A Jewish Israeli who sought to stab an Arab but stabbed another Jew instead was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Monday. Shlomo Haim Pinto, a resident of the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Ata, was convicted in December of attempted murder for the October 2015 incident. According to the indictment, Pinto sought to …
Elor Azaria gets just 18 months for killing wounded Palestinian
An Israeli soldier who shot and killed a wounded Palestinian, who was incapacitated having already been shot, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for manslaughter. Judge Maya Heller of the military court in Tel Aviv delivered the sentencing on Tuesday in a case that has stoked passions, debate and protest. Analysts had expected …
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Palestinian dies after being shot by Israeli troops on his way to his last chemo session
No one bothered to keep the young Palestinian’s family informed — On his way to what was supposed to his final chemotherapy session, last November, he boarded the wrong shared taxi. Discovering his mistake, he got off and ran across the highway to catch a taxi going in the opposite direction. Israel Defense Forces soldiers …
81-year-old Palestinian killed by Israeli settler
A Palestinian citizen was today killed in Al-Khudr village near Bethlehem after an Israeli settler ran him over. Mohammed Awad, head of the Emergency Unit at the Palestinian Red Crescent, said 81-year-old farmer Sulaiman Hamad died of serious injuries soon after being admitted to hospital. Witnesses informed the hospital that the settler from the adjacent …
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Israeli settlement law ‘violates rights and dignity’
Palestinian politicians and human rights groups are warning that a new law passed by the Israeli parliament violates international laws and is a step towards Israel annexing the occupied West Bank. The so-called Regulation Law, passed on Monday night, allows for the retroactive legalisation of about 4,000 homes built by Jewish settlers on privately owned …
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Israel ‘effectively bars compensation’ for Palestinians: Report
Israel has made it nearly impossible for Palestinians to claim compensation for injuries caused by Israeli authorities, a new report says, reflecting “how little value it places on the lives, bodies and property of Palestinians living under its control”. The report, by B’Tselem, traces the exemptions Israel has introduced over the years to make it …
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New Israel law bars foreign critics from entering the country
Israel’s Parliament has struck back at the international boycott movement against the country and its settlements in the West Bank by passing a law barring entry to foreigners who have publicly supported the movement. The measure, passed on Monday night, received little notice in Israel, but by Tuesday it set off alarms in the United …
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Elor Azaria: Israeli soldier who killed wounded Palestinian attacker has jail sentence postponed
An Israel Defence Force (IDF) soldier sentenced to 18 months in prison for killing a wounded Palestinian assailant has had his jail sentence postponed. Elor Azaria appealed against his mansaughter conviction and his lawyer asked that the start of his incarceration be deferred until the end of legal proceedings. Azaria was serving as an army …
Israeli plan to divide Al-Aqsa has begun, OIC warns
Israel has begun dividing East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound by creating a prayer space for Jewish worshippers, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) warned Wednesday. “The placement of a glass room inside the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex is a first step toward the spatial division of the mosque,” Ahmad al-Ruwaidhi, the OIC’s representative …
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Israeli pop legend sings for “hero” who executed injured Palestinian
On Tuesday, Elor Azarya was sentenced to 18 months in prison for firing a fatal shot to the head of 21-year-old Abd al-Fattah Yusri al-Sharif who lay incapacitated on a Hebron street, in what Israeli judges found beyond any doubt was an act purely motivated by revenge. Israel claims that al-Sharif, whose slaying was caught …
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