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From Russia Today
IDF shoots, injures HRW employee at ‘peaceful’ protest in West Bank
The female research assistant, whose name has not been disclosed, was looking into the recent escalation of violence between Israelis and Palestinians. She was attending the demonstration to observe the behavior of both the Palestinian protesters and Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) during the standoff.
The woman was also taking pictures and had the word “PRESS” clearly displayed on her clothes at the time of the shooting. The protest took place on October 6 outside of Ramallah, located in the West Bank.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
3 Jewish girls allegedly attack Arab man with pepper spray in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A group of Jewish girls allegedly attacked an Arab man working in Jerusalem with pepper spray.
Three suspects were detained for questioning after the incident downtown on Sunday, the Jerusalem Police reported.
Also Sunday, five Israeli Jews were ordered held by the Rishon LeZion Magistrate’s Court after being arrested on suspicion of beating an Arab man last week in Netanya, in central Israel, the Times of Israel reported.
An indictment also was filed against a Jewish man, 23, for throwing rocks at Arab drivers in Jerusalem over the past few days.
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From PressTV
Israeli troops kill Palestinian in East al-Quds
Israeli military forces have shot and killed another Palestinian as fierce clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli troops continue unabated in the occupied West Bank and East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
Palestinian sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a Palestinian was killed and another injured on Monday after allegedly carrying out a stabbing attack, which left two Israelis wounded inside an illegal settlement in East al-Quds.
The development came only hours after Israeli forces gunned down a Palestinian man in the occupied Old City of al-Quds after an alleged stabbing attempt on Israeli border police officers.
1,300 Palestinians shot, injured since October 1
The Palestinian Ministry of Health says at least 1,300 Palestinians have suffered gunshot wounds in the occupied Palestinian territories since the beginning of this month.
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From PressTV
Israel actions to ignite a never-edning war, says jailed Palestinian leader
Imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti says Israeli acts of violence against Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territories threaten to change the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis to a never-ending war.
In an article published on The Guardian site on Sunday, Barghouti warned that the regime’s attacks, in particular around the al–Aqsa Mosque in East al-Quds (Jerusalem), threaten to “transform a solvable political conflict into a never-ending” war that will “only further undermine stability in a region already experiencing unprecedented turmoil.”
The al-Aqsa Mosque along with its surrounding compound in the Israeli-occupied Old City of al-Quds is a flashpoint. The site is Islam’s third holiest place and is revered by Christians and Jews as well.
The Tel Aviv regime has tried to change the demographic makeup of al-Quds over the past decades by constructing illegal settlements, destroying historical sites and expelling the local Palestinian population.
It has recently moved to toughen the measures against Palestinian stone-throwers in al-Quds defending themselves against armed Israeli troops, broadening rules to allow military forces to target Palestinians with live bullets.
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From PressTV
Israeli forces kill Palestinian in East al-Quds
Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian for allegedly attempting to attack an Israeli officer with a knife in East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
The killing reportedly took place at Lions Gate in East al-Quds’ Old City on Monday.
The Israeli forces who killed the Palestinian claimed he tried to stab an officer, whose protective vest, they said, prevented him from being injured.
The death on Monday brings to 25 the number of the Palestinians killed in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip since last Saturday.
Israeli army troops also abducted 33 Palestinians in overnight raids throughout the West Bank.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
NY Times amends article questioning Jewish Temples’ existence on Temple Mount
(JTA) — The New York Times walked back an article that questioned whether two Jewish temples ever existed on the site of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
The article, written by Rick Gladstone, a Times foreign editor, originally published on Oct. 8, read: “The question, which many books and scholarly treatises have never definitively answered, is whether the 37-acre site, home to Islam’s sacred Dome of the Rock shrine and Al Aqsa Mosque, was also the precise location of two ancient Jewish temples, one built on the remains of the other, and both long since gone.”
The article was amended the following day and a correction published in the newspaper.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Obama’s ex-pastor: Israel is apartheid state, ‘Jesus was a Palestinian’
At an hours-long event Saturday on the National Mall titled “Justice or Else,” Wright said that African-Americans, Native Americans and Palestinians have suffered under the “three-headed demon” of “racism, militarism and capitalism.”
“The same issue is being fought today and has been fought since 1948, and historians are carried back to the 19th century … when the original people, the Palestinians — and please remember, Jesus was a Palestinian — the Palestinian people had the Europeans come and take their country,” Wright said, The Hill reported.
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From PressTV
Fearless Palestinian women rise against Israeli occupation
More and more young Palestinian women are participating in protests against the Israeli regime as tensions keep soaring across the occupied territories following a surge of deadly atrocities against Palestinians during the past few days.
Despite facing Israeli soldiers’ rubber bullets, tear gas, stun grenades and even live fire, young Palestinian women rid their fear of detention and abuse to join the front lines along with males and challenge the presence of the intruders.
They also suffer casualties in their efforts towards liberation of their motherland from occupiers. A young pregnant woman was killed along with her three-year-old daughter in Israeli airborne aggression on the besieged Gaza Strip on Saturday while Israeli man shot and seriously injured a Palestinian woman in al-Quds on Wednesday.
From Ynet News
Number of Jews worldwide still lower than before Holocaust
In 1939 there were 16.6 million Jews living around the world; today there are only 14.31 million. Where do they live and how many have immigrated to Israel since 1948? The number of Jews in the world is still lower than the number of Jews before the Holocaust, figures released by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) in its annual statistical report show. In 1939, there were 16.6 million Jews living around the world, while today there are 14.31 million.
According to the data, the world had 7.8 million Jews in 1882, 24,000 of them in the Land of Israel. In other words, less than 1 percent of the Jews were living in Israel when the First Aliyah (the first modern widespread wave of Zionist immigration) began.
When World War I broke out in 1914, the number of Jews in the world had already reached 13.5 million, 50,000 of them in the Land of Israel.In 1939, just before the Holocaust, there were 16.6 million Jews in the world, 449,000 of them (3 percent) in the Land of Israel. When the State of Israel was established in 1948, the number of Jews in the world was 11.5 million, and 650,000 of them (6 percent) were living in Israel.
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From The Times of Israel
Stop urging violence, Abbas tells Fatah militant leaders
In meeting with local Tanzim heads, PA leader forbids use of arms in struggle against Israel, tells others to stop incitement to terror attacks
October 12, 2015, 9:58 am
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told the leaders of his Fatah movement’s Tanzim militant wing Sunday to immediately work to calm spiraling tensions with Israel.
According to Palestinian sources, he demanded that the Tanzim representatives, who serve as heads of local branches of the paramilitary group throughout the West Bank, avoid using violence in the struggle against Israel.
Tanzim was founded by Fatah leaders and is loyal to the Palestinian faction, which is headed by Abbas. It gained prominence as a fighting force and a terror organization during the Second Intifada.
Tanzim leaders are thought to be key organizers of many of the protests taking place in the West Bank in recent days, protests that have drawn thousands and swelled the ranks of Palestinians clashing with IDF forces in multiple West Bank cities.
Israeli officials have charged that Tanzim leaders, including the organization’s local leaders, encouraged the growing protests, in part to prevent rival group Hamas from gaining control of developments in the Palestinian street.
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