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The Israeli High Court rules that four Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah will remain in their homes, pending future legal proceedings in the Justice Ministry to determine who owns the land
This is an unprecedented development in Sheikh Jarrah eviction cases, lawyer says >>
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The Israeli cabinet just approved two critical proposals: an NIS 30 billion ($9.3 billion) plan to support Arab communities in health, education, and many other fields over 5 years.
The second is an NIS 2.4 billion ($748 million) proposal to fight the crime wave in Arab cities.
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The Palestinian Red Crescent reports 163 wounded tonight across Jerusalem in clashes with Israeli security forces.
83 were hospitalized, mostly for injuries with rubber-coated steel bullets, the Red Crescent says.
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I imagine that the brazen lawlessness by some Jewish extremists last night as they attacked Arabs within the Green Line must be connected to the near-total impunity they have enjoyed beyond it in years of attacks by extreme settlers on Palestinian towns and people.
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Some personal news: after two meaningful years at
@TimesofIsrael
, I’ll now be writing for The Wall Street Journal in Jerusalem, covering Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
Very excited to work with
@michaelkamon
,
@Shayndi
,
@tggrove
,
@DovLieber
,
@FatiabdulFatima
and others.
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For years, Palestinian citizens of Israel have demanded serious government action to uproot organized crime from their cities. But gangs were left to arm themselves and grow stronger.
The ethnically motivated violence in Lod and Ramle builds on that reality.
Situation getting out of hand in Lod. An Arab citizen shoots at Israeli police with an automatic weapon.
#Israel
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A troubling fact that I did not know until this afternoon: the Iron Dome defense system treats Bedouin unrecognized townships as "open areas," meaning they are far more vulnerable to rocket fire.
At least 80-90,000 Bedouins live in unrecognized villages in southern Israel.
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For those closely following the Sheikh Jarrah eviction cases, Israel's High Court put out a new decision today:
-- All sides must say whether they agree to the compromise by November 2.
-- So, what is the compromise for now, according to the court? It's a little complicated >>>
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7 months after PA President Abbas indefinitely delayed Palestinian elections, the Palestinian leader inaugurates brand new Central Elections Committee HQ.
The European Union invested 6 million euros in the project. The Palestinians have not held a national vote in 15 years.
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What can be done about the 130,000 Arabs living in homes in central Israel that can't be connected to electricity? This is what the fight over the Electricity Law is about.
Hebrew media endlessly covers the coalition bickering. But the real policy issue is poorly understood >>
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The Israeli military body that manages Palestinian affairs, COGAT, publishes a survey on their mobile app for Palestinians asking them for feedback on checkpoints.
"Are you satisfied with waiting time at the crossing? Have they ever hurt your feelings?"
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A day later, the vaccines have still not yet been approved to enter Gaza.
Israel's National Security Council, a body inside the Prime Minister's Office, is "examining the issue," per security official.
Knesset MKs debated the issue today, but the decision rests with the NSC
2,000 Russian vaccines to reach Gaza tomorrow, Hamas health official Majdi Dahir tells al-Aqsa TV.
Israeli official: The PA submitted a request to allow vaccines to enter Gaza, but we've not yet approved it.
Vaccines are from 10,000-dose shipment to the PA in early February
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IDF spokesperson says that
@Issaamro
will not be sentenced today, as was initially scheduled.
The delay follows an online campaign on behalf of the Hebron-based Palestinian activist.
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Ayman Odeh and Mansour Abbas go on Arabic-language radio to tell Palestinian citizens of Israel to stay home so as not to be attacked, and call for Palestinian youth not to attack people or property.
מנסור עבאס ואיימן עודה עלו כעת לשידור ברדיו נאס וקראו לציבור הערבי להישאר בבתים כדי למנוע את תקיפתם וקראו לצעירים הערבים לא לפגוע בחיי אדם או ברכוש
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Both are unprecedented in their size and scope. More importantly, Arab officials played a key role in shaping the effort.
Now both go to the Knesset. If they pass, the Islamist Ra'am party will have a major legislative victory -- and proof of concept for their theory of change.
