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A view of the West Bank Jewish outpost of Givat Harel, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023. Israel's new ultranationalist government declared last week that it would legalize 10 unauthorized outposts in the occupied West Bank. The rare move intensified the country's defiance of international pressure and opened an aggressive new front of Israeli expansion into the West Bank, which Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war. (AP Photo/Sam McNeil)

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Israel's outpost approvals boost settlers, deepen conflict
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Fri,02/24/23-1:13AM , 379 Reads
GIVAT HAREL, West Bank (AP) — One day in the fall of 1998, Shivi Drori, a young farmer fresh out of the Israeli army, brought three trailers to a rugged hilltop deep in the occupied West Bank and began to plant raspberries.
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Palestinians inspect the ruins of a militant hideout destroyed during a raid by Israeli forces in the Old City of Nablus in the West Bank, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Israeli troops moved into the city, setting off fighting that killed several Palestinians, including a 72-year-old man, Palestinian health officials said. The Israeli military gave few details about its operation in the northern city, which is known as a militant stronghold, and the army frequently operates there. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

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What's behind the Israeli army's deadly Nablus arrest raid?
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Wed,02/22/23-12:37PM , 573 Reads
JERUSALEM (AP) — The northern West Bank city of Nablus, the Palestinian commercial center, resembled a war zone on Wednesday, after a daytime Israeli military raid triggered a firefight that killed at least 10 Palestinians and wounded more than 100 others.
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Girls from the Matar family sit near the rubble of their home that housed 11 people before it was demolished by Israeli authorities in the Jabal Mukaber neighborhood of east Jerusalem, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2023. For many Palestinians, the accelerating pace of home demolitions is part of Israel's new ultranationalist government's broader battle for control of east Jerusalem, claimed by the Palestinians as the capital of their future state. Israel says it is simply enforcing building regulations. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

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Israel steps up Jerusalem home demolitions as violence rises
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Wed,02/08/23-1:47AM , 361 Reads
JERUSALEM (AP) — Ratib Matar’s family was growing. They needed more space.
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Fire and smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza Strip, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. Gaza militants fired rockets at Israel and Israel carried out airstrikes as tensions soared following an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank. The raid killed nine Palestinians, including at least seven militants and a 61-year-old woman. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

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Israel, Gaza fighters trade fire after deadly West Bank raid
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Thu,01/26/23-12:57AM , 304 Reads
JERUSALEM (AP) — Gaza militants fired rockets and Israel carried out airstrikes early Friday as tensions soared following an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank that killed nine Palestinians, including at least seven militants and a 61-year-old woman.
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