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Calif. protesters block Israel-owned ship at Port of Oakland
Pro-Palestinian activists for the second day blocked an Israeli-owned ship from docking at the Port of Oakland in a protest against Israel’s military action in Gaza.
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Israeli boy killed by Gaza mortar; Rocket strike near Ashdod leaves man critically hurt
Medical officials in southern Israel announced the death of a four-year-old Israeli boy who suffered serious injuries when a mortar launched from the northern Gaza Strip directly slammed into a car before sundown on Friday.
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Hamas leader: Don't compare us to ISIL
In an interview with Yahoo News, the political leader of Hamas today vigorously rejected any comparison to ISIL terrorists and pledged that the Palestinian militant group will start giving warnings to Israelis about impending rocket attacks in order to avoid the killing of innocent civilians.
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Israel Defense Force OKs Some Medical Marijuana Use
The Israel Defense Force (IDF) confirmed that citizens who hold a medical marijuana licesnse from the Minestry of Health are allowed to consume their medicine during service and during their stay on the military base.
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Israeli Premier, Hamas Declare Victory in Gaza War
Both Israel's prime minister and Hamas declared victory Wednesday in the Gaza war, though their competing claims left questions over future terms of their uneasy peace still lingering.
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Israel Bans Water Fluoridation
Israeli authorities last week unveiled a nationwide ban on the controversial practice of adding the chemical fluoride, labeled a “neurotoxin” by a top medical journal this year, to public water supplies as a medical treatment. The decision by the Health Ministry to ban what critics call a dangerous, involuntary mass-medication scheme drew applause from many medical and some dental experts around the world.
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Gaza's Shattered Airport, Once A Symbol Of Sovereignty
It's hard to imagine a more compelling monument to the rise and fall of the Palestinian dream of statehood than the bombed-out ruins that the 1.8 million people of Gaza call their international airport.
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Israel announces it will seize 400 acres in West Bank
Israel is being accuse of causing “more friction” after the Gaza war when it announced on Sunday a land appropriation in the occupied West Bank. It has declared 400 acres near Bethlehem to be Israeli state land.
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Huge new Israeli settlement in West Bank condemned by US and UK
The UK and US governments have criticised, in unusually strong language, Israel's decision to approve one of the largest appropriations of Palestinian land for settlement in recent decades. The UK foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, said he deplored the move as "particularly ill-judged".
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Israel Provides Intelligence on Islamic State: Western Diplomat
Israel has provided satellite imagery and other intelligence in support of the U.S.-led aerial campaign against Islamic State in Iraq, a Western diplomat said on Monday. Once "scrubbed" of evidence of its Israeli origin, the information has often been shared by Washington with Arab and Turkish allies, the diplomat said. Israel's Defense Ministry neither confirmed nor denied involvement in any international efforts against the militant group.
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Drone Footage Shows How Completely Destroyed Gaza Is Right Now
Gaza was devastated by this summer's 50-day war between Israel and Hamas, which killed more than 2,100 Palestinians, 64 Israeli soldiers, and five Israeli civilians. Israeli air strikes destroyed more 17,000 homes, 360 factories (about 10 percent of Gaza's industrial capacity), and 42,000 acres of farmland. More than 100,000 Gazans have been displaced from their homes.
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Cuba sends six-ton medical aid shipment to Gaza
Cuba has sent six tons of medical supplies to Gaza in the wake of Operation Protective Edge, a 50-day conflict between Israel and Hamas that killed 72 Israelis, including a four-year-old child, and over 2,100 Palestinians, at least half of them gunmen according to Israel.
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NSA shared Americans' private communications with Israel: Snowden
Former U.S. intelligence analyst Edward Snowden has accused the U.S. National Security Agency of routinely passing private, unedited communications of Americans to Israel, an expert on the intelligence agency said Wednesday. James Bamford, writing in the New York Times, said Snowden told him the intercepts included communications of Arab- and Palestinian-Americans whose relatives in Israel and the Palestinian territories could become targets based on the information
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews cause chaos on flight to Israel
Flight delayed for hours because of demand to segregate men and women
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Sister of murdered Iranian nuclear scientist blames Revolutionary Guards - not Israel
Ardeshir Hosseinpour was assassinated in 2007 because he would not help Iran develop atomic weapons, his sibling tells Western media source.
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Syrian boy, 5, survives bullet lodged in neck
Syrian boy rushed across the border to field hospital in Israel with bullet millimetres from main blood vessels
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Putin calls on Israel to halt settlement in major policy speech, report says
Russian president calls the Middle East conflict a 'major cause of tension, not only in the region but in the whole world.'
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Violence spreads across Israel after shooting in Galilee
Video evidence shows police firing at Kheir Hamdan, 22, as he was running away from them – contradicting the police story
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Map: The countries that recognize Palestine as a state
Last week, Sweden became the 135th member of the United Nations to officially recognize Palestine as an independent state. The act sparked a tetchy diplomatic incident with Israel, which WorldViews discussed here.
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Gaza - a long look at a small place
Today, the Palestinian enclave of Gaza is known as a flashpoint for conflict that far eclipses its minuscule size. At 140 square miles - sharing an eight-mile frontier with Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and hugging Israel’s border for nearly 32 miles - the sliver of desert is only twice the area of the District of Columbia. Yet modern Gaza’s reputation for turmoil is not new: Throughout its history, this Middle Eastern territory has rarely been at peace.
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