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January 5, 2015

Israeli Commander: It is impossible to deter Hamas

A senior Israeli military commander has questioned the possibility of deterring the Palestinian resistance factions in the Gaza Strip, saying that talking about discouraging Hamas is nothing more than...

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January 5, 2015

Egypt church rejects OIC invite for Jerusalem visits

Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church on Monday rejected an invitation from the head of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to visit Jerusalem. “Our position is clear on this issue:...

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January 4, 2015

Netanyahu vows action against PA over ICC bid

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel “will not sit idly by” as the Palestinian Authority (PA) has chosen confrontation with Israel by joining the International Criminal...

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January 4, 2015

Feedback loop: for Israel isolation begets isolation

2015 looks like it’s going to be a challenging year for Israel. While, with American and Australian support – and the help of rather cowardly abstentions by, among others,...

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January 4, 2015

Egypt’s April 6 urges ‘revolutionary’ forces to unite

Egypt’s April 6 youth movement has called on all parties that participated in the 2011 uprising which toppled long-serving president Hosni Mubarak to “rise above partisan interests and unite...

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January 4, 2015

Erekat slams Israel for withholding tax revenues

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat on Saturday described as “piracy” an Israeli decision to stop the transfer of Palestinian tax revenues collected on behalf of the Palestinian Authority. “We...

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January 4, 2015

Egypt says no arrest warrant for Clooney

Egypt’s Interior Ministry on Saturday denied that an arrest warrant had been issued for human rights lawyer Amal Clooney or that she was barred from entering the country over...

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January 4, 2015

Israelis renouncing citizenship up by 60% in 2014

The number of Israelis who renounced their citizenship rose by 60 per cent in 2014, compared to 2013, according to figures collected by the Israeli authorities. In 2014, 765...

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January 4, 2015

Labour strikes cripple Gaza hospitals

Workers of public hospitals in the Gaza Strip went on strike Sunday to protest that their demands are not being fulfilled by the Palestinian unity government. “Medical staff in...

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January 4, 2015

UN: 1,200 Palestinian children injured by Israeli forces in the West Bank in 2014

Israeli forces injured a total of 1,190 Palestinian children in the West Bank during 2014, according to a UN agency report. The figure, contained within a weekly briefing covering...

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