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"There's no eviction, and the ownership of the land will be revisited. From the 1970s until today, the courts have always held that the Jewish organizations were the owners. This is a very positive development," says Sami Irsheid, the Palestinians' lawyer >>
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Israel's High Court has cancelled a potentially definitive hearing on the Sheikh Jarrah evictions scheduled for Monday, May 10.
After the families asked the Attorney General to become a party to the case, the Court cancelled the hearing so as to allow the AG time to consider
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Ra'am campaign chief Aaed Kayal tells
@TimesofIsrael
:
"There's never been anything like this. This is the first time an Arab Israeli party is part of the coalition. The implications are enormous."
Kayal says Ra'am to put out a statement soon detailing what it got in the talks
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Palestinians attend an Israeli Supreme Court hearing on the potential eviction of the Dweik family from their home in Silwan, East Jerusalem.
Their lawyer, Adv. Siyam, says he believes this could be a decisive hearing, as the Attorney General has declined to intervene.
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14 Palestinian Authority security force members will be charged in the death of anti-PA critic Nizar Banat, says PA security services spokesperson Talal Dweikat.
They will be charged with fatally beating Banat to death, under PA military law, per Dweikat.
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For reasons still unclear, Israeli security forces have begun using sound grenades and tear gas inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, wounding some.
It's hard to imagine a worse time for something like this, whatever the circumstances behind the incident.
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Would love to meet whoever decided my first year as a journalist should include a pandemic, four normalization processes, an Israeli election, a canceled Palestinian election, a mini-war, and, now, the possible end of Netanyahu's 12-year-reign.
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For decades, the trajectory of powerful Palestinian politician Hussein al-Sheikh has been linked to another Hebrew-speaking potential future Palestinian president: the fiery, charismatic Marwan Barghouti.
Much of this was cut from our recent story for space, so here's a 🧵
>>>
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As coronavirus cases in the Gaza Strip continue to spike, some 44% of tests come back positive in the past 24 hours (1628 new infections out of 3728 tests) among Gaza Palestinians.
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Three Palestinian citizens of Israel have been killed in apparent violent homicides over the past 20 hours — in Lod, Tel a-Saba and now Kafr Qasim.
One of the victims was just 18, another 26.
64 Arab Israelis have been killed so far in 2021
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Why now, with an international crisis filling the headlines and distracting most media attention? Your guess is as good as mine -- but the justices are not blind to the context in which they rule.
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What does Ra'am say it got for supporting Bennett and Lapid?
1) NIS 53 billion ($16.3 billion) in budgets for Arab society.
2) 3 Bedouin unrecognized villages legalized
3) 2017 Kamenitz law to be amended within 6 months. Freeze on some parts of law extended thru 2024.
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The framework imposed by the court is similar to a compromise floated by the justices last year. Both the Palestinians and the Jewish group seeking to evict them rejected the deal. This time, the court did not ask for permission >>
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At the end of the day, East Jerusalem quietly got (mostly) vaccinated against Covid-19. According to official figures from today, 77.6% of eligible East Jerusalem Palestinians have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine.
Back in early March, it was around 45%.
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To be clear: these are the four Palestinian families -- al-Kurd, al-Jaouni, Eskafi, and Abu Hasna -- whose cases sparked tensions last April and May in the build-up to the war with Hamas.
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The Palestinians will deposit NIS 2,400/year in rent in a shared bank account of both sides' lawyers. But the money will not be transferred to Nahalat Shimon, the Jewish group. It will be held in trust until the end of the land registration proceedings >>
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The Sheikh Jarrah hearing is over. The court gave Palestinian residents 7 days to present a list of names for the proposed compromise. Effectively this gives them to time to debate the compromise should they choose to do so.
Still no official agreement.
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At a potentially definitive Supreme Court hearing on Sheikh Jarrah, the justices offer a compromise. Nahalot Shimon, the Jewish org, will take the homes, but the Palestinians will stay on as protected tenants.
