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‘Israel licensing firearms to civilians will ignite violence’: UN

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Israel’s decision to expand firearms licensing for Israelis will only escalate tensions and further violence with Palestinians, Volker Türk – the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights – has warned.

“Plans by the Government of Israel to expedite and expand the licensing of firearms, with the stated intention of adding thousands of (Israeli) civilians carrying firearms – coupled with hateful rhetoric – can only lead to further violence and bloodshed,” Türk said in a statement.

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“We know from experience that the proliferation of firearms will lead to increased risks of killings and injuries of both Israelis and Palestinians. Therefore, the Israeli authorities must work to reduce the availability of firearms in society,” he added.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that more Israelis would be permitted firearms licenses last week.

The move comes amid rising tension in the Palestinian territories following an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin last week that left 10 Palestinians dead. Seven Israelis were also killed in a shooting attack in occupied East Jerusalem.

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“Rather than fueling a worsening spiral of violence, I urge all those holding public office or other positions of authority – indeed everyone – to stop using language that incites hatred of the other,” Türk said. “Such fomenting hatred is corrosive for all Israelis, Palestinians, and society.”

The U.N. commissioner noted that 32 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli army fire since the start of the year, while seven Israelis have also been killed.

“The people of Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory need their leaders to work – urgently – to create conditions conducive to a political solution to this protracted, untenable situation,” he added.

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Israel vows measures against ‘terrorists’ families’ after attack.

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Israeli police on Sunday sealed up the East Jerusalem home of a Palestinian who killed seven people and wounded three outside a synagogue.

The move comes as one of several punitive measures to revoke certain rights of attackers’ relatives, approved by Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet overnight.

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The security cabinet announced a slew of steps late Saturday, including revoking the rights to social security of “the families of terrorists that support terrorism.”

It also announced that the home of 21-year-old Khayri Alqam, who was shot dead by police following Friday’s attack, “will be sealed immediately ahead of its demolition.”

An AFP correspondent saw Israeli forces Sunday on the terrace of the building after they sealed its entrances, with Palestinians clearing out their belongings.

Israel already demolishes the homes of Palestinians who kill Israelis, although the process necessitates that prior notice be given to families and the chance to appeal the decision.

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Dani Shenhar, head of the legal department at Israeli rights group HaMoked, said sealing the home overnight demonstrated the government’s “will of revenge against the families.”

The measure was “done in complete disregard for the rule of law”, he said, and HaMoked intends to protest to the attorney general.

More guns for civilians
Israel’s security cabinet said there will also be a discussion Sunday over a bill to revoke Israeli identity cards from the relatives of attackers.

The measures announced are in line with proposals from Netanyahu’s extreme-right political partners which enabled him to return to power at the end of December.

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They are likely to apply primarily to Palestinians with Israeli nationality, known as Arab-Israelis, and Palestinians with east Jerusalem residency permits.

Hours after the deadly shooting outside the synagogue in the settlement of Neve Yaacov, a 13-year-old Palestinian boy shot and wounded two Israelis just outside the walled Old City of east Jerusalem.

The boy blamed for the attack in the Silwan neighborhood was shot and wounded at the scene.

No group has claimed responsibility for either of the shootings.

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The security cabinet also decided to make it easier to obtain permits to carry firearms.

“When civilians have guns, they can defend themselves,” extreme-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir told reporters outside a Jerusalem hospital on Saturday.

Israeli forces have been placed on high alert, and the army has announced that it will be reinforcing troop numbers in the West Bank, while calls for restraint have multiplied from abroad.

The Jerusalem attacks came after nine Palestinians were killed in the deadliest raid by Israeli forces in the West Bank in nearly two decades

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Seven killed in armed attack on synagogue.

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Seven people were dead after a perpetrator carried out an armed attack in occupied East Jerusalem on Friday, police said.

Police said several others were injured in the attack on a synagogue. Rescue services said some of these were in critical condition.

The attacker was “neutralized,” police said.

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Police originally put the number of fatalities at eight. Several others were injured, the police said on Twitter.

The attacker went to a synagogue in the illegal settlement of Neve Yaakov at around 8:30 p.m. (6:30 p.m. GMT) and opened fire, according to police.

The security situation in Israel and Palestine has worsened sharply in the past few days.

A spokesperson for the Hamas movement, which rules the Gaza Strip, said Friday’s attack was in retaliation for an Israeli army raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank on Thursday.

Nine Palestinians, including an elderly woman, were killed and 20 others injured in an Israeli raid in Jenin.

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The Palestinian Health Ministry accused Israeli forces of deliberately firing tear gas inside a hospital’s pediatric ward, leaving children choking – a claim denied by an Israeli army spokesperson who added that gas may have drifted into the clinic through a window.

The bloodiest day in the West Bank in years erupted during a raid on the crowded refugee camp in the northern city of Jenin, where gunshots rang through the streets and smoke billowed from burning street barricades.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said the death toll from the clashes rose to “nine martyrs” including a woman, and that 20 people were wounded before the Israeli forces withdrew midmorning.

In Gaza, Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem told Reuters: “This operation is a response to the crime conducted by the occupation in Jenin and a natural response to the occupation’s criminal actions,” though he stopped short of claiming the attack.

World condemns attack
The United States quickly condemned the attack.

“This is absolutely horrific,” State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel told reporters.

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“We condemn this apparent terrorist attack in the strongest terms. Our commitment to Israel’s security remains ironclad, and we are in direct touch with our Israeli partners.”

“We stand with the Israeli people in solidarity,” he said.

Patel told reporters at a news briefing that U.S. officials were in touch with their Israeli counterparts and that he did not expect changes to Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s vist to Israel next week.

U.S. President Joe Biden directed his national security team to offer support to their Israeli counterparts.

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U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also condemned the attack.

“The Secretary-General strongly condemns today’s terrorist attack,” his spokesman said. “It is particularly abhorrent that the attack occurred at a place of worship, and on the very day we commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day.”

However, he urged the sides to exercise the “utmost restraint.” Guterres is “deeply worried” by the current escalation of violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a statement.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) also condemned Friday’s synagogue attack on the outskirts of East Jerusalem, state news agency (WAM) reported citing a foreign ministry statement.

Britain’s foreign secretary, James Cleverly, also condemned the attack. “To attack worshippers at a synagogue on Holocaust Memorial Day, and during Shabbat, is horrific. We stand with our Israeli friends,” he said in a statement on Twitter.

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Türkiye also condemned the attack and called on all sides to take steps to prevent any further violence.

‘Immediate measures’
The surging violence comes a month after a new government, led by veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, took power.

Netanyahu and his extreme-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the scene on Friday, as crowds chanted “death to Arabs,” Agence France-Presse (AFP) journalists at the scene said.

Speaking on television after visiting the scene, Netanyahu said his Security Cabinet would soon announce “immediate measures” in response and urged Israelis not to “take the law into their own hands.”

Meanwhile, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, who was on a family visit to the U.S., has cut short his trip and is returning to Israel, his office told AFP.

“The attack against civilians this Friday evening was horrific,” Gallant said in a statement, vowing to “operate decisively and forcefully against terror and will reach anyone involved in the attack.”

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Ahead of 2023 Chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party in Lere Local Goverment area of Kaduna state, Alhaji Musa Arungo, on Wednesday, called on the federal government, state government to ensure adequate security across the 23 Local Government areas of state.

