Étiqueté : Israeli

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US Jerusalem transfer is ‘official adoption of Israeli tale’

London, England – US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel signals the « official adoption of the Israeli narrative », a prominent Arab Knesset member said, one week after Washington confirmed it was bringing forward to May the date the US embassy would be moved from Tel Aviv to the Holy City.…

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AIPAC to resume commitment to come Israeli agenda

Washington, DC – The American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, is holding its 2018 policy conference in Washington, DC, on Sunday, an event meant to underscore its outsized influence inside America’s corridors of power by hosting key Congressional leaders; the US vice president; the US ambassador to the UN; and several foreign leaders. This year’s…

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Jerusalem’s Holy Sepulchre shut in drawl against Israeli policy

In a rare move, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem has been indefinitely shut in protest against what church leaders say is « discriminatory » Israeli policy aimed at weakening Christian presence in the holy city.  In a statement released on Sunday, church leaders said Israel was violating the status quo at the site, which…

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Palestinian kids killed in Israeli air strikes

Two Palestinian teenagers were found killed in the southern area of the besieged Gaza Strip, following two waves of Israeli air raids. The two bodies of the two 17-year-old boys were retrieved in the city of Rafah on Sunday morning, Ashraf al-Qudra, spokesman for Gaza’s health ministry, confirmed. At least two other Palestinians have been…

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Prisoners held with out payment boycott Israeli courts

Hundreds of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons without charge or trial have launched an open-ended boycott of Israel’s military courts. In a joint statement announcing Thursday’s move, 450 people jailed under Israel’s controversial practice of administrative detention said their decision had been taken “collectively and unanimously ». « The core of resisting administrative detention policy comes from…

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Palestinian killed in fireplace substitute with Israeli military

A young Palestinian man has been killed in an exchange of fire with the Israeli army near the occupied West Bank town of Jenin. One other Palestinian and two Israeli soldiers were also injured in Thursday’s incident, which took place before dawn.  Israeli forces encircled the home of Ahmed Nasser Jarrar, 22, based on intelligence…

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Two Palestinian children killed by Israeli troops

Two Palestinian teenagers were shot and killed by Israeli soldiers on Thursday as violence continues in the occupied territories. A Palestinian teen from the Gaza Strip was killed east of the Burij refugee camp after a live round was fired into his chest, the Wafa news agency quoted medical sources as saying. Three other Palestinians…

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Palestinian double amputee killed by Israeli sniper

Two days before he was killed, Ibrahim Abu Thurayyah filmed a message to the Israeli army. « I am passing a message to the Zionist occupation army, » the 29-year-old double amputee said. « This land is our land. We are not going to give up. America has to withdraw the declaration it made. » Before his death, the…

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How a lacking ‘the’ enabled Israeli occupation

When the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 2334 in December 2016, Israeli leaders seethed. Their fury was duly understood to stem from what they perceived as an unprecedented betrayal by the United States. But that was not it at all, since Resolution 2334 – which asserted that Israeli settlements have no legal validity and…