Israel will reduce its scheduled payments to the Palestinian Authority by the amount that the PA admits spending on paying stipends to convicted terrorists and their families, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Friday. Israel believes that encouragement of terrorism by the Pal. leadership, in form of incitement and payments constitutes incentive for murder. —...
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Outlets affiliated with the Palestinian Authority and its dominant Fatah party have granted the honorary title of “shahid,” or martyr, to a Palestinian who murdered a 13-year-old Israeli girl early Thursday morning. Muhammad Nasser Tarayrah broke into the West Bank community of Kiryat Arba and stabbed Hallel Yaffa Ariel to death as she slept...
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A Palestinian man broke into an Israeli home in the West Bank and stabbed a 13-year-old girl to death in her bed as she slept early Thursday morning. Hallel Yaffa Ariel was killed by a Palestinian assailant who jumped the security fence around the settlement of Kiryat Arba, according to initial reports....
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A senior adviser to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Monday that any Palestinian interactions with Israelis should end with violence, rather than dialogue. “If you ask me my blunt position, I would say — every place you find an Israeli, slit his throat,” Sultan Abu al-Einein, a member of...
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In the wake of a debunked claim last week that Israel had cut off water supplies to Palestinians in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority’s Foreign Ministry claimed that a rabbi authorized Jews to poison wells belonging to Palestinians, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. In a statement, the PA’s Foreign Ministry cited a...
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An Israeli minister is advocating for the construction of an artificial island off the coast of the Gaza Strip in order to facilitate the import of goods to the territory, the Associated Press reported Monday. Yisrael Katz, Israel’s transportation minister and one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s top deputies, told reporters that he...
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The U.S. ambassador to Israel said Washington will “vigorously oppose and counter” the “pernicious” Palestinian-led campaign to boycott Israel, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. Ambassador Dan Shapiro, who was addressing the 16th annual Herzliya Conference, added that “no one should have any doubt that the policy of the U.S. government” is to fight...
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Millions of pounds of British aid money to the Palestinian Authority were used to encourage terrorism and led to a spike in Palestinian violence, an independent inquiry found. A £156.4 million ($222.5 million) aid project by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) designed to support Palestinian state-building instead led to public sector...
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The British government has launched a probe into whether the Palestinian Authority is misusing aid money to pay salaries to convicted terrorists and incite violence against Israel, The Jewish Chronicle reported on Thursday. Secretary of State for International Development Justine Greening is in charge of the investigation. Findings are expected by...
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Palestinian textbooks continue to encourage violence, anti-Semitism, and anti-Israel sentiments, a study carried out by a monitor of educational curricula has found. “The word ‘peace’ does not appear at all,” wrote Impact-SE in its report, which surveyed 78 Palestinian Authority texts for grades 1 through 12, after reviewing references to the Oslo Accords. “The State of Israel, with...
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