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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US envoy Kushner meets Hamas' leader in push for a Gaza road map before heading to see Netanyahu

The talks aim to salvage the new 15-point, U.S.-backed road map for Hamas to disarm in Gaza and Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian territory shattered by war.

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'Surrounded': Israel's new West Bank settlements bring chaos to Palestinians

"We never leave the place unless we have two people here," says Rahal, a 31-year-old father of three, pointing to the roof of a settler's newly installed prefabricated home 100 metres from his house.

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Hamas agrees to disarm, Israel to withdraw from Gaza: Board of Peace

"For the first time, Hamas officially has committed to an actionable plan for relinquishing all its weapons, which will be followed by Israeli withdrawal from Gaza," said the US-backed Board of Peace.

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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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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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Gaza aid flotilla says vessels intercepted by Israeli forces near Greece

The official Flotilla Instagram account issued an update saying that the boarding crew pointed "lasers and semi-automatic assault weapons" at occupants and ordered them to get on their hands and knees.

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Muslim nations denounce controversial Israeli death penalty law

"The rule is death, life imprisonment is the exception," Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir declared after the legislation's approval.

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Iraq expresses regret to Arab diplomats over failure to support UN maritime submission

Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister for Bilateral Relations Mohammed Hussein Bahr al-Uloom met with the ambassadors of Egypt, Palestine, and Jordan to discuss the controversial maritime issues.

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