More importantly: they will be considered 1st generation tenants >>>
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In video recorded by local activists in the south Hebron hills, soldiers throw a riot grenade towards the Palestinian town of al-Tuwani for no apparent reason.
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The Palestinian Authority says it has received 102,960 Pfizer vaccine doses through the UN-backed COVAX mechanism. 56,160 were allocated for the West Bank, while 46,800 have been sent to the Gaza Strip.
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For years, Palestinians in Israel have lived in a law and order vacuum, suffering from a wave of homicides and a lack of personal security.
Palestinian policymakers have long proposed comprehensive solutions: economic stimuli, ending the housing crisis in Arab cities and towns
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A lawyer for Nahalat Shimon hung up when he realized he was speaking with a journalist >>
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Hamas slams Ra’am’s Walid Taha for telling Israeli TV that his Islamist party might not withdraw from the government in the event of a war with Gaza.
“These statements reflect a downfall, ethically and nationally, a deviation from Palestinian identity,” says a Hamas spokesperson
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Successive governments under Netanyahu have feinted towards resolving the issue, but never really invested in it.
Maybe now that it's become a national crisis -- and not just one for Palestinian citizens of Israel -- they will.
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Today saw mass protest by Palestinians, within the Green Line and without. I spoke with Wadi Ara mayor Mudar Younes, who leads a council of Arab mayors:
"“This is the first time that such a general strike began inside [Israel] and spread to the West Bank and Gaza,” Younes says >
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Israeli ministers Nitzan Horovitz and Tamar Zandberg met their Palestinian Authority counterparts today, officials confirm to
@TimesofIsrael
.
The high-level meeting of civilian officials is rare, and has not happened for several years due to poor ties between Israel and the PA.
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Ra'am MK Sa'id al-Harumi, 49, died of a sudden heart attack this morning.
Whenever I would ask Bedouins in the Negev who they were voting for, I'd always get the same answer: "Sure, I voted for Ra'am, but really my vote is for Sa'id al-Harumi. He's the one who speaks for me" >>
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Quiet, but interesting: Ra'am's Sa'id al-Harumi takes charge of the Knesset's Interior Committee, which handles construction and town planning -- key issues for his Bedouin constituency.
Al-Harumi is the first MK from an Arab party to lead the committee.
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The plans have serious critics -- some say that the true issues cannot be solved by money alone, while others say that the substantial sums are still too little.
The Joint List has yet to comment at all. Two spokespeople for the Arab bloc did not respond to requests for comment
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Palestinians would be protected tenants, and pay 2,400 every two years to Nahalat Shimon, the Jewish organization seeking to evict them.
Palestinian residents will also accept Nahalat Shimon as the owners - pending a land registration process that could return them the homes >>
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For more details on this, see our piece from earlier this month diving a little more into the matter:
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To clarify, these are the four families (Skafi, al-Kurd, Ja'ouni and al-Qassim) whose cases caused such controversy in May this year.
Other legal battles continue to wind their way through Israeli district and magistrate courts.
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Three Palestinians killed since the beginning of today: one in an alleged stabbing attack in Jerusalem's Old City, a second in a shootout with Israeli forces near Jenin in the West Bank, and now a third near al-Bureij in the Gaza Strip, under unclear circumstances.
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@LailaAlarian
@tarawnah
Not the head of Gaza's coronavirus response. Abu Al-Ouf, a highly-regarded doctor, directed the anti-coronavirus effort at Gaza's largest hospital, al-Shifa.
Majdi Daher or Rami al-Abadleh fit that title better, but I don't think any one official is a "director" or "head."
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Of course, their homes also lack built-in shelters. And because there's no connection to state electricity in some areas (since the villages, legally, do not exist), there are also no sirens.
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Gaza saw 17 deaths from coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the highest since the beginning of the pandemic last March.
The coastal enclave passed 20,000 active infections, around double its peak during the first wave. It has enough vaccines for 2% of its population.
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The Israeli military issued a decree today designating the 6 Palestinian groups -- al-Haq, the Agricultural Work Committees, al-Dameer, and three others -- as illegal in the West Bank.
