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PLO official Hanan Ashrawi (photo credit: Ahmad Gharabli/Flash90)
April 15, 2017, 2:08 pm
PLO official: Settlers now inhabit the White House
Ahead of Abbas visit to DC, Hanan Ashrawi says views of the 'far right' have moved from Israel's fringes to its leadership and now to Washington
By TOI staff
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman visits the Tel Hashomer IDF base, where he spoke to new army recruits, on March 19, 2017. (Flash90)
April 12, 2017, 7:12 pm
Liberman bashes UN for silence on Palestinians killed in Gaza, Lebanon
Defense minister speaks by telephone with envoy Nickolay Mladenov about Hamas executions and refugee camp shootings
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and IAF commander Major General, Amir Eshel at the unveiling of the David's Sling missile defense system at the Hatzor Air Force base on April 2, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)
April 3, 2017, 2:35 pm
Defensive yield
Does protection entail slinging air defense interceptor missiles, or having a wicked economic improvement plan? Either way, Israel hopes things are gonna change
By Joshua Davidovich
Palestinian youth show their skills during a graduation ceremony as part of a training camp run by the Hamas movement on January 29, 2015 in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. (AFP photo/Said Khatib)
April 3, 2017, 12:10 pm
Explosion in Gaza injures 3 at reported Hamas military site
Online pictures show black smoke rising near Rafah from apparent training accident
By Dov Lieber
Illustrative photo of a Palestinian throwing a rock at Israeli Border Police during clashes in East Jerusalem on September 18, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90/File)
April 1, 2017, 12:29 am
Palestinian teen suspected of throwing rocks shot by IDF near Ramallah
Earlier Friday, soldiers arrest resident of a village near Hebron carrying knife at Tomb of the Patriarchs
By TOI staff
Palestinian chief negotiator and Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Saeb Erekat, speaks during a press conference in the West Bank city of Jericho on February 15, 2017. (AFP/AHMAD GHARABLI)
March 31, 2017, 10:12 am
Palestinians, UN chief rap new settlement for Amona evacuees
Saeb Erekat, Hanan Ashrawi slams 'extremist' Israeli government, accuse it of 'apartheid, ethnic cleansing'; spokesman for Guterres expresses 'disappointment and alarm'
By AFP and TOI staff
Police and paramedics at the scene of a suspected murder in the northern city of Tiberias, March 29, 2017. (MDA spokesperson)
March 30, 2017, 2:50 pm
Murders most gruesome on the front page
Papers don't allow readers to look away from a grisly beheading and memories of a bloody lynching 16 years ago
By Joshua Davidovich
This courtroom sketch shows Venezuelan-born Ilich Ramirez Sanchez known as 'Carlos the Jackal' during his trial at a Paris courthouse, France, dated March 28, 2017. (Eliza Parmentier via AP)
March 28, 2017, 4:29 pm
Carlos the Jackal gets another life sentence for 1974 Paris bombing
Notorious terrorist cites his allegiance to Palestinian resistance, refuses to recognize court, boasts of past killings
By AFP
Conscientious objector Tamar Ze'evi. (Ido Heimberg/Mesarvot)
March 23, 2017, 11:36 pm
IDF recognizes anti-occupation draft refuser as conscientious objector
Tamar Ze'evi says she was exempted for opposing Israel's West Bank policies, marking shift, but military says she was against 'army service of any kind'
By Judah Ari Gross
Palestinians queue in front of the Interior Ministry branch in East Jerusalem, July 6, 2008. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)
March 22, 2017, 4:21 pm
More East Jerusalem Palestinians seek Israeli citizenship
Palestinians want rights and freer travel but Interior Ministry takes average of three years to rule on applicants
By Karin Laub and Mohammed Daraghmeh
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a press conference after meeting with Belgian Prime Minister in Brussels on February 9, 2017. (AFP/Emmanuel Dunand)
March 18, 2017, 6:38 pm
Abbas said invited to White House mid-April
Palestinian media report PA president heading to Washington next month, a week after he spoke to Trump for the first time
By TOI staff
The security barrier seen in the background of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al-Amud, October 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 17, 2017, 3:50 am
High Court recognizes Arab residents’ ties to Jerusalem
Ruling this week in case of American-Palestinian who returned to the city of his birth seen as a precedent
By AP
Illustrative: Palestinian riot police clash with Palestinian protesters in Ramallah. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
March 12, 2017, 6:21 pm
PA security forces suppress protest in Ramallah
Palestinian police use batons, tear gas to disperse demonstrators outside trial of prominent Palestinian activist; 11 injured and six detained
By Dov Lieber
Basel al-A'araj, who was killed in a gunfire exchange with Israeli troops on March 6, 2017, speaks in front of a group at a cemetery in Qabatiya, in the northern West Bank, on December 19, 2014. (Screen capture: YouTube)
March 10, 2017, 1:33 pm
Israel delays returning body of Palestinian killed in shootout with IDF
Army confirms it won't return Basel al-A'araj's remains to his family, but declines to say if it ever agreed to
By Dov Lieber
A woman looks at the sea as Palestinian families of fishermen shout slogans during a protest against Israel's blockade on the Gaza Strip on March 9, 2017 in Gaza City. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)
March 10, 2017, 2:41 am
Minister floats plan for Gaza seaport island to end blockade
Critics say Yisrael Katz's proposal for an artificial land mass linked to Strip by a bridge is just a gimmick without Palestinian buy-in
By Aron Heller
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