Driven by faith, activists stand up to fellow Jews to protect Palestinians

Sharp and around 30 other activists are part of a small movement of Israelis, many of them religious Jews, who periodically go to the occupied West Bank with a mission to protect Palestinians under growing assault by violent settlers.

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Israel vows to strengthen West Bank settlements as four Palestinians killed in clashes

The Palestinian Presidency accused the Israeli government of providing “financial and political support” to settlers to escalate their “terror attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, and to implement a plan of forced displacement, while continuing its war against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip despite the announcement of a ceasefire.”

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EU sanctions key leaders of Israeli settler movement

"Those listed are extremist Israeli settlers and organizations which support them, and are responsible for serious and systematic human rights abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank," the EU said.

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Israel launches settlement registration system in occupied West Bank

"What was once advanced incrementally is now pursued through digitized cadastral engineering. A land registry presented as bureaucratic modernization is, in substance, an instrument for the consolidation of unlawful territorial acquisition," said prominent Israeli legal expert Itay Epshtain.

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Iraq condemns Israel’s death penalty bill for Palestinians prisoners

Foreign ministers of Germany, France, the UK, and Italy have previously voiced “deep concern, and warned that the bill, if passed into law, will “significantly expand the possibilities to impose the death penalty in Israel.”

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Israeli settler Christmas attack wounds Palestinian infant, 5 arrested

An eight-month-old baby suffered injuries to her face and head after Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian home north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

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14 countries condemn Israeli approval of new West Bank settlements

Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and the United Kingdom, condemned the Israeli approval of 19 new West Bank settlements, which are deemed illegal under international law.

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Israel approves 19 new settlements in West Bank

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that the increase of settlements, deemed illegal under international law, will serve to "block the creation of a terrorist Palestinian state."

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International activists attacked, beaten by Israeli settlers in West Bank

Three Italians and a Canadian citizen were reportedly beaten by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, with one of the victims saying, "Their goal is clear: to terrorize Palestinians and push them to abandon the lands on which they have always lived."

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