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   • Eurovision host Sweden braces for anti-Israel protests

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     STORY: The Swedish city of Malmo is gearing up to host the Eurovision Song Contest against a backdrop of heightened security and planned protests over Israel’s participation. Eurovision is the biggest contest of its kind in the world. Two hundred million people are expected to tune in. And about 100,000 are expected to travel to Sweden’s third-largest city. Earlier this month, protesters denounced Israel’s participation in a protest outside Malmo’s City Hall. And multiple large pro-Palestinian protests are planned outside the contest venue. Protest signs are already up around the city. Malmo resident Orwa Kadoura is a Palestinian who is helping to organize protests. The feelings around Israel’s participation, he says, are difficult and multi-layered, including anger, sadness and a feeling of injustice. The European Broadcasting Union — or EBU — organizes the contest. It’s resisted calls for Israel to be excluded over the war in Gaza and says the event is non-political. Still, the EBU banned Russia in 2022 after several European public broadcasters called for the country to be expelled over its invasion of Ukraine. This time around, Israeli contestant Eden Golan will be under the spotlight, along with her song, “Hurricane.” Israel got the green light to compete after agreeing to modify the lyrics of its original song, “October Rain,” which the EBU said made reference to the October 7 Hamas onslaught in Israel. Organizers face the risk of protests escalating into violence, heightened terror threats in the country, as well as increased tensions with Russia after Sweden's NATO membership. Police say security will be tighter compared to the last time Sweden hosted the event in 2016. The contest’s executive producer Ebba Adielsson says her focus is on the visitors coming to Sweden from over 80 countries. “This is my focus and I really hope that people will feel this and be united by music." Those visitors will have to pass through airport-like security checks when entering venues. The contest takes place from May 7 to 11.

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     Eurovision host Sweden braces for anti-Israel protests

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     STORY: The Swedish city of Malmo is gearing up to host the Eurovision Song Contest against a backdrop of heightened security and planned protests over Israel’s participation. Eurovision is the biggest contest of its kind in the world. Two hundred million people are expected to tune in. And about 100,000 are expected to travel to Sweden’s third-largest city. Earlier this month, protesters denounced Israel’s participation in a protest outside Malmo’s City Hall. And multiple large pro-Palestinian protests are planned outside the contest venue. Protest signs are already up around the city. Malmo resident Orwa Kadoura is a Palestinian who is helping to organize protests. The feelings around Israel’s participation, he says, are difficult and multi-layered, including anger, sadness and a feeling of injustice. The European Broadcasting Union — or EBU — organizes the contest. It’s resisted calls for Israel to be excluded over the war in Gaza and says the event is non-political. Still, the EBU banned Russia in 2022 after several European public broadcasters called for the country to be expelled over its invasion of Ukraine. This time around, Israeli contestant Eden Golan will be under the spotlight, along with her song, “Hurricane.” Israel got the green light to compete after agreeing to modify the lyrics of its original song, “October Rain,” which the EBU said made reference to the October 7 Hamas onslaught in Israel. Organizers face the risk of protests escalating into violence, heightened terror threats in the country, as well as increased tensions with Russia after Sweden's NATO membership. Police say security will be tighter compared to the last time Sweden hosted the event in 2016. The contest’s executive producer Ebba Adielsson says her focus is on the visitors coming to Sweden from over 80 countries. “This is my focus and I really hope that people will feel this and be united by music." Those visitors will have to pass through airport-like security checks when entering venues. The contest takes place from May 7 to 11.

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     Germany to resume funding UNRWA Palestinian agency

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     STORY: Germany plans to resume funding of the UN Palestinian agency, or UNRWA. That's according to a statement from the country’s foreign and development ministries on Wednesday (April 24). Earlier this year, Israel accused hundreds of UNRWA staff of being military operatives in so-called terrorist groups in Gaza. A number of countries including the U.S. and Britain then paused payments to UNRWA, a severe blow to the agency that provides education, health and aid to millions of Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. But a new report released on Monday concluded that Israel had not provided enough evidence to back up its claims. The review was led by former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna, looking into UNRWA’s ability to ensure neutrality. "Overall, the findings of the review are that UNRWA has in place a very significant number of mechanisms and procedures to ensure compliance with the humanitarian principle of neutrality.” A separate UN probe is also investigating Israel’s accusation that 12 UNRWA staff took part in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks. Norway, which is a major donor to UNRWA, on Tuesday called on donors to resume funding, arguing that the donation cuts have put the population of Gaza at risk. Ten countries have resumed their donation following the review. The U.S., UK, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, and Lithuania have not yet done so. A U.N. spokesperson on Monday said UNRWA currently only had enough funding to pay for operations until June.

