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Israeli settlers set mosque on fire in occupied West Bank

Governor of Salfit says the settlers had previously entered the village ‘under the protection of the Israeli army’. Israeli settlers have set fire to a mosque in the occupied West Bank, while also defacing the building’s facade with hateful and racist slogans such as “Revenge” and “Death to Arabs” spray-painted in Hebrew. One resident of the village told AFP news …

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Middle East latest: An Israeli strike on a Gaza tent camp kills at least 21 people

Associated Press

An Israeli strike on a tent camp housing displaced people in southern Gaza killed at least 21 people and wounded 28 on Wednesday, said the director of Nasser Hospital, Atif al-Hout, in the nearby city of Khan Younis. Israeli strike on a Gaza tent camp kills at least 21 people, hospital says DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — A Palestinian health …

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Mideast conflict: Jewish settlers attack Palestinian towns and clash with Israeli troops

New Indian Express

The West Bank has seen a surge in settler violence since the start of the war. In Lebanon, a tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah has held despite Israeli forces carrying out several new drone and artillery strikes on Tuesday, killing a shepherd in the country's south. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed keep striking “with an iron fist” against …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

‘Rooted in this land until death’: A Palestinian family’s olive harvest

Al Jazeera

Umm Safa, Occupied West Bank – Six-year-old Nasser Tanatra is scared of the rock-strewn hilltop where he used to play and pick flowers near his family home. Our house, our land, we are surrounded and strangled and attacked, and even to harvest our olives is a danger.” The annual olive harvest season in October and November is a time when …

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1 month ago

Israel ends 'administrative detention', a rule protecting Palestinians from Jewish settler violence

Firstpost

The Palestinian Prisoners Club advocacy group reported in August that 3,432 Palestinians were in administrative detention. AFP File Israeli authorities announced Friday they will no longer hold Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank under administrative detention, a practice that allows detention without charges or trial. The country’s Defence Minister Israel Katz said it was “inappropriate” for Israel to employ …

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1 month ago

Dutch gov't hesitating over sanctioning Israel despite "unprecedented suffering" in Gaza

NL Times

The Netherlands is dithering on imposing sanctions on Israeli Ministers and organizations, RTL Nieuws reports from confidential documents from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the documents, diplomats paint a very bleak picture of the situation in Gaza, calling it “unprecedented in terms of human suffering” and speaking of “starvation” and “17,000 children wandering around without guardians.” The diplomats also …

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1 month ago

US sanctions group that builds illegal West Bank settlements, with close ties to Israeli government

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The U.S. on Monday imposed sanctions on organizations and firms involved in illegal settlement development in the occupied West Bank, including a well-established decades-old group that has close ties with Israeli leadership. Treasury’s Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo said the U.S. “remains committed to holding accountable those who seek to facilitate these destabilizing activities, which threaten the stability of …

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Settlers have attacked dozens of Dutch West Bank aid projects

Dutch News

Israeli settlers and soldiers have sabotaged or destroyed at least 57 Dutch aid projects on the West Bank since 2017 but a third of the cases were ignored by the government, an investigation by Investico, Trouw, and the Groen Amsterdammer has found. The settlers, who include Israeli ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, are backed by the Israeli army and …

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1 month ago

Israeli army, settlers sabotaged 59 Dutch aid projects in West Bank

NL Times

Israeli settlers and soldiers have sabotaged 59 Dutch-funded aid projects on the West Bank since 2017, according to research by Investico, De Groene Amsterdammer, and Trouw. The Netherlands also paid tens of thousands of euros in legal costs in the few cases where the Dutch government responded to an incident. The researchers cited an email exchange between officials starting on …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Trump’s Cabinet picks are Israeli settlers’ dream come true for Gaza and the West Bank.

