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Israel Arrests Palestinian Teen Who Forced Them Off Her Land

The #FreeAhed campaign has been launched in support of the 16-year-old who was taken from her home.

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A 16-year-old Palestinian girl was arrested [this week] after a video of her telling Israeli soldiers to leave her property went viral, according to Haaretz. Female Border Police and Israeli occupation forces took Ahed Tamimi from her home in Nabi Saleh, near occupied Ramallah, and was taken to be questioned, the army said in a statement. The

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Wheelchair-Bound Double Amputee Shot Dead by Israel Was an Inspiration in Gaza

“A sniper of the IDF, the most moral army in the world, shot him dead. He shot him in his head… nine years after the Israeli army took his legs, the Israeli army took his life.”

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On Friday 15 December 2017 thousands of Palestinians took part in demonstrations across the Gaza Strip to protest against US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Hundreds of protesters made their way to the eastern border of Gaza and threw stones at the Israeli occupation forces stationed there. A young, double

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Turkey Snubs Trump, Announces Opening of Embassy in East Jerusalem

Most countries consider East Jerusalem, which Israel annexed after capturing it in a 1967 war, to be occupied territory, and say the status of the city should be left to be decided at future Israeli-Palestinian talks.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes an opening speech of the extraordinary summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) at the Lutfi Kirdar International Convention and Exhibition Center in Istanbul, Turkey on December 13, 2017 (Kayhan Özer/Anadolu Agency)

Turkey will open an embassy in East Jerusalem, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, days after leading calls at a summit of Muslim leaders for the world to recognize it as the capital of Palestine. “God willing, the day is close when officially, with God’s permission, we will open our embassy there,” Erdogan said in a speech, maintaining his

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US-Backed Rebel Defector: US Coalition Made Secret Deals with ISIS in Syria

Former Spokesperson for the Syrian Democratic Forces, Talal Silo, alleges US-backed fighters struck several deals with ISIS, allowing fighters and their families safe passage out of ISIS-occupied cities.

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Former spokesman of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Talal Silo, pictured center, delivers a prepared statement to the press. (Photo: Twitter)

The former spokesman of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who defected from the US-backed coalition to Turkey, has accused the Kurdish-led group of making evacuation deals with Daesh (ISIS) fighters. https://twitter.com/Dalatrm/status/930716413492453376 In the latest segment of an interview conducted with the Anadolu Agency, defector Talal

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ICC: ‘Reasonable Basis’ to Believe UK Committed War Crimes in Iraq

The ICC alleges UK armed forces committed war crimes in Iraq including: “wilful killing/murder torture and inhuman/cruel treatment, outrages upon personal dignity, and rape or other forms of sexual violence”.

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Iraqis pass by a British tank as they flee Basra, southern Iraq, as smoke looming over the city can be seen in the distance, March 29, 2003. (AP/Anja Niedringhaus)

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has said that there is a “reasonable basis” to believe that British soldiers committed war crimes during their campaign in Iraq. In its report on the “Preliminary Examination Activities 2017”, delivered in New York to an assembly of countries, the Chief Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, declared that her office was

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Secret Documents Reveal Mubarak’s Plan to Resettle Palestinians in Egypt

According to the documents, Mubarak was responding to an American request when he made his offer.

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, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, right, shakes hands with former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres at the Sharm el Sheikh resort in the Sinai peninsula for talks on the Middle East peace process, Oct. 1996. (AP/Mohamed El-Dakhakhny)

Secret British documents have revealed that deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had agreed to resettle Palestinians in Egypt over three decades ago. According to the documents, obtained exclusively by the BBC following a Freedom of Information Act disclosure request, Mubarak was responding to an American request when he made his offer. The

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Human Rights Watch Urges UN to Publish List of Israeli Settlement-Linked Companies

The database will publicly identify businesses that contribute to rights abuses by operating in or with settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

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A Palestinian man tries to stop work by an Israeli bulldozer during a protest outside the village of Deir Qaddis, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, July 13, 2016. Dozens of Palestinians demonstrated Wednesday in front of Israeli bulldozers that were bulldozing land outside Deir Qaddis village near Ramallah for an apparent plan to expand a nearby Jewish settlement. The protesters forced the bulldozers to stop, but residents said they resumed work after the protesters left the area.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to publish as planned a database of companies involved in Israeli settlement activity, as the Geneva-based body comes under increasing Israeli and US pressure to bury the list. “Ongoing illegal Israeli settlement activity highlights the urgency of the publication

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