Palestine
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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Land rights case sparks new east Jerusalem clashes
The second straight night of rioting in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood was fuelled by a years-long land dispute between Palestinian refugees and Jewish settlers in the strategic district near Jerusalem's Old City.
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Africa4Palestine upset by Mogoeng’s decision to not comply with JCC ruling
Mogoeng is set to appeal the decision made by a member of the committee to retract and apologise for his comments made on the Israeli and Palestinian conflict.
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ICC opens Israeli-Palestinians war crimes probe
"In the end, our central concern must be for the victims of crimes, both Palestinian and Israeli, arising from the long cycle of violence and insecurity that has caused deep suffering and despair on all sides," said chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda.
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Egypt opens Gaza border crossing 'indefinitely'
Rafah is the only passage to the outside world for Gaza - a densely populated enclave of around two million Palestinians, half of whom live below the poverty line - that is not controlled by Israel.
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OPINION: A response to using 'apartheid' in Israel - the shoe fits
Terming Israel an apartheid state is neither inappropriate nor an insult to us black South Africans, writes Duduzile Mahlangu-Masango.
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OPINION: It’s time for black people to reclaim the term 'apartheid'
Because we know intimately what apartheid involved, we have a duty to question whether it is an appropriate term for the Israel-Palestine question, writes Klass Mokgomole.
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Russia suggests Mideast peace conference, US pledges to renew Palestinian ties
The United States -- which had firmly sided with Israel under the administration of Donald Trump -- said Tuesday it intended to "restore credible U.S. engagement with Palestinians as well as Israelis."
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Israel rights group breaks taboo with use of 'apartheid' tag
B'Tselem said it was an accurate description of Israel's attitude both to residents of the occupied Palestinian territories and to its own Arab citizens.
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Bahrain urges Israel-Palestinian peace in historic Jerusalem meet
Bahrain's Abdellatif al-Zayani said the historic US-brokered deals the Gulf kingdom and the United Arab Emirates had struck to normalise ties with Israel would help foster a dawn of "peace for the entire Middle East".
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Israel, Gulf states accord charts new era for Middle East
Many of the oil-rich Gulf states have been quietly cultivating ties with Israel for years, but the normalisation deal allows those relationships to burst into the open, offering rich opportunities as they try to repair economies savaged by the coronavirus crisis.
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From Jerusalem to SA with love! Palestinians do #JerusalemaDanceChallenge
The #JerusalemaDanceChallenge got the world abuzz, with the official video garnering over 90 million YouTube views.
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Saudi Arabia says no Israel deal without Palestinian peace
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan told reporters on a visit to Berlin that 'peace must be achieved with the Palestinians' on the basis of international agreements as a condition for any normalisation of relations with Israel.
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Abbas says Palestinians not worried about 'nonsense' Israel-UAE deal
In his first public remarks since the US-sponsored deal was announced last week, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused the Gulf Arab state of turning its back on Palestinians living under occupation in the West Bank and an Israeli-led blockade in Gaza.
