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Palestinian killed in Israeli military raid in West Bank

Mar. 23, 2023 07:18 AM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli security forces killed a Palestinian militant during a raid in the northern West Bank on Thursday, Palestinian health officials said, the latest escalation of violence in what has been the deadliest start of a year for Palestinians in the occupied territory in more than...

Palestinians and Israelis clash at UN over Netanyahu actions

Mar. 22, 2023 20:31 PM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Palestinians and Israel clashed over the future intentions of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far right-wing government at a U.N. Security Council meeting Wednesday, with the Palestinian U.N. ambassador pointing to an Israeli minister’s statement “denying our...

Bipartisan support emerges for Senate railroad safety bill

Mar. 22, 2023 18:11 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan consensus that Congress should act to toughen regulations on railroads emerged Wednesday as senators heard fresh testimony on the fiery hazardous train derailment last month on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. Both Republicans and Democrats on the Senate...

Israeli army admits to covert influence campaign in Gaza war

Mar. 22, 2023 13:32 PM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Days into Israel’s devastating war with Gaza militants in 2021, the Israeli army began deploying keyboard warriors to a second front: a covert social media operation to praise the military’s bombing campaign in the coastal enclave. The Israeli military...

Georgia bill to define antisemitism stalls in wording fight

Mar. 21, 2023 15:34 PM EDT

A bill that would formally define antisemitism in Georgia law has stalled after an unfriendly amendment in a Senate committee altered the measure in ways its sponsors disagree with, possibly ending the legislation's prospects in the 2023 legislative session. The sponsors of House...

Top Israeli minister: 'No such thing' as Palestinian people

Mar. 21, 2023 01:38 AM EDT

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A firebrand Israeli minister claimed there’s “no such thing” as a Palestinian people as Israel's new coalition government, its most hard-line ever, plowed ahead on Monday with a part of its plan to overhaul the judiciary. Prime Minister Benjamin...

Dozens in Indonesia protest Israel's presence at U-20 Cup

Mar. 20, 2023 05:55 AM EDT

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Dozens of conservative Muslims marched in Indonesia's capital on Monday to protests Israel's first-ever participation in the FIFA World Cup Under-20 in Indonesia. The world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation is hosting the U-20 World Cup from May 20...

Military: rocket fired from Gaza lands on southern Israel

Mar. 18, 2023 14:46 PM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket toward southern Israel Saturday evening. The rocket fell and exploded in an open area, triggering warning sirens in the Nahal Oz community to the east of Gaza City. ...

Palestinians: 1 killed by Israeli army fire in West Bank

Mar. 17, 2023 15:27 PM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said troops shot a Palestinian who approached soldiers on Friday and pulled a knife near the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian authorities said the man died of his wounds a short while later. The Palestinian Health...

Palestinians: 4 killed in Israeli army raid in West Bank

Mar. 16, 2023 12:35 PM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli army raid killed four Palestinians, including a teenage boy, near the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday, Palestinian officials said. It was the latest bloodshed in a year-long wave of violence in the region. The Israeli military...