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Israel amended a draft of controversial rules this week that would have imposed steep restrictions on foreigners wanting to live or visit the occupied West Bank, following widespread criticism of the rules, the Middle East Eye reported. The original draft was released by the Coordination of...

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Need to Know

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

June 08, 2022

Welcome, Entropy

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The Israeli government failed to pass a bill that would extend legal protections to Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, a major setback that could collapse the fragile ruling coalition and create a legal conundrum in the territory, the Associated Press reported. The vote would...

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The World Briefly

May 25, 2022

Conflicting Rules

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Israel will appeal a decision by a lower court this week in favor of three Jewish minors who prayed at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound and questioned a long-standing arrangement with Muslim authorities that prevents Jewish prayer at the contested holy site, Reuters reported. Earlier this week,...

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The World Briefly

May 16, 2022

Laid to Unrest

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Israeli police and Palestinian mourners clashed over the weekend during the funeral of a prominent Palestinian-American journalist, a death that has already inspired international condemnation and calls for an investigation, the Wall Street Journal reported. The clashes broke out over the killing of Al Jazeera correspondent...

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The World Briefly

April 28, 2022

Connecting the Dots

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Israel is planning to implement a policy addressing the entry and the residence of foreigners in the West Bank, a move that has raised concerns that the new rules will add further restrictions on movement in the occupied territory, Al Jazeera reported Wednesday. The “Procedure for...

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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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The World Briefly

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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The World Briefly

March 02, 2022

Go, Stay…

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The Israeli Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a group of families facing eviction from a neighborhood in East Jerusalem could remain in their homes, a verdict that could potentially ease tensions in the district that sparked the 11-day war between Israel and Hamas last year,...

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