Slate

Of all the people in the United States, the president-elect has settled on Mike Huckabee as his nominee for ambassador to Israel. Additionally, Hegseth has seemed to all but endorse Israel’s annexing the West Bank, saying, “That’s why going and visiting Judea and Samaria and understanding that sovereignty—the very sovereignty of Israeli soil, Israeli cities, locations—is a critical next step …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Israel’s West Bank settlers hope Trump’s return will pave the way for major settlement expansion

Associated Press

BEIT EL, West Bank — As Donald Trump’s victory became apparent in last week’s U.S. elections, Jewish West Bank settlement advocates popped bottles of champagne and danced to the Bee Gees at a winery in the heart of the occupied territory, according to a post on Instagram. Not only did the expansion of housing for Jews in the West Bank …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Israeli strikes kill 14: Palestinians say Netanyahu making North Gaza a buffer zone, planning return of Jewish settlers

Firstpost

“North Gaza is being turned into a large buffer zone, Israel is carrying out ethnic cleansing under the sight and hearing of the impotent world,” Saed, a 48-year-old resident of Beit Lahiya, who arrived in Gaza City on Wednesday, said Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday killed at least 14 Palestinians. Palestinian medics, as well as residents …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Violence by extremist Israeli settlers increases in the occupied West Bank

NPR

Violence by extremist Israeli settlers increases in the occupied West Bank Human rights groups say there have been at least 1,000 attacks by extremist Israeli settlers on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in the past year. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: With so much of the world's attention focused on Gaza, violence in the occupied West Bank has escalated. There's been …

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1 month, 1 week ago

France warns of new sanctions on Israeli settlers over West Bank violence

Firstpost

France had already imposed sanctions against “28 violent settlers” and been instrumental in deciding sanctions at the European Union level, Jean-Noel Barrot told the Paris Peace Forum, an annual gathering dedicated to international dialogue. Jean-Noel Barrot told the Paris Peace Forum, “We played a key role in establishing the sanctions regime that has already been activated twice and may be …

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2 months, 1 week ago

The war is in Gaza, but Palestinians in the West Bank are targeted with violence too

NPR

The war is in Gaza, but Palestinians in the West Bank are targeted with violence too toggle caption Maya Levin for NPR This story is a part of an NPR series reflecting on Oct. 7, a year of war and how it has changed life across Israel, the Gaza Strip, the region and the world. “I was scared.” In the …

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2 months, 1 week ago

The Place Where War in the Middle East Will be Won or Lost

Politico

But after months of listening to this self-congratulation, I still have one question for Biden and his team: Why didn’t you do this years ago? But it’s important to keep asking, because the fate of the Middle East could lie in the West Bank and what steps Israel, the United States and the Palestinians themselves take there now. “The West …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

One boy's story shows the impact of rising Israeli settler violence in the West Bank

NPR

One boy's story shows the impact of rising Israeli settler violence in the West Bank toggle caption Ayman Oghanna for NPR In a carpentry shop in the village of Qarawat Bani Hassan, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Noor Assi is at work packaging a wooden table. toggle caption Ayman Oghanna for NPR toggle caption Ayman Oghanna for NPR toggle caption …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Indigenous Group Blames Security and Settlers for Recent Communal Violence in Chittagong Hill Tracts

The Hindu

Tribal party of Bangladesh hill tracts blames security forces and settlers for recent communal clashes in three hill districts of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). The PCJSS, the apex body of the indigenous people, has accused Bangladesh government forces and Bengali “settlers” of causing the clashes resulting in loss of lives and destruction of homes and shops.

