Confiscation of Al-Ibrahimi Mosque lands 'provocative', warns Intl. Conf
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-25
TEHRAN, Apr. 25 (MNA)

9 wounded in mass shooting in Arab village in Israel, 2 victims in critical condition
rt.com | 2020-04-25
Nine people were wounded in a shooting in the Arab village of Yafia, outside Nazareth, in Israel on Saturday, police told local media. Two of the victims are in critical condition. | No arrests have been made at this point, and it is yet unclear how many people were involved in the attack. | Police have launched an investigation into the incident. | Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!
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Israeli Troops Shoot, Wound Palestinian Man in Kufur Qaddoum
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-24
Israeli Troops shot and wounded on Friday a Palestinian young man during protests in the Kufur Qaddoum village in the northern occupied West Bank. Organizers of the protest, which is staged on weekly basis, said that the Israeli troops attacked tens of Palestinian protesters near the Apartheid Wall in the …
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"We Don't Have the Capacity to Treat": Palestinian-Canadian Doctor Says Israel Must Lift Gaza Siege
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-24
As fears continue to grow about what a rampant outbreak of the coronavirus might do to the occupied Palestinian territory, already crippled by years of Israeli sanctions, we get an update from Dr. Tarek Loubani, Palestinian-Canadian doctor and emergency physician who volunteers in the Gaza Strip and returned from a trip there last month. "Testing is severely limited," he says. "There have been fewer tests in Gaza so far throughout the entire pandemic than there were in South Korea yesterday."
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A Machiavellian Fiasco: How 'Centrist' Gantz Resurrected Netanyahu, Israel's Right
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-24
It was intended to be a Machiavellian move, but the decision by Benny Gantz, leader of Israel's Kahol Lavan (Blue and White) coalition, to join a Benjamin Netanyahu-led government is likely to destabilize the political fabric of Israeli society for years to come. In a surprising move, Gantz has entered into precarious political compromises, whereby…
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How Ya Gonna Pay For It? Stop Giving Money to Israel
David Swanson | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-24
Did you know that the U.S. government has done something odd with your tax dollars? The ones you get so furious and indignant about when they're used to feed anybody who's hungry? It has given over 280 billion of those dollars to the government of Israel (not counting classified hush-hush super-secret amounts). Source. Israel is …
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Israeli Forces Storm East Jerusalem Town, Palestinian Youths Resist
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-24
Confrontations broke out on Thursday morning, between Israeli forces and Palestinian young men in Kafr Aqab town in occupied East Jerusalem, according to local source.. Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center that soldiers were cutting down street signs, when the youth resisted the invasion, the soldiers fired rubber-coated steel …
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Israeli Forces Detain 14 Palestinians, including Former Prisoner
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-24
Israeli occupation forces invaded West Bank towns, early Thursday morning, and detained 14 Palestinians, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. In the northern occupied West Bank, soldiers stormed Tulkarem and detained a former prisoner. Also in the northern West Bank district of Jenin, Israeli troops abducted 2 Palestinian men from …
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Israeli researchers brag of having found a way to STEAL computer data by listening to fan vibrations
rt.com | 2020-04-24
A new and unconventional way of stealing data from highly-secured computers, by tampering with its cooling-system fans, is possible, according to Israeli scientists. | Their research has been released by Mordechai Guri, head of R&D at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. | The novel technique, dubbed AiR-ViBeR, apparently allows a hacker to dip into any computer, including the so-called air gapped systems

Israel and Hezbollah, Confirmation of Deterrence Policy
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-24
The Israeli leadership has not tired of trying to change the Rules of Engagement (ROE) with Hezbollah since its defeat in the 2006 war, in the hope of eliminating the organisation that rose to state level in military capabilities (and …
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Common coronavirus enemy, forges some Palestine-Israel cooperation, but West Bank annexation looms
news.un.org | 2020-04-23
The COVID-19 pandemic is creating opportunities for cooperation that Israelis and Palestinians must embrace to sustain Middle East peace efforts and bring an end to decades of conflict, the United Nations' top envoy in the region said on Thursday.
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A Machiavellian Fiasco: How a So-Called 'Centrist' Resurrected Israel's Far Right
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-23
So-called centrist Benny Gantz has seemingly done everything in his power to assure Israel's left and center are crippled for years to come and that Netanyahu will continue his decades-long reign unopposed.
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A Machiavellian Fiasco: How 'Centrist' Gantz Resurrected Netanyahu, Israel's Right
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-23
It was intended to be a Machiavellian move, but the decision by Benny Gantz, leader of Israel's Kahol Lavan (Blue and White) coalition, to join a Benjamin Netanyahu-led government is likely to destabilize the political fabric of Israeli society for years to come. In a surprising move, Gantz has entered into precarious political compromises, whereby …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/a-machiavellian-fiasco-how-centrist-gantz-resurrected-netanyahu-israels-right/

