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34-year-old Jeffrey Hampton pleaded guilty on Thursday, April 14, 2022, to a manslaughter charge for a crash that killed a Tyler teen. ... Editor's Note: Below is ...

The demonstration was organized by Al-Awda, a coalition mobilizing around the Palestinian right of return to their homeland. Organizers from ANSWER Coalition ( ...

“We know that the Palestinian struggle is rooted in resistance in the same way that our olive trees are rooted in our soil. Even against the odds of decades of Israeli military occupation, organizers remained determined and uncompromising in their belief of Palestinian self-determination. Protesters at the demonstration linked Palestinian liberation to other national liberation struggles, particularly ones in the U.S., and emphasized that the former could only be achieved through international solidarity. Similar demonstrations condemning Israel for the attacks were held in other U.S. cities and around the world. On April 16, around 60 individuals gathered in the Bay Ridge area of Brooklyn, NY, to protest the Israel Occupation Forces’ recent attacks on Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, one of the holiest sites for Muslims from all over the world. This is systematic, this is a strategy, this is collective punishment … The same thing happened last year during Ramadan, and after Israel bombed Gaza and killed at least 260 innocent civilians.”

Israeli forces on Monday banned Palestinian worshippers from accessing the Ibrahimi Mosque in occupied Hebron (Al-Khalil).

This April major religious observations and celebrations of the three Abrahamic faiths coincided. People of faith saw that as a blessing.

Time is over-due for the world to intervene to end Israeli violations of Palestinian rights and to put an end to the ongoing conflict. The Al Aqsa Sanctuary Compound is the third holiest shrine in Islam. It is at the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Al Aqsa Sanctuary Compound is a Muslim holy site, period. The Palestine issue is not a Republican or Democratic issue. Everyone has watched the recent Israeli Attacks on the Muslim worshipers in Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. These attacks violate the rights of Muslims to worship in peace during the holiest month of the year. Muslims and Arabs supported the Biden candidacy and expected Biden to be more even handed on Palestine. Biden promised a foreign policy that is based on human rights and law.

TYLER, Texas — Multiple witnesses of a 2019 Lake Palestine boat crash that killed a 14-year-old Tyler boy testified Tuesday that the boat was moving ...

China has been following closely with concern the escalating tension between Palestine and Israel in Jerusalem, says Wang Wenbin.

“The issue of Jerusalem’s status and ownership is complicated and sensitive. When asked about China’s stance on the raging conflict in Jerusalem, Wang Wenbin said, “China has been following closely with concern the escalating tension between Palestine and Israel in Jerusalem.” Beijing: China said that it had been closely following the escalating tension between Palestine and Israel in Jerusalem and were seriously concerned about it.

Political paralysis coupled with messianic pressure from the right is creating a situation in Israel and Palestine that could become uncontrollable.

In other words, the extent of flexibility in the current Israeli government is nil. This right-wing opposition sanctifies Jewish supremacy and the primacy of a "Jewish state" over "a state of all its citizens," that is, over democracy. It is thus our privilege to restore honour to the land and the people of Israel." National unity governments are generally a prescription for paralysis, since they rely on the notion that what is important is that Jews from the right and the left be in agreement, by virtue of avoiding "political" matters like the occupation and the settlements. The coalition has a clear centre-left majority, and even includes an Arab-Islamic party for the first time in Israel's history, yet the government is headed by an extreme rightist and most of the more sensitive ministries, such as justice and interior, are also led by figures who are decidedly right wing. Discussions of a new intifada generally focus on the situation in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. This is the right perspective, because intifadas are first and foremost a Palestinian response to the occupation.

Multiple witnesses of a 2019 Lake Palestine boat crash that killed a 14-year-old Tyler boy testified Tuesday that the boat was moving recklessly and at a ...

A friend, a young journalist in Gaza, Mohammed Rafik Mhawesh, told me that food prices in the besieged Strip have skyrocketed in recent weeks and that many ...