The order by Defense Minister Gantz late last month only banned them inside Israel >>>
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An Israeli military court decides to release pregnant Palestinian security prisoner Anhar al-Deek to house arrest on ~$12,500 bail, her lawyer tells
@TimesofIsrael
Al-Deek's case had become a prominent in Palestinian media as she was set to give birth while detained >>>
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Meanwhile, in Gaza:
-- A record 23 deaths from Covid in the past 24 hours.
-- Active coronavirus infections decline slightly, to 20,178
-- Hamas nightly curfew imposed 10 days ago, closing schools
-- 41% of tests come back positive in the past day
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In short term, Nahalat Shimon will also get NIS 30,000 ($9,308) payback in legal fees from the Palestinians.
So, then, are we nearing the end of this twisting, turning political-legal battle? I wouldn't put money on it.
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Another example of Hussein al-Sheikh's pragmatism that didn't make our profile:
In June 2021, Israel cut a deal to send much-needed coronavirus vaccines to the PA.
To make it happen, Ra'am party head Mansour Abbas and then-FM Yair Lapid got on speakerphone with al-Sheikh >>>
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But in the meantime, 130,000 Arab Israelis live in thousands of homes, often built on land they own, inside legal cities in central Israel.
And they can't legally get electricity. Instead, improvised cables hang over entire neighborhoods -- so-called "pirate networks." >>
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Hamas health official to
@TimesofIsrael
: "The Palestinian Authority received 100,000 Chinese vaccines from Sinopharm, but only sent some 10,000 to the Gaza Strip. This makes no sense, as we are 45% of the Palestinian population."
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Temperature rises steeply in J-lem:
— arrest of highly-respected Al-Jazeera journalist Givara Boudeiri.
— arrest of two international symbols of the fight for Sheikh Jarrah, siblings Mohammad and Muna al-Kurd.
— planned Jewish nationalist Flag March on Thursday.
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Two hours before the rest of the world heard about Bennett’s meeting with Putin, a small Palestinian news site seen as close to breakaway Fatah member Mohammad Dahlan reported the news.
Dahlan, who resides in UAE, has occasionally visited Moscow to meet with Russian officials.
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Why can't Arab Israelis get permits? For decades, the gov't failed to update urban plans in Arab cities. Much of the land is zoned as "agricultural."
If you build there, you can't get a building permit, even if you own it. Even if the plan has no connection to reality >>
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Meanwhile, in Gaza, the 2nd coronavirus wave has begun:
-- 25% of tests positive in past 24 hours
-- Total active cases nearly triple to 6,619 over past 2 weeks.
-- 82k vaccines in Gaza, but only 20k distributed. Health officials say some Gaza residents apprehensive about vaccine
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Four Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank so far today during clashes with Israeli forces.
The Israeli military claims that Palestinians hurled Molotov cocktails and rocks at soldiers, who responded with live fire and riot dispersal means.
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Hamas confirms that Israel assassinated its military commander for Gaza city, Bassem Issa, and a number of other fighters
"With pride, fortitude and defiance, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades take pride in...the martyrdom of the commander Bassem Issa," Hamas's armed wing says
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5) 10,000 housing units in Arab cities and towns
6) Ra'am takes over the Interior Committee in the Knesset
7) government plan to increase Arab representation in public sector
+ a few other minor items
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What does Nahalat Shimon get? After a few decades, they'll get the homes once the second generation of protected tenants passes away -- unless the Israeli government reopens the land registration process and gives them to the Palestinians... >>>
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One of the bigger surprises in today's coalition deals: Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to transfer the Border Police -- often deployed in sensitive areas like the West Bank and East Jerusalem -- to the authority of incoming National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir >>
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Israeli airstrikes target Hamas structures near Gaza City and in the northern Gaza Strip, Hamas-linked al-Resalah reports.
