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- Israel lashes out at UNHRC after LIST of companies doing business in occupied Palestine is finally released
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has released a long-delayed database of firms doing business in the occupied Palestinian territories. The anodyne, well-hidden document was denounced by Tel Aviv as ‘shameful capitulation.’Feb 12, 2020 15:57World News - Israeli cops disguised as Palestinians attacked by Jewish teens in no-Arabs-allowed settlement, 2 arrestedTwo teenage boys from the Jewish-only settlement of Bat Ayin have been arrested for attacking a pair of cops disguised as Palestinian laborers in what the right-wing legal aid group defending them has condemned as a “provocation.”Jan 1, 2020 20:44World News
- Netanyahu demands US backing of Jordan Valley 'annexation plan' after Washington denies he ever spoke of it with PompeoThe embattled Prime Minister wants Washington to approve of Israel's further expansion into the Jordan Valley, just days after he urged Donald Trump not to miss a rare chance to back Tel Aviv's territorial appetites.Dec 8, 2019 13:23World News
- Fruit of ‘US-backed colonization’: Israel to DOUBLE Jewish population in West Bank’s HebronTwo weeks after the US announced that it did not consider illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories to be in breach of international law, Israel announced a plan to double the Jewish population of Hebron.Dec 1, 2019 14:54World News
- Palestine warns breaking off relations with US over ‘legalization’ of West Bank settlements is imminentPalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has threatened to end the nation's relationship with the US after the Trump administration declared Israel's Jewish-only settlements in the West Bank – illegal under international law – legal.Nov 26, 2019 19:27World News
- Moscow slams US decision to ‘legalize’ Israeli settlements in West Bank, says it puts spanner in the works for peace processThe US decision to recognize Israeli settlements in the West Bank as legal will aggravate the situation in the region, Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.Nov 19, 2019 13:28World News
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