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16.05.2021 / 03:27

Protesters in major US cities decry airstrikes over Gaza

LOS ANGELES – Pro-Palestinian protesters took to the streets of Los Angeles, Boston, Philadelphia and other U.S. cities on Saturday to demand an end to Israeli airstrikes over the Gaza Strip.

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Tensions rise as Palestinian march aims to defy Paris ban

PARIS – Marches in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip were being held Saturday in a dozen French cities, but the focus was on Paris, where riot police got ready as organizers said they would defy a ban on the protest.

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The Latest: Palestinians gather for displacement anniversary

RAMALLAH – The Latest on the continuing violence between Israel and Gaza's militant Hamas rulers (all times local):

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Israeli strike on Gaza kills 10, unrest spreads to West Bank

GAZA – An Israeli air raid in Gaza City killed at least 10 Palestinians, mostly children, early Saturday in the deadliest single strike since the battle with Gaza's militant Hamas rulers erupted earlier this week. Both sides pressed for an advantage as cease-fire efforts gathered strength.

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US sending new aid to Palestinians as conflict intensifies

WASHINGTON – The Biden administration notified Congress this week that it will send millions of dollars in U.S. assistance to the Palestinians aimed at promoting peace with Israel even as violence between the two sides rages.

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EXPLAINER: Why is Gaza almost always mired in conflict?

GAZA – The Gaza Strip was pounded this week by hundreds of Israeli strikes from sea, land and air, while the enclave's militant Hamas rulers fired hundreds of rockets into Israel.

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Israeli artillery pounds northern Gaza, sending Palestinians fleeing

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Palestinian families grabbed their children and belongings and fled neighborhoods on the outskirts of Gaza City on Friday as Israel unleashed heavy artillery fire at what it said was a large network of militant tunnels ahead of a possible ground invasion.Israel has massed troops along the border and called up 9,000 reservists as fighting intensifies with the Islamic militant group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip.

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The Latest: Gaza's families flee intense Israeli bombardment

JERUSALEM – The Latest on the stepped-up fighting between Israel and militant Hamas rulers (all times local):

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Israeli tanks pound Gaza ahead of possible ground incursion

GAZA – Israeli artillery pounded northern Gaza early Friday in an attempt to destroy a vast network of militant tunnels inside the territory, the military said, bringing the front lines closer to dense civilian areas and paving the way for a potential ground invasion.

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Beset by virus, Gaza's hospitals now struggle with wounded

GAZA – Just weeks ago, the Gaza Strip’s feeble health system was struggling with a runaway surge of coronavirus cases. Authorities cleared out hospital operating rooms, suspended nonessential care and redeployed doctors to patients having difficulty breathing.

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Israeli troops enter Gaza strip as conflict in region escalates

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - The Israeli military said Thursday that it had deployed air and ground troops within the Gaza Strip to battle the Hamas militant group, which has been launching rocket barrages since Monday.Israel had been retaliating with air strikes, but the ground attack marks another major escalation in what authorities were already describing as the largest clash between Israelis and Palestinian militants since 2014.At least three additional rockets were launched by unknown persons out of Lebanon, the country to the north, according to the Israeli Defense Forces.Screams and flying debris enveloped Umm Majed al-Rayyes as explosions hurled her from her bed in Gaza City.

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Fear of full scale Israel-Gaza war, as violence escalates

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is vowing to unleash more airstrikes on Gaza, as retaliatory rocket fire and airstrikes claim lives on both sides of the conflict. As Eric Sorensen reports, fears are growing that decades-long tensions between Israeli’s and Palestinians over Jerusalem could soon erupt into another war.

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Fear grows in Gaza amid Palestinian-Israeli conflict

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Screams and flying debris enveloped Umm Majed al-Rayyes as explosions hurled her from her bed in Gaza City. Groping in the dark, the 50-year-old grabbed her four children and ran as Israeli bombs struck their apartment building Wednesday, shattering windows, ripping doors to splinters and blasting away concrete.While casualties mounted this week in the most severe outbreak of violence between Israel and the Gaza Strip since a 2014 war, al-Rayyes and other Palestinians in the line of fire faced an all-too-familiar question: Where should we go?"This whole territory is a tiny place.

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Nowhere to run: Fear in Gaza grows amid conflict with Israel

GAZA – Screams and flying debris enveloped Umm Majed al-Rayyes as explosions hurled her from her bed in Gaza City. Groping in the dark, the 50-year-old grabbed her four children and ran as Israeli bombs struck their apartment building Wednesday, shattering windows, ripping doors to splinters and blasting away concrete.

