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Teju Cole: Slow violence, cold violence – Teju Cole on East Jerusalem | World news | The Guardian Not all violence is hot. There’s cold violence too, which takes its time and finally gets its way. Children going to school and coming home are exposed to it. Fathers and mothers listen to...

Ra'anana city hall. Photo by Sharon Bukov The Ra’anana municipality has canceled an event organized by the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Israel, concerned that the religious group’s meeting would “hurt the feelings of the public.” The event, which should have been held Saturday in the Ra’anana...

The demolioshed construction in Dahamsheh, April 15, 2015. Photo by Moti Milrod Three homes were destroyed Wednesday under a demolition order in the unrecognized village of Dahamesh, near Lod – the third demolition of construction in an Arab community within 48 hours. The demolition in...

Supreme Court rules: Israel can confiscate Palestinian property in Jerusalem - National - Israel News | Haaretz The East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabal Mukkaber, seen from the new Jewish neighborhood of Nof Zion.Photo by Eyal Toueg Only a day after the High Court of Justice upheld most of...

Report: Israel targeted Lebanon post in which Spanish peacekeeper died - Diplomacy and Defense - Israel News | Haaretz A Serbian soldier as part of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) monitors the Lebanese-Israeli border, in south Lebanon, January 19, 2015. Photo by Reuters...

Israel: Settlement Agriculture Harms Palestinian Children | Human Rights Watch (Jerusalem) – Israeli settlement farms in the West Bank are using Palestinian child labor to grow, harvest, and pack agricultural produce, much of it for export, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today...

Israeli forces shoot Palestinian dead at his cousin's funeral | Maan News Agency HEBRON (Ma'an) -- A Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli forces on Friday at the funeral for his cousin in the town of Beit Ummar near Hebron. Ziyad Awad, 27, was killed by Israeli forces and thirteen...

Forty refugees killed by Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen - Telegraph Soldiers and Houthi fighters inspect the damage caused by air strikes on the airport of Saada At least 40 refugees were killed by an air strike on Yemen on Monday as Saudi Arabia and allies including Egyptcontinued to...

HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Israeli settlers on Saturday destroyed more than 1,000 olive trees near the village of al-Shuyukh north of Hebron, in the third such attack on the villagers' livelihood in recent memory. Local activist Ahmad al-Halayqa told Ma'an that Israelis from the nearby settlement of...

An 800-page independent report commissioned by the US-friendly Colombian government and the radical left rebel group FARC found that US military soldiers and contractors had sexually abused at least 54 children in Colombia between 2003 and 2007 and, in all cases, the rapists were never...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/world/middleeast/witnesses-who-say-police-killed-activist-areto-be-charged-in-egypt.html CAIRO — Egyptian prosecutors are bringing criminal charges against witnesses who said they saw the police kill an unarmed poet and activist during a demonstration, a...

Israel killed more Palestinians in 2014 than in any other year since 1967 | World news | The Guardian The conflict in Gaza in July and August was largely responsible for the deaths of 2,220 Palestinians. Photograph: Imago/Barcroft Media Israel killed more Palestinian civilians in 2014 than in...

Islamist groups seize Syrian city Idlib for first time| Reuters (Reuters) - Islamist groups including al Qaeda's Nusra Front have seized the city of Idlib for the first time in Syria's civil war, fighters and a monitoring group said on Saturday. By taking Idlib, capital of a northwestern...

At least six children under the age of 10 were among a reported 25 people killed in Saudi Arabian-led airstrikes in the Yemeni capital Sana’a early this morning, Amnesty International confirmed after speaking to hospital officials and eyewitnesses. The organization spoke to medical personnel at...

JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel apologized on Monday for making what were widely condemned as racist comments last week in saying that Arab citizens were voting in “droves.” But even as he spoke with a group of Israeli Arabs gathered at his Jerusalem residence, the White...

HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Masked Israeli settlers from the settlement of Ma'on south of Hebron threw stones at a group of Palestinians injuring a six-year-old child on Saturday. The child sustained a head injury and was taken to the nearest hospital for medical treatment, according to witnesses. An...

German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel (above) said this week in Homburg that the U.S. government threatened to cease sharing intelligence with Germany if Berlin offered asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden or otherwise arranged for him to travel to that country. “They told us they would...

Obama pauses while speaking to the City Club of Cleveland about middle class economics in Ohio, March 18, 2015.Photo by Reuters The Obama administration might be open to lending its support to the UN Security Council's resolution that would define the principle for a two-state solution as based...

NABLUS (Ma'an) -- A Palestinian family has accused Israeli forces of stealing money and jewelry from their family home near Nablus during a military raid Sunday. Family members of Wisdam Nassar from the village of Madama south of Nablus told Ma'an they realized Tuesday that 5,000 shekels...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Benjamin Netanyahu's apparent reelection puts Israel on a course toward ever deeper confrontation with the world. To govern, his Likud Party would need to depend on ultranationalists - a recipe for neither stability nor bold moves toward Mideast peace. A period of some...