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- ‘Resistance continues’: Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi home after 8 months in Israeli jail (VIDEO)
Ahed Tamimi, the 17-year-old Palestinian who slapped an Israeli soldier in her home village, has been released from prison. The girl, praised by many as a symbol of the Palestinian resistance, has returned to the West Bank.World News - Italian artist who painted mural of Palestinian heroine Ahed Tamimi arrested in Israel
Israeli police have arrested the Italian graffiti artist who depicted Ahed Tamimi on a West Bank separation wall mural in Bethlehem, to coincide with the Palestinian teenage heroine’s release from prison.World News - Israel vows more controversial settlements in W. Bank, says it’s ‘best answer to terrorism’
The Israeli defense minister has vowed to expand controversial settlement policies in the West Bank, claiming that it is the “best answer to terrorism.” It follows a stabbing attack by a Palestinian.World News - 17yo Palestinian kills 1, injures 2 Israelis in knife attack in West Bank settlement
One person has been killed and two injured in the latest stabbing attack, this time carried out by a 17-year-old Palestinian, who entered an Israeli settlement in the West Bank for his attack and who was killed during the act.World News - EU, UN & rights groups condemn Israel’s plan to bulldoze West Bank Bedouin village
The UN Human Rights Office and many European countries have slammed Israel’s decision to demolish a small Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank. Activists claim Israel wants to use the land to expand settlements.World News - Israeli banks ‘pillage’ Palestine through settlement program and may be guilty of war crime – HRW
Deep involvement of Israeli banks in the building of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank may amount to the war crime of pillage, HRW has said. While the settlements are condemned worldwide, Israel keeps building more.World News
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