According to him, with the remaining few weeks to presidential election in February 25,2023, it’s glaring that campaign has dominated the state, with additional security presence in most communities, local government and even interior villages.
He noted that Kaduna being the centre of the north, should be properly equipped with security across the state, before, during and after elections.
” By now, the people should be able to see some security personnel patrolling the street to scare criminals and those with evil intention. That will frightened them and discourage them from planning evil during election” he said.

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Musa Arungo who wondered how security agencies would be used to a particular communty or local government during election, as they have not been there before the election, noted that with four weeks to election, the security ought to have been posted to a particular communty or village, to study the nature of that place.

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Two Palestinians killed as Israeli forces attack West Bank.

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The Israeli army killed two Palestinians in a West Bank raid on Monday as it demolished the homes of two Palestinians accused of killing an Israeli soldier, Palestinian officials said.

The Palestinian health ministry announced the deaths of “Mohammad Samer Hoshieh, 22, after being shot in the chest, and Fuad Mohammad Abed, 25, after being shot in the abdomen and thigh” during a raid by the Israeli army near Jenin.

Israeli soldiers had entered the village of Kafr Dan “in order to demolish the residences of the assailants who were involved in the shooting adjacent to the Gilboa (Jalame) Crossing, in which Major Bar Falah was killed,” Israel’s military said.

Clouds of smoke engulfed the small village as two houses were levelled with explosives shortly after sunrise on Monday.

The army later said “a violent riot was instigated” when troops entered the village.

“Rioters burned tyres, shot live fire and hurled rocks, Molotov cocktails and explosive devices at the forces, who responded with riot dispersal means and live fire,” the statement said. “Hits were identified,” it added.

Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that 18 others were arrested by the Israeli army in overnight raids across the West Bank.

Falah, the Israeli major, was killed in September 2022 during clashes with Palestinian gunmen at the Gilboa checkpoint between Israel and the occupied West Bank.

After he was killed, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades — the armed wing of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’ Fatah party — claimed responsibility.

Ahmed Abed, 23, and Abdul Rahman Subhi Abed, 22, whose family homes were demolished Monday, were also killed in the September clashes in which Falah died.

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Israel regularly destroys the homes of individuals it blames for attacks on Israelis.

Human rights activists say Israel’s policy of demolishing the homes of suspected attackers amounts to collective punishment, as it can render non-combatants, including children, homeless.

But Israel says the practice is effective in deterring some Palestinians from carrying out attacks.

The two deaths are the first in the West Bank for 2023.

According to United Nations data, 2022 was the deadliest year for Palestinians since the 2002-2005 uprising, known as the Second Intifada, with at least 150 Palestinians and 26 Israelis killed across Israel and the West Bank, including Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem.

The new government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, one of the most right-wing in Israel’s history, has sparked fears of a military escalation in the West Bank, occupied by Israel since 1967.

Two of Netanyahu’s far-right coalition partners, sworn in on Thursday with the rest of the new government, will take charge of critical powers in relation to Palestinians in the West Bank.

Bezalel Smotrich will take charge of Israeli settlement policy in the West Bank, and Itamar Ben-Gvir is the new national security minister with powers over border police, which also operates in the territory.

Both have a history of inflammatory remarks about Palestinians

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Israel charges two soldiers for trying to bomb Palestinian home.

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An Israeli prosecutor has charged two soldiers for attempting to bomb a Palestinian home in the occupied West Bank, in a rare indictment over an offense against Palestinians.

Prosecutors charged the two soldiers with making an explosive device, aggravated intentional assault, intentional harm to property and impeaching the investigation, the Israeli army announced late Thursday. The court ordered the soldiers to remain in detention until a hearing next month. They were arrested on Nov. 28.

The indictment said the two defendants acted out of revenge for the abduction of the body of an Israeli schoolboy in the flashpoint West Bank city of Jenin on Nov. 22.

Fero’s father accused the Palestinians of removing his son from his life-support machine while he was still alive. The Israeli military had said he was already dead when they took him.

The seizure of the boy’s body spread alarm among Israel’s Druze community. As anger rose, videos circulated on social media of Druze men threatening to take revenge against Palestinians.

Amid the standoff over Fero’s body, the two defendants – reportedly Druze soldiers – conspired with another soldier to assemble an explosive device, the military said on Thursday. The soldiers identified a Palestinian home near the West Bank city of Bethlehem as their target and lobbed stones at it. A few days later, they threw the explosive into the crowded house “with the intent of starting a fire in the home,” the military added.

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The military said the attack caused no casualties. It said it opened an investigation into the incident following a complaint from the Palestinian homeowner.

The military said it would issue an indictment against the third soldier in the coming days. The three soldiers were not named. The military did not comment on the penalties they could face.

Such a swift military prosecution is highly unusual and underscored the seriousness of the case. Rights groups long have alleged that Israeli military investigations into the killings of Palestinians reflect a pattern of impunity. Earlier this month, Israeli soldiers accused of harming Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip over the last five years have been indicted in less than 1% of the 1,260 complaints against them.

Critics have repeatedly accused Israeli forces of using excessive firepower in the West Bank as violence in the occupied territory reaches its highest level in years. The Israeli military has conducted near-daily raids into Palestinian cities and towns, killing more than 150 Palestinians. The Israeli army says most of the Palestinians killed have been militants. But stone-throwing youths protesting the incursions have also been killed.

Meanwhile, Palestinian attacks using knives, bombs and shootings have killed 29 Israelis in 2022, both soldiers and civilians, Israel’s Foreign Ministry reported.

Most of the Palestinians were killed during Israeli military raids and fighting in the northern West Bank cities of Jenin and Nablus. On Friday, the Israeli military said it entered Nablus to arrest Ahmed Massari, a wanted 19-year-old Palestinian militant from the Lion’s Den group, a new militant group led by young fighters from the city.

Palestinians shot at Israeli soldiers and hurled stones and explosive devices at Israeli vehicles, and the Israeli military unleashed tear gas and live fire. The streets were ablaze with gunfire and burning tires.

The Palestinian Health Ministry later reported that eight Palestinians were wounded by flying shrapnel from bullets

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Israel charges two soldiers for revenge attack on Palestinians

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Israel’s military says it has filed “severe indictments” against two soldiers who threw an improvised explosive at a Palestinian house in the occupied West Bank in retaliation for the kidnapping of the body of an Israeli teenager last month.

Palestinian fighters had (Watch Video Here) seized the body of an Israeli Druze high schooler from a hospital in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin where he had been taken after a car accident. The body was later returned. The Druze are an Arab religious minority in Israel whose members are conscripted into the armed forces.

“The defendants and an additional soldier assembled an improvised explosive and threw it into a crowded house,” the military said on Thursday. “The act was committed with the intent of starting a fire in the home as a form of revenge for the kidnapping of the body of a young Israeli in Jenin.”

No one in the house was wounded, according to residents.

The third soldier will also be indicted in the coming days, the military said. (Watch Video Here)

The trial and conviction of Israeli soldiers for crimes committed against Palestinians is a rare occurrence as Israeli soldiers very seldom face prosecution.

