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It's official. The siege in Gaza is completed. The Israeli army officially announced the completion of the first step of the operation, which it advanced through 3 main points. But the big battle has now begun. Now the most difficult process has begun, the Israeli army is advancing into the cities and record-breaking clashes have begun. With the Israeli forces completing the first step of the operations in Gaza, a sudden advance has begun in the West Bank and a corridor is forming, just like in Gaza. With the outbreak of fierce fighting in both Gaza and the West Bank,...

In the West Bank and Gaza, USAID empowers Palestinians to build thriving communities, promote inclusive development and advance a two-state solution. USAID assistance aims to increase stability and improve lives by working within local communities to increase economic opportunity and access to basic services, promote effective governance, empower youth, and provide humanitarian relief. Additionally, USAID strives to build trust, mutual understanding, and respect by advancing cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians through its peacebuilding initiatives. USAID’s assistance helps build a freer, more prosperous, and more secure region, benefiting Palestinians, Israelis, and Americans.

Hamas has called on Palestinians in the West Bank to 'mobilise' in support of Gaza. The terrorist group called on those in the West Bank and '1948 territories' - a term used by Palestinians meaning Israel in reference to when it was founded - to take up arms as Israel's ground invasion begins. Hamas reportedly said that it held Israel, the US and Western nations which support Israel 'fully responsible for the series of heinous massacres' against the people of Gaza, Al Jazeera reports. It called on Arab nations and and the international community to immediately take action to prevent...

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched an airstrike Sunday on a compound beneath the al-Ansar Mosque in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank after receiving intel that indicated "terrorists...were organizing an imminent terror attack," the military said in a statement. While most of Israel’s offensive against Hamas has been targeted at Gaza, which is fully under Hamas control, this is the second Israeli air strike on a West Bank target in recent days. The IDF & ISA just conducted an aerial strike on a Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist compound in the Al-Ansar Mosque in Jenin.Recent IDF intel revealed...

Israeli planes carried out strikes on airports in Aleppo and Damascus early Sunday, knocking both out of service, Syria’s state-run media said, marking the third such attack in 10 days. One civilian worker was killed and another wounded in the strike on the Damascus airport, the SANA state news agency said. Runways in both airports were damaged, causing all flights in and out of both airports to be canceled or diverted to an airport in coastal Latakia, SANA said. Official notices to international aviation authorities, known as NOTAMs, indicated that the runways would be unusable for at least two days....

Main Findings: This poll examines the 75th anniversary of the Nakba. Findings indicate that the overwhelming majority of Palestinians blame Arab or international parties or the Zionist movement for the Nakba, while internal Palestinian weakness comes at the bottom of the list. Although this outcome was expected, the small percentage that saw Palestinian weakness as responsible for the Nakba indicates the persistence of a huge Palestinian sense of victimhood. However, when asked about the most damaging developments since the Nakba, the largest percentage referred to internal division, the split between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, while the Israeli...

CNN reporter Sara Sidner was accosted live on-air on this morning as she reported from the West Bank, with an angry crowd of Palestinians telling her: '**** CNN - you are not welcome here' in the latest indicator of the region's bubbling hatred of America. Sidner is among the network's reporters who have been in the region since Hamas waged war on October 7. On Friday, she was reporting from a street in the West Bank - one of two Palestinian territories - when she was approached by a furious man. 'You are a genocide supporter. You are not welcome...

Palestinian protestors in the West Bank waved Russian and Hamas flags and carried portraits of Russia's President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to express their fury about Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip and U.S. support for Israel. Putin cropped up as Russia told Israel it was negotiating with Hamas for the return of some hostages. Protesters took to the streets of Hebron to show solidarity with the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip. After the rally, some protesters threw stones at Israeli forces and set tire fires. On Thursday, Russia's foreign minister proposed regular security talks...

The events of recent days are unprecedented. The last time units of Jewish and Palestinian fighters — military or paramilitary — went to battle on such a broad front in Israel-Palestine was in 1948. There have, of course, been various battles over the years in Gaza as well as West Bank cities like Jenin, and Israeli and Palestinian units fought one another in Lebanon in 1982. But there is no parallel to the scope of what has taken place here since Saturday morning, and not since 1948 have Palestinian fighters occupied Jewish communities on this scale.This fact is not just...

@disclosetv JUST IN - Biden announces $100 million in aid for Gaza, West Bank.

