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3/22/2023 2:46:35 PM
Israel has "no intention" of reviving West Bank settlements evacuated nearly two decades ago, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday, after a parliamentary vote sparked US ire.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
3/22/2023 1:39:40 PM
Egypt has condemned the Israeli Knesset's approval of a bill on Tuesday allowing the return of settlers to four settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank that were dismantled in 2005.
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World
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3/22/2023 1:39:10 PM
The United States is "extremely troubled" by the Israeli Knesset's legislation rescinding important parts of the 2005 "disengagement law," which paves the way for Jewish settlers to return to four West Bank settlements, said State Department Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel during a press briefing on Tuesday.
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World
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3/21/2023 11:58:45 AM
Israeli lawmakers on Tuesday repealed a 2005 act that saw four Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank dismantled at the same time as Israeli forces withdraw from the Gaza Strip. The development could pave the way for an official return to the abandoned West Bank areas and further deepen the crisis.
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World
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2/22/2023 7:15:56 PM
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday called for an end to Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian lands.
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2/20/2023 8:02:00 PM
Israel has told the Biden administration it will rein in the approval of new West Bank settlement outposts, the prime minister's office said Monday, a day after a potential diplomatic crisis was averted at the United Nations over Israeli-Palestinian tensions.
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2/20/2023 6:54:03 PM
The UN Security Council expressed its "dismay" with plans by Israel's hard-right government to retroactively legalize settlements in occupied Palestinian lands, warning in a statement Monday that such measures "impede peace."
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World
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2/20/2023 10:20:09 AM
The Biden administration has convinced Israel and the Palestinian authorities to agree to a six-month freeze in Israeli settlement expansion to forestall a likely US veto of a contentious UN Security Council resolution that would have condemned Israel for settlement expansion and demanded a halt to future activity.
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2/19/2023 12:00:15 PM
The Biden administration is scrambling to avert a diplomatic crisis over Israeli settlement activity this week at the United Nations which threatens to overshadow and perhaps derail what the US hopes will be a solid five days of focus on condemning Russia's war with Ukraine.
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World
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2/15/2023 8:23:46 PM
Western governments said this week they were "deeply troubled" by the Israeli government's decision to give retroactive permission to nine settlements in the occupied West Bank and build new homes.
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2/14/2023 10:22:50 AM
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday criticized Israel's moves to advance settlements, warning that the US ally was aggravating tensions with the Palestinians following recent violence.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
2/13/2023 3:55:31 PM
Egypt condemned on Monday the Israeli government’s most recent decision to "legitimise" more pockets of illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories as well as the building of new settlement units.
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2/13/2023 10:11:10 AM
Israel hit Gaza with air strikes on Monday in response to a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave at the weekend, the army said, as unrest persisted in the occupied West Bank.
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Africa
1/30/2023 1:53:51 PM
Vultures scavenge for dead animals along a river turned sewer conduit in Kenya's capital Nairobi. Its waters turn from clear to black as it traverses informal settlements and industrial hubs.
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World
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1/29/2023 11:09:55 AM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday announced a series of punitive steps against the Palestinians, including plans to beef up Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, in response to a pair of shooting attacks that killed seven Israelis and wounded five others.
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World
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12/28/2022 1:33:23 PM
Benjamin Netanyahu's incoming hard-line government put West Bank settlement expansion at the top of its list of priorities on Wednesday, a day before it's set to be sworn into office.
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World
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12/10/2022 10:57:21 AM
The United States said it was pressing the United Nations not to update a blacklist of companies doing business in Israeli settlements, despite Washington's calls on its ally to stop expansion in occupied Palestinian territory.
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World
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12/4/2022 8:01:39 PM
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed Sunday to oppose Israeli settlements or annexation in the West Bank, but promised to judge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's incoming government by actions and not personalities.
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World
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12/1/2022 9:37:12 PM
Israel's designated prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday announced a coalition deal that will give a hardline, pro-settler party control over a number of key government ministries and a senior role in overseeing the construction of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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World
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War in Ukraine
11/30/2022 5:29:40 PM
Russia said Wednesday it had seized east Ukrainian settlements near the embattled town of Bakhmut that Moscow has been trying to capture since this summer.
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