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Israel Forces Just Killed 21-Year-Old Izz Al-Din Tamimi, Relative of Ahed

Anti-settlement activist from Nabi Saleh, Bilal Tamimi, said that Israeli occupation forces prevented Palestinian medical teams from reaching the youth to help him before he was taken away by the soldiers.

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A Palestinian throws back a tear gas canister toward Israeli troops during a protest marking Land Day, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh near Ramallah.

Twenty-one-year old Izz Al-Din Tamimi was shot dead by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank village of Nabi Saleh today. Anti-settlement activist from Nabi Saleh, Bilal Tamimi, said that Israeli occupation forces prevented Palestinian medical teams from reaching the youth to help him before he was taken away by the soldiers, according

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Al Jazeera’s New Documentary on The Islamophobia Industry and The Israel Lobby

The Al Jazeera film documented some of the ways the Islamophobia industry’s incitement and hate-filled ideology filters through to and inspires the perpetrators of such violence.

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A recent documentary by Al Jazeera Investigations lifted the lid on the power and influence of what is often termed the Islamophobia industry. A well-funded network of organisations and groups which work in loose association are funding some of the worst hate and incitement against Muslims in the West. Such groups operate around the world, but

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Israeli Occupation Forces Block Flotilla as it Leaves Gaza for Cyprus

Israeli authorities are responsible for the safety of the ship’s passengers, who are “ill, students and unarmed civilians.”

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Head of the Popular International Committee to Support Gaza, Dr Essam Yousef, called on the international community to pressure Israel to immediately release the passengers of a ship that set sail yesterday from Gaza heading to Cyprus in an effort to break the 12 year siege of the enclave. Israeli occupation forces flanked the ship as it reached

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Gaza Massacre as Proof that Palestinians Are Truly Betrayed, Exploited and Abandoned

The IDF had alternatives to the use of live rounds: much heavier use of tear gas and the use of stun grenades, water cannon, even birdshot.

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Palestinian men walk past a section of Israel's apartheid wall to cross IDF checkpoint from Palestine on their way to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

Writing in the New York Times less than a week after 61 Palestinians had been shot dead by Israeli soldiers, and nearly 3,000 were wounded, the political editor of the Jewish Journal, Shmuel Rosner, had this to say in an opinion piece entitled “Israel Needs to Protect Its Borders: By Whatever Means Necessary”: “Of course, the death of humans is

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US Ambassador to Israel Poses with Photoshopped Image Depicting Jewish Temple Replacing Mosque

The photo clearly imposes a temple on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, removing the famous golden hues of the Dome of the Rock.

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Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman was yesterday photographed posing with a picture of Jerusalem in which a Jewish temple stands in place of Al-Aqsa Mosque. The photo of Freidman being gifted the poster was taken during a visit to the city of Bnei Brak’s ultra-Orthodox Achiya institute, which helps children that suffer from learning

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Most Foreign Envoys Reject Israeli Invitation to Jerusalem Embassy Celebrations

Israel said all 86 countries with diplomatic missions in Israel were invited to the event, but less than 40 of them confirmed attendance.

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A road sign leading to the U.S. Embassy is seen ahead the official opening in Jerusalem, Sunday, May 13, 2018. Monday's opening of the U.S. Embassy in contested Jerusalem, cheered by Israelis as a historic validation, is seen by Palestinians as an in-your-face affirmation of pro-Israel bias by President Donald Trump and a new blow to frail statehood dreams. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel launched celebrations on Sunday for the US Embassy’s relocation to Jerusalem, a move whose break with world consensus was underscored by the absence of most envoys to the country from a reception hosted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Reuters reports. Monday’s slated opening of the new embassy follows US President Donald Trump’s

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HSBC Faces Mounting Pressure Over Links to Israeli Human Rights Abuses

Over 18,000 people around in the UK alone have contacted HSBC expressing their concerns the company’s complicity in Israeli human rights abuses.

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Palestinian medics evacuate a wounded colleague during clashes with Israeli troops along Gaza's border with Israel, east of Khan Younis, Friday, April 6, 2018. Palestinians torched piles of tires near Gaza's border with Israel on Friday, sending huge plumes of black smoke into the air and drawing Israeli fire that killed one man in the second large protest in the volatile area in a week. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Campaigners are protesting what they claim are HSBC’s links to Israeli human rights abuses, with more than 18,000 people contacting the group’s chief executive to express concern. According to activists, the bank “profits from Israel’s military violence against Palestinians through investments and loans to companies which supply military equipment

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