1 fire was sparked in Israel by an incendiary balloon today, as well as 1 on Friday with no response, according to Israeli firefighters (h/t
@manniefabian
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A long article about this from December, for those interested:
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The residents will also get additional protections beyond what's normal under Israeli law. Protected tenancy can be stripped, lawyers tell me, should tenants make changes to their homes. The compromise allows Palestinians to make renovations, repairs, and changes at will >>
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This year has seen a spike in the number of West Bank Palestinians killed during confrontations with Israeli forces. From the official PA WAFA media list of "West Bank martyrs" as of July 29 over the past five years >>>
55 (2021)
17 (2020)
25 (2019)
15 (2018)
54 (2017)
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In Lod, Netanyahu says he will use the Israeli military, administrative detention, Roger bullet fire, and so on, to restore order in Israeli cities.
In other words: bring the West Bank style of policing back home.
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Protected tenancy laws in Israel grant their protection three generations forward, thus potentially setting the clock on the evictions back 100 years.
Justice Amit: “this will give us breathing space until either the land is properly regulated — or until there is peace.”
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After years in which few applications were approved, Defense Minister Benny Gantz tells Israeli reporters that Israel will recognize the status of potentially thousands of undocumented foreign nationals married to West Bank Palestinians, in accordance with security checks.
.
@aboxerman1
: Stuck in limbo, undocumented Palestinian spouses live shadow lives via
@timesofisrael
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After 141 days, Palestinian detainee Hisham Abu Hawash ends his hunger strike after Israel agrees not to renew his detention, per his attorneys.
The Shin Bet accused Abu Hawash, who was being held without charges, of being a member of Islamic Jihad involved in terror activity.
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Ra'am and the coalition are fighting over the Negev, that's for sure. But the struggle is also with their rivals in the Joint List for the Negev's voters.
The Islamist party got 40,000 votes from Negev Bedouin; party leader Abbas made big promises that have yet to bear fruit >>
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Mai Wishahi and her husband privately own the land on which they built their house in Wadi Ara. After they bought the plot, they found it was zoned as farmland.
It took them 17 years of court battles to connect their house to the electrical grid >>
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2,000 Russian vaccines to reach Gaza tomorrow, Hamas health official Majdi Dahir tells al-Aqsa TV.
Israeli official: The PA submitted a request to allow vaccines to enter Gaza, but we've not yet approved it.
Vaccines are from 10,000-dose shipment to the PA in early February
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Around 400 Palestinians -- residents of East Jerusalem and Palestinians who work in Israel -- were vaccinated today by a Magen David Adom station by Qalandiya checkpoint.
This is the first official step to immunize Palestinians who work in Israel.
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But Palestinians still often see themselves as caught between a fear of police brutality and a need for police help to end the scourge of organized crime.
Will the coming days in Lod and Ramle push the needle towards fear for a generation? It depends on how the police act.
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The crisis in personal security in Palestinian communities built upon decades of neglect in which the state never prioritized them: in education, housing, utilities -- and in policing, which is a kind of public service.
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The Israeli army determines that Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was likely shot and killed by an Israeli soldier who mistook her for a Palestinian gunman.
IDF says their probe could not definitively determine this, however. There will be no criminal investigation >>>
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The Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza now saying 20 killed, including 9 minors, and 65 wounded.
The IDF has said that some casualties are combatants, while it has been reported that others -- the three children from Beit Hanoun -- were killed by an errant Palestinian rocket.
The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry now reporting 9 killed, including 3 children.
The deaths were confirmed at Beit Hanoun hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, according to the Health Ministry.
The IDF does not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Moreover, there is a long, bloody history of police brutality towards Palestinians, creating fear of police involvement.
Many in Palestinian communities in Israel have now slowly come around to the idea that they need better policing so as to achieve personal security.
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Israel Police acknowledges in a statement that it arrested Palestinian human rights lawyer Farid al-Atrash on Sunday.
Police say al-Atrash, who has been active in anti-Abbas protests in recent days, was arrested for rioting. Al-Atrash still under interrogation, police say.
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A diplomatic source tells Israel's public broadcaster: "Hamas contacted international officials in recent hours in an attempt to reach cease-fire understandings. Israel refuses to discuss the matter."
