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Israel To Reduce Gaza Power, Feeding Fears of Unrest

Israel will reduce electricity supplies to the Gaza Strip after funding cuts by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, an...

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Gaza Power Shortage To Worsen As Israel Reduces Supply

Israel will reduce electricity supplies to the Gaza Strip after funding cuts by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, a...

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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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Hamas Denies It Built Tunnel Under UN Schools In Gaza

Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas has denied that it or any other militant group built a tunnel under two UN schools...

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Israel Advances Settlement Plans Despite Trump Plea

Israel has advanced plans for more than 3,000 homes in West Bank settlements this week, despite US President Donald...

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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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Israel ‘not Ready’ For Peace

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's office on Tuesday slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's pledge to...

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Netanyahu Insists Israel Retain Jordan Valley Military Control

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday pledged that he would not cede military control of the West Bank's...

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Western Wall Must Be Under Jewish Sovereignty

One of Judaism's holiest sites, the Western Wall in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, must remain under "Jewish...

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Israeli Rule ‘key Cause’ of Palestinian Hardship

Fifty years after Israel occupied the Palestinian territories, its policies in the West Bank and Gaza are at the root...

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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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Israelis Rally For Palestinian State, End of Occupation

Thousands of Israelis rallied Saturday in Tel Aviv in support of a Palestinian state ahead of the 50th anniversary of...

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Palestinians End Mass Hunger Strike In Israel Jails

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails on hunger strike since April 17 have ended their mass protest under...

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Palestinian Prisoners In Israel Jails End Hunger Strike

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails on hunger strike since April 17 have ended their protest,...

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UN Fears Gaza Energy Crisis Could Spark Fresh Violence

The United Nations warned Friday that an energy crisis in the Gaza Strip was severely affecting water supplies and...

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Palestinian President Wants US To Mediate Hunger Strike

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Thursday he has asked the United States to mediate on a standoff between...

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Israeli Joy At Trump Visit, But Substance Lacking

Israeli right-wingers celebrated US President Donald Trump's visit after he made no mention of the two-state solution,...

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Trump Condemns ‘evil Losers’ Behind Manchester Attack

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday condemned the "evil losers" behind a bomb attack at a pop concert in the British...