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Disaster prompts president to lift moratorium on death penalty, a move human rights groups say is ‘a retreat into barbarism’
PALESTINE’S Foreign Ministry warned yesterday that the killing of four youths by Israeli forces was a “dangerous escalation.”
Four Palestinian boys aged between 16 and 19, all from the West Bank town of Sa’ir, near Hebron, were shot dead in two separate incidents after allegedly attacking Israeli occupation troops with knives.
No Israelis were injured in either incident.
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
RAMZY BAROUD looks at how entire West Bank communities have been shattered, their social and physical fabric deliberately dismantled by Israel to enable its formal annexation