“Iran would also offer “$30,000 to every family whose home the occupation (Israel) has demolished for the participation of one of its sons” in the unrest, he said. “As president … there is nothing I would rather do than to bring peace to Israel and its neighbors generally”, he said. “I don’t think it helps…’ How do you remain neutral when the US considers Israel to be America’s closest ally in the Middle East?”
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“I have stood with Israel my entire career”, she proclaimed in the article. In fact, though, Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians is all about real estate.
He said: “Anyone can observe the changes on the ground which aim to make Jerusalem a capital of the Jewish community”. The Etzion bloc of Israeli settlements, in the southern West Bank between Bethlehem and the flashpoint city of Hebron, has been a focal point of the unrest.
Palestinian prisoners have used hunger strikes before to draw attention to their detention without trial or charges.
A joint investigation by the Shin Bet and the police, whose results were released on Thursday, determined that the assailant, Kamel Hassan, 32, was a devout Muslim and adherent of the Islamic State.
Qiq denied the charges and began the hunger strike after facing torture during interrogation. “The Israeli and the assailant were both evacuated to hospital”.
A wave of violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories since October has killed 177 Palestinians as well as 28 Israelis, an American, a Sudanese and an Eritrean, according to an AFP toll.
Kerry’s failure to intercede in this horrifying case shocked many in Jordan and Palestine.
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, has written to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urging condemnation of the Iranian initiative, Israel public radio reported.
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Hebron has always been a flashpoint in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
