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Israel accused of apartheid

Israel is guilty of apartheid policies for its persecution of Palestinians along with its own Arab minority, says the world’s leading international rights group. What exactly does a

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Palestinians protest against Israel's annexation plans

See Palestinians and Israelis protesting Israel's plans to illegally annex parts of the West Bank and Jordan River Valley.According to the UN, Israel has been ille

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Trump warns Israel that settlements 'complicate' peace hopes

USPresidentDonaldTrumphassaidIsraelisettlements"complicate"thepeaceprocesswithPalestiniansandurged"care"overtheissue.PresidentTrump'srecognitionofJerusalemasIsr

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Saudi Arabia elites released after paying corruption settlements

SomeofSaudiArabia'smostpowerfulmendetainedinNovemberinananti-corruptionpurgehavebeenreleased.AmongthosesetfreeareWaleedal-Ibrahim,theheadofMBCtelevisionnetwork,

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Israeli forces demolish illegal building in West Bank settlement

IsraelisecurityforcesdemolishedWednesdayanillegally-builtcarpentryworkshopinaJewishoutpostintheWestBank,asdozensofsettlerswererallyingthesitetoprotestthedemolit

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Israel passes controversial law on West Bank settlements

Israel's parliament has passed a controversial law retroactively legalising about 4,000 homes built on settlements in the occupied West Bank.

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Israel's Netanyahu blasts Kerry's Middle East policy speech

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday slammed the United States State Secretary John Kerry's Middle East policy speech, denouncing Kerry as "obsessed" and "biased."

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Israel pulls back from approving new East Jerusalem homes ahead of Kerry speech

Jerusalem's city hall canceled a vote on Wednesday on applications to build nearly 500 new homes for Israelis in East Jerusalem, a municipal official said, plans that had drawn U.S. criticism in a raging dispute over settlements.

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Israeli PM summons envoys of Security Council members over settlement vote

​Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday summoned ambassadors of the UN Security Council's member countries for a reprimand over a West Bank settlements resolution, the Foreign Ministry said.

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Israeli PM slams Obama over UN vote on settlements

​Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed at the Obama administration on Saturday, after a U.S. abstention in a UN vote that passed a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlement construction.

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Egypt's Sisi agrees delay on UN Israel vote after Trump call

Egypt agreed to postpone a UN Security Council resolution against Israeli settlements when US President-elect Donald Trump called President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the presidency said Friday.

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Israeli bills draw Palestinian warning

A senior Palestinian official has said his government will go to the UN to stop what he called a series of "escalatory measures" by Israel.

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Israeli right-wing politicians take part in demonstration against peace talks

Thousands of Israeli right-wing protesters, among them parliament members and ministers, gathered in the West Bank Thursday to encourage settlements construction and to protest against the ongoing peace talks, local media reported.

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Israel slams EU stance over settlements construction

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed Thursday the European Union (EU) as "hypocrisy" after four European states summoned Israeli ambassadors to their countries over Israel's recent construction plan for 1,400 new housing units in the West Bank and east Jerusalem settlement, local media reported.

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Any future agreement would be "fair and balanced": Kerry

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday morning before leaving Israel that any future peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians would be "fair and balanced."