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

U.S. Sanctions Extremist Israeli Group For Violence Against Palestinians In West Bank

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — The U.S. on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Hilltop Youth, a group of extremist settlers in the Israeli -occupied West Bank who attack Palestinians and their property. In addition, the State Department placed diplomatic sanctions on two men—Israeli settler Eitan Yardeni, for his connection to violence targeting West Bank civilians and Avichai Suissa, the leader of …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

U.S. sanctions extremist West Bank settler group for violence against Palestinians

LA Times

The U.S. on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Hilltop Youth, a group of extremist settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank who attack Palestinians and their property. In addition, the State Department placed diplomatic sanctions on two men — Israeli settler Eitan Yardeni, for his connection to violence targeting West Bank civilians, and Avichai Suissa, the leader of Hashomer Yosh, a sanctioned …

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2 months, 4 weeks ago

In the occupied West Bank, Palestinians struggle to access water

NPR

In the occupied West Bank, Palestinians struggle to access water toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR JORDAN VALLEY, West Bank — Mansour Arara, 24, sits in the shade of a tree with a group of friends next to the Al-Auja freshwater spring. Interim agreements from the 1990s have allowed for a water disparity between Israelis and Palestinians, and Israel’s occupation of the …

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3 months ago

Rights group allege Bangladesh Army was inactive while indigenous people attacked in CHT

The Hindu

In a setback to the inter-ethnic harmony, more than one hundred houses and shops belonging to indigenous communities were burnt down by miscreants in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in the southeastern part of Bangladesh. Rights and Risks Analysis Group, a human rights group based here that tracks the community situation in CHT has said the attack was carried out in …

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3 months, 1 week ago

U.S. urges ‘fundamental changes’ by Israeli military after American activist shot dead in the West Bank

LA Times

Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old activist from Seattle, shown in an undated family photo, was killed following a demonstration against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. In an unusually harsh rebuke, the Biden administration on Tuesday demanded “fundamental changes” in the way the Israeli military conducts often-deadly operations in the occupied West Bank, following the killing of an American …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Chased away by Israeli settlers, these Palestinians returned to a village in ruins

Associated Press

KHIRBET ZANUTA, West Bank — An entire Palestinian community fled their tiny West Bank village last fall after repeated threats from Israeli settlers with a history of violence. The ruins of a home in the West Bank village of Khirbet Zanuta, destroyed when residents were driven out by Israeli settlers, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. An Israeli settler films Palestinian residents …

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Israeli settlers set mosque on fire in occupied West Bank

Middle East latest: An Israeli strike on a Gaza tent camp kills at least 21 people

Mideast conflict: Jewish settlers attack Palestinian towns and clash with Israeli troops

‘Rooted in this land until death’: A Palestinian family’s olive harvest

Israel ends 'administrative detention', a rule protecting Palestinians from Jewish settler violence

Dutch gov't hesitating over sanctioning Israel despite "unprecedented suffering" in Gaza

US sanctions group that builds illegal West Bank settlements, with close ties to Israeli government

Settlers have attacked dozens of Dutch West Bank aid projects

Israeli army, settlers sabotaged 59 Dutch aid projects in West Bank

Trump’s Cabinet picks are Israeli settlers’ dream come true for Gaza and the West Bank.

Israel’s West Bank settlers hope Trump’s return will pave the way for major settlement expansion

Israeli strikes kill 14: Palestinians say Netanyahu making North Gaza a buffer zone, planning return of Jewish settlers

Violence by extremist Israeli settlers increases in the occupied West Bank

France warns of new sanctions on Israeli settlers over West Bank violence

The war is in Gaza, but Palestinians in the West Bank are targeted with violence too

The Place Where War in the Middle East Will be Won or Lost

One boy's story shows the impact of rising Israeli settler violence in the West Bank

Indigenous Group Blames Security and Settlers for Recent Communal Violence in Chittagong Hill Tracts

U.S. Sanctions Extremist Israeli Group For Violence Against Palestinians In West Bank

U.S. sanctions extremist West Bank settler group for violence against Palestinians

In the occupied West Bank, Palestinians struggle to access water

Rights group allege Bangladesh Army was inactive while indigenous people attacked in CHT

U.S. urges ‘fundamental changes’ by Israeli military after American activist shot dead in the West Bank

Chased away by Israeli settlers, these Palestinians returned to a village in ruins