The rapidly rising food prices are hurting the very farmers and herders who are responsible for filling the massive gaps caused by the global food insecurity as a result of war. Though it may bring partial relief, even a halt to the Russia-Ukraine war will not end Palestine’s food insecurity, as this issue is instigated and prolonged by specific Israeli policies. So-called Area C, which constitutes nearly 60 per cent of the total size of the West Bank, is under complete Israeli military control. According to the rights group, Israel uses “mathematical formulas to determine how much food to allow into Gaza”, limiting supplies to what Tel Aviv deems “essential for the survival of the civilian population”. “Food prices are dramatically surging,” he said, “particularly since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war”. Essential food prices, like wheat and meat, have nearly doubled. The impact of the Russia-Ukraine war has been felt in every part of the world, some places more than others.

Israeli warplanes early Tuesday bombed a site in the city of Khan Younis, to the south of the Gaza Strip, WAFA correspondent confirmed.

Also, Israeli soldiers assaulted Palestinian women in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque and detained three worshipers at of Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Israeli warplanes fired four rockets at a site to the west of the city, causing severe damages to it and nearby citizens’ properties. Israeli warplanes early Tuesday bombed a site in the city of Khan Younis, to the south of the Gaza Strip, WAFA correspondent confirmed.

Driving the news: The Israeli military struck Hamas camps in the Gaza Strip on Monday after shooting down a rocket fired from Gaza, the first such attack in ...

- He also said Israel acted in a "responsible and measured way" in response to the "riots" on the Temple Mount and condemned "disinformation" that he said was "fanning the flames of violence." The big picture: Secretary of State Tony Blinken held calls on Monday and Tuesday with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. He stressed the need to de-escalate the situation in Jerusalem, the State Department said. - The Israeli Foreign Ministry said police had been sent in to "disperse" a group of Palestinian "rioters" who were throwing rocks toward the nearby Jewish prayer area of the Western Wall. Over 150 Palestinians were injured and hundreds arrested during the raid.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders Tuesday to "end the cycle of violence" after a sharp escalation in tensions ...

May 14, 2022, will mark the 74th anniversary of the day of Israeli independence from the British Empire. It marked the beginning of a new Jewish state in ...

The closest to a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians occured with the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993. The group that is most closely associated with this is Hamas, a political party in the Palestinian Authority which frequently launches rocket attacks into Israel. Israel’s final major war with outside powers was waged in 1973, the Yom Kippur war.

Bitter enemies show willingness to avoid new Gaza war as third parties, including Washington, increase diplomatic efforts. A Palestinian fighter from Saraya ...

Instead, they are content with encouraging individual action against Israeli targets elsewhere, namely from the West Bank. "Therefore each party is trying to postpone this confrontation, to arrange its papers, with Gaza still suffering from the scourge and effects of the war last May and the repercussions of the 16-year siege, and the ruling coalition in Israel facing many challenges and internal and external crises." A reliable source in Gaza told MEE that the factions in the Strip, under the direction of Hamas, are trying to distance the enclave from a broad confrontation with Israel at this stage. A Palestinian source close to Hamas, meanwhile, said that Israel has initiated a request for the intervention of these mediations, and relayed indirect messages to Hamas that it was not interested in a new military confrontation with Gaza. "We have many means to pressure the occupation, and opening a new war on the Gaza front is one of the options if necessary," the Hamas member said. According to sources and political analysts with knowledge of the matter, Hamas is not interested in a new war and is content with only escalating the "language of threat", a position demonstrated by its rapid communication with Egypt to relay that it was not responsible for the missile attack.

Thousands of Jewish settlers marched on Tuesday to the abandoned outpost of Homesh in the occupied West Bank.