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As ethnic violence rocks Israel, Arabs cite deep grievances

JERUSALEM – As rockets from Gaza streaked overhead, Arabs and Jews fought each other on the streets below and rioters torched vehicles, a restaurant and a synagogue in one of the worst spasms of communal violence Israel has seen in years.

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Weary Gaza marks Muslim feast as violence spreads in Israel

GAZA – Weary Palestinians on Thursday prepared for a somber feast marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, as Gaza braced for more Israeli airstrikes and communal violence raged across Israel after weeks of protests and violence in Jerusalem.

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Gaza death toll from Israeli airstrikes climbs to 43 Palestinians, including children

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Rockets streamed out of Gaza and Israel pounded the territory with airstrikes early Wednesday as the most severe outbreak of violence since the 2014 war took on many hallmarks of that devastating 50-day conflict, with no endgame in sight.Gaza's Hamas rulers and other militant groups have fired barrages of hundreds of rockets that at times have overwhelmed Israel's missile defenses, causing air raid sirens and explosions to echo across Tel Aviv, Israel's biggest metropolitan area, and other cities.Israeli airstrikes have leveled two apartment towers in the Gaza Strip, where 2 million Palestinians have lived under a crippling Israeli-Egyptian blockade since Hamas took power in 2007.

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The Latest: 1 killed, two wounded in Israel by missile

JERUSALEM – The Latest on confrontations between Israelis and Palestinians as Israel signals a widening military campaign:

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Escalating Mideast violence bears hallmarks of 2014 Gaza war

GAZA – Rockets streamed out of Gaza and Israel pounded the territory with airstrikes early Wednesday as the most severe outbreak of violence since the 2014 war took on many hallmarks of that devastating 50-day conflict, with no endgame in sight.

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Analysis: Violence upends Biden's Israel-Palestinian outlook

WASHINGTON – The surge in Israeli-Palestinian violence has flummoxed the Biden administration in its first four months as it attempts to craft a Middle East policy it believes will be more durable and fairer than that of its predecessor.

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New survey of US Jews reveals worries, strengths, divisions

A comprehensive new survey of Jewish Americans finds them increasingly worried about antisemitism, proud of their cultural heritage and sharply divided about the importance of religious observance in their lives.

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Israeli airstrikes hit Hamas commander's home, Gaza tunnels

GAZA – Israel unleashed new airstrikes on Gaza early Tuesday, hitting the high-rise home of a Hamas field commander and two border tunnels dug by militants, as Hamas and other armed groups fired dozens of rockets toward Israel. It was an escalation sparked by weeks of tensions in contested Jerusalem.

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More than 300 Palestinians hurt in clash at Jerusalem holy site

JERUSALEM - Israeli police firing tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets clashed with stone-throwing Palestinians at a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site on Monday, the latest in a series of confrontations that threatened to push the contested city toward wider conflict.More than a dozen tear gas canisters and stun grenades landed in the Al-Aqsa mosque, located in a compound sacred to both Jews and Muslims, said an Associated Press photographer at the scene. Smoke rose in front of the mosque and the iconic golden-domed shrine on the site, and rocks littered the surrounding plaza.

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EXPLAINER: What's behind the clashes in Jerusalem?

JERUSALEM – For weeks now, Palestinian protesters and Israeli police have clashed on a daily basis in and around Jerusalem's Old City, home to major religious sites sacred to Jews, Christians and Muslims and the emotional epicenter of the Middle East conflict.

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Israeli police, Palestinians clash at Jerusalem holy site

JERUSALEM – Israeli police clashed with Palestinian protesters inside a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site on Monday.

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Palestinians fear loss of family homes as evictions loom

JERUSALEM – When Samira Dajani’s family moved into their first real home in 1956 after years as refugees, her father planted trees in the garden, naming them for each of his six children.

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In tense Jerusalem, flag-waving Israeli march to go ahead

JERUSALEM – Police on Sunday gave the go-ahead to the annual Jerusalem Day parade, a flag-waving display of Israeli claims to all of the contested city, despite days of unrest and soaring Israeli-Palestinian tensions at a flashpoint holy site.

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200 Palestinians hurt in clash with Israeli police at mosque, medics say

JERUSALEM (AP) - A night of heavy clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound and elsewhere in Jerusalem left more than 200 Palestinians wounded, medics said Saturday, as the city braced for even more violence after weeks of unrest.Nightly protests broke out at the start of the holy month of Ramadan over police restrictions at a popular gathering place and have reignited in recent days over threatened eviction of dozens of Palestinians from their homes in east Jerusalem, which is claimed by both sides in the decades-old conflict.It was unclear what set off the violence at Al-Aqsa, which erupted when Israeli police in riot gear deployed in large numbers as thousands of Muslim worshippers were holding

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Hamas rejects idea of postponing Palestinian elections

JERUSALEM – The Islamic militant group Hamas has rejected the idea of postponing Palestinian elections ahead of a leadership meeting Thursday in which President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party is expected to push for a delay, citing a dispute with Israel over voting in east Jerusalem.

