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☆ The Palestinian president and his unfulfilled quest for a state
  + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
He was an early member of Fatah, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) faction that dominated Palestinian politics for decades. He became leader of both when Arafat died in 2004, and a year later was elected president of the Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited sovereignty in the West Bank. Behind them were U.S. President Bill Clinton, Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, applauding warmly. When the Palestinian leadership returned from exile to Gaza after the Oslo Accords Abbas was upbeat, promising: "I will live in Palestine." Hamas routed Fatah in a civil war in Gaza, leaving Abbas with control of Palestinian-administered areas in the West Bank but there have been no Palestinian elections since.
☆ Funeral for Palestinian boy killed in Israeli raid highlights tensions
  + stars: | 2023-01-23 | by ( Lawahez Jabari | Aina J. Khan | Paul Goldman | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +6 min
DHEISHEH, West Bank ⁠— Palestinian tradition dictates that only men transport the dead to their graves. For a few moments, she led the funerary procession for Amr, 14, who Palestinians say was killed by an Israeli bullet during a raid in the Dheisheh refugee camp. Around her, mourners packed the street inside the camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank just south of Bethlehem. Around Khamour, posters large and small from a variety of Palestinian organizations and institutions declared Amr a martyr. In 2022, 29 people were killed by Palestinians in Israel, east Jerusalem and the West Bank, according Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
☆ Jerusalem chef gives tourists a Palestinian taste of life in the Old City
  + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
[1/6] A depiction of the Dome of the Rock rests on a tower of zaatar at a spice stall in a market, Jerusalem's Old City, December 11, 2022. REUTERS/Ammar AwadJERUSALEM, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Palestinian chef Izzeldin Bukhari begins the tours he offers to the Old City of Jerusalem with breakfast at Abu Shukri's hummus restaurant which he says serves the perfect balance of chickpeas, tahina and lemon juice. For Palestinians living in the complex and often tense political environment of East Jerusalem, which includes the walled Old City and its holy sites of three major religions, food is a major part of their cultural identity. "It gives me a way to talk about Palestine and the culture of Palestine through the food," said Bukhari. A lesson on food becomes a lesson about a city which has changed hands, like recipes, over generations.
☆ Israel deports Palestinian activist to France
  + stars: | 2022-12-18 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +5 min
Israel said it deported a Palestinian lawyer and activist to France early Sunday, claiming he has ties to a banned militant group, despite objections from the French government. Israel says Hammouri is an activist in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a group that it has labeled a terrorist organization. He has worked as a lawyer for Adameer, a rights group that assists Palestinian prisoners that Israel has banned for alleged ties to the PFLP. Israel said there’s no connection between the terror designation of Adameer and five other Palestinian rights groups and any alleged use of NSO spyware. Residency rights can be stripped if a Palestinian is found to live outside the city for an extended period or in certain security cases.
☆ Israel deports Palestinian lawyer Salah Hamouri to France over security, interior ministry says
  + stars: | 2022-12-18 | by ( Emily Rose | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
JERUSALEM, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Israel deported French-Palestinian human rights lawyer Salah Hamouri on Sunday, accusing him of security offenses against the state of Israel, the Israeli interior ministry said in a statement. Hamouri was escorted to the airpor early Sunday morning where he boarded a flight to France with his campaign saying there was no legal recourse for him to take. A statement from the Hamouri campaign called the deportation a "war crime" and said it constitutes a breach of international law. “Wherever a Palestinian goes, he takes with him these principles and the cause of his people: his homeland carried with him to wherever he ends up,” Hamouri said in a statement. Hamouri was most recently detained by Israel under administrative detention without charge on March 7 until Dec. 1 when Israel revoked his residency and stated he would be deported.
☆ In the holy land, a Christmas spirit is reborn
  + stars: | 2022-12-18 | by ( Henriette Chacar | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
[1/5] Palestinian Nader Muaddi serves arak at his family distillery in Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, December 11, 2022. "So, it's not only the spirit of Palestine, it's our Christmas spirit." Historically, families across the Levant produced their own wine and arak, which they would share with guests visiting during Christmas. Christians make up a small fraction of the Palestinian population in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. Craft distilleries, wineries and breweries are cropping up across the West Bank.
☆ Nizar Banat: Family of Palestinian activist files case against Palestinian Authority in ICC
  + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Hadas Gold Abeer Salman | Hadas Gold | Abeer Salman | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
Jerusalem CNN —The family of a Palestinian activist who died while in Palestinian Authority custody has filed a “war crimes and torture” case with the International Criminal Court, they said Thursday. Nizar Banat, a well-known Palestinian critic of the Palestinian Authority (PA) with a large social media following, died in Palestinian police custody in Hebron in June 2021. His death sparked mass protests and angry condemnation of the Palestinian Authority from leading figures in the West Bank and beyond. Banat’s family said the officers were “low ranking” and the trial “farcical,” and that no senior officer was questioned. Sadly, under the leadership of Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority has become another oppressor for the Palestinian people, just as much as Israel,” Camuz said in a statement.
☆ Fact Check-Video shows Moroccan football fans singing in support of Palestine in 2019
  + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
A years-old video of a crowd at a football stadium singing in support of Palestine has been widely shared by social media users as imagery from the 2022 FIFA World Cup being held in Qatar. **Whole Qatar FIFA stadium sung together unitedly in favour of Palestine against Jews and Israel.”Iterations of the claim can also be seen on Facebook. The video clip, however, is not from the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar and dates to 2019 (here). It shows Moroccan football fans showing solidarity with Palestine at a match between home team Raja Casablanca and Palestinian team Hilal Al-Quds at the Mohamed V stadium in Casablanca (see bit.ly/3ikrfae and bit.ly/3ih4ynt). The video clip is from 2019.
☆ Donald Trump may have had a bad week with US voters, but Republicans in Israel still love the former president
  + stars: | 2022-11-13 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
Insider met with Republicans Overseas in Israel to discuss Donald Trump's popularity in the country. It's named in honor of former President Donald Trump, a figure who is generally beloved in the country. Trump Square's modest sign reads: "The USA's 45th president and the first to acknowledge Jerusalem as the capital of Israel." Joshua Zitser/Insider"Israel never had a president who is as supportive and helpful as US President Donald Trump," Rami Greenberg, the mayor of Petah Tikva, at the unveiling of Trump Square in 2019. A 2018 University of Maryland poll of 650 Israeli Jewish people found that 73% of those surveyed supported moving the embassy.
☆ 2022 likely to be deadliest year for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, U.N. says
  + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +6 min
The U.N. Mideast envoy said 2022 is on course to be the deadliest year for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since the U.N. started tracking fatalities in 2005, and he called for immediate action to calm “an explosive situation” and move toward renewing Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Wennesland said the month saw “a spike in fatal violence” that has 2022 on track to be the deadliest in the West Bank. More than 125 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli-Palestinian fighting in the West Bank and East Jerusalem this year. Ongoing Israeli arrest raids in the West Bank pose a serious challenge to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority. The Palestinians want the West Bank to form the main part of their future state.
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