Israeli settlements are fortified Jewish-only housing complexes built on Palestinian land in violation of international law. In 2007, settlers established a religious school, or yeshiva, at the outpost. It was then evacuated in 2005 as part of then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s “disengagement plan”. Between 600,000 and 750,000 Israeli settlers live in at least 250 illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. Nablus, Occupied West Bank – Israeli forces injured at least 40 Palestinian protesters after thousands of Israeli Jewish settlers marched to the evacuated settlement outpost of Homesh, near Nablus in the occupied West Bank. Thousands of Jewish settlers marched on Tuesday to the abandoned outpost of Homesh in the occupied West Bank.

Jewish students at prestigious law school call for an investigation into statements by Students for Justice in Palestine, which they say crossed into ...

Financial support from readers like you allows me to travel to witness both war (I just returned from reporting in Ukraine) and the signing of historic agreements. Will you join The Times of Israel Community today? “They made it pretty clear that they are going to go through the grievance process,” Baker said. Israel is now a far more prominent player on the world stage than its size suggests. “The JLSA board found that something had crossed a line,” Baker said. Yosmin Badie, a member of NYU Law’s Students for Justice in Palestine, said in a statement to the New York Jewish Week that the response to the group’s emails was “shameful.”

A half-dozen current and former European members of the UN Security Council demanded an end to violence in Israel and Palestine on Tuesday. "We are following with deep concern the escalating tensions, including in East Jerusalem where recent clashes ...

Israel occupied East Jerusalem, where Al-Aqsa is located, during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Violence needs to stop immediately," Albania, Norway, France, Estonia and Ireland said in a verbally-issued statement. We echo the secretary-general's call for calm and de-escalation.

A group of Israeli ultra-nationalists said it is determined to go ahead with a flag-waving march around predominantly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem's Old ...

These followed days of clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians at the flashpoint holy site in Jerusalem. It is the emotional ground zero for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a flashpoint for previous rounds of violence. "I told @SecBlinken that Israel will not tolerate calls in support of violence, and I emphasized the need for international support for returning calm to Jerusalem," he said on Twitter. In addition, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he told his Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog that he was "very upset" by Palestinians injured or killed in the West Bank and Al-Aqsa Mosque during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to Israeli, Palestininan and Jordanian leaders to discuss recent violence in Israel and the West Bank that has escalated tensions in the region, officials said on Tuesday. Israeli police said a large number of officers were deployed around Jerusalem’s historic Old City, home to religious sites for Jews, Christians and Muslims, out of concern that confrontations could further ignite an already tense situation in the city during the Jewish holiday of Passover and the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Palestinians across Latin America have condemned the desecration of Al-Aqsa Mosque by illegal Jewish settlers.

Moreover, he called on Latin American governments to suspend mutual agreements with Israel which apparently condone the crimes of the settler-colonial state. — The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron)April 20, 2022 “It is the duty of the Palestinian communities in Latin America and the Caribbean to condemn the carnage being perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinians every day,” said Rafael Masri, the head of the Confederation of Palestinian Communities in Latin America (COPLAC).

Another Ramadan, another attack on Palestinian worshipers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem. In explaining the Israeli attacks, ...

This is a form of sovereignty that has nothing to do with the complex and rich religion of Judaism and the Jewish tradition. Nothing short of a foundational transformation in the logic and structures of colonial modernity will prevent what is, at this moment, an inevitable outcome: more death and destruction for Palestinians and Palestine. When the ceasefire came into effect, a poll published on Israel’s Channel 12 “indicated that 72 percent of Israelis thought the air campaign in Gaza should continue, whereas 24 percent said Israel should agree to a cease-fire.” Israelis communicated a range of expressions and statements, from the indifferent to the euphoric, for their desire to continue unleashing Israel’s war machine. When this dehumanisation of Palestinians appears in mainstream media and public discourse within Israeli and Euro-American spaces, it is framed in a normalising manner. It was almost a year ago that Israel launched a devastating military onslaught on the Gaza Strip in the wake of similar events that are happening today: expulsions of Palestinians from their homes and the desecration of Muslim places of worship. It is also the goal of Israeli violence because supreme sovereignty over the entire land of historic Palestine is yet to be definitively secured for Israel. Palestinian resistance still stands in its way.

