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Macron Chides Netanyahu On Settlements, Urges New Mideast Talks

French President Emmanuel Macron told Israel's visiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday that Paris opposes...

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Israel Freezes Palestinian Housing Plan After Settlers Object

Israeli ministers have frozen a plan to allow for the construction of thousands of Palestinian homes in a West Bank...

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US Reviews Ties With UNESCO Over Hebron Decision

The United States said on Friday it was reviewing ties with UNESCO after the UN cultural agency declared the Old City...

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What Is the Hebron Row?

The United Nations declared the Old City of Hebron a heritage site on Friday, sparking Israeli fury and Palestinian...

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UNESCO Puts Hebron On Endangered Heritage List, Outraging Israel

UNESCO on Friday declared the Old City of Hebron an endangered world heritage site, sparking outrage from Israel in a...

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Palestinians Hail UNESCO Hebron Vote Slammed By Israel

The Palestinians hailed a UNESCO decision Friday to label the heart of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron a...

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Palestinians, Israelis Square Off On UNESCO Vote On Hebron

The United Nations' cultural arm will decide whether to declare the Old City of Hebron a protected zone this week, the...

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Israel Starts Work On New Settlement Amid US Peace Push

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the start of work Tuesday on a new settlement in the occupied West...

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Israel, New Zealand Restore Ties After Settlements Row

Israel and New Zealand will restore ties after a row over Wellington's backing of a UN resolution in December...

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Israel Plans Most Settlement Homes Since 1992

Israel has so far this year advanced its highest number of settlement projects since 1992, the defence minister said...

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Israel Advances Plans For Further 1,500 Settler Homes

Israel has advanced plans for a further 1,500 homes in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, Peace Now said on...

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Israel Settlement Plans ‘challenge’ To Trump

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's spokesman said Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's vow to...

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Netanyahu Tells Israeli Settlers ‘nobody Will Be Uprooted’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday told Israeli settlers marking 50 years since the Six-Day War he would keep...

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Billions Spent On Settlers Since Israel Captured West Bank

Successive Israeli governments have invested billions of dollars over the past 50 years on settlements in the occupied...

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Residents of Historic Israeli Settlement Say They Have Returned Home

For Yohanan Ben Yaakov, taking part in the creation of the first Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank in 1967...

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In Hebron, ‘miracle’ For Settlers Ended ‘golden Age’ For Palestinians

Its Old City is in constant lockdown, its holy site where the biblical Abraham may have been buried guarded by Israeli...

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Trump Will Not Move US Embassy To Jerusalem For Now

President Donald Trump postponed moving the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem on Thursday, avoiding what would be a...

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50 Years After Six-Day War, Israeli-Palestinian Divide Widens

Israelis and Palestinians mark 50 years since the Six-Day War next week as the gap between them further widens, with...

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US Ambassador Haley To Travel To Israel, UN Rights Council Meeting

US Ambassador Nikki Haley, who has accused the United Nations of anti-Israel bias, will travel to Israel next week and...