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☆ Israel announces that West Bank settlers no longer face detention without trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-23 | by ( Freddie Clayton | Freddie Clayton Is A Freelance Journalist Based In London. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Israel’s new defense minister has said security forces would no longer apply administrative detention orders to Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, and thus only Palestinian suspects can be held indefinitely without trial. Israel Katz, a long-time ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was appointed defense minister earlier in November and announced the decision on Friday. In 2019, Trump abandoned the long-held U.S. position that West Bank settlements are illegal before it was restored by President Joe Biden. Settler immunity from administrative detention coincides with heightened rhetoric from Israeli ministers calling for the West Bank to be annexed. The U.N. said four Palestinian children have been killed every week in the West Bank on average since the current conflict began, a three-fold increase from the first nine months of 2023.

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☆ U.S. decries reported sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners after graphic video aired on Israeli TV
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-10 | by ( Aurora Almendral | Aurora Almendral Is A London-Based Editor With Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

Allegations of the sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners by members of the Israeli military are “horrific,” the United States has said, after a graphic video broadcast on Israeli news added fuel to mounting criticism of the U.S. ally’s conduct in the war in Gaza. “We have seen the video, and reports of sexual abuse of detainees are horrific,” Miller said, adding that the reports should be “fully” investigated by the Israeli government. “There ought to be zero tolerance for sexual abuse, rape of any detainee, period,” he added. “No circumstances, however exceptional, can ever justify torture or ill-treatment.”Israeli soldiers load naked Palestinian prisoners onto a bus in a photo sent to NBC News by Mustafa Barghouti, Palestinian Legislative Council member. Matan Golan / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty ImagesWhile the arrest of the reservists had brought this case to wider attention, B’Tselem argued that the abuse of Palestinian detainees is systemic in Israeli prisons.

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☆ Israel is blocking physicians with Palestinian heritage from entering Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Yahya Abou-Ghazala | Alex Marquardt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Suleiman’s denial is part of a policy recently communicated to medical missions going into Gaza through Israel. Before the war, Palestinian medics and medics of Palestinian heritage who held other passports could apply to Israel for entry into Gaza and have no issues getting approval. Ambulances lined up in front of the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing during a visit of United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on March 23. “We reiterate that we STRONGLY advice (sic) against any attempt of entering Gaza with a Palestinian background/roots,” the email stated. The ad disclosed that “applicants with a Palestinian ID or Palestinian roots are not allowed into Gaza.” The post has since been deleted.

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As of Wednesday, Israel had released 180 Palestinian prisoners and detainees and Hamas had released 81 hostages. Under Israeli law, children as young as 12 can be imprisoned for up to six months. Salman was one of the prisoners released on Friday, after serving almost eight of those nine years. Israeli military police guard the entrance to Ofer Israeli military prison, as Palestinian prisoners arrive from another Israeli prison, as part of an agreement between Israel and Hamas, on November 24. According to a report by Save the Children earlier this year, between an estimated 500 and 1,000 children are held in Israeli military detention each year.

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☆ Hebron, West Bank: Palestinians under curfew say they are being punished for things they did not do
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Tara John | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Tara John/CNNIncreased separationIsrael has occupied the West Bank since seizing the territory from Jordanian military occupation in 1967. Israel views the West Bank as “disputed territory,” and contends its settlement policy is legal. Even by the standards of the West Bank, the situation in Hebron is complicated. People pray on the exterior wall of the Cave of the Patriarchs on November 17 in Hebron, West Bank. “There is an unannounced war in the West Bank,” Sfard told CNN.

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☆ Gaza workers expelled from Israel accuse Israeli authorities of abuse, including beatings
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | Nada Bashir | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

I know people whose rib cage was completely broken, some people died of torture,” he told CNN. An Israeli security official told CNN that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was aware of several incidents of “abuse” of Gazan workers by IDF soldiers. Several of the workers told CNN they were blindfolded and handcuffed for long periods of time. Palestinian workers deported by Israel make their return to the Gaza Strip in Rafah, Gaza, on November 3, 2023. They were then forced to walk for “about three hours” to cross into the enclave, several of them told CNN.

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☆ Israel strikes Gaza’s Jabalya refugee camp
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Kareem Khadder | Abeer Salman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Jerusalem CNN —An Israeli strike targeting a Hamas commander in the densely populated Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza has left catastrophic damage and killed a large number of people, according to eyewitnesses and medics in the enclave. The IDF also said “numerous other Hamas terrorists” were hit in the strike, and claimed the Central Jabalya Battalion had taken control of civilian buildings. The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs described the strike as a “massacre,” referencing “chilling documented scenes” of children and women. Jordan’s Foreign Ministry also condemned the strike, saying it held Israel responsible for “this dangerous development,” in a statement released on X, previously known as Twitter. And Egypt accused Israel of breaking international law with what it said was the “inhuman” targeting of a residential area.

