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Israel Extends Closure of West Bank, Gaza

The Israeli army on Sunday announced that all crossing points of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip would remain closed until Wednesday for security reasons.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Holiday rites without clashes in Jerusalem but region braces for further violence

Al-Aqsa mosque compound tensions have triggered cross-border fighting in Gaza and drawn in Lebanon and Syria

The Guardian - UK

Israel beefs up security for Jerusalem religious ceremonies

Israel’s defense minister has extended a closure barring entrance to Israel for Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip for the duration of the Jewish holiday of Passover, while police are preparing forces in Jerusalem on the eve of sensitive religious celebrations

The Independent UK

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After a night of air raids, Palestinians in Gaza fear escalation

The Gaza Strip endured a night of bombardment as Israeli fighter jets conducted raids on several sites in the territory.

Al Jazeera

Israel Stages Rare Strikes in Lebanon, also Hits Gaza Strip

Israel launched rare strikes in southern Lebanon early Friday and pressed on with bombing targets in the Gaza Strip, marking a widening escalation in the region following violence this week at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site. The cross-border fighting erupted during a time of heightened religious fervor — when Jews…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Trapped and Jobless, Gaza Youths Look for a Way Out

Sabreen Abu Jazar was only hours from completing the perilous journey from Gaza to meet her husband in Europe last month when her migrant boat flipped and sank 100 meters from the Greek coast. Her body was finally returned home this week. "She phoned me just before travelling and asked…

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Trapped and jobless, Gaza youths look for a way out

Sabreen Abu Jazar was only hours from completing the perilous journey from Gaza to meet her husband in Europe last month when her migrant boat flipped and sank 100 metres from the Greek coast. Her body was finally returned home this week.

Reuters

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Israel repeals 2005 act on West Bank settlement pullout

Israeli lawmakers have repealed a 2005 act that saw four Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank dismantled at the same time as Israeli forces withdraw from the Gaza Strip

The Independent UK

Army: Rocket Fired from Gaza Lands on Southern Israel

The Israeli military said Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket toward southern Israel Saturday evening. The rocket fell and exploded in an open area, triggering warning sirens in the Nahal Oz community to the east of Gaza City. There were no reports of casualties or damage.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Gaza ‘waiting for war every moment’ as Israel tension surges

Embattled residents in the Gaza Strip live in a perpetual state of fear of yet another war launched by Israel.

Al Jazeera

Israeli Airstrikes Hit Gaza Strip

The Israeli army launched airstrikes on targets in the Gaza Strip at dawn on Thursday, after rockets were fired from the territory into Israel about two hours earlier. Shortly after 6:00 am local time (0400 GMT), black smoke rose over one of the targeted locations north of Gaza City. In…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Israel bombs Gaza after rocket fire, deadly Nablus raid

Israel attacks Gaza as tensions rise over an Israeli raid on the West Bank city of Nablus that killed 11 Palestinians.

Al Jazeera

Israeli strikes hits Gaza after rockets fired overnight

Israel's forces conducted strikes in the Gaza Strip on Thursday after rockets were fired from the area, the military said, a day after a raid in the flashpoint city of Nablus sparked clashes in which 11 Palestinians were killed and over 100 wounded.

Reuters

Roman-Era Sarcophagus Uncovered in Gaza

A Roman-era sarcophagus, likely to have belonged to a prominent individual, was uncovered at the site of a 2,000-year-old Roman cemetery discovered last year in the northern Gaza Strip, the territory's antiquities ministry said on Tuesday. So far 90 individual and mass graves have been found at the site, which…

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Valentine's Day frowned upon by many, but not all, in Gaza Strip

Valentine's Day is considered un-Islamic by many of the 2.3 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip and business was slower than usual on Tuesday at those shops selling red roses, fluffy hearts and teddy bears.

Reuters

Explosions rock Gaza, Israel says it hit Hamas rocket factory

Several explosions rocked the Gaza Strip early on Monday, a Reuters witness said, as Israel's military said it attacked an underground site used by the Palestinian enclave's Hamas Islamists to manufacture rockets.

Reuters

Egypt hold talks seeking to prevent Israeli-Palestinian escalation in Ramadan

Egypt has stepped up mediation between Israel and the Palestinians in a bid to tamp down violence in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank and to prevent its spread to the Gaza Strip ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, officials said.

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Crackdown on environmental defenders at ‘alarming level’

Shooting in Atlanta part of dangerous escalation in the criminalization of environmental defenders, campaigners warn. Plus, how to escape learned loneliness

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Israeli Air Strikes Hit Gaza Strip

Israel launched air strikes on the Gaza Strip early Thursday, which Palestinian fighters reacted to by firing rockets in the latest bout of unrest in the region. The overnight attacks -- which Israel's army confirmed in a statement at 02:41 am (0041 GMT) -- come hours after the army intercepted…

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Israel Says It Intercepted Rocket Fired from Gaza Strip

Sirens sounded in southern Israel and a rocket was intercepted from Gaza on Wednesday, the Israeli army said, as tensions soared between Palestinians and the country's new ultranationalist government. The army said in a statement that sirens sounded in the city of Sderot and in the area surrounding the Gaza…

France 24

New shooting in east Jerusalem, hours after synagogue attack left seven dead

A young assailant shot and wounded at least two people in east Jerusalem on Saturday, Israeli medics said, hours after a Palestinian gunman killed seven outside a synagogue in one of the deadliest such attacks in years.

The Guardian - UK

Tense but calm after deadly Jenin raid triggers Israel-Gaza rocket fire exchange

Palestinian Authority suspends security cooperation after nine people were killed by Israeli defence forces

Tribune News Service

Palestinians cut security ties with Israel after deadly raid

The Palestinian Authority said it’s ending security ties with Israel after eight militants and one civilian were killed in a West Bank gunfight, in an escalation in violence that was later followed by a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip.

Reuters

Seven killed in synagogue attack as West Bank violence spirals

A Palestinian gunman killed seven people and wounded three others in a synagogue on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Friday in an attack that heightened fears of a spiral in bloodshed, a day after the deadliest Israeli raid in the West Bank in years.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Israel Asks Pope Francis, Red Cross to Help Release Four Citizens in Gaza

Israel appealed to Pope Francis, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the UN Secretary-General on Wednesday to help it recover four citizens held in the Gaza Strip for more than seven years. Reuters reported that Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen sent letters of appeal after…

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