Palestine
Occupy Tel Aviv —again
Thousands marched in Tel Aviv, blocking traffic on the city’s main thoroughfares, for a rally marking the two-year anniversary of Israel’s mass movement against inequality.
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Palestine
Demonstrations across West Bank
As Ramadan opened, dozens of protesters were wounded in demonstrations across the occupied West Bank over settler confiscation of lands and waters.
Palestine
Palestinians smash holes in Israel’s wall
Palestinian youths smashed holes in Israel’s separation wall in East Jerusalem on the ninth anniversary of an International Court of Justice advisory opinion that ruled the wall illegal.
Southern Cone
Argentina: Israel secretly bought uranium in 1960s
Declassifiied documents reveal the UK and the US opposed Israel's secret atom bomb program in 1964–but helped keep it secret after Israel bought Argentine uranium.
Palestine
Islamic Jihad severs ties with Hamas
The Islamic Jihad movement in Gaza announced that it is suspending ties with Hamas, accusing Gaza authorities of being responsible for the death of one of the group’s members.
Mexico
Mexico: Israel training Chiapas police?
Israel’s embassy in Mexico City denied widespread reports in the Mexican media that Israeli military advisors are training police in the southern state of Chiapas.
Palestine
Arab Negev residents rally against displacement
Thousands of Israeli Arabs demonstrated in Beersheba against the Prawer Plan which will displace thousands of Bedouin families in the Negev desert.
Palestine
Clashes across West Bank on war anniversary
Demonstrators in the West Bank joined mass protests to mark the Global March to Jerusalem, and dozens were lightly injured as Israeli forces tried to disperse them.
Palestine
Israel frees Palestinian ex-minister after two years
Israel released former Palestinian Minister of Prisoner Affairs Wasfi Qabaha at a Nablus checkpoint, ending his two-year detention without charge or trial.
Greater Middle East
‘Sunni cleansing’ in Syria?
Turkey sees in the battle for Qusayr a strategy to create an Alawite mini-state within Syria, purged of Sunni Muslims, to which the ruling elite can withdraw for a last stand.
Greater Middle East
Israeli air-strikes near Damascus
Israeli missiles struck a research center near Damascus, as massacres of Sunni families by pro-government militias are reported from Syria’s coastal Alawite stronghold.
Palestine
Monastery loses court battle over West Bank wall
A Catholic monastery and convent outside Bethlehem lost a seven-year legal battle against the construction of Israel's "separation barrier" across its land.