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Photos show Palestinian couples celebrating a mass wedding in Gaza
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (11+ words) CT Insider...
Palestinian authorities call local elections in a Gaza community and the West Bank a success
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (511+ words) The Palestinian Authority, which administers semiautonomous areas of the West Bank but is left out of the U. S. -drafted ceasefire plan for Gaza, has described Saturday's local election in central Gaza's Deir al-Balah as a largely symbolic pilot while the authority…...
Palestinians hold funerals for pregnant woman and her children killed in Israeli strikes
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (458+ words) The toll on Friday included two men who were killed in Gaza City, and eight others killed in the southern city of Khan Younis, according to local hospitals. Officials at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said the eight people, including…...
Local elections in the West Bank and part of Gaza could test public trust
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (845+ words) Turnout may reflect the level of public trust in a broader system led by aging leaders in the West Bank and as Gaza prepares for an anticipated transition from Hamas rule. The vote in the West Bank will determine the…...
Palestinians mourn third teenager killed in occupied West Bank this week
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (235+ words) CT Insider Palestinians in the northern West Bank village of Tell mourned the death of Youssef Shtayyeh on Friday after health officials said he was gunned down by Israeli forces in the nearby city of Nablus Waving Palestinian flags and…...
Israel's death penalty law has little to do with criminal justice and everything to do with ethno-nationalism
3+ week, 1+ day ago (840+ words) Arie Perliger, UMass Lowell (THE CONVERSATION) In its nearly 80-year history, the state of Israel has carried out only one court-sanctioned execution: Adolf Eichmann, a principal architect of the Nazi holocaust. But under a law passed by the Israeli parliament…...
Israel's parliament approves the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis
4+ week, 1+ day ago (803+ words) The passage of the bill marked the culmination of a yearslong drive by the far-right to escalate punishment for Palestinians convicted of nationalistic offenses against Israelis. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to the Knesset to vote for the bill in…...
Israel punishes a military unit that assaulted a CNN crew in the West Bank
4+ week, 1+ day ago (363+ words) The army announced Monday it was suspending the Netzah Yehuda battalion after soldiers were filmed assaulting the CNN crew last week. Netzah Yehuda is a unit of ultra-Orthodox soldiers that has been linked to abuses of Palestinian civilians in the…...