According to the Israeli human rights group Yesh Din, data for the 2019-20 period showed that only 2 percent of complaints filed by Palestinians against Israeli forces for abuse lead to prosecutions.

On the opposite end, almost all of the cases and trials of Palestinians in Israeli military courts – 99.74 percent – end in a conviction. (Watch Video Here)

There has been an intensification of violence in the West Bank since March, with the United Nations labelling 2022 as the deadliest year for Palestinians in the territory since 2006.

Israel intensified the military raids it has long conducted in the West Bank, leading to dozens of killings and hundreds of arrests, after a series of attacks by Palestinians.

Israel also regularly withholds the bodies of Palestinians who die in Israeli prisons, with the intention of using them as bargaining chips during negotiations (Watch Video Here) with armed groups. Palestinians held protests earlier this week in the West Bank calling for the bodies of loved ones to be released.

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Benjamin Netanyahu back with extreme-right Gov’t.

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After a stint in opposition, Benjamin Netanyahu will return to power in Israel on Thursday, leading what analysts describe as the most right-wing government in the country’s history.

Senior security and law enforcement officials have already voiced concern over its direction, as have Palestinians. (Watch Video Here)

“It becomes for Netanyahu’s partners a dream government,” Yohanan Plesner, president of the Israel Democracy Institute think-tank, told AFP.

“And one side’s dream is the other side’s nightmare,” he said, adding: “This government is expected to take the country in a completely new trajectory.”

Netanyahu, 73, who is fighting corruption allegations in court, already (Watch Video Here) served as prime minister longer than anyone in Israeli history, including a record 12-year tenure from 2009 to 2021 and a three-year period in the late 90s.

He was ousted from power in the spring of 2021 by a motley coalition of leftists, centrists and Arab parties headed by Naftali Bennett and former TV news anchor Yair Lapid.

It didn’t take him long to come back.

Netanyahu will present his new government to the Israeli parliament for a ratification vote at 11:00 am (0900 GMT). (Watch Video Here)

Following the election on November 1, Netanyahu entered into negotiations with ultra-Orthodox and extreme-right parties, among them Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism formation and Itamar Ben Gvir’s Jewish Power party.

Both have a history of inflammatory remarks about the Palestinians.

They will now take charge respectively of Israeli settlement policy in the West (Watch Video Here) Bank, and of the Israeli police, which also operate in the territory occupied by Israel since 1967.

‘Thirst for power’
Even before the government was sworn in, the majority parties passed laws that would allow Aryeh Deri, a key ally from the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, to serve as a minister despite a previous guilty plea to tax offences.

They also voted to expand powers of the national security minister, a portfolio set to be handed to Ben Gvir who will have authority over the police.

The assignment comes despite Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara’s warning against the “politicisation of law enforcement”. (Watch Video Here)

On Monday, in a phone call to Netanyahu, armed forces chief Aviv Kochavi expressed his concerns regarding the creation of a second ministerial post in the defence ministry for Smotrich, who will oversee management of civilian affairs in the West Bank.

Israel’s ally the United States has also spoken out.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that Washington would oppose settlement expansion as well as any bid to annex the West Bank.

But in a statement of policy priorities released Wednesday, Netanyahu’s Likud party said the government will pursue settlement (Watch Video Here) expansion.

About 475,000 Jewish settlers — among them Smotrich and Ben Gvir — live there now in settlements considered illegal under international law.

Analysts said Netanyahu offered the extreme-right vast concessions in the hope he might obtain judicial immunity or cancellation of his corruption trial. He is charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust, allegations he denies.

Denis Charbit, professor (Watch Video Here) of political science at Israel’s Open University, told AFP the government “is the addition of Netanyahu’s political weakness, linked to his age and his trial, and the fact that you have a new political family of the revolutionary right that we had never seen with this strength in Israel”.

Smotrich and Ben Gvir “have a very strong thirst for power” and their priority remains the expansion of West Bank settlements, Charbit said.

‘Explosion’
Ben Gvir has repeatedly visited Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound, the third-holiest site in Islam. It is also Judaism’s holiest, known as the Temple Mount. (Watch Video Here)

Under a historical status quo, non-Muslims can visit the sanctuary but may not pray there. Palestinians would see a visit by a serving Israeli minister as a provocation.

“If Ben Gvir, as minister, goes to Al-Aqsa it will be a big red line and it will lead to an explosion,” Basem Naim, a senior official with the Islamist movement Hamas which rules the Gaza Strip, told AFP.

Israel and Hamas fought a war in May 202l. This year, other Gaza militants and Israel exchanged rocket and missile fire (Watch Video Here) for three days in August.

In the West Bank, violence has surged this year and many are afraid of more unrest.

“I think that if the government acts in an irresponsible way, it could cause a security escalation,” outgoing Defence Minister Benny Gantz said on Tuesday, expressing fear over the “extremist direction” of the incoming administration. (Watch Video Here)

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Diplomacy

Israeli envoy assumes duties in Türkiye after years of tension.

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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received the credentials of Israel’s new envoy to Türkiye Irit Lillian on Tuesday, marking the first appointment by Tel Aviv since 2018.

The development comes after the two countries normalize ties after four years of tensions. Erdoğan welcomed the Israeli Ambassador at the Presidential Complex in the capital Ankara. Türkiye and Israel began improving relations with high-level visits this year including Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit to Ankara. They agreed to appoint ambassadors mutually in August. (Watch Video Here)

After Israeli Prime Minister-designate, Benjamin Netanyahu won elections last month, he and Erdoğan agreed to “work together to create a new era in relations” on a basis of respect for mutual interests.

Lillian, Israeli’s chargé d’affaires in Ankara since January 2021, became an ambassador after presenting his letter of confidence to Erdoğan.

Once close regional allies, relations between Israel and Türkiye have been strained for more than a decade, with Ankara having expelled Israel’s ambassador following a 2010 Israeli raid on an aid ship to Gaza, which killed 10 Turkish citizens. (Watch Video Here)

Diplomatic relations were restored in 2016, but two years later Türkiye recalled its ambassador from Israel and expelled the Israeli envoy when Israeli forces killed several Palestinians who had taken part in protests in the Gaza Strip.

Already facing criticism of the policy before taking office, Netanyahu has vowed to govern for all Israelis even as he will head one of the most right-wing governments in the country’s history.

Israeli president looks forward to Turkish envoy’s term
Meanwhile, the Israeli president said he is “looking forward to” receiving the credentials of the Turkish ambassador soon.

“So moving to hear HaTikvah at the Presidential Complex in Ankara again, as Ambassador Irit Lillian presented her credentials to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today,” Isaac Herzog said on Twitter. (Watch Video Here)

“Looking forward to receiving the Turkish ambassador’s credentials soon. A big step forward for Israel-Türkiye relations,” he added.

Herzog wrote his message in Hebrew and Turkish.

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Chile to inaugurate embassy in Palestine, Gabriel Boric

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Chilean President Gabriel Boric announced that his country will inaugurate an embassy in the Palestinian territories, becoming one of the rare Andean nations to have the highest level of diplomatic representation in Palestine.

Chilean Foreign Minister Antonia Urrejola confirmed the plan on Thursday but said there was no timeline in place yet and that Chile continues to recognize both Palestine and Israel as legitimate states.

