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Even before the Gaza aid flotilla crisis, both Barack Obama, the US president, and Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, had been trying to erase the perception of strained US-Israel relations. But among some quarters in Washington, questions over unqualified US support for Israel remain. The US military is starting to show concern over the [...] Nablus – PNN – a group of Israeli settlers took over on Thursday more Palestinian farm lands near the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The 30 Donoms of land ( 7.5 acres ) belongs to farmers from the village of Jaloud near Nablus, local sources said that this is the second time the settlers [...] Nablus – PNN – Israeli settlers attacked on Monday a number of Palestinian villagers located near Nablus city in northern West Bank. In the village of Aourif, settlers attacked residents’ homes and cars, the settlers set fire to a car that belong to one of the villagers before leaving. Another group of settlers took over [...] Nablus – PNN – Israeli armed settlers attacked on Friday morning the village of Qaryit and took over 130 Donums of farmers lands. Qaryit is a small Palestinian village near the southern West Bank city of Nablus. The village is surrounded by two Israeli settlements, Shilo and Aliyah. Local sources said that the settlers using [...] Bethlehem – PNN – the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Catherine Ashton, expressed her concerns by Israeli decision to convict protest organizer Abdallah Abu Rhamah from Bil'in, a small village in central West Bank. Abu Rhamah was convicted by an Israeli military court on Tuesday of incitement and organizing illegal demonstrations on Tuesday, after [...] Jerusalem – PNN – A group of armed Israeli settlers took over on Thursday a Palestinian owned house located in Jerusalem old city. Residents said Israeli police provided protection for the settlers as they stormed the house removed the family and took it over.The house is located in the middle of a Palestinian neighborhood inside [...] Jerusalem – PNN – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon criticized Israeli officials for continuing their plan to demolish 22 Palestinian homes in the Silwan area of east Jerusalem. Ban's statement increased the pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has delayed the demolition until the end of the month. Netanyahu recently approved increasing the flow of [...] RAMALLAH // Israel went back to work yesterday after a holiday season that has disrupted most of April. For the Israeli coalition government, however, that return is probably even less welcome than to everyone else, with the country expected to come up with answers to US probing over a peace process with the Palestinians. Barack [...] The headlines were ablaze last week after the Palestinian Authority (PA) announced that it would build the new presidential compound on a street named after Yahya Ayyash. Ayyash, whose nickname was The Engineer, was a Hamas military commander who orchestrated several attacks against Israeli civilian targets in the mid-1990s in response to the 1994 massacre [...] The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday denied Palestinian reports that its troops had disseminated notices over a residential area of the Gaza Strip warning of an upcoming military strike. Palestinians reported that Israel dropped thousands of leaflets overnight, warning residents to wait for the response tomorrow. Witnesses said the flyers were dropped in several locations [...] |
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