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     Gaza Strip could reach famine in six weeks, WFP says

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     STORY: "We are getting closer by the day to a famine situation," said Gian Carlo Cirri, Geneva director of the WFP. A U.N.-backed report published in March said that famine was imminent and likely to occur by May in northern Gaza and could spread across the enclave by July. On Tuesday, a U.S. official said the risk of famine in Gaza, especially in the north, was very high. Cirri was speaking at the launch of a report by the Global Network Against Food Crises, an alliance of humanitarian and development actors including United Nations agencies, the World Bank, the European Union and the United States. In its report, the network described the 2024 outlook for the Middle East and Africa as extremely concerning due to the Gaza war and restricted humanitarian access, as well as the risk of the conflict spreading elsewhere in the region. The United Nations has long complained of obstacles to getting aid in and distributing it throughout Gaza in the six months since Israel began an aerial and ground offensive against Gaza's ruling Islamist militant group Hamas. Israel has denied hindering supplies of humanitarian aid and blames aid agencies for inefficiencies in distribution.

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     Universities move classes online as protests escalate

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     NYU ramped up security after clashes with police and Cal Poly Humboldt closed the campus after protests turned violent as demonstrations about the Israel-Hamas war continue across the country.

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     Pro-Palestinian protests spread to more US schools

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     STORY: Pro-Palestinian student protests expanded to more U.S. college campuses on Tuesday, after mass arrests at demonstrations among a handful of mostly East Coast schools in recent days. They're all responding to Israel’s war in Gaza, launched after a deadly October raid by Hamas Islamist militants. At University of California Berkeley – a school with a strong legacy of student activism– students erected a tent camp on Tuesday in solidarity with protesters at other schools. The demonstrations coincide with the week-long Jewish feast of Passover. “I’m here especially on the first day of Passover because I believe that in this moment where we celebrate the liberation of our people it is important to fight for the liberation of others.” The campus of Cal Poly Humboldt, a public university also in California, was shut down after pro-Palestinian protesters occupied a campus building. And at the University of Minnesota campus in St. Paul, police cleared an encampment after the school asked them to take action, citing violations of university policy and trespassing law. The new protests follow the arrest of more than 100 students at Columbia last week, and around 120 protesters on New York University's campus late Monday. NYPD said university authorities reached out for help, and protesters failed to clear by the deadline given by the university. New York Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday defended the actions of police, and also said that outside agitators had infiltrated the demonstrations. “We have identified individuals who don't attend the schools, who are on the campuses.” “They latch on to any protests to see our police officers having bottles thrown at them.” Adams joined in with Columbia administrators, state officials, some members of Congress and the White House in citing incidents of extreme rhetoric by Pro-Palestinian protesters, and allegations that Jewish students have been subjected to antisemitism and harassment. While student organizers from Columbia have acknowledged several such incidents, they maintain that quote "inflammatory individuals" do not represent their anti-war movement. The White House has said it is closely monitoring the situation on college campuses.

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     Columbia University students return for in-person classes

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     STORY: The school canceled in-person classes on Monday (April 22) in response to protesters setting up tent encampments at its New York City campus last week. Protests at Yale University, Columbia, New York University and other university campuses across the nation began in response to the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, following the deadly cross-border raid by Hamas militants on Oct. 7 and Israel's fierce response in the Gaza enclave controlled by Hamas. In an email to Columbia staff and students on Monday, Columbia President Nemat Minouche Shafik said the university was canceling in-person classes and moving to online teaching to "deescalate the rancor and give us all a chance to consider next steps." Last week, Shafik called in New York police to clear a tent encampment protesters had set up on Columbia's main lawn to demand the school divest from Israel-related investments, an unusual move condemned by some faculty. The school said the encampment violated rules. Police arrested more than 100 students from Columbia on Thursday (April 18) on charges of trespassing. Columbia and the affiliated Barnard College have suspended dozens of students involved in the protests.