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Leftist Boric, who has repeatedly expressed support for the Palestinian people’s demand for an independent state, made the comments at a private ceremony in Santiago hosted by the city’s important Palestinian diaspora.

“I am taking a risk (saying) this… we are going to raise our official representation in Palestine from having a charge d’affaires; now we are going to open an embassy,” Boric said, without giving details on where the embassy would be located.

The Israeli Embassy in Chile did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Palestine’s Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent outside of business hours.

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The Palestinian territories include the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and contest control over East Jerusalem. Israel occupied those areas in a 1967 Middle East war and there have been regular clashes since.

The West Bank has experienced some of the worst levels of violence in more than a decade this year, much of it concentrated around Nablus and the nearby city of Jenin, with at least 150 Palestinians and more than 20 Israelis killed.

Israeli forces killed another Palestinian near a flashpoint site on Thursday, underlining the continuing violence in the occupied West Bank that will confront Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s incoming government.

Netanyahu has secured a coalition with religious and ultranationalist partners who oppose Palestinian statehood and want to extend Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

Chile’s Boric said the embassy was meant to give Palestinians the representation they deserve and to demand that “international law be respected.”

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In September, Boric postponed receiving the credentials of Israel’s new ambassador to Chile after Israeli forces killed a Palestinian teenager. Israel criticized the decision, saying it “seriously” harmed bilateral ties

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Israeli fire kills 4 more Palestinians in occupied West Bank

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At least four Palestinians were reported killed in clashes with Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the Palestinian health ministry said.

Two brothers were killed by Israeli fire in Kafr Ein, near Ramallah, while a third man died of bullet wounds to the head fired by Israeli troops in Beit Ummar, near the flashpoint city of Hebron, the ministry said.

The health ministry identified the dead brothers as Jawad Abdulrahman Rimawi, 22, and Dhafer Abdul Rahman Rimawi, 21.

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In the meanwhile, the Palestinian official news agency Wafa named the dead man from the Beit Ummar area as Mufid Mahmud Khalil, 44.

The man was seriously wounded in the head by Israeli troops while dozens of others were wounded in al-Khalil city, according to Palestinian officials.

The Palestinian Red Crescent previously said the medical teams intervened in 22 people injured in the conflict and that nine of the wounded were hit by live bullets, five by plastic bullets, and eight people were affected by tear gas.

Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that clashes erupted between Israeli soldiers that raided the town and dozens of Palestinians who tried to prevent them stones, adding that the Israeli army fired live and rubber bullets, and tear gas at the Palestinian youth.

Israeli medics and the army, however, said Israeli troops shot dead three Palestinians and an alleged car-ramming attacker.

The army confirmed its troops had fired on “rioters” who attacked soldiers in two separate clashes in the West Bank overnight.

The 20-year-old woman soldier was “moderately injured and evacuated to a hospital for medical treatment” following the suspected car-ramming north of Jerusalem, the army said.

Jerusalem’s Shaare Tzedek hospital confirmed the alleged attacker had been killed.

The West Bank has suffered spiraling violence this year, with near-daily Israeli army raids leading to scores of deaths – of Palestinian fighters and also civilians – while Jewish settlers have been increasingly targeted by at times deadly Palestinian violence.

Commenting on the Beit Ummar clash, the Israeli army said it had opened fire on “rioters” who “hurled rocks and improvised explosive devices at the soldiers” after two vehicles got stuck during an “operation patrol” in the area.

The Israeli army said “a violent riot was instigated by a number of suspects,” during “routine” overnight activity in the Kafr Ein area.

“The suspects hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails toward the soldiers, who responded with riot dispersal means and live fire,” an army statement said, adding that the military was “aware” of reports of two fatalities.

“The incident is under review,” the army said.

Palestinian Authority civil affairs minister Hussein al Sheikh described the killing of the two brothers as an “execution in cold blood.”

Near the West Bank settlement of Migron, the army reported “a ramming attack”.

The Magen David Adom emergency response agency said its staff treated “a 20-year-old female injured in a car-ramming terror attack,” and took her to Shaare Tzedek hospital.

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Boiling point
On Monday, the United Nations envoy for Middle East peace, Tor Wennesland, warned the situation in the West Bank was “reaching a boiling point”.

“High levels of violence in the occupied West Bank and Israel in recent months, including attacks against Israeli and Palestinian civilians, increased use of arms and settler-related violence, have caused grave human suffering,” he told the Security Council.

This week, the army announced it had made more than 3,000 arrests this year as part of Operation Break the Wave, a campaign it launched following a series of deadly attacks against Israeli civilians.

The U.N. says more than 125 Palestinians have been killed across the West Bank this year.

Israel has occupied the territory since the Six-Day War of 1967. An estimated 475,000 Jewish settlers now live in the territory, alongside some 2.9 million Palestinians, in communities considered illegal under international law.

Tuesday’s violence came as veteran hawk Benjamin Netanyahu continued negotiations to form what could be the most right-wing government in Israel’s history, following a general election earlier this month.

On Friday, Netanyahu signed an agreement with lawmaker Itamar Ben-Gvir that promised the far-right firebrand the new post of national security minister, with responsibility for the border police in the West Bank.

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Ben-Gvir, known for anti-Arab rhetoric, has repeatedly called on police and soldiers to use more force when confronting Palestinian unrest.

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Israel held 9,300 Palestinian minors in 8 years: NGO.

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Israel has detained over 9,300 Palestinian minors in the past eight years, a local nongovernmental organization (NGO) said Saturday.

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In a statement marking World Children’s Day, the Palestinian Prisoners Society NGO said Israeli forces rounded up 750 minors in 2022.

“Around 160 children are still in Israeli custody,” the statement said.

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According to the NGO, eight minors, including three girls, are held by Israel’s policy of administrative detention, which allows the arrest of Palestinians without charge or trial.

“Children are subject to all forms of systematic abuses, including torture,” the statement said.

There was no comment from Israeli authorities on the statement.

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In 1990, the United Nations set Nov. 20 to celebrate World Children’s Day to commemorate the adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1959.

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Lapid concedes defeat, Benjamin Nethanyahu wins in Israel.

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Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing allies secured a clear victory and a majority in parliament following elections two days ago, Israel’s electoral commission said Thursday.

Results released by the electoral commission said that with 99% of votes counted, Netanyahu and his far-right allies had secured a majority.

With 32 seats for Netanyahu’s Likud party, 18 for ultra-Orthodox parties and 14 for a far-right alliance called Religious Zionism, the right-wing bloc won a total of 64 seats, while caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s centrist bloc won 51 seats.

The commission added that the official and final results would be presented to Israel’s president on Wednesday.

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Lapid called his rival Netanyahu to congratulate him on Thursday, and told “his entire office to prepare an organized transition of power,” a statement released by his office said.

Lapid’s concession sets the former premier up to form what may be the most right-wing government in Israeli history, while also spelling the end of an unprecedented period of political deadlock.

The electoral commission results also showed the small left-wing Meretz party dropping below the 3.25% threshold needed to secure a minimum of four seats and falling out of the Knesset.

The 73-year-old Netanyahu secured his comeback after 14 months in opposition. He remains on trial over corruption allegations, which he denies, with the case returning to court on Monday.

Netanyahu has already begun talks with coalition partners on the make-up of a new government, Israeli media reported, but there was no immediate confirmation from his Likud party.