Arab States' League Decries Israeli Confiscation of Ibrahimi Mosque Lands
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-23
League of the Arab States denounced on Thursday, the latest Israeli authorities' decision to confiscate the vicinity of Palestinian-Muslim 'Al-Ibrahimi' or Ibrahimi Mosque, in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron. In a statement, issued by the league, 22 Arab states considered the latest confiscation a part of Israel's …
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UN, EU Warn New Israeli Gov't Against West Bank Annexation
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-23
The United Nations and the European Union warned Israel on Thursday against annexing parts of the illegally occupied West Bank. | RELATED: | A Machiavellian Fiasco: How 'Centrist' Gantz Helped Netanyahu | The U.N.'s special Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov said in a video briefing that such a move would come as a "devastating blow" to the two-state solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At the same time, the E.U. declared that annexing Palestinian land "would constitu…
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Israeli Military Vehicles Infiltrate Gaza Strip, Raze Palestinian Land
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-23
A number of Israeli occupation military vehicles penetrated, on Thursday morning, the Palestinian agricultural lands along the border with Israel, east of Gaza City, local sources reported. Local sources and residents told Quds Press, that Israeli military vehicles infiltrated dozens of meters into the agricultural lands of citizens east of …
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Israeli Soldiers Dismantle, Seize Palestinian Mobile Home near Jericho
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-23
Israeli soldiers, on Thursday, dismantled a mobile home belonging to a Palestinian family in al-Dyouk al-Tahta village, west of the city of Jericho, and seized it, according to witnesses. Witnesses told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that soldiers invaded the area, and took apart the mobile home and seized it, under …
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PCHR: Fisherman Wounded & Fishing Boats Damaged, Israeli Naval Forces Continue Attacks on Palestinian Fishermen in Gaza Waters
PCHR | imemc.org | 2020-04-22
Israeli Naval Forces continued its attacks on Palestinian Fishermen in Gaza waters, under the continued Israeli restrictions on fishermens' freedom to work and banning their access to areas rich with fish, all while fishermen do not pose any threat to the Israeli naval forces stationed in Gaza waters, which is …
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Israeli Troops Abduct 6 Palestinians, Assault Family Members in West Bank
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-22
Israeli troops reportedly abducted, on Wednesday, a number of Palestinians from several occupied West Bank towns and cities. In Ramallah city, local sources reported that an Israeli army force broke into several Palestinian-owned homes, before they abducted Abdelrahman Elwi and Mohammad Hassan, who are both students at Birzeit University. The …
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Israel's Defense Minister to Stop Conducting Coronavirus Tests for Gaza
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-22
Israeli Defense Minister, Naftali Bennett, reportedly decided on Wednesday, that Israel will stop providing the necessary Coronavirus tests for cases from the Israeli-besieged Gaza Strip. Israeli media reports said that Bennet's decision came following a series of discussions among Israeli army officials that have so far failed to approve conducting …
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"Gangster in the White House": Noam Chomsky on COVID-19, WHO, China, Gaza and Global Capitalism
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-17
We continue our conversation with world-renowned political dissident, linguist and author Noam Chomsky. He responds to President Trump's cuts to U.S. support for the World Health Organization and the surge in deaths in the United States to another record high, and discusses conditions in Gaza, the rise of authoritarianism around the world, and the progressive response. "This is typical behavior of autocrats and dictators. When you make colossal errors which are killing thousands of people, find somebody else to blame," say Chomsky. "In the United States, it's unfortunately the case, for well over a century, centu…
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