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     AP explains: 200 days of Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip

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     AP explains: 200 days of Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip

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     Pro-Palestinian Protests Escalate at Columbia, NYU and Other Schools

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     University leaders struggled to contain pro-Palestinian protests on campus as tensions over the Israel-Hamas war intensified. Photo: Gina M. Randazzo/Zuma Press

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     Dozens arrested at NYU pro-Palestinian protest

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     Students protests over Israel's war with Hamas have been spreading in New York and nationwide, with police taking 133 protesters into custody late Monday after a protest at New York University. (AP video: Noreen Nasir/Production: Vanessa A. Alvarez)

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     UN rights chief 'horrified' by Gaza mass grave reports

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     STORY: Palestinian authorities reported finding scores of bodies in mass graves at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis this week after it was abandoned by Israeli troops. Bodies were also reported at the Al Shifa site following an Israeli special forces operation. "We feel the need to raise the alarm because clearly there have been multiple bodies discovered," said Shamdasani, adding Turk said he had been horrified by the reported mass grave discoveries and the hospitals' destruction. "Some of them had their hands tied, which of course indicates serious violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law, and these need to be subjected to further investigations." She added that the U.N. human rights office was working on corroborating Palestinian officials' reports that 283 bodies were found at Nasser and 30 at Al Shifa. Gaza's Hamas-run Civil Emergency Service said on Tuesday that a total of 310 bodies had been found at one mass grave at Nasser so far and that two other graves had been identified, but not yet excavated. Israel's military and its diplomatic mission in Geneva were not immediately available for comment on the Jewish Passover holiday. Israel says Hamas militants use hospitals as bases and that its forces killed around 200 militants at Al Shifa and avoided harming any civilians.

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     Volunteers deliver food in Gaza as hunger strikes

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     STORY: The war between Israel and Hamas that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza and resulted in a severe humanitarian crisis has had "a significant negative impact" on the human rights situation in the country, the U.S. State Department said in its annual report on Monday. Israel launched its assault in response to a Hamas attack on October 7, in which Israel says 1,200 people were killed. Israel's commitments to improve aid access in the Gaza Strip have had "limited and sometimes nil" impact, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said last week as he pushed for urgent, meaningful and measurable progress to avert famine. Israel, which denies hindering humanitarian relief to Gaza, has said that aid is moving into Gaza more quickly. But the amount is disputed and the United Nations says it is still much less than the bare minimum to meet humanitarian needs.

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     Qatar reassessing its role as mediator between Israel and Hamas

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     Qatar said on Tuesday that it was in what it called a "re-evaluation phase" in trying to mediate talks between Israel and Hamas over a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip.

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     Tensions rise at US universities over pro-Palestinian protests

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     STORY: The police crackdowns came after Columbia University canceled in-person classes on Monday in response to protesters setting up tent encampments at its New York City campus last week. Demonstrators blocked traffic around Yale's campus in New Haven, Connecticut, demanding the school divest from military weapons manufacturers.  Police arrested more than 45 protesters, according to the student-run Yale Daily News. In New York, officers moved on the NYU crowd shortly after nightfall as hundreds of demonstrators for hours had defied university warnings that they faced consequences if they failed to vacate a plaza where they had gathered. Protests at Yale, Columbia, NYU and other university campuses across the nation began in response to the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, following the deadly cross-border raid by Hamas militants on Oct. 7 and Israel's fierce response in the Gaza enclave controlled by Hamas.

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     Arrests at US universities as Gaza protests grow

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     STORY: Pro-Palestinian protests escalated across top U.S. universities Monday. After nightfall, riot police broke up demonstrations at New York University and carried out mass arrests. Hundreds of protesters had defied university orders to leave a plaza where they gathered. They shouted chants urging NYU authorities to divest from efforts linked to Israel’s war effort in Gaza. At New York's Columbia University, police detained several protesters. Earlier in the day, the school cancelled in-person classes to deescalate tensions after last week's crackdown on a pro-Palestinian protester tent city, that saw over 100 students arrested. Ongoing protests in top universities are a response to the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which began on October 7 with a deadly raid by Hamas Islamist militants into Israel, and Israel's fierce response in Hamas-controlled Gaza. Some Columbia faculty, including professor David Lurie, spoke on Monday against the school suspending students who joined the action. "We demand that all Barnard College and Columbia University's suspensions and charges be dismissed immediately and expunged from the students' records." Columbia University President Nemat Shafik had denounced antisemitic language and harassing behavior that she said had occurred on campus recently. Protesters on Columbia’s lawn have given speeches condemning Israel and Zionism and praising Palestinian armed resistance. Officers are posted to Manhattan streets, to prevent confrontations between rival groups. Meanwhile, student media at Yale University in Connecticut say at least 45 students were arrested Monday, linked to pro-Palestinian rallies that blocked traffic. Similar protests were seen at Emerson College, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Human rights advocates say there's been a rise in bias and hate against Jews, Arabs and Muslims since October 7, and concerns grow as the Jewish holiday of Passover began on Monday.

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     Tensions rise as classes go online at Columbia amid protests

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     Campuses are on edge as mobilizations against the Israel-Hamas conflict persist at some of the nation's leading colleges and universities.