President Isaac Herzog will next week give Netanyahu 42 days to form a government.

Netanyahu, who has served as premier for longer than anyone in Israel’s 74-history, will then be tasked with sharing out cabinet posts with his coalition partners.

That will likely mean prominent roles for the co-leaders of far-right Religious Zionism, which has doubled its representation since the last parliament.

Itamar Ben-Gvir, a firebrand known for anti-Arab rhetoric and incendiary calls for Israel to annex the entire West Bank, has said he wants to be public security minister, a post that would put him in charge of the police.

In recent days, Ben-Gvir has called repeatedly for the security services to use more force in countering Palestinian opposition against Israel’s occupation.

“It’s time we go back to being masters of our country,” Ben-Gvir said on election night.

Religious Zionism’s Bezalel Smotrich has said he wants to be defense minister.

The U.S. State Department expressed veiled concern over the prospect of far-right ministers in a future coalition government, while Britain demanded all politicians “refrain from inflammatory language” and respect minorities.

The vote was held Tuesday against a backdrop of soaring violence across Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank.

At least 34 Palestinians and three Israelis have been killed in the territories since the start of October.

In the latest bloodshed Thursday, an assailant stabbed an Israeli officer in Jerusalem’s Old City before being shot dead, police said.

Three Palestinians were also killed in confrontations with Israeli forces in the West Bank, one near Jerusalem and two during an Israeli raid in the flashpoint city of Jenin, the Palestinian health ministry said.

While many candidates cited security as a concern, none pledged to revive moribund peace talks with the Palestinians.

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said the projected results highlighted “growing extremism and racism in Israeli society”.

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A key factor seen as boosting Netanyahu was the split among Arab parties, who ran as three separate factions instead of the joint list that saw them win a record number of seats in March 2020.

Separately, not all the factions reached the threshold for representation in parliament, meaning their votes were wasted.

Sami Abou Shahadeh, the head of the Balad party that rejects any cooperation with Israeli governments, defended his party’s decision to run independently, even though it was set to be shut out of parliament. “We may be losing our representation in the Knesset but we won the love of our people,” he said.

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Israeli DM, Benny Gantz visits Türkiye to discuss ties.

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Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz visited Türkiye on Thursday amid the growing rapprochement between the two countries.

Gantz visited Anıtkabir, the final resting place of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic, before coming together with his Defense Minister Hulusi Akar at the Turkish defense ministry in the capital Ankara.

In a statement on Twitter on Wednesday, Gantz said he was “taking off for an important visit to the Republic of Türkiye” where he would be meeting with his Turkish counterpart Akar.

“I look forward to productive discussions on ways to promote security, stability and peace in the Middle East and East-Med regions,” he added.

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Tweeting in Hebrew, he said this would be the first meeting between the two countries’ defense ministers in over a decade, adding that he welcomed the development.

Israel and Türkiye recently reappointed ambassadors for the first time in years. Earlier this month it was announced that Sakir Özkan Torunlar will take up his post as ambassador in Tel Aviv after Israel appointed Irit Lillian as its ambassador to Ankara last month.

Israel-Türkiye relations, long-frosty amid feuding over the Palestinian cause, have warmed in recent months, with energy emerging as a key area of cooperation.

In August, Türkiye and Israel agreed to restore full diplomatic ties and reappoint ambassadors and consuls general after a four-year hiatus.

Also, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid met in late September on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly at the Turkish House (Türkevi) in New York in the first face-to-face talks since 2008.

Türkiye in 1949 became the first Muslim-majority nation to recognize Israel.

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Australia retrieves recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli capital.

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Australia on Tuesday overturned a decision made by the previous administration to recognize West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, stating that Israel and the Palestinians should negotiate a peace agreement to determine the city’s status.

Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong said Australia “will always be a steadfast friend of Israel” and was committed to a two-state solution in which Israel and a future Palestine coexist in peace within internationally recognized borders.

The government “recommits Australia to international efforts in the responsible pursuit of progress towards a just and enduring two-state solution,” she said in a statement.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry voiced “deep disappointment” with the decision and said it would summon the Australian ambassador.

“Jerusalem has been the capital of the Jewish people for 3,000 years and will continue to be the State of Israel’s eternal and united capital, regardless of this-or-that decision,” the ministry said in a statement.

Previous Prime Minister Scott Morrison had reversed decades of Middle East policy in December 2018 by saying Australia recognized West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel but would not move its embassy there immediately.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump had recognized Jerusalem as the capital a year earlier, without elaborating on the boundaries of a city whose eastern sector – the location of major Jewish, Christian and Muslim holy sites – Palestinians want for their future capital.

Wong told reporters Morrison’s 2018 decision “put Australia out of step with the majority of the international community,” and was met with concern by Muslim-majority neighbor Indonesia.

“I regret that Mr. Morrison’s decision to play politics resulted in Australia’s shifting position and the distress these shifts have caused to many people in the Australian community who care deeply about this issue,” she said.

Morrison had flagged moving the embassy from Tel Aviv in 2018 just days before a by-election in a Sydney electorate with a strong Jewish representation, which his Liberal party nonetheless lost.

The Guardian first reported a change to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade website to remove language describing West Jerusalem as the capital on Monday.

Wong said the decision was made by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Cabinet on Tuesday.

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, a centrist lagging behind his conservative predecessor Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of a Nov. 1 election, accused Canberra of being misled by a media report about Jerusalem.

“We can only hope that the Australian government manages other matters more seriously and professionally,” he said on Twitter.

Wong earlier told reporters the department website had been updated “ahead of government processes.”

Morrison’s Liberal-led coalition lost a national election in May, returning a Labor government for the first time in nine years.

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Palestinian shot in Israeli raid dies after five days in hospital.

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A Palestinian youth, shot five days earlier by the Israeli army during a home demolition in the occupied West Bank, succumbed to his wounds Sunday, the Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed.

In a statement, the ministry confirmed “the death of the young man, Hamad Mustafa Hussein Abu Jelda, 24, after being shot by the Israeli occupation forces in Jenin camp a few days ago.”

Security sources in Jenin told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that Abu Jelda had been shot during an Israeli army raid on Jenin camp last Tuesday to destroy the home of Raad Hazem, who reportedly killed three Israelis in a deadly shooting attack in Tel Aviv.

Pictures of Abu Jelda released by local activists showed him posing with an M16 rifle, though no armed faction has claimed him as a member.

Hazem carried out a shooting spree in Tel Aviv’s busy Dizengoff Street nightlife district on April 7, before being shot dead after a massive manhunt.

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His father Fathi and brother Hamam are both wanted by Israel.

A petition by Hazem’s family to prevent the demolition was rejected by Israel’s supreme court on May 30.

The Tel Aviv shooting was part of a wave of deadly attacks on Israeli targets, mostly by Palestinians. In response, Israel launched near-nightly raids on West Bank towns and cities that have killed dozens of Palestinians.

Last Monday, armed forces chief Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi said “around 1,500 wanted people were arrested and hundreds of attacks prevented” in the operations.

Human rights activists say Israel’s policy of demolishing the homes of suspected attackers amounts to collective punishment, as it can render non-combatants, including children, homeless.

But Israel says the practice is effective in deterring some Palestinians from carrying out attacks.

Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967, when it captured the territory from Jordan.

