The White House and Arab states are ramping up efforts to broker a deal that would pause the fighting in Gaza and free hostages held by Hamas, with members of Israel’s war cabinet indicating signs of progress after weeks of a stalemate. White House Middle East co-ordinator Brett McGurk met Israeli officials, including Defence Minister […]
Read MoreIsrael plans to build 3,300 new settlement homes. It says it’s a response to a Palestinian attack
JERUSALEM — Israel plans to build more than 3,300 new homes in settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in response to a fatal Palestinian shooting attack, a senior Cabinet minister said. The decision drew an angry response from the U.S. at a time of growing tensions over the course of Israel’s war on Hamas in […]
Read MoreWhat Happened When a Palestinian Family Discovered Settlers Planted a Vineyard on Its Land
A man gets up one morning and sets out, together with other family members, to harvest olives on his plot of land in the southern West Bank, and discovers a vineyard there that he did not plant. Suddenly, there’s a vineyard encroaching on his land. He didn’t put it there, nor did anyone else from […]
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