Wednesday, 19 June 2013 / By Asher Zeiger, The Times of Israel – Police on Tuesday investigated a suspected “price tag” attack in the Arab-Israeli village of Abu Ghosh, in which vandals slashed the tires of 28 cars and scrawled graffiti on nearby walls. The Hebrew graffiti found at the scene of the crime read “racism or
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Wednesday, 19 June 2013 / SILWANIC – Israeli forces arrested on Monday 40 Jerusalemites from Shu’fat refugee camp and Beit Hanina after raiding their homes and commercial stores. Bassam Abu Hleil said that a large number of Israeli forces raided Al-Manara building located in “Tal Al-Foul” close to King Hussein’s Palace in Beit Hanina and arrested 25
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Tuesday, 18 June 2013 / Middle East Monitor – Israel’s plan includes the construction of thousands of housing units for settlers, creating a continuous built-up area between the Ma’ale Adumim settlement and Jerusalem A UN organisation has highlighted the plight of small Palestinian farming communities in the hills to the east of Jerusalem which are at
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Tuesday, 18 June 2013 / By Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian – A rising star in the Israeli cabinet has declared that the idea of a Palestinian state is dead, in a statement that will dismay the US secretary of state, John Kerry, whose mission to restart peace talks between the two sides is struggling to make headway.
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Monday, 17 June 2013 / Palestine News & Information Agency – Al-Quds daily highlighted on its Monday front page Israeli violence against Palestinians in East Jerusalem. It said that violence against Palestinians and their property in the occupied section of the city has seen a sharp rise in recent weeks. It mentioned an assault on an
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