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Arab citizens and permanent residents in Israel make up just over 20% of the country’s population. His ancestors were evacuated from Iqrit, a village north of Haifa, by Israeli forces during the 1948 war. Last Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and some opposition leaders joined an emergency war cabinet to manage the war. “Some people call it Turkish coffee, some call it Jerusalem coffee or Palestinian coffee or Israeli coffee … when I am in the mood, I call it Palestinian coffee,” he said, watching a spoonful of sugar bubble up from the bottom of the pot. “When I am not in the mood, I call it Jerusalem coffee … to avoid the politics”

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Following the deadly Hamas rampage across southern Israel on Oct. 7, which killed more than 1,300 people, Israel ordered an immediate cut-off of the country’s water supplies to the Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Ahmed ZakotOn Sunday, Israel’s energy minister said that a decision to renew water supplies to parts of southern Gaza was agreed on between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Joe Biden. On Monday, Hamas said that Israel had yet to resume water supplies for the Gaza Strip despite pledging to do so, while an Israeli official responded that some water was being provided to an area in the south of the enclave. Bar chart comparing the daily water consumption in litres per capita in Gaza and Israel. Map showing 3 desalination plants and 6 wastewater plants in the Gaza Strip.

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Netanyahu’s vow to unleash the full force of the Israeli military on Hamas has raised fears for the safety of Israeli civilians spread in undisclosed locations across the densely populated Gaza Strip. “It will make things much more complicated.”Political Cartoons View All 1202 ImagesLocating Israeli hostages in Gaza — something Israeli intelligence agencies failed to do in the case of Shalit — poses further challenges. “So the army would have to bomb everything.”Hamas already has said it seeks the release of all Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails — some 4,500 detainees, according to Israeli rights group B’Tselem — in exchange for the Israeli captives. There is “absolutely no chance” that the current government would agree to the release of Palestinian prisoners, said Gayil Talshir, a political scientist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This included the Schalit deal in 2011, and Israel’s release of 1,150 jailed Palestinians in exchange for three Israeli prisoners in 1985.

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☆ Opinion | The Tale of Two Invasions: What the Last Attack on Jenin Tells Us About Israel Now
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Tareq Baconi | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Like Jenin, the Gaza Strip also has a history of resistance against Israeli occupation. Alongside food restriction policies and an economic chokehold, this took the form of devastating military assaults. In the time between the two invasions of Jenin, Palestinians throughout the West Bank have been systematically funneled — through land expropriation, home demolitions and expansion of settlements — into isolated urban centers surrounded by land occupied by Israel. Just like Gaza, most urban centers in the West Bank can now be, overnight, entirely severed from the ecosystem around them, as was witnessed in Jenin. “We have to settle the land of Israel and at the same time need to launch a military campaign, blow up buildings, assassinate terrorists.

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☆ Palestinians say Israeli troops kill 9 in West Bank raid
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

The Israeli military said forces were operating in the area but did not immediately provide any other details. Palestinian Health Minister May Al-Kaila said paramedics were struggling to reach the wounded amid the fighting. Thursday’s violence brings the number of Palestinians killed this year to 29. Nearly 150 Palestinians were killed last year, making 2022 the deadliest since 2004, according to the Israeli rights group B’Tselem. Israel captured the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Mideast war, territories the Palestinians claim for their hoped-for state.

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.

☆ Israeli ultranationalist minister visits flashpoint Jerusalem holy site
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-03 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

An ultranationalist Israeli Cabinet minister visited Tuesday a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site for the first time since taking office in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new far-right government last week. The Israeli military said its forces had shot a person involved in violent confrontations with soldiers. Ofir Gendelman, who has long served as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Arabic-language spokesman, released a video showing that the “situation is completely calm” at the holy site following Ben-Gvir’s departure. The Israeli military said Border Police officers came under attack in the Dheisha refugee camp next to Bethlehem. The Israeli army says most of the Palestinians killed have been militants.

☆ Israeli Forces Kill Five Palestinians in Raid on Militant Group
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Dov Lieber | Fatima Abdulkarim | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A funeral for those killed in an overnight Israeli raid in Nablus in the West Bank on Tuesday. NABLUS, West Bank—Israeli forces said they killed five Palestinians in Nablus during a raid on a militant hideout, as violence in the West Bank hits its bloodiest year in more than a decade. Israeli security forces have so far this year killed at least 111 West Bank Palestinians, including five women and at least 24 minors, more than in any other year since 2006, according to an analysis by Israeli human rights group B’Tselem and The Wall Street Journal. In 2006, 134 Palestinians were killed. It was the year after the end of a bloody uprising known as the Second Intifada, during which over 5,000 Palestinians and 1,000 Israelis were killed.

☆ West Bank: Several dead after Israeli joint security forces raid in Nablus
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Kareem Khadder | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —At least four Palestinians were killed during an Israeli military raid in the old city of Nablus in the West Bank in the early hours of Tuesday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. “The (Israeli) troops responded with live fire toward the armed suspects who were shooting at them,” the statement said. Official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that Israeli forces stormed several neighborhoods in Nablus, “where the sounds of shooting and explosions were heard and columns of smoke and flames were seen emanating from several neighborhoods,” followed by fierce clashes between residents and Israeli military forces. Mourners in the West Bank on October 25, 2022. Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP/Getty ImagesWafa also reported that the Israeli military then sent reinforcements backed by drones.

☆ (foto) O îmbrățișare COVID-friendly câștigă titlul „Fotografia anului din presa mondială”. Descoperă pozele învingătoare și poveștile din spatele lor
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-16 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +10 min

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