Tag: Israel
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Israel demolishes family home of Palestinian attacker
The Israeli military on Tuesday demolished the family home of a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank who killed an Israeli in a Jewish settlement a month ago and was shot dead in the attack. Footage distributed by the military showed an armoured bulldozer tearing into the one-storey structure in the village of Kauber,…
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Soldier, policeman, lecturer, 97 other Nigerians abscond during pilgrimage in Israel
The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Tor Uja, has said 100 Christian pilgrims absconded during the 2017 pilgrimage to Israel. Uja, who made this known while receiving security report of the 2017 pilgrimage on Monday in Abuja, said that no pilgrim absconded in Rome and Greece. The NCPC boss said that…
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Hamas says ceasefire reached with Israel after Gaza flare-up
Hamas, the Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip, on Wednesday said it has reached a ceasefire with Israel. This statement came after the most severe exchange of fire between Israel and Palestinian militant groups since a 2014 war between Hamas and Israel. Palestinian militants fired dozens of mortars and rockets into Israel and the…
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Pope condemns Gaza killings, says Mideast needs justice, peace
Pope Francis on Wednesday condemned the killing of Palestinians near the Gaza-Israel border, saying the deaths would only lead to more violence, and appealed for dialogue to bring justice and peace to the Middle East. “I express my great pain for the dead and wounded and I am close in prayer and affection to all…
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Israel to send 16,000 African migrants to Western countries under new UN deal
Israel said on Monday it has scrapped a plan to deport African migrants to Africa and reached an agreement with the U.N. refugee agency to send more than 16,000 to Western countries instead. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named Canada, Italy and Germany as some of the nations that will take in the migrants. Other migrants,…
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Israeli govt. probes into Facebook user’s data scandal
Israel’s Justice Ministry said on Thursday that an investigation has been launched into Facebook’s leak of personal information of Israeli users. The ministry said the investigation was opened following media reports that data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica had harvested information about Facebook users. “The Israeli Privacy Protection Authority informed Facebook today, that it had opened an…
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Palestine may abandon autonomy, return responsibility to Israel – Presidential Aid
Palestinians may decide to dissolve the existing self-governing bodies and return the responsibility over the territories and its large population to Israel, Nabil Shaath, the foreign affairs adviser of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said. In accordance with existing agreements, the bulk of the Palestinian population of the West Bank live in the so-called Areas A…
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Trump tells Israel peace means compromise
U.S. President Donald Trump told Israel on Friday that it too would need to make “significant compromises” for peace with the Palestinians. The Palestinians were outraged by Trump’s Dec. 6 recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, a move overturning decades of U.S. reticence on the city’s status, and say they are looking at additional…
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Israel accuses UN rights forum of bias over Palestinians
Israel on Tuesday accused the UN of continuous discrimination against it over its treatment of Palestinians and called for reforms of its human rights body. The Human Rights Council’s regular examination of Israel’s record, the first since 2013, comes after U.S. President Donald Trump recognised Jerusalem on Dec. 6 as the capital of Israel, angering…
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Pence says U.S. embassy move ‘tangible’ sign of Washington’s commitment to Israel
Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday said that the controversial decision to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is a “tangible” sign of Washington’s commitment to Israel. Pence on the second and final day of his visit to Israel, made this known at a meeting with President Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem. He…