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     Dozens of pro-Palestinian protestors arrested at NYU

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     STORY: Demonstrators tussled with officers and chanted, "We will not stop, we will not rest. Disclose. Divest." A New York police spokesperson said arrests were made after the university asked police to enforce trespassing violations but the total number of arrests and citations would remain unknown until much later. No immediate injuries were reported. Protests at Yale, Columbia, NYU and other university campuses across the nation began in response to the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, following the deadly cross-border raid by Hamas militants on Oct. 7 and Israel's fierce response in the Gaza enclave controlled by Hamas.

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     No evidence from Israel for some UNRWA claims: review

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     STORY: Israel has yet to provide evidence for its accusations that hundreds of staff with the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees – or UNRWA – are members of terrorist groups, according to a review of the agency's neutrality released on Monday. The review also noted that UNRWA has a "more developed approach" to neutrality than other similar U.N. or aid groups, according to Catherine Colonna, a former French foreign minister appointed by the U.N. to lead the review. "There's always room for improvement and some issues related to neutrality persist. This is why this mission was created." Colonna was tasked with the review after Israel accused 12 UNRWA staff of taking part in the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks that triggered the Gaza war. A separate probe by internal U.N. investigators is looking into those allegations. Sixteen states paused or suspended funding to UNRWA after Israel raised the concerns... a severe blow to the agency that provides education, health and aid to millions of Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. The review said UNRWA shares staff lists annually... and that Israel had not raised any concerns with UNRWA based on those lists since 2011. Israel then stepped up its accusations in March 2024, saying over 450 UNRWA staff were military operatives in Gaza terrorist groups. A spokesperson for Israel's foreign ministry on Monday accused more than 2,000 UNRWA workers of being members of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad... and said the review of the agency was insufficient. Colonna said she wasn't surprised by the reaction. "I want you to know that we have had good relations with Israel. We were received really well by a wide variety of actors there, including officials, several levels, and in several domains. I just briefed one of those contacts we had there, and I'm not surprised by what they say, because I told him 'Of course you will find it is insufficient, but please take it on board. Whatever it would recommend, if implemented, will bring good.'" The review said UNRWA neutrality challenges included the size of the operation, with most personnel being recruited locally. It included some staff publicly expressing political views, textbooks with problematic content and politicized staff unions making threats against management. A spokesperson for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he has accepted the recommendations and is calling on all countries to actively support UNRWA as it is "a lifeline" for Palestinian refugees in the region. A U.S. State Department spokesperson said the United States had received the report and is reviewing it.

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     Pro-Palestinian protests sweep US college campuses following mass arrests at Columbia

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     Columbia canceled in-person classes, dozens of protesters were arrested at Yale and the gates to Harvard Yard were closed to the public on Monday as some of the most prestigious U.S. universities sought to diffuse campus tensions over Israel's war with Hamas.

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     Watch: Columbia Holds Classes Virtually as Israel-Hamas Protests Persist

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     Columbia University held classes virtually on Monday as protests over the Israel-Hamas war intensified. Protesters also demonstrated at Yale University. Photo: Jeenah Moon for The Wall Street Journal

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     Israel’s Military Spy Chief Quits Over Oct. 7 Hamas Attack

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     Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva has become Israel’s first senior official to step down amid public outcry over the failure of the country's government, military and spy agencies to prevent the Oct. 7 attack. Photo: Israel Defense Forces

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     Israelis prepare for Passover amid hostage demands

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     STORY: Passover is traditionally observed with a seder, a holiday feast when families gather and celebrate freedom from biblical slavery. Many families are expected to have empty seats, representing those killed or taken hostage on October last year. Israel remains on edge after Iran launched a direct attack on its territory for the first time earlier this month. In the south, the Israeli military is continuing its war with Hamas in Gaza that has killed 34,000 people, which began after the group's fighters attacked Israel on October 7, killing some 1,200 people and abducting another 253, according to Israeli tallies. Some of the hostages were freed in a November truce, but efforts to secure another deal to release the remaining 133 appear to have stalled for now.

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     Israeli military intelligence chief becomes first to resign over October 7 Hamas attack, AP explains

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     The head of Israel’s military intelligence directorate has resigned over Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, the head of Israel’s military intelligence, becomes the first senior Israeli figure to step down over the failures surrounding Hamas’ attack. It could set the stage for more resignations. Haliva said in October that he shouldered the blame for not preventing the attack, which broke through Israel’s vaunted defenses.

