Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for the Palestinian Authority (PA) to stop paying salaries to the families of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, Israeli media reported on Saturday. Israeli newspaper the Jerusalem Post published a link to a video in which Netanyahu said in Hebrew: “I think the first test of peace is …
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Activists from an Israeli right-wing movement, Ichud Leumi, have organized a free barbecue outside a military prison in the West Bank where Palestinian inmates are currently on hunger strike. Members of the youth branch of the Ichud Leumi (National Union) party brought outdoor grills to the walls of Israeli-run Ofer military prison on Thursday. The …
A Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli forces at a junction near the illegal Israeli settlement of Gush Etzion in the southern occupied West Bank this afternoon. An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that a Palestinian vehicle hit a bus stop at the junction, injuring an Israeli civilian, adding that Israeli forces in the …
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The Israeli authorities continues its crackdown on prisoners as the large-scale “Freedom and Dignity” prisoner hunger strike entered its second day. A source from the ICRC said the international organization had been notified that visits for Palestinian prisoners would be forbidden until further notice in response to the hunger strike, which official Palestinian news agency …
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Some 1,500 Palestinian political prisoners held by Israel launched a mass hunger strike on Monday to press for basic rights and shed light on the difficult humanitarian conditions inside Israeli prisons, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies. The open-ended hunger strike, one of the largest in recent years, coincides with Palestinian Prisoners Day, …
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Israeli settlers late on Sunday evening uprooted 300 olive trees from Palestinian lands near the central occupied West Bank province of Ramallah. Palestinian farmer Ali al-Haj, from Ramallah’s eastern town of Mikhmas, said hordes of Israeli settlers crept into the area late at night and cut down some 300 olive trees from Palestinian cultivated lands. …
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The Knesset (Israel’s parliament) on Wednesday evening approved the second and third readings of a bill that would — if ratified — facilitate the demolition of Palestinian homes. The readings were approved by a vote of 43 to 33. The law amends Israel’s Planning and Building Law by limiting the authority of Israeli courts to …
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The Palestinian Authority Information Ministry accused the Israeli occupation authorities on Monday of launching a war against Palestinian children. In a statement in advance of Palestinian Children’s Day on 5 April, the ministry said that the Israeli occupation forces killed 35 children and arrested 350 others during 2016. Furthermore, hundreds of Palestinian children were also …
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For more than three decades, the story of Operation Moses – the mission to airlift thousands of Jews from Ethiopia and absorb them in Israel – has been a source of pride for many supporters of the Jewish state. Even today, it is often recalled as an exception to the racist rule, a rare episode …
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Businesses and schools across the occupied West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Arab-Israeli towns have been closed Monday for a general strike called in support of a mass hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners. The strike’s organizing committee called the general strike on Sunday as the protest against conditions in Israeli prisons entered its 36th day. …
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