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Israeli troops kill one Palestinan, 16 wounded during West Bank raid.

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Israeli forces on Tuesday killed a Palestinian and wounded 16 others during a raid in the occupied West Bank to carry out a home demolition, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

“The outcome of the Israeli aggression on Jenin at dawn today: a 29-year-old martyr and 16 wounded with bullets and shrapnel were admitted to hospitals,” the ministry said.

Palestine’s official news agency Wafa identified the dead man as Mohammed Musa Mohammed Sabaaneh.

The Israeli army, for its part, said it entered Jenin overnight “in order to demolish the residence” of the perpetrator of a deadly shooting attack in Tel Aviv in April.

Raad Hazem killed three Israelis in a shooting spree in Tel Aviv’s busy Dizengoff Street nightlife district on April 7, before being shot dead after a massive manhunt.

His father Fathi Hazem and brother Hamam are both wanted by Israel.

The Tel Aviv shooting was part of a wave of attacks on Israeli targets in which 19 people were killed. Three Israeli Arab attackers also died.

After the series of deadly street attacks, Israel stepped up incursions into the West Bank, many in the city of Jenin.

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Around 100 Palestinians have been killed in the campaign, the Palestinian Health Ministry says, including militants, civilians and people taking part in clashes with Israeli forces.

On Monday, the Israeli military published its final conclusions into the killing of Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in May, saying she was likely to have been unintentionally shot by an Israeli soldier.

Abu Akleh, a U.S.-Palestinian citizen, was shot dead on May 11 while covering an Israeli raid in Jenin in circumstances that remain disputed. Her killing triggered international outrage.

Armed forces chief Lieutenant General Aviv Kohavi said Monday, “around 1,500 wanted people were arrested and hundreds of attacks prevented” in the operations.

He added that the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas was “unable” to control certain areas of the West Bank.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned the raids.

“The ministry views the systematic Israeli escalation with grave concern and we will follow this crime up with the International Criminal Court and the U.N. Human Rights Council,” it said.

Human rights activists say Israel’s policy of demolishing the homes of suspected attackers amounts to collective punishment, as it can render non-combatants, including children, homeless. But Israel says the practice is effective in deterring some Palestinians from carrying out attacks.

Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967, when it captured the territory from Jordan.

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Report: ‘Trump approved Israel’s annexation of Palestine in secret letter’

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Then-U.S. President Donald Trump sent a secret letter to then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, approving his controversial annexation plan of Palestinian territories, according to a report.

The Jerusalem Post said the three-page letter, dated Jan. 26, 2020, says: “Israel would be able to extend sovereignty to parts of the West Bank if Netanyahu agreed to a Palestinian state in the remaining territory.”

Netanyahu received the letter just two days before Trump announced his so-called “deal of the century” to solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, a plan that was vehemently rejected by the Palestinians.

Peace talks between the Palestinians and Israel collapsed in 2014 due to Tel Aviv’s refusal to release Palestinian detainees and stop settlement building.

Trump’s “deal of the century” refers to Jerusalem as “Israel’s undivided capital” and recognizes Israeli sovereignty over large parts of the occupied West Bank.

The plan involves the establishment of a Balkanized Palestinian state in the form of an archipelago connected by bridges and tunnels.

Palestinian officials say that under the U.S. plan, Israel will annex 30%-40% of the West Bank, including all of East Jerusalem.

Under international pressure, Netanyahu didn’t announce his annexation plan as was scheduled in July 2020, claiming he only delayed its announcement.

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Palestinian group, Israel agree to Egypt-brokered Gaza truce.

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Israel and the Islamic Jihad movement agreed to a truce in Gaza after three days of intense conflict, an Egyptian source said Sunday, as the death toll continued to rise following airstrikes on the Palestinian enclave.

The negotiations raise hopes that Egypt could help broker a deal to end the worst fighting in Gaza since an 11-day war last year devastated the impoverished coastal territory, home to some 2.3 million Palestinians.

Since Friday, Israel has carried out heavy aerial and artillery bombardments in Gaza.

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has said officials were talking with both sides “around the clock” to ease the violence. A security source in Cairo said that Israel “has accepted” a cease-fire, adding that Cairo was waiting for the Palestinian response.

A source from Islamic Jihad said that “discussions are underway at the highest levels towards calm,” but warned that “the resistance will not stop if the occupation’s (Israel) aggression and crimes do not stop.”

Egyptian mediators have proposed a truce to Israel’s attacks on Gaza that would take effect at 10 p.m. (7 p.m. GMT) on Sunday, an Egyptian security source said.

Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed at least 41 Palestinians, including 10 children since the bombardment began three days ago, amid an escalation of tensions following the killing of a senior member of Islamic Jihad just before the weekend.

Ten children were among those killed in the latest “Israeli aggression” since Friday, and 265 people have been wounded, said health authorities in the enclave where several buildings were reduced to rubble.

The fighting is the worst in Gaza since a war last year devastated the besieged coastal territory, home to some 2.3 million Palestinians, and forced Israelis to seek shelter from rockets.

The Israeli army has said the entire “senior leadership of the military wing of the Islamic Jihad in Gaza has been neutralized,” and Prime Minister Yair Lapid vowed Sunday that “the operation will continue as long as necessary.”

Israel has maintained an illegal blockade on the impoverished enclave since 2007, the year Hamas took power.

In early May, tensions in Israel and Palestine flared into the worst disturbances since 2017 when Israeli riot police clashed with large crowds of Palestinians on the last Friday of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan.

Nightly unrest since then at the Al-Aqsa compound in occupied East Jerusalem left more than 700 Palestinians wounded, drawing international calls for de-escalation and sharp rebukes from across the Muslim world.

Tensions in the area reached an all-time high in May.

The situation in occupied Palestine was so dire that a senior official from the United Nations warned that the two countries were “heading towards a full-scale war.”

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Israel, UAE normalization may come “too late” – Experts saying.

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The United States has hinted that more Arab nations could take steps to improve ties with Israel, ahead of President Joe Biden’s trip to the Middle East.

All eyes are on Saudi Arabia, which Biden will visit in mid-July after he once vowed to treat the kingdom as a “pariah” state over the 2018 murder and dismemberment of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

However, despite the recent signs of a U.S.-Saudi rapprochement, analysts say it is improbable Riyadh will agree to diplomatic ties with Israel – not during Biden’s visit or while King Salman, 86, still reigns.

The king’s official policy is that there should be no peace with Israel until it withdraws from occupied territories and accepts Palestinian statehood.

Biden’s visit will likely focus on convincing the world’s biggest crude exporter to boost its oil output.

Here are some questions and answers about the possibility of a normalization deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel:

What are the signs?
Saudi’s de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) has said Israel was a “potential ally, with many interests that we can pursue together,” state media reported in March, attributing the statement to an interview with The Atlantic.

Additionally, the kingdom never showed any opposition when its regional ally, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), established diplomatic ties with Israel in 2020, followed by Bahrain and Morocco under the U.S.-brokered Abraham Accords.

In January 2021, Sudan’s transitional government also agreed to do so but the northeast African country has yet to finalize the deal.

Saudi Arabia also at the time allowed direct flights from the Emirates to Israel to travel through its airspace, in another implicit sign of approval.

