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Disaster prompts president to lift moratorium on death penalty, a move human rights groups say is ‘a retreat into barbarism’
TWO teenage Palestinian girls were detained by Israeli occupation forces yesterday for alleged knife attacks.
The arrests came hours after three Palestinian members of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, were suspended on the orders of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In East Jerusalem’s old city, Israeli border police approached a 16-year-old girl at the Damascus Gate who was “moving in a suspicious way,” Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri said.
Police crackdowns on Israeli peace demonstrators combined with court rulings and settler organisations are designed to strip Palestinian families of their homes and land. The Israeli state has tried to silence both Israelis and Palestinians who resist, according to Zo HaDerekh (This Is The Way) the Communist Party of Israel’s Hebrew-language weekly
Labour's Emily Thornberry calls on PM to ban goods from Israel-held Palestinian territory
82 MPs and peers test incoming premier Andy Burnham’s intentions to reset government policy towards Israel