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Caught In The Act: Israeli Soldier Filmed Killing Palestinian

Approximately 94 per cent of criminal investigations against Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers committing acts of violence against Palestinians are closed without indictment

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Israeli soldiers during their early morning raid on Amari Palestinian refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Monday, Feb. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi).

Abd al-Fattah al-Sharif and Ramzi al-Qasrawi, both 21-year-old Palestinian residents of al-Khalil (Hebron), were killed on 24 March 2016 after stabbing and wounding an Israeli soldier. The circumstances surrounding the death of al-Sharif, in particular, have caused an uproar in Israel, Palestine and the international community. What made it

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What the Saudi Leaks Tell Us: An Interview With Julian Assange

“What comes across from the cables is a small cloistered, intellectually isolated ruling elite with a paranoid worldview.”

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Saudi King Salman, left, speaks with his son Prince Mohammed bin Salman as they wait for Gulf Arab leaders ahead of the opening of a Gulf Cooperation Council summit, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. On Wednesday, April 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Since June 2015 WikiLeaks has been releasing details of leaked cables and other documents that come from within the Saudi Foreign Office. They provide an insight into the internal workings of the secretive regime, its fears, and its strategies for spreading its influence abroad. More than 230,000 leaked Saudi documents have been published by

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