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2 weeks ago | 
aol.co.uk | Hannah Ellis-Petersen |Quique Kierszenbaum
Few days speak so profoundly to the soul of Israel than Holocaust Memorial Day. As the country sat in silence on Thursday to remember 6 million Jews exterminated by the Nazis, the same refrain was, as always, repeated by many: never again. But for some across Israel, as the war in Gaza continues to ravage the Palestinian people and wipe out entire families, never again had come to hold another meaning.
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3 weeks ago | 
rsn.org | Hannah Ellis-Petersen |Quique Kierszenbaum
ALSO SEE: Israeli Forces Assault Christian worshippers in Jerusalem on Holy Saturday
Palestinians trying to access Christianity's holiest sites in the Old City of Jerusalem face restrictions and hostilityAs the bells rang out across the courtyard of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the priests began to sing a deep, low prayer. Heads bowed over candles, and escorted by people bearing aloft large gold crosses, they made their way to a platform at the heart of the ancient square.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Hannah Ellis-Petersen |Quique Kierszenbaum
As the bells rang out across the courtyard of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the priests began to sing a deep, low prayer. Heads bowed over candles, and escorted by people bearing aloft large gold crosses, they made their way to a platform at the heart of the ancient square.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Quique Kierszenbaum |Oliver Holmes
Israel’s military razed huge swathes of land inside the perimeter of Gaza and ordered troops to turn the area into a “kill zone” where anybody who entered was a target, according to testimony by soldiers who carried out the plan. Israeli combatants said they were ordered to destroy homes, factories and farmland roughly 1km (0.6 miles) inside the perimeter of Gaza to make a “buffer zone”, with one describing the area as looking like Hiroshima.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Emma Graham-Harrison |Quique Kierszenbaum
Israeli police have raided the leading Palestinian bookshop in East Jerusalem for the second time in a month, detaining one of its owners for several hours and seizing some of its stock. The deputy state attorney’s office had warned police that they overstepped their authority with the first raid on the shop in February. Officers again arrived at the Educational Bookshop without a warrant on Tuesday morning, staff said.
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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Emma Graham-Harrison |Quique Kierszenbaum
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Emma Graham-Harrison |Quique Kierszenbaum
Israel has brought the military tactics of its war in Gaza to the occupied West Bank, where Palestinians face mass forced displacements, a surge in airstrikes, and a sharp rise in attacks on children and other civilians, a Palestinian-Israeli rights group has said. B’tselem has detailed the impact of Israel’s most intense operations in the area for at least two decades in a report that describes what it callsa “Gazafication” of Israel’s occupation there.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Julian Borger |Quique Kierszenbaum
When Hamas brought two captive Israelis to watch Saturday’s release of six of their fellow hostages and then beg for their own liberation, it was purposely jabbing at a deeply painful divide in Israeli society. Evyatar David and Guy Gilboa-Dalal were 22-year-old best friends when they were kidnapped at the Nova music festival on 7 October 2023.
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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Julian Borger |Quique Kierszenbaum
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Julian Borger |Quique Kierszenbaum
Two Jerusalem booksellers detained this week on charges their books were causing “public disorder” have said the experience reflected an intensifying campaign by the Israeli government against Palestinian culture and free speech. Mahmoud Muna and his nephew Ahmed, whose family has owned the Educational Bookshop for more than 40 years, spent two days in detention and will remain under house arrest until Sunday, despite the absence of evidence to support the vague accusations against them.
