The newspaper said the money’s tax-deductible status means the USA government “is incentivizing and indirectly supporting the Israeli settlement movement”, even though Washington opposes settlement construction and views it as an obstacle to peace with the Palestinians.
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The Palestinian prisoner rights group Addameer said she had also been fined $2,600 and given a five-year suspended sentence. It said forces fired warning shots to disperse them.
Israeli officials have frequently asserted that a recent wave of nearly daily Palestinian terror attacks against Israelis has been prompted by incitement in social and traditional media.
Qaraqe condemned what he said was a “campaign” to prosecute Palestinian parliamentarians.
Customs workers at the Haifa port in northern Israel halted the transfer of 4000 dolls to the Palestinian Authority on Tuesday, citing their incendiary nature.
Israel considers the PFLP a terrorist organisation and at the time of her arrest the Israeli army said she posed unspecified “substantial security risks”.
These measures include the demolition of the homes of alleged Palestinian attackers; the detention of Palestinian minors for throwing stones; and a refusal by the Israeli authorities to hand the bodies of slain Palestinians over to their families.
Numerous stabbings, shootings, and vehicle attacks occurred in or near East Jerusalem, which Palestinians consider their rightful capital.
She said that research shows that children of the target age for the dolls, three to eight, are “very much influenced by their toys” and commented: ‘We should be anxious that this kind of toys is going to the West Bank’.
Alleged attacks on Israelis have mainly been carried out by young Palestinians – many of whom have used improvised weapons, such as kitchen knives or vehicles – rather than organized resistance groups.
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Over the weekend, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned that continued settlement construction and other Israeli policies in the West Bank could endanger Israel’s future as a Jewish, democratic state.
