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Far-right activists in the West Bank assaulted a Palestinian truck driver, believing his truck, along with another, was carrying aid to Gaza haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Footage from the scene indicated that the activists stopped both trucks near the Givat Asaf settlement, unloaded their cargo, deflated their tires, and set them on fire haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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In one of the videos, the truck driver is seen rolling on the ground, wounded, while soldiers, including an officer, pass by. One of the far-right activists can be heard saying: "This is what happens to those who bring food to Hamas" haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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In another video shot some time after the attack, teenagers are seen dancing on one of the trucks while Israel Border Police officers who arrived at the scene stand nearby. No suspects were arrested haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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The U.S. is expected to impose sanctions on the IDF's ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda battalion because of its involvement in human rights violations in the West Bank haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Here is a Haaretz investigation by @yanivkub into the Netzah Yehuda Battalion, originally published in February 2022.
Lies, violence and far-right ideology: The West Bank militia formed inside the Israeli army haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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"We very quickly realized that dissolving Netzah Yehuda would be a declaration of war for the settler leadership," a defense official told Haaretz haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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A bit of backbone emerges: Interior Minister Moshe Arbel wrote a scathing letter to PM Netanyahu due to the premier's decision to interfere in the ministry's authority over the entry of foreign workers into Israel haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Since October 7, Israel has experienced a severe shortage of foreign workers. as Palestinian workers were barred from entering the country, and thousands of others left haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Arbel has said he unequivocally supports allowing Palestinian workers back into Israel in coordination with the Shin Bet security service, alongside increasing the number of incoming foreign workers haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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An Israeli drone fired three missiles one after the other at a World Central Kitchen convoy escorting an aid truck to a food warehouse in Deir al-Balah, according to defense sources familiar with the details haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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According to defense sources, the cars were clearly marked as belonging to the organization, but the war room of the unit responsible for securing the route identified an armed man on the truck and suspected that he was a terrorist, sources said haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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The truck reached the warehouse with the World Central Kitchen's three cars, with seven volunteers in them – two dual-national Palestinians (U.S. and Canada) and five citizens of Australia, the UK, and Poland haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Twelve young women live in the three-story villa at the edge of Be'er Yaakov, a town southeast of Tel Aviv. They take turns with the cooking, smoke together in the garden, and sleep in well-lit and well-kept rooms, two or three to a room haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Next to their beds they hang posters, paintings and inspirational quotes.
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But in recent months these women have been shaken. October 7 has triggered emotions they're trying to leave behind. "I unwillingly saw some very harsh video clips," says Libby Shalev Ashwal, 22 haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Five months into the war, there is almost nothing left of Gaza's substantial Ukrainian community. The women who helped found it had to flee, becoming asylum seekers scattered across Europe / @lizarozovsky haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…
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"When Netanyahu and the radical right came to power, I immediately told my husband that we had to sell everything and leave. I knew there would be a war. I told him, 'With this party, there is no other possibility'" haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…
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These are the recollections of Tetiana (not her real name), a 49-year-old Ukrainian citizen and a physician who fled the Gaza Strip with three of her children in early December haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…
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Israel's English-language government spokesman Eylon Levy has been suspended from his post. The Prime Minister's office confirmed this, but did not specify the reason / @shap56405 haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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According to speculation by Israeli news outlets, Levy's suspension stems from his response on X to a post by British Foreign Secretary David Cameron concerning humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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This isn't the first time Levy has found himself embroiled in controversy since stepping into his position in the wake of Hamas' attack on October 7 haaretz.com/israel-news/20…