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     Security concerns at Columbia University amid Israel-Hamas war

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     The president of Columbia announced classes will be remote on Monday ahead of the first night of Passover amid rising tensions stemming from protests about the Israel-Hamas war.

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     General strike after Israeli raids paralyzes West Bank

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     STORY: On Saturday (April 20), Palestinian health authorities said at least 14 Palestinians, two of whom were identified by Palestinian sources and officials as a gunman and a 16 year-old boy, were killed during the raid, one of the heaviest casualty totals in the West Bank in months. Another man was killed on Friday (April 19). Violence in the West Bank, already on the rise before the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, has escalated since with frequent army raids on militant groups, rampages by Jewish settlers in Palestinian villages and Palestinian street attacks.

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     Israeli soldiers shot Palestinians who attacked them: military

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     STORY: This was the scene in the occupied West Bank on Sunday (April 21), where two Palestinians tried to shoot and stab Israeli soldiers, according to the Israeli military. It added that its soldiers responded with live fire. A Reuters cameraman saw a body at the scene of the incident, a junction near the Palestinian city of Hebron. The official Palestinian news agency WAFA, quoting local sources, said that Israeli forces shot the two men and ambulance crews were prevented from reaching them. Palestinian security sources told WAFA that the two men, aged 18 and 19, died and that they were still unable to collect their bodies. Violence in the West Bank, already on the rise before the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, has escalated with frequent army raids on militant groups, rampages by Jewish settlers in Palestinian villages and Palestinian street attacks. On Sunday (April 21), mourners fire in the air at a funeral for Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in a raid the day before. Palestinian health authorities said at least 14 Palestinians were killed in the Nur Shams area, near the flashpoint city of Tulkarm. The Israeli army released a video said to show its operations which began in the early hours of Friday (April 19). Reuters was not able to independently confirm the date or location of the footage. Separately on Saturday, an ambulance driver was killed as he went to pick up wounded from a separate attack by violent Jewish settlers, Palestinian authorities said. Israel's military did not immediately comment on the ambulance driver's death on Saturday. The war in Gaza has overshadowed continuing violence in the West Bank. Thousands of Palestinians have been arrested and hundreds killed during regular operations in the West Bank by Israeli army and police since the start of the Gaza war on Oct. 7. Those killed were mostly members of armed groups, but also stone-throwing youths and uninvolved civilians.

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3. Hamas - Wikipedia

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   Hamas, an acronym of its official name, Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya (Arabic: حركة المقاومة الإسلامية, romanized: Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah, lit. 'Islamic Resistance Movement'), is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist political and military movement governing parts of the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip.

4. Hersh Goldberg-Polin: Hamas releases video of hostage in proof he...

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   Hamas released a video of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin on Wednesday, the first proof that he survived being badly wounded during his capture on October 7. Goldberg-Polin, then 23 ...

5. What Is Hamas? | Council on Foreign Relations

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   Hamas is an Islamist militant movement that has controlled the Gaza Strip for nearly two decades. It also violently rejects Israel’s existence.

6. What is Hamas? What to know about its origins, leaders and...

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   World Updated on Oct 13, 2023 11:08 AM EDT — Published on Oct 10, 2023 4:10 PM EDT. Hamas is an Islamist militant movement and one of the Palestinian territories’ two major political parties ...

7. What is Hamas? Here's what to know : NPR

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   Hamas' attack is a staggering failure for Israel's intelligence and security forces. The group has vowed to annihilate Israel and has been responsible for many suicide bombings and other deadly...

8. Hamas | Definition, History, Ideology, & Facts | Britannica

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   Hamas, militant Palestinian nationalist and Islamist movement dedicated to the establishment of an independent Islamic state in historical Palestine. The group won an electoral majority in the 2006 legislative elections, but the legislature was dissolved the following year with Hamas left in control of the Gaza Strip.

9. What is Hamas and why is it fighting with Israel in Gaza? - BBC

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   Getty Images. Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas have been at war since early October. It began when Hamas gunmen launched an unprecedented attack on Israel from Gaza - the deadliest in...

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    What is Hamas? Hamas is a militant group that carried out the worst terrorist attack in Israel in decades on Saturday, killing 900 people and taking captive dozens of soldiers and civilians.

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    Published Oct. 8, 2023 Updated Oct. 26, 2023. Leer en español. Hamas, an armed Palestinian group, launched one of the largest assaults on Israel in decades on Oct. 7, killing more than 1,400 ...

12. What is Hamas and why is it fighting with Israel in Gaza?

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    Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas have been at war since early October. It began when Hamas gunmen launched an unprecedented attack on Israel from Gaza - the deadliest in Israel's history.