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The Latest on confrontations between Israelis and Palestinians as Israel signals a widening military campaign:
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The Latest on confrontations between Israelis and Palestinians as Israel signals a widening military campaign:
The Latest on confrontations between Israelis and Palestinians as Israel signals a widening military campaign:
Jerusalem, seen from the east, with the Temple Mount (Haram al-Sharif) in the foreground. (Flickr) Advertisement (JTA) — After Hamas launched seven missiles at Jerusalem from Gaza this week, forcing the unprecedented evacuation of the Knesset and the city’s District Court, a new escalation was inevitable. Once again, Israel’s capital is at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, one intertwining religious tension between Muslims and Jews with political arm wrestling over both the city and the Palestinian territories. And once again, the future of the city of Jerusal...
The Latest: Rivlin urges Arab leaders to oppose unrest ___ JERUSALEM — Israel’s president says the country’s Arab leaders are “giving support to terrorism and rioting” by staying quiet about an outbreak unrest in mixed communities. Reuven Rivlin said on Wednesday that the “silence of the Arab leadership” over violence in mixed Jewish-Arab communities amounts to “encouraging the rupture of the society” amid the most severe outbreak of violence since the 2014 Gaza war. Rivlin says Israel “must pursue the rioters with a firm hand (to) restore security and order to all of us, ...