million people forced to cope with just a few hours of power a day amid sweltering summer temperatures. In June, Israel began sharply reducing the electricity supply to Gaza – a step human rights groups said was …
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An Israel Defence Forces (IDF) medic who was sentenced to 18 months in prison for killing a Palestinian assailant has been released to house arrest. In March 2016, 20-year-old Elor Azaria shot Abdel Fattah al-Sharif in the head when he was wounded and immobilised on the ground, in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. …
An Israeli-Christian man is accused of stabbing his teenage daughter to death because, authorities say, he didn’t approve of her relationship with a Muslim man. Prosecutors say Sami Karra, 58, killed his daughter in their family home in the central Israeli town of Ramle, a day after she graduated from high school. The daughter, 17-year-old …
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Artists and activists continue to push back against Radiohead, two days before the band goes ahead with a gig in Tel Aviv. On Monday, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mike Leigh condemned Radiohead’s intransigence toward Palestinians. “As the lights go out in Gaza and Palestinian cancer patients die because they are denied travel permits by Israel, while a …
For the first time in 50 years, Friday prayers were not observed at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem after Israel closed the compound following a gun attack that killed two Israeli policemen. Palestinian Muslims gathered outside the Old City walls prayed on mats that they laid on the streets and protested the Israeli decision. The …
The deeply unpopular Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas is helping Israeli occupation authorities inflict horrendous suffering on people in the blockaded Gaza Strip, as part of a cruel and cynical political game. It is a campaign that in recent weeks has led to the deaths of more than a dozen Palestinians denied medical treatment outside …
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