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Global rights group accuses Israel of apartheid, persecution

JERUSALEM – One of the world's best-known human rights groups said Tuesday that Israel is guilty of the international crimes of apartheid and persecution because of discriminatory policies toward Palestinians within its own borders and in the occupied territories.

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EXPLAINER: New players add volatility in Jerusalem tensions

JERUSALEM – The holy city of Jerusalem, a tinderbox of competing religious and political claims, has repeatedly triggered bouts of Israeli-Palestinian violence.

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New players pose additional threats to Jerusalem tensions

JERUSALEM – Competing claims to the holy city of Jerusalem have long fueled fighting between Israel and the Palestinians. But a new mix of players, including Gaza militants and Jewish Israeli extremists, have made the latest round of violence particularly combustible.

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Jerusalem tension triggers Gaza-Israel fire exchange

JERUSALEM – Tensions in Jerusalem sparked the worst round of cross-border violence between Israel and the Gaza Strip in months on Saturday, with Palestinian militants firing at least 30 rockets and Israel striking back at targets operated by Gaza’s Hamas rulers.

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Facebook says it halts hackers tied to Palestinian security

JERUSALEM – Facebook said Wednesday it has broken up a hacker network used by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' intelligence service in an attempt to keep tabs on journalists, human rights activists and government critics.

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Trump-era growth of settlement growth has only begun

EFRATA – An aggressive Israeli settlement spree of over 9,000 homes during the Trump era pushed deeper into the occupied West Bank than ever before, according to an AP investigation. The trend puts the Biden administration in a tough bind if it follows through on pledges to revive peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians.

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US resumes funding to UN agency for Palestinian refugees

WASHINGTON – The Biden administration said Wednesday it has resumed U.S. assistance to the Palestinians, including to the U.N. agency that deals with Palestinian refugees, nearly all of which had been eliminated by former President Donald Trump.

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US boosts aid to Palestinians as some in Congress cry foul

WASHINGTON – The Biden administration is moving again to increase U.S. assistance to the Palestinians as it fires up a new Mideast policy that is directly opposite of the one pursued by its predecessor.

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Watchdog: Lebanon's vaccination of refugees, migrants lags

BEIRUT – Lebanon’s vaccination campaign has been slow and risks leaving behind some of the country’s most vulnerable people, including Palestinian and Syrian refugees, as well as migrant workers, a leading rights group said Tuesday.

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India provides 25,000 'Made-in-India' Covid vaccine doses to Palestine

coronavirus vaccines to Palestine."Reaching Ramallah. Made in India vaccines arrive in Palestine," External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar wrote on Twitter.

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Palestinians get 60,000 vaccine doses through WHO program

JERUSALEM – The Palestinian Authority said Wednesday it will receive around 60,000 coronavirus vaccine doses over the next 48 hours, the first shipment provided by a World Health Organization partnership aimed at helping poor countries.

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Israel postpones drive to vaccinate Palestinian workers

JERUSALEM – Israel on Friday postponed plans to vaccinate Palestinians who work inside the country and its West Bank settlements until further notice.

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Palestinian Authority faces criticism over vaccine rollout

RAMALLAH – The Palestinian Authority's decision to divert some of its tiny stockpile of coronavirus vaccines to senior officials, soccer players and others has sparked controversy, feeding into long-standing concerns about corruption as it struggles to respond to a worsening outbreak.

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Seanad debates rollout of vaccines in Palestine

The Independent Senator Frances Black has told the Seanad that Government should play a greater role in ensuring that there is a fair vaccine rollout in Palestine.

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For Israel's allies, road to vaccines runs through Jerusalem

JERUSALEM – When it comes to obtaining hard-to-get coronavirus vaccines, Israel’s friends are discovering the road appears to run through Jerusalem.

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Diplomatic doses: Israel shares vaccines with allied nations

JERUSALEM – After jumping out to a quick start in its vaccination campaign, Israel announced Tuesday that it has decided to share a small surplus of its coronavirus vaccines with several friendly countries.

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EXPLAINER: Israeli settlements may face new scrutiny

JERUSALEM – Israel’s ongoing building of settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem would likely be more vulnerable to prosecution than its military actions against Palestinians — if the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor decides to open a war crimes investigation.

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George Shultz wasn't 'afraid to struggle against the odds'

WASHINGTON – Time was running out when Secretary of State George P. Shultz returned home in April 1988 after flying 16,000 miles in a failed mission to persuade Arabs and Israelis to negotiate their differences. Shultz said he would keep trying.

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