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After a recent Israeli high court decision allowed Israeli companies to maintain quarrying and mining activities in the occupied West Bank, human rights activists say the decision has opened the door to Israel’s pillaging of other Palestinian resources. Read more about Court gives Israel "licence to pillage" West Bank, say rights groups
An energy crisis is currently hitting the Gaza Strip’s public services hard and could lead to a severe humanitarian crisis if a sustainable solution is not found soon. Read more about Vital health services under threat in Gaza power crisis
Israeli airstrikes early Thursday morning injured six persons, including rescue workers. Meanwhile, area residents say this is not the first time they have been subjected to Israeli strikes. Read more about Gaza families recount terror of latest air strikes
Israeli bulldozers demolished the only community center and refuge for Palestinian children in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem. Read more about Israeli forces destroy "the only place for children in Silwan"
The judge heading the panel assessing whether Palestinian civil rights leader Sheikh Raed Salah can be deported from the UK has cast serious doubt on the British government’s case. A final verdict is expected in the next two weeks. Read more about Raed Salah deportation case disintegrates in UK court, but verdict still to follow
Gaza City residents in the coastal Hamami neighborhood are outraged after the Gaza government bulldozed their houses to make way for a major infrastructure project. Read more about Gazans shocked at home demolitions ordered "by our own brothers"
Twenty Bedouin communities in the Jerusalem area, in which 2,600 persons live, are facing displacement to make way for Israeli settlement expansion Read more about 2,600 Bedouins threatened with displacement as Israeli settlements expand
Despite chronic attacks on their homes and property by settlers, while Israeli forces continue to confiscate more and more land to serve the nearby settlement, the Jaber family hold fast to both their heritage and their future. Read more about "We will rebuild": Hebron family resists unrelenting settler violence
An Israeli law forbidding Palestinians gaining citizenship upon marrying an Israeli leaves thousands of families in limbo. Read more about Palestinian families denied rights by Israel's racist marriage laws
Gaza health facilities continue to suffer shortages of medicines and equipment because of rivalry between Palestinian political parties, as well as the siege Israel has imposed on the Strip. Read more about Medicines in Gaza are hostage to political rivalry that puts lives at risk
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