Gianluca PACCHIANI
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West Bank's violent settlers part of a new generation fuelled by ideology (opens the original)
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A mass attack by Israeli settlers on a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank has placed new focus on the emergence of a generation of radicals in the territory. A loosely connected movement of hardline Israeli settlers, most of them young and including school dropouts from outside the West Bank, known as the "Hilltop Youth", is behind the surging violence against Palestinians. Inspired by religious-nationalist ideology, the movement seeks to expand the Jewish presence in the Palestinian
Driven by faith, activists stand up to fellow Jews to protect Palestinians (opens the original)
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Ziva Sharp said her Jewish faith motivated her to travel from Jerusalem to the West Bank to stand up for Palestinians -- a commitment that led to her being set upon by fellow Israelis also professing to be driven by Judaism. Sharp and around 30 other activists are part of a small movement of Israelis, many of them religious Jews, who periodically go to the occupied West Bank with a mission to protect Palestinians under growing assault by violent settlers. On Tuesday, at least five of the activis
As election nears, Israelis fear polarisation could spark violence (opens the original)
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Warnings are multiplying that violence could break out between rival political camps ahead of Israel's October 27 election, with powerful figures including top government ministers accused of incitement against opponents. Israel was rocked in 2023 by mass protests against a judicial overhaul widely seen as an attempt to curb the courts' powers. Protests flared again after Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack, this time against the government's conduct of the war in Gaza and the stalemate in hostage ne
In Israel vote, ex-army chief emerges main rival to Netanyahu (opens the original)
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As Israel heads into a fiercely contested general election on October 27, former military chief Gadi