The post is a You Tube Video produced by Raptor News providing the most detailed current information on the Israeli war with Hamas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMXnMq1y5dA&ab_channel=RaptorNews The following comment by Dos Rios reflects my thought "As others commented, this reporting style, without hyperbole, just reporting available information, is a breath of fresh air. Many are sick of being told what to think about the situation, let’s see what’s going on and decide how we feel based on our own understanding"

🚨BREAKING: Israeli Ground Forces Enter Nablus City, West Bank. pic.twitter.com/WGMOlpSjjQ— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) October 14, 2023

A @NYTimes essay by @TareqBaconi justifies, and ultimately cheers, murdering Israeli civilians How many ways can one minimize and then legitimize terror attacks against Jews? Tareq Baconi, former senior analyst for Israel/Palestine at the International Crisis Group and the author of “Hamas Contained” who is now president of the board of al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network, displays a lot of them in New York Times guest essay. Purportedly an analysis of Jenin, he breaks new ground in first obfuscating, and ultimately justifying, Palestinian attacks on civilians .. Latest virus in israelophobia is the term: "resistance". The Pallywoody whitewashing of raw...

US State Department spokesman Vedant Patel condemned the Knesset's passage of an amendment repealing the Disengagement from northern Samaria and allowing Jews to return to the four communities which were destroyed there in 2005. "The United States is extremely troubled that the Israeli Knesset has passed legislation rescinding important parts of the 2005 Disengagement Law, including the prohibition on establishing settlements in the northern West Bank," Patel said. .....

A gun battle broke out in the Palestinian Authority-administered city of Shechem (Nablus) in Samaria Wednesday morning, after Israeli forces surrounded a building where a wanted terrorist was hiding. IDF soldiers, Border Police officers, and members of the elite Yamam special forces unit took part in the operation in the Kasbah of Shechem. Terrorists opened fire on the Israeli forces, who responded in kind. Nine terrorists were killed in the gun battle, including two who were involved in the murder of Staff Sergeant Ido Baruch. The 21-year-old soldier was shot and killed by terrorists last year near the town of...

Al Arabiya English Benjamin Netanyahu is preparing to become the Prime Minister of Israel for the third time. He has until December 21 to form a government before taking office. In a wide-ranging interview with a group of print and television journalists at Al Arabiya, Mr. Netanyahu discussed Israel’s relations with Arab states, the US alliance structure in the Middle East, unrest in Iran, Israel’s new hard-right government, the future of the US-brokered maritime border agreement with Lebanon, and the Russia-Ukraine war. Mr. Netanyahu reiterated the paramount importance of normalization with Saudi Arabia, which would be a “quantum leap” toward...

Israel’s opposition leader and contender for next prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine and urged him to reconsider, in his most direct criticism yet of the war. Netanyahu said in an interview with USA Today that he thought Putin’s decision to go to war in Ukraine was “guided by his vision of reconstituting a great Russian realm,” adding, “I hope he’s having second thoughts about it.” “We all have sympathy to Ukraine, it’s not even a question, and I’m no different,” he said. Israel has sought not to antagonize Russia in the conflict,...

As they grow up, Palestinian children can join various youth organization where they are further brainwashed with racist and anti-Semitic ideology. increasingly important role in this systematic indoctrination is an extensive network of summer camps, established by the PA following its assumption of control of the Palestinian population of the West Bank in early 1996. Modeled on the Nazi youth organization Hitler Jugend, these camps have provided a carefully contrived mixture of ideological indoctrination and military training to thousands of Palestinian youth every year. All camps are named after "martyrs" or spectacular "acts of martyrdom" (i.e., terrorist attacks), and participants...

Between the two towers of Westbank‘s WB1200 development in Seattle, a repurposed Boeing 747 is soon to be suspended. The body of the massive airplane will float above the residential project’s galleria as a centerpiece and a symbol of industrial innovation, on view as a sensational artifact for both pedestrians at street level and for residents in their dwellings overhead. Ian Gillespie, founder of Vancouver-based Westbank, leads the project with the aim of celebrating innovation. That’s why the fuselage will not only hang between the apartment towers an art object, but as occupiable space. The reused Boeing 747 will function...

People Around the World Watch in Horror By The Associated Press Sept. 11, 2001 LONDON -- People around the world watched in horror as images of terror in the United States filled their television screens Tuesday. On the West Bank, Palestinians celebrated but most world leaders expressed solidarity with an America that looked more vulnerable than ever. Iraqi television played a patriotic song that begins "Down with America!" as it showed the World Trade Center's towers falling.https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/11/international/people-around-the-world-watch-in-horror.html Palestinians celebrate in the streets - Irish Examiner It has been reported that Palestinians are celebrating in the streets. TUE, 11 SEP, 2001...