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One of the call’s Jewish participants, William Daroff, senior vice president for public policy and director of the Washington office of the Jewish Federations of North America, retweeted during the meeting: “Jews are leading effort to kill #Irandeal”. Nowadays,...

Four people were wounded in the strike, among them two police officers in an adjacent police, one of them seriously.

The Palestinian Authority called on the worldwide community to hold Israel accountable for the violence against West Bank Palestinians and for their protection. Many suspect radicalized Jewish teens have been behind those attacks on Palestinian homes, agriculture and livestock,...

To date, Israeli authorities have used this measure against Israeli citizens sparingly, but have routinely applied it to Palestinians: Israel is now holding 370 Palestinians in administrative detention.

Israeli media reported signs of improvement in Ahmed’s condition, although his life remained in danger.

In the past, Israel had defended the administrative detention of Palestinians as a necessary tool for preventing attacks. A 16-year-old girl stabbed in the incident, Shira Banki, has succumbed to her injuries.

The incident comes as tensions between Israelis and Palestinians are high after the torching of a Palestinian home in the West Bank last week by suspected Jewish extremists that killed a Palestinian toddler and severely wounded his parents and 4-year-old brother.

Pitella said the use by Israel of administrative detention orders – which allow for renewable six-month periods of detention without trial – not only against Palestinians but also against extremist Jews “doesn’t help”.

The attack prompted pledges by Israel’s government to get tougher on Jewish vigilantes who have repeatedly attacked Palestinians over the years.

“On Tu B’Av, the festival of love, when around us we are seeing more and more displays of hatred and violence that make us all cringe, we must love and respect each other”, he wrote, according to Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz. “From what we’ve seen...

The attack on the Dawabsheh home, coupled with an ultra-Orthodox Jew’s fatal stabbing of a 16-year-old girl at a gay pride parade the previous day, sparked outrage in Israel and several large-scale anti-violence demonstrations. As opposed to impression that officials are...

Palestinian ambassador to Jordan, Atallah Khairi, told Jordanian newspaper al-Ghad that the decision was taken following an arson attack by suspected Jewish settlers which killed Palestinian infant Ali Dawabsha and critically injured his father, mother and four-year-old brother.

A Palestinian health official said at least four Palestinians from the same family were killed and 13 people were wounded in the Gaza Strip Thursday by an explosion of Israeli military ordnance left over from last summer’s war.

The Palestinian Football Federation has postponed the second leg of the Palestine Cup final, between the champions of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, after Israel denied entry permits to some of the Gaza players, sport officials said.

Ali’s parents and a four-year-old brother were also injured in the attack.