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Israeli airstrikes killed three Palestinian militant group commanders and 10 others in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the latest round of violence in one of the deadliest periods in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in years, the Wall Street Journal reported. Israel’s military said the strikes targeted senior...

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April 12, 2023

New Kids on the Block

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For years, Fatah and Hamas have vied for control of Palestine. The largest faction in the late Yasser Arafat’s renowned Palestinian Liberation Organization, Fatah controls the occupied territories of the West Bank, where Palestinian officials uneasily cooperate with their Israeli counterparts in attempting to govern a...

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The World Briefly

January 11, 2023

Digging In

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Israel’s new far-right government imposed a series of punitive steps against Palestinians this week in response to the latter’s efforts to involve the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the decades-long conflict, Reuters reported. The government has withheld nearly $40 million in Palestinian tax revenues and...

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September 26, 2022

The Hunt for the Future

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Prime Minister Yair Lapid expressed support for the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, the first Israeli leader to explicitly endorse a two-state solution to the long-running conflict in years, the Wall Street Journal reported. “An agreement with the Palestinians, based on two states for...

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August 10, 2022

A Tiger’s Tail

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Palestinian lawyers took to the streets in Ramallah in the Israel-occupied territories of the West Bank recently to protest against the rule of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas. As Agence France-Presse explained, the Oslo Peace Accords established the Palestinian Legislative Council, a kind of parliament,...

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The World Briefly

August 09, 2022

A Fragile Peace

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Israelis and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip reached a ceasefire agreement this week, ending three days of conflict that began following the arrest of a senior Hamas leader, the BBC reported. As of Monday, the Egypt-brokered truce appeared to be holding. Israel announced it was lifting...

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The World Briefly

June 27, 2022

Killing the Messenger

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Israeli soldiers fired the shots that killed veteran Palestinian-American reporter Shireen Abu Akleh last month, found a probe by the United Nations, Haaretz reported over the weekend. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said it had conducted its own "monitoring" of the incident – refraining...

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The World Briefly

April 20, 2022

Dry Tinder

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Israel’s fragile unity government faces a potential collapse after an independent Arab party suspended its membership in the ruling coalition, amid the breaking out of fresh violence between Israelis and Palestinians and recent attacks by Hamas, the Wall Street Journal reported. The Islamist Ra’am party said...

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The World Briefly

April 18, 2022

Holy Days, Bloody Days

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Palestinians and Israeli police clashed at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem over the weekend, the latest unrest that has followed an uptick in violence in recent weeks that has raised concerns over a wider conflict, the New York Times reported Sunday. Sunday’s clash was the...

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March 31, 2022

The Sparks

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Israel raised the nationwide alert level to the highest level possible for the first time since last year's war against Hamas in Gaza following a series of deadly attacks that have raised fears of a new round of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians just before...

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