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Palestinians are in the West Bank to welcome prisoners from Israel
Palestinians on Thursday welcomed over 100 Palestinian prisoners released by Israel in exchange for hostages held by Gaza’s Hamas. Alaa Zubeidi was among the families, dressed in black clothes, who gathered in the West Bank city of Ramallah. In September, her eldest son Mohammad was killed by an Israeli drone strike in the West Bank…
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The Al Jazeera bureau in Ramallah was shut down by Israel
Israeli soldiers raided Al Jazeera’s Ramallah office on July 29, 2001, saying it would be shut down and telling a reporter live on air it would be shut down. Military documents shared with reporters revealed that the soldiers had seized dozens of items from the office, including computers and cameras. The raid illustrated Israel was…
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Hamas created a “Permanent” State of War
The Hamas militant group, which rules the Gaza Strip, has fired over 1,500 rockets at Israel in the past month, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) has said. The rocket attacks have killed at least four people, while over 100 others have been wounded, IAF added. Gaza’s Hamas rulers claim that they are fighting to restore…
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Twin blasts at bus stops killed a teen and wounded 18 other people
An Israeli soldier has died after being shot at a checkpoint in Jerusalem on Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said. This comes after Israeli forces carried out a raid in Ramallah in the West Bank on Thursday that killed nine Palestinians, most of them militants. Two blasts went off near bus stops in Jerusalem…