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February 15, 2014

Religious Jews and Arabs are getting poorer under Netanyahu government warns Central Bank

The Central Bank of Israel has warned that the religious Jews and Israel’s Arab citizens are the only two groups in society which have got poorer under successive Netanyahu...

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February 15, 2014

Defence Minister says Israel will "respond" to any attack

Israel’s Defence Minister warned on Wednesday that his government will respond to any attack against the country, the Israeli media has reported. Moshe Ya’alon was speaking amid claims that...

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February 15, 2014

Abbas blames Israeli arrogance and intransigence for martyrdom of Abu-Hamdiyya

President Mahmoud Abbas has blamed Israel’s “arrogance and intransigence” for the death of Maysara Abu-Hamdiyya on Tuesday. The 65 year-old prisoner was in an Israeli hospital when he died,...

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February 15, 2014

MK accuses Israeli prison administration of "slow murder"

An Arab member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has accused the country’s prison administration of “slow murder” following the death in custody of Maysara Abu-Hamdiyya. Haneen Zoabi, MK,...

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February 15, 2014

Syrian rights group records 6,500 killed in March

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has announced that last month witnessed a rise in the number of deaths in Syria, with 6,500 women, men and children killed. This...

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February 15, 2014

Israelis kill two young Palestinians in occupied West Bank

On the third day of protests which erupted following the death of a Palestinian prisoner in Israeli custody, Israel’s occupation forces shot and killed two young Palestinians. Three others...

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February 15, 2014

Jordanian Islamists will not take part in "absurd" government

The Secretary General of the Jordanian Islamic Action Front has announced that his party is not going to take part in the upcoming Jordanian government. Shaikh Hamza Mansour said...

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February 15, 2014

Freed hunger striker's brother is detained

After 261 days on hunger strike in an Israeli jail, Palestinian prisoner Ayman Al-Sharawneh was deported to Gaza on Sunday evening. At dawn the following morning, Al-Sharawneh’s brother Jihad...

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February 15, 2014

Russell Tribunal accuses Israel of apartheid violations

The Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) demanded on Sunday that the ICC investigate crimes against humanity being committed by Israel in the Palestinian occupied territories. The Russell Tribunal on...

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February 15, 2014

Haniyyah: Palestinian-Egyptian relations are unbreakable

The Palestinian Prime Minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyyah, on Sunday stressed the strength of Palestinian-Egyptian relations saying, “No one can spoil them.” The PM firmly ruled out any threat...

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