Peter Beinart, Dana El Kurd, and Daniel Seiderman discuss the recent increase in fatal attacks in Israel/Palestine.

Jun 29 2021Jewish Feelings (54:57)Jewish Currents staff discuss the ADL’s recent survey of American Jews about their understanding of antisemitism. But recent weeks have seen a surge in violence: Palestinians from both the West Bank and Israel proper have attacked and in some cases killed Israeli civilians and soldiers, and Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers have attacked and in some cases killed Palestinian civilians. Jul 13 2021Couples Therapy (01:25:05)Jewish Currents staff and their non-Jewish partners discuss the meaning of Jewishness in their homes and relationships. Jul 27 2021Rallies, Surveys, and Ice Cream (01:29:18)Jewish Currents staff discuss the sparsely attended “No Fear” rally, the surprising results of the Jewish Electorate Institute poll of American Jewish voters, and the announcement that Ben & Jerry’s will stop selling ice cream in the occupied Palestinian territories. Apr 20 2022A Surge of Violence in Israel/Palestine (this page)Peter Beinart, Dana El Kurd, and Daniel Seidemann discuss the recent increase in fatal attacks in Israel/Palestine. Life in Israel/Palestine is always characterized by a high level of violence; for instance, Israel’s control of millions of stateless Palestinians in the West Bank who live without due process under military law is inherently violent.

TYLER, Texas (KETK) - The sentencing trial of a Tyler man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter after running over a 14-year-old with a boat on Lake Palestine ...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan intensifies diplomatic contacts in bid to stop Israel's attacks on occupied city of Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa Mosque.

"In this sensitive period, I would like to emphasize once again the necessity of not allowing provocations and threats against the status and spirituality of the Al-Aqsa Mosque," he added. After the call, Erdogan said on Twitter that he voiced his sadness on the injury of over 400 Palestinians and the death of 18 people, including children, in the events that took place in the occupied West Bank and Al-Aqsa Mosque since the beginning of the month of Ramadan. During the call, Erdogan strongly condemned Israel's actions against the worshipers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, adding that Turkiye would stand against the provocations and threats against the status and spirituality of Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Mother of teen killed in Lake Palestine boat crash says 'not only did my son die, but I feel like I died'. The teen was swimming at Lakeway Harbor on Lake ...

The East Texas Food Bank will be offering a new mobile food pantry monthly with fresh produce in Anderson County.

There are also special programs to help seniors with a monthly box of food and children receive backpacks of food through their school. The East Texas Food Bank says they currently has seven partner agencies that operate food pantries in Frankston, Elkhart and Palestine, serving 1,100 households. PALESTINE, Texas (KLTV) - The East Texas Food Bank will be offering a new mobile food pantry monthly with fresh produce in Anderson County.

Tehran, Apr 20 (Prensa Latina) Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Wednesday denounced once again the aggressive incursion by the Israeli ...

Israeli security forces storm al-Aqsa in the fifth raid this month, as right-wing Israelis expected to hold a march in Jerusalem later in the day.

Far-right Israeli activists and settler groups had announced plans to storm al-Aqsa this week in large numbers, starting from Sunday, to mark Passover. Israeli forces have raided the mosque five times this month, four of which have been in the past four days. Early this morning, Israeli forces stormed al-Aqsa, fired rubber-coated metal bullets at Palestinians, locked worshippers in prayer halls, surrounded women in front of the Dome of the Rock, and forcibly removed Palestinians from the mosque’s courtyard to clear the way for Jewish settlers.

The program will start on April 27 and will take place at the First Baptist Church Palestine, located at 5700 TX Loop 256. Author: Sam Searles. Published: ...