Biden, who will also visit Israel, is to travel directly from the Jewish state to Saudi Arabia, becoming the first U.S. president to fly from there to an Arab nation that does not recognize Israel.

In 2017 his predecessor, Donald Trump, made the journey in reverse.

In recent months, Saudis have taken to social media – which is tightly controlled in the kingdom – to express their support for normalization, which would be a shift from the kingdom’s long-standing pan-Arab policy to isolate Israel until the conflict with the Palestinians is resolved.

Esawi Frej, Israel’s minister of regional cooperation, told Saudi newspaper Arab News earlier in June that Riyadh would be “central” to any solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The Axios news website reported, also this month, that the United States was working on a “road map” for normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia, while The Wall Street Journal said the region’s two most influential nations were engaging in secret economic and security talks.

In both countries’ interests?
Yasmine Farouk of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said a relationship with Israel will contribute to greater acceptance of Saudi Arabia.

“It will open doors for the crown prince, with Western people and parliaments accepting the kingdom, and granting Saudi Arabia a greater role,” she said.

“It will make a change, whether just in regards to the image of Saudi Arabia … especially since (MBS) sees it as a global power, not just an Arab and Islamic one.”

She said that Israel would want normalization “because not only will it open the door to Saudi Arabia, but to other (Arab and Muslim) countries that may already engage in secret discussions with Israel but don’t dare normalize yet.”

The two countries share a common enemy in Iran, said a Riyadh-based diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity.

“They are looking at it in the sense of ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’,” he said.

Two Saudi officials contacted by Agence France-Presse (AFP) refused to comment due to the “sensitivity” of the issue.

Is it the right time?
Dan Shapiro, who served as former U.S. President Barack Obama’s ambassador to Israel, told AFP he expects Biden’s trip can produce “some important steps” towards Saudi diplomatic recognition of Israel, “probably not full normalisation, but a road map that leads in that direction.”

But “not now,” said Farouk. “It’s difficult as long as King Salman is alive.

“The word ‘normalization’ should be used more cautiously … There might be some forms of relations but going as far as the Emirates and Bahrain, I’m still a bit sceptical.”

Kristian Ulrichsen of Rice University’s Baker Institute said full diplomatic ties are likely only when Prince Mohammed becomes king.

“In the meantime, we are likely to see a continuation of the current approach of normalizing the idea that Saudi Arabia and Israel are not enemies but share certain regional and geopolitical interests,” he told AFP

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Turkey, Israel launch efforts for appointing Ambassadors: Çavuşoğlu

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Turkey and Israel have launched the process to raise mutual diplomatic relations to the ambassadors level, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Thursday while Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid paid a visit to the capital Ankara as the two countries enter a new phase in bilateral relations after a decade of animosity.

Both countries will continue mutual visits and political negotiations at various levels, Çavuşoğlu said at the joint press conference.

Turkey is in close contact with Israel on threats against Israeli citizens in the country and will not allow any terrorist attacks on its territory, he added.

Turkish intelligence recently foiled an Iranian plot in Istanbul and these efforts are ongoing, Lapid said.

The lives of Israeli citizens have been saved in recent weeks thanks to the security and diplomatic cooperation between the two countries, he added.

Within the scope of Turkey’s normalization policy with the countries of the Gulf and the Middle East, Lapid arrived in the capital Ankara just days after urging Israelis to leave Turkey over threats of attacks by Iranian operatives.

This is the first foreign minister-level visit from Israel to Turkey in 16 years. Former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni visited Ankara in May 2006. The trip follows Çavuşoğlu’s visit to Israel last month, which marked the first visit at the foreign minister level in 15 years.

The mutual appointment of ambassadors and energy cooperation were expected to be the main agenda items in the contacts to be held within the framework of Lapid’s visit. The political situation in Israel, bilateral relations and regional issues were also to be discussed.

Turkey also wants the problems between Palestine and Israel to be resolved as soon as possible and believes that the solution for lasting peace between Palestine and Israel is to establish two states within the parameters of the United Nations.

Ankara, which supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has condemned Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and its policy toward Palestinians, while Israel has called on Turkey to drop support for the Palestinian resistance group Hamas, which runs Gaza. Turkey also said it would not abandon its commitment to Palestine in order to broker closer ties with Israel.

The announcement of the visit came after Israeli President Isaac Herzog spoke by telephone with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday and “thanked” him “for the efforts to thwart terrorist activities on Turkish soil,” according to a statement from the Israeli presidency.

During the call, the two leaders “agreed on maintaining cooperation for peace and stability as well as dialogue in the two countries’ relations and regional matters, including security and the fight against terror,” according to a statement by the Turkish Communications Directorate.

Last month, during a visit to Israel, Çavuşoğlu said Turkey and Israel demonstrated a “common will” to improve relations in every field. “Even though there were difficult days, we decided to continue our relations,” Çavuşoğlu said. Earlier, in March, Herzog visited Ankara and met with Erdoğan.

Last week, Lapid urged Israelis in Turkey to leave “as soon as possible,” saying they faced “a real and immediate danger” from Iranian agents.

The stark warning came amid the latest surge in tensions between bitter rivals Iran and Israel, with Tehran blaming the Jewish state for a series of attacks on its nuclear and military infrastructure, inside Iran but also inside Syria.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry dismissed Israel’s calls urging its citizens to leave the country over fears of Iranian attacks, saying that Turkey is a safe country.

Turkey is a popular tourist destination for Israelis. The two countries have been mending their ties after more than a decade of strained relations.

Israel was a long-time regional ally of Turkey before a 2010 commando raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla left 10 Turkish activists dead. In 1996 Israel and Turkey signed a “strategic partnership,” under which their air forces can train in each other’s air space. Relations took a downturn when Erdoğan, who was the prime minister at that time, walked out of the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2009, in protest at Israel’s massive offensive in Gaza against Palestinians. The 22-day operation cost the lives of 1,440 Palestinians and 13 Israelis.

A full-blown crisis erupted in May 2010, when Israeli commandos staged a botched pre-dawn raid on the Mavi Marmara ship, part of a flotilla trying to ferry aid to the Gaza Strip in defiance of a naval blockade. Ankara recalled its ambassador and scaled-down economic and defense ties with Israel.

In November 2021, Erdoğan held telephone talks with Israeli President Herzog and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, the first such discussions between the Turkish leader and an Israeli leader since 2013. Erdoğan declared that Turkey was considering “gradual” reconciliation with Israel.

In January 2022, he announced that Turkey was ready to cooperate with Israel on a gas pipeline project in the Eastern Mediterranean. Following the 2010 crisis, Israel created a strategic alliance with Greece and the Greek Cypriot administration, two actors with long-standing acrimony toward Turkey, and in recent years held regular trilateral meetings and conducted joint military drills. The trio was part of the East Mediterranean Gas Forum established in 2019 with other states, including Egypt and Jordan, without Turkey. In 2020, Israel, Greece and the Greek Cypriot administration signed the EastMed deal for a pipeline to ship gas from the Eastern Mediterranean to Europe, triggering objections from Ankara. The United States has since also raised concern about the project, citing possible issues over its “commercial viability.”

