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US blocks Security Council meeting on Mideast conflict
In its statements this week on the Mideast crisis, the US has said Israel has the right to defend itself from rocket attacks launched by the Islamist movement...
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Putin, UN urge Israel, Palestinians to halt fighting
The Israeli army has launched hundreds of air strikes on the Gaza Strip since Monday, while Palestinian militants have launched more than 1,000 rockets in some of the worst violence in seven years.
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Pro-Palestine protestors in CT call on govt to act against Israel
The past two days have seen pro-Palestine marches taking place in the Mother City.
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Biden spoke to Netanyahu, hopes Israel violence ending 'sooner than later'
Biden spoke as calls grew internationally for a de-escalation of violence after intense hostilities between Israel and the Palestinians that have left dozens dead and hundreds injured.
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Blinken sends envoy to Mideast, urges Israel to spare civilians
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken 'reiterated his call on all parties to de-escalate tensions and bring a halt to the violence,' said a State Department statement.
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UN Security Council meets on Israel but US blocks statement
According to several sources, 14 of the 15 members of the Council were in favour of adopting a joint declaration aimed at reducing tension.
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SAJBD urges SA govt to be even-handed in response to Israel-Palestine conflict
A pro-Palestine march was led to Parliament on Wednesday, with many calling for sanctions against Israel and the government to do more to show support for the people of Palestine.
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Pro-Palestine demonstrators in CT call for sanctions against Israel
The protesters called on government to do more to show support for the people of Palestine.
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CT protesters call on SA govt to show more support for Palestinians
Representatives of political parties, including the African National Congress (ANC), the Good Party and the National Freedom Party (NFP), were also part of the demonstration. Protesters said that they were shocked and appalled at the scenes of violence they were seeing on social media.
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Israeli strikes target top Hamas figures: military
Warplanes 'completed a series of raids, hitting homes that belonged to high-ranking members' of Hamas, the Israeli military said, with Hamas saying a key police building had also been destroyed.
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28 killed as Israel strikes Gaza amid Hamas rocket barrage
Nine children were among those killed in the blockaded Gaza Strip that is controlled by Hamas and 125 people there were wounded, local health authorities said.
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UN 'deeply concerned' at escalation in Israeli-Palestinian violence
"We condemn all violence and all incitement to violence and ethnic division and provocations," spokesman Rupert Colville told reporters in Geneva.
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Timeline: Deadly Gaza and Jerusalem clashes
Clashes erupt on Friday as Muslims pack the Al-Aqsa mosque compound -- Islam's third holiest site -- to pray on the last Friday of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
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Ramaphosa: ANC NEC condemns attacks on Palestinians in Israel
Ramaphosa made the remarks while delivering the closing address on Monday after the ANC’s national executive committee meeting held over the weekend.
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Nine killed as Israel strikes Gaza after Hamas rocket barrage
At least nine people - including three children, and a senior Hamas commander - were killed in Gaza, local authorities said. It was not immediately clear whether they all died in Israeli strikes or from a misfired Hamas rocket.
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Israeli police, Palestinians clash at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque
At least 163 Palestinians and six Israeli officers were reported wounded at Al-Aqsa and elsewhere in east Jerusalem, as the Palestinian Red Crescent said it had opened a field hospital because emergency rooms were full.
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Israel president eyes new candidate to form government
The Israeli president met with party leaders Wednesday to determine if any lawmaker can form a government to end an unprecedented gridlock after veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed.
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Israel's Netanyahu faces midnight deadline to form government
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is on trial for corruption, was given a 28-day window to forge a majority coalition following a March 23 general election, Israel's fourth inconclusive vote in less than two years.
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Israel pilgrimage stampede kills at least 44
The disaster occurred in Meron at the site of the reputed tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, a second-century Talmudic sage, where mainly ultra-Orthodox Jews flock to mark the Lag BaOmer holiday.
