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A view of Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, in the West Bank, Sunday, June 18, 2023. Israel's government on Sunday granted Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a pro-settlement firebrand, authority over planning in the occupied West Bank and lifted red tape on the settlement housing approval process, Israeli media reported. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

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Israeli government gives settler minister control over West Bank settlement planning
By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press
Sun,06/18/23-10:25AM , 142 Reads
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's government on Sunday granted a pro-settlement firebrand authority over planning in the occupied West Bank and lifted red tape on the settlement housing approval process.
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Israel is deploying over 2,000 police personnel for a parade by flag-waving Jewish nationalists through the main Palestinian thoroughfare in Jerusalem’s Old City. (May 18) (AP video/Moamar Awad and Moshe Edri)

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Israeli crowds chant racist slogans, taunt Palestinians during Jerusalem march
By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press
Thu,05/18/23-12:16AM , 125 Reads
JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of Jewish nationalists, some of them chanting “Death to Arabs” and other racist slogans, paraded on Thursday through the main Palestinian thoroughfare of Jerusalem’s Old City, in an annual display that caused new friction between Jews and Palestinians in the tense city.
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Israeli settlers stand in the outpost of Eviatar in the West Bank, Monday, April 10, 2023. Thousands led by hardline ultranationalist Jewish settlers marched to the unauthorized settlement outpost Eviatar in the northern West Bank that was cleared by the Israeli government in 2021, protected by a large contingent of Israeli soldiers and police. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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In mass rally, Israeli settlers march to West Bank outpost
By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press
Mon,04/10/23-4:28AM , 164 Reads
JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of Israelis led by at least seven Cabinet ministers marched Monday to an evacuated West Bank settlement, in a defiant signal that Israel’s most right-wing government in history is determined to accelerate settlement building on occupied lands despite international opposition.
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Israeli police escort Jewish visitors marking the holiday pf Passover to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount, in the Old City of Jerusalem during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Sunday, April 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

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Tensions build around Jerusalem shrine after Syria rockets
By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press
Sun,04/09/23-3:30AM , 207 Reads
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli warplanes and artillery struck targets in Syria following rare rocket fire from the northeastern neighbor, as Jewish-Muslim tensions reached a peak Sunday at a volatile Jerusalem shrine with simultaneous religious rituals.
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