Turkey has recently been working to improve relations with several countries in the region as part of a normalization process launched in 2020

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Israel wants “total control” of Palestinian land – UN report

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An independent commission of inquiry set up by the UN Human Rights Council after the 2021 Israeli assault on the besieged Gaza Strip said Israel must do more than end the occupation of land that Palestinian leaders want for a future state.

“Ending the occupation alone will not be sufficient,” according to the report released on Tuesday, urging that additional action be taken to ensure the equal enjoyment of human rights for Palestinians.

The report cites evidence that Israel has “no intention of ending the occupation”.

Israel is pursuing “complete control” over what the report calls the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, which was taken by Israel in a 1967 war and later annexed in a move never recognised by the international community.

The Israeli government, the commission said, has been “acting to alter the demography through the maintenance of a repressive environment for Palestinians and a favourable environment for Israeli settlers”.

Citing an Israeli law denying naturalisation to Palestinians married to Israeli citizens, the report accuses Israel of affording “different civil status, rights and legal protection” for Palestinian citizens of Israel.


More than 700,000 Israeli settlers now live in settlements and outposts across the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which is home to more than three million Palestinians. The Israeli settlements are fortified, Jewish-only housing complexes that are considered illegal under international law.

Leading human rights groups, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have equated Israeli policies against Palestinians to apartheid.


‘Root causes’ of the conflict
The UN inquiry and report was prompted by the 11-day Israeli military offensive in May 2021 during which more than 260 Palestinians in Gaza were killed, and 13 people died in Israel.

In May 2021, Hamas fired rockets towards Israel after Israeli forces cracked down on Palestinian worshippers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound – Islam’s third holiest site – where dozens were injured and detained. It also followed an Israeli court decision to forcibly expel Palestinian families from Sheikh Jarrah, a neighbourhood in East Jerusalem.

The inquiry’s mandate included investigation of alleged human rights abuses before and after Israel’s onslaught against Gaza, and sought to also investigate the “root causes” of the conflict.

Hamas welcomed the report and urged the prosecution of Israeli leaders in what it said were “crimes” against the Palestinian people.


The Palestinian Authority also praised the report and called for accountability “in a manner that puts an end to Israel’s impunity”.

Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the report “a waste of money and effort” that amounted to a witch-hunt.

Israel boycotted the inquiry, accusing it of bias and barred entry to its investigators to Israel and Palestinian territories, leading investigators to collect testimonies from Geneva and Jordan.

The report will be discussed at the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council next week. The United States quit the Council in 2018 over what it described as its “chronic bias” against Israel and only fully rejoined this year.

The commission, headed by former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay, and is the first to have an “ongoing” mandate from the UN rights body.

Proponents say the commission is needed to keep tabs on persistent injustices faced by Palestinians under decades of Israeli occupation

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Palestinian escapees suffers another 5 years in Israeli prison.

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Six Palestinian detainees were sentenced on Sunday to an additional five years in prison for a 2021 escape through a tunnel from a maximum-security jail facility in northern Israel.

The six, already serving life terms for anti-Israeli attacks, escaped on Sept. 6 last year from Gilbao prison through a tunnel dug under a sink.

Hailed as “heroes” by the Palestinians, their escape triggered a massive manhunt by army reinforcements and drones before their capture two weeks later.

Apart from the extra prison sentences, the court also slapped the six prisoners with a fine of 5,000 shekels (nearly $160), the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)-run Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs said in a statement.

“My client told the court he did not regret the escape because he had nothing to lose,” one of the prisoners’ lawyer, Raslan Mahajana, told reporters.

Five of the detainees are members of the Islamic Jihad group, while the sixth is a member of the Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

The jailbreak has brought Israel’s prison service under fire and prompted the government to launch an investigation.

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Israeli missile strikes kill 3 near Syria’s capital.

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Israeli surface-to-surface missiles have killed three people near the Syrian capital, Damascus, state media reported.

The missiles came from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and some were intercepted by the Syrian air defences, an unnamed military source said on Friday.

“The Israeli enemy carried out an aggression … that led to the death of three martyrs and some material losses,” Syria’s official news agency SANA quoted the source as saying.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said the three people killed were military officers and four other members of an air defence crew were wounded.

The Israeli strikes targeted Iranian positions and weapon depots near Damascus, the monitor said.

A fire broke at one of the positions near the Damascus airport where ambulances were seen rushing to the site of the attack, according to the Syrian Observatory.


The Israeli military declined to comment

The latest strike follows one on May 13 that killed five people in central Syria, and another near Damascus on April 27, which according to the Syrian Observatory killed 10 combatants, among them six Syrian soldiers, in the deadliest raid in 2022.

Since civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes there, targeting government troops as well as allied Iran-backed forces and fighters from Lebanon’s Hezbollah group.

While Israel rarely comments on individual strikes, it has acknowledged carrying out hundreds of attacks.

The Israeli military has defended the military operations as necessary to prevent its arch foe Iran from gaining a foothold on its doorstep.


The conflict in Syria has killed nearly half a million people and forced about half of the country’s prewar population from their homes.

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Palestinian teen killed in Israeli raid in occupied West Bank.

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Israeli troops shot and killed a teenage Palestinian boy as they raided the northern city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry and local media said.

The health ministry identified the dead teen as Amjad al-Fayyed, 17. It said an 18-year-old Palestinian was in a critical condition after being wounded by Israeli gunfire.

“A 17-year-old boy was killed and an 18-year-old was critically wounded by the Israeli occupation’s bullets during its aggression on Jenin,” the ministry said in a statement.

Local media reported confrontations erupted outside Jenin’s refugee camp when Israeli forces stormed the area, and al-Fayyed was hit by about a dozen rounds fired into the upper part of his body.

The Israeli military said Palestinian suspects fired on its soldiers and threw fire bombs at them. “The soldiers responded with live fire toward the suspects. Hits were identified,” the military said.

It was not immediately clear whether the teen killed was one of those suspects.


The Palestinian Islamic Jihad group described the teenager as one of its members and said he had taken part in the fighting against the Israeli soldiers. Photos circulated on social media showed him holding a rifle.

A hub of armed Palestinian groups, the Jenin area has been repeatedly raided by Israeli forces since a wave of attacks in late March, with many of the perpetrators coming from there. Operations to track down suspects and clashes with Palestinians have often turned deadly for both sides.

‘Thorough and transparent’ investigation
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh condemned the killing.

“We warn against the consequences of the occupation’s continued crimes against our people. We urge the international community to condemn them and hold the perpetrators accountable,” Shtayyeh said in a statement.

Immediately after the announcement of al-Fayyed’s killing, a march began in front of Ibn Sina Hospital in the city, in which mourners carried his body on their shoulders and roamed the streets.

The number of Palestinians killed in Jenin since the beginning of 2022 has reached 20.


Israel says it carries out “counterterrorism activities” to detain wanted fighters and planners of recent deadly attacks in the occupied West Bank and Israel.

On May 11, Shireen Abu Akleh, a veteran Palestinian-American journalist for Al Jazeera Media Network was killed by Israeli forces while covering an Israeli raid in Jenin. Israel accused Palestinian fighters of firing at the journalist but backtracked later.

On Thursday, the Israeli military announced it will not conduct an investigation, saying a probe that treats Israeli soldiers as suspects will lead to opposition within Israeli society.

The US State Department renewed calls for a “thorough and transparent” investigation, but stopped short of calling for an independent probe.

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