Sentences with phrase «many palestinian»

Over the weekend, there were multiple headlines that MBS made recent comments in support of a U.S. peace plan for Israel, and reportedly was critical of Palestinian reluctance to accept a deal; earlier in April, MBS had said Israel has a right to exist and to its own land.

«An article on Sunday about Campbell Brown's role as Facebook's head of news partnerships erroneously included a reference to Palestinian actions as an example of the sort of far - right conspiracy stories that have plagued Facebook.

In fact, Palestinian officials have acknowledged providing payments to the families of Palestinians killed while carrying out attacks on Israelis or convicted of terrorist acts and imprisoned in Israel; that is not a conspiracy theory.»

The story, which was entirely unrelated to the Israeli - Palestinian conflict, waded into the issue in one tangential sentence.

The details are disturbing, as Harkov wrote: «Terrorists who have been sentenced to three to five years in Israeli prisons receive the average income of a Palestinian, about $ 580 per month.

In March of this year, she reported that in 2017, the Palestinian authority had paid terrorists and their families more than $ 347 million.

The announcement came on the same day that Israel celebrated its 70th year of statehood, and amid continued protests at the Israel - Gaza border, in which Israeli soldiers have used live ammunition against Palestinian protesters, killing dozens and wounding hundreds more.

Some of the people you'll hear spreading anti-Semitic views are blatant apologists for extremism, justifying a car barreling into an Israeli bus stop or a random knife attack on the street as a legitimate expression of frustration at the lack of a Palestinian state, Jewish victims be damned.

The Palestinian Authority does not deny these payments.

British Prime Minister Theresa May said Trump's decision would not help to put an end to the Israeli - Palestinian conflict.

Palestinian rescuers members evacuate a man from a flooded home using a fishing boat during a heavy rain storm in Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017 (AP Photo / Khalil Hamra) In the time since the operation, the army and government have put into practice some, but not all, of the recommendations made by Shapira in his reports.

In Gaza, more than 2,000 people were killed, with Israel putting the percentage of civilians killed at approximately 50 percent and the Palestinians estimating it to be closer to 70 %.

«Israel doesn't have a strategy vis - à - vis the Palestinians generally or Gaza specifically,» said Zionist Union MK Tzipi Livni, who served as justice minister during the war in 2014, on Monday.

The three will discuss how to counter the threats posed terrorist groups like ISIS, as well as ways «to advance a genuine and lasting peace between the Israelis and Palestinians.»

While waiting for my luggage, I chatted with a Palestinian woman and a man from Boston, both there for the summit.

«Palestinians say peace process hasn't worked.»

But Palestinians, who also see Jerusalem as their capital city, were particularly stunned.

Take for example Linda Sobeh Ali, the former Palestinian envoy to Canada, who was relieved of her duties after retweeting a link to a YouTube video that was racially offensive.

Palestinian security and medical officials named the slain man as Mohammed Al - Aaraj, 25, and said he was among at least 10,000 people who clashed with soldiers and border police in Qalandiya, between Jerusalem and Ramallah.

Israeli public radio said Palestinians and troops also clashed around the West Bank cities of Nablus, Hebron Bethlehem and Tulkarem.

Palestinian factions in the West Bank declared a «Day of Rage» after the Thursday night clashes, which took place around the West Bank and in some sectors of Israeli - annexed east Jerusalem.

Abu Amra and two other Palestinian journalists said Murtaja was not operating a camera drone when shot.

GAZA (Reuters)- A Palestinian journalist died on Saturday after being wounded by Israeli fire on Friday while covering deadly protests along the Israel - Gaza border, health officials said.

His body was covered with a Palestinian flag and his press jacket laid beside him on the stretcher as it was carried through the streets of Gaza City to his home for a last farewell.

«I am committed to trying to achieve a peace agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians, and I intend to do everything I can to help them achieve that goal», Trump said in Bethlehem, adding that President Abbas had assured him that Palestine was ready to work toward this goal of peace.

Israel has stationed sharpshooters to stop attempts by Palestinians to breach the border or sabotage the security fence.

On the other hand, as defenders of the company point out, the factory is giving jobs to a few hundred Palestinians, and giving someone a job is hardly an act of aggression.

He said some Israeli politicians and soldiers had «expressed pride at the killing of Palestinians» on Facebook and other social media.

Let's break this down a bit: a bunch of Palestinians in Gaza building tech products talking to a Jewish guy from Long Island.

Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, called the lawsuit an Israeli attempt to blackmail Facebook and accused Israel of trying to turn the social network into a spy tool against Palestinians.

A group of Israelis and Americans bereaved in Palestinian attacks said Monday they would seek $ 1 billion in damages from Facebook for alleged complicity, as part of a suit filed in the United States against the social media giant.

«So far the approach on the Israeli - Palestinian issue has been more cautious and more responsible than almost anything else,» Shapiro told Reuters.

In the interview, he said Trump has surprised him by calling for a slowdown in Israeli settlement construction on occupied land Palestinians seek for a state.

Before arriving in Israel, Pence met with the leaders of Egypt and Jordan and urged them to encourage Palestinian leadership to return to peace negotiations, according to officials who were traveling with Pence.

Airbnb is under fire for property listings that critics say promote illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory.

US Vice President Mike Pence told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he hopes to usher in a «new era» of Middle East peace talks, while the Palestinians have scorned US efforts and are turning to other global leaders for support.

The former envoy praised the Republican president's chief negotiator Jason Greenblatt for meeting a cross-section of Israelis and Palestinians during a visit last week that has led to U.S. - Israeli discussions on limiting settlement building.

The United States, he said, had been aware after efforts during Obama's first term, of the deep personal mistrust between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Looking back on the failures of the Obama administration's Israeli - Palestinian peace efforts, he suggested that former Secretary of State John Kerry may have been too idealistic in pursuing talks that collapsed in 2014.

Instead, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas traveled to Brussels and met with EU ministers to discuss future peace plans.

«The Palestinian president was perfectly fine with this idea of not having the United States as the only interlocutor for the peace process, but of having a multilateral framework in which the European Union has a central role that is together with others, including our partners in the Quartet, including the United States,» she added.

Meanwhile Stateside, the Federal Reserve will continue its two - day policy meeting, with investors largely expecting the Central Bank to hold interest rates steady, and U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with visiting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

WASHINGTON, April 24 - Foreign corporations can not be sued in American courts for human rights abuses committed overseas, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, refusing to revive a lawsuit claiming Jordan - based Arab Bank Plc helped finance militant attacks in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

One suspect was placed in «administrative detention», a form of incarceration without trial normally reserved for Palestinian prisoners and the first time the measure has been taken against an alleged Jewish extremist.

With attention in France now focused on the ever - present threat of jihadist attack, the trial in Paris will reach back to a time when Europe was repeatedly targeted by ruthless groups sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.

Police said Ettinger, who is 23, was suspected of «nationalist crimes», but did not accuse him of direct involvement in last week's firebombing of a Palestinian home in the occupied West Bank, in which a toddler was burned to death.

In the Gaza strip, Hamas banned any celebration of the holiday, which is a nation - wide celebration in the Palestinian National Authority.

WASHINGTON, April 24 - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that foreign corporations can not be sued in American courts for human rights abuses overseas, refusing to revive a lawsuit claiming Jordan - based Arab Bank Plc helped finance militant attacks in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

Pence, an evangelical Christian who had planned to highlight the plight of Christian minorities during his trip, will not meet with Palestinian Christians or with officials from the Coptic Christian church, who declined a meeting in response to the U.S. move.

The Palestinian reaction has not been good.