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May 12, 2021 – 10 p.m. Israeli Time — Yesterday morning (Tuesday) we woke up with the news of twenty one Palestinians killed in Gaza, nine of them minors, and two Israeli women killed in Ashkelon (one of them; it later turned out, was a migrant worker from India, and since then, the death toll on both sides more than doubled). Then came the email which I was expecting. Noa Levy of Hadash sent out an urgent call for emergency protests in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, A second message, from the For...

Updated An hour ago A huge column of smoke billows from an oil facility in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on Tuesday after rockets were fired by the Hamas. | Mohammed Abed/AFP A 31-year-old woman from Kerala was killed in a rocket strike in Israel on Tuesday as the conflict between the country and Palestinian militant group Hamas escalated, PTI reported. Soumya, 31, from Kerala’s Idukki district, had been working as a caregiver in Israel since seven years...

May 11, 2021 Jordan is intensifying diplomatic efforts to restore calm in occupied East Jerusalem as it finds itself once more on a collision course with Israel, in particular over the status of Al-Aqsa Mosque compound (Haram al-Sharif, or what Israelis call Temple Mount). On May 10, Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi met with his US counterpart, Antony Blinken, at the State Department discussing the serious conditions in the city of Jerusalem and the efforts aimed at stopping the escalation in th...

Get email notification for articles from Amira Hass Follow May. 12, 2021 12:36 PM How could they be so stupid? That’s the question that keeps repeating in Jerusalem. The people asking it are Palestinians, and the question refers to the Israeli authorities, who have made decisions that even from the Israeli perspective are stupid because they have inflamed a divided city, or more precisely, the eastern half that includes the Old City. There’s a positive side to this stupidity. It’s akin t...

29 shares We had invited supporters to pay tribute to our club captain, Scott Brown, by giving them the opportunity to display their own banners in the stadium, a statement read. Unfortunately a small group, which was given access in good faith, has attempted to exploit this opportunity, taken advantage of an occasion intended for our club captain, Scott Brown, and used it for a different purpose. Clearly this is unacceptable and the display was immediately taken down by the club.  Celtic take...

Israel is heading for full-scale WAR, UN warns, as clashes between Jews and Arabs spark civil war in one city: 43 Palestinians and five Israelis now dead as Gaza is bombarded and Hamas rockets continue to fall Stop the fire immediately. Were escalating towards a full-scale war. Leaders on all sides have to take the responsibility of de-escalation, Tor Wennesland UN Special Envoy to the Middle East Peace Process tweeted Last nights barrages levelled tower blocks in Gaza as death toll rose to 43 ...

JERUSALEM: The last 10 days of the holy month of Ramadan are always special. In Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque they are unique — and charged. On May 10, Israeli police, firing tear gas and rubber bullets, stormed the Haram Al-Sharif, which houses both Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. More than 300 people were injured in the ensuing violence.

Israelis and Palestinians are caught in their worst round of violence since 2014, a sudden escalation of clashes with police into widespread airstrikes and rocket fire that have killed dozens of people and wounded hundreds more. The locus of the unrest shifted rapidly from Jerusalem to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip as events collided and unleashed long-held grievances, giving the moves a larger significance.

How a Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Forced Evictions Spiraled Rapidly Toward Full-Scale War Time 2 hrs ago © Heidi Levine—Sipa USA Palestinians sit at a large table to break the fast during Ramadan as Israeli border police guard Jewish settlers, outside one of the homes they have taken over from a Palestinian family and near other homes of Palestinians facing eviction, in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on May 7, 2021. When Muna Dajani’s grandparents moved into ...

Jordan, unfortunately, can be identified as one of the cooks stirring the pot.