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The mother (C) of 15-year-old Palestinian Mohammed Ibrahim Ayoub, who was reportedly shot and killed by the IDF during clashes along the Israel-Gaza border, sits as another person raises his portrait, among other relatives as they mourn in their home in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza strip on April 21, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)
Army said to find teen was trying to damage Gaza fence when shot
By TOI staff and Agencies
EU joins US, UN in urging Israel to investigate Friday's killing of Mohammed Ayoub, 15; IDF says he apparently crossed barbed wire barrier and was heading to main border fence
Former Dutch prime minister Dries van Agt (CC BY Heden en verleden in het Torentje, Wikimedia Commons)
October 31, 2017, 4:40 am
Dutch ex-PM uses Nazi-era word to describe Palestinian arrests
Jewish leader slams use of term by Dries van Agt, a pro-Palestinian activist who in 2012 said Jews should have 'gotten a piece of land in Germany'
By JTA
A portion of the security barrier, which largely separates the West Bank from Israel, under construction near Jerusalem. (Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)
October 28, 2017, 3:36 am
IDF seals off 10 tunnels under West Bank security fence
Dozens of Palestinians managed to cross into Israel through the passages, which were built to serve as drainage pipes
By TOI staff
A photo posted to Facebook on October 15, 2017, by a Palestinian worker that led to his mistaken arrest by Israeli police (courtesy)
October 22, 2017, 9:49 am
Israeli police arrest Palestinian for ‘good morning’ Facebook post
Relying on web translation service, officers erroneously conclude worker wrote 'hurt them' and was planning an attack
By Jacob Magid
Illustrative photo of an Israeli army jeep in Hebron, November 7, 2013 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
October 16, 2017, 5:04 pm
For first time in 15 years, Israel okays new homes for Hebron settlers
Move seen as a response to UNESCO listing divided West Bank city as a Palestine heritage site; Palestinian municipality to petition against the 31 housing units
By Jacob Magid
Israeli border policemen stand guard outside Damascus Gate, a main entrance to Jerusalem's Old City, on July 15, 2017. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)
October 13, 2017, 1:58 am
Arab man said injured as Jewish youths riot in Jerusalem
Large group descends on Muslim Quarter, reportedly causes extensive damage to store and cars
By TOI staff
Fatah's Azzam al-Ahmad, right, and Saleh al-Arouri, left, of Hamas shake hands after signing a reconciliation deal in Cairo on October 12, 2017, as the two rival Palestinian movements ostensibly ended their decade-long split following negotiations overseen by Egypt. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)
October 13, 2017, 1:07 am
What’s behind Jerusalem’s tepid condemnation of Palestinian unity
Relatively muted Israeli criticism of Fatah-Hamas reconciliation is likely due to American and Egyptian investment in it -- and the dire state of Gaza
By Raphael Ahren
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks to the media during a visit to a UN school in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on August 30, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)
October 12, 2017, 11:40 pm
UN chief will work with US despite UNESCO pullout
Antonio Guterres 'deeply regrets' US decision to withdraw from agency but 'works well with US government,' says spokesman
By AFP
Efrat Mayor and settlements advocate Oded Revivi speaks to a gathering of Israelis and Palestinians at his sukkah in Efrat, October 11, 2017. (Courtesy Yesha Council)
October 11, 2017, 9:15 pm
Dozens of Palestinians visit settlement mayor’s sukkah in reconciliation event
After similar gathering at Efrat home of Oded Revivi last year, four Palestinians were arrested by PA security forces and held for days
By TOI staff
Illustrative: A Palestinian construction worker in Israel (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
September 28, 2017, 12:36 pm
Illegal Palestinian worker arrested for allegedly planning stabbing attack
Police say man employed at Tel Aviv construction site confessed to intending to buy a knife in order 'to stab Jews'
By TOI staff
A statue depicting Supreme Court Justice Miriam Naor, placed illegally near the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on August 31, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 28, 2017, 10:59 am
No justice, no peace
An event marking 50 years of settlements is overshadowed by the Supreme Court's decision to not send a judge, with the bench seen as both villain and hero
By Joshua Davidovich
The synagogue at Ulm. (Courtesy www.tourismus.ulm.de)
September 15, 2017, 11:52 pm
Attacks on German synagogue ‘may have been anti-Semitic,’ police say
On Aug. 26 and Sept. 2, perpetrators damaged the facade of Ulm's New Synagogue; no suspects yet
By JTA
Israeli soldiers guard at a bus stop in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem on October 19, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 13, 2017, 9:39 am
Burden of dreams
Ruling forcing young ultra-Orthodox men into army is just the start of the story, though papers are already rife with fantasies of draft equality -- or judges put in their place
By Joshua Davidovich
Border Police officers check the ID of Palestinian women at the entrance to the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron on July 9, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
September 8, 2017, 6:41 pm
Palestinian arrested with knife near Tomb of the Patriarchs
Resident of Hebron in his twenties nabbed by Border Police, transferred to security forces for interrogation
By TOI staff
Beers and friendship (Illustrative image via iStock)
September 4, 2017, 2:34 pm
Mohamed, my friend the enemy
When you look someone in the eye, and he looks back at you, our differences seem rather small
By Mariano Gorbatt
Schoolchildren in the West Bank Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar. (YouTube screenshot)
August 24, 2017, 8:49 pm
EU condemns Israeli dismantling of Palestinian schools
Officials say structures were built without a permits; PA prime minister says 'confiscation' part of policy to build more settlements
By AFP and TOI staff
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