גורם מדיני אומר ל-
@kann_news
: חמאס פנה בשעות האחרונות לגורמים בינ"ל בניסיון להגיע להבנות על הפסקת אש, בישראל מסרבים לדון בנושא
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In his most recent speech, Mansour Abbas called for Arab-Jewish cooperation. Some rightly pointed out that Ayman Odeh has called for equality, brotherhood, and political partnership for years. But Hadash and Ra'am represent 2 possible visions of Arab-Jewish partnership. >>>
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A point of clarification, lest the term "foreign workers" be misunderstood: Palestinians who work in Israel are not eligible for these shots, as they do not meet the visa qualifications specified by the municipality.
Tel Aviv has opened a vaccination center providing free COVID-19 shots to foreign workers, asylum seekers and migrant workers in south Tel Aviv.
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Many have said this law would connect Bedouins in unrecognized villages to the grid. That is untrue.
The story: many Arabs build homes within the legally recognized borders of Arab cities. But they build illegally, without permits, meaning they can't legally get electricity >>
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Last September, Hamas observed strategic ambiguity about who, exactly, was firing rockets.
But now it's transparent: a warning, clear statements of responsibility, a strike at Israel's capital.
These all are signs that the Gaza leadership could be seeking a serious escalation.
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UPDATE: 178 Palestinians injured during clashes with Israeli police in Jerusalem, per the Palestinian Red Crescent.
88 have now been hospitalized for wounds from rubber-tipped steel bullets.
Al-Makassed Hospital in East Jerusalem is calling for people to come and donate blood
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Mtanes Shehadeh, chair of the Palestinian nationalist Balad party, loses his primary to Sami Abu Shehadeh.
When Abu Shehadeh was a member of Tel Aviv city council for Jaffa, he:
1) Expressed pro-LGBT views.
2) Entered a coalition with Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai.
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Red Crescent in what may be their final update of the night: 205 wounded across Jerusalem. 88 hospitalized in East Jerusalem hospitals, mostly for rubber-tipped steel bullet wounds.
An additional 20 were treated in a field hospital set up to relieve stress on ICUs.
UPDATE: 178 Palestinians injured during clashes with Israeli police in Jerusalem, per the Palestinian Red Crescent.
88 have now been hospitalized for wounds from rubber-tipped steel bullets.
Al-Makassed Hospital in East Jerusalem is calling for people to come and donate blood
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Palestinian citizens of Israel I spoke to in Jerusalem, Haifa, Kafr Qassim, and Tamra report high adherence to the leadership's call for a general strike.
West Bank Palestinian marches towards so-called friction points with Israeli soldiers are expected to begin this afternoon.
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"A new date will be determined within the next 30 days," the court says.
"In the meantime, until further notice, I order a freeze on the decision by the appellate court, which does not imply any position regarding [that court's decision]," the court says.
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A Ra'am associate speculated to me at one point: As soon as we, Arab Israelis, are in the coalition once -- we'll be legitimized for good in Israeli politics.
It seems likely we'll get to test that prediction soon enough (although, of course, nothing is yet certain).
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A meeting between Hamas and UN envoy Tor Wennesland was "bad," says Hamas's Gaza governor Yahya Sinwar.
"It was a bad meeting. It was not positive at all," says Sinwar
Wennesland is currently in Gaza in an attempt to strengthen the fragile truce between Israel and Gaza.
📹 خاص صفا | رئيس حركة "حماس" في غزة يحيى السنوار يتحدث عقب لقائه منسق الأمم المتحدة الخاص لعملية السلام في الشرق الأوسط "تور وينسلاند"*
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Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked pressured Ra’am into the compromise. Instead of blank authorization, it’ll be on a case by case basis, and tighter conditions to ensure that the state really intends to legalize the homes.
That’s it. That’s the law. Good? Bad? You decide.
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I recently spoke to a Gazan and asked to be put in touch with the family of a man killed in an Israeli airstrike.
"I don't know," they replied. "Everyone was killed together -- sisters, children, cousins. I don't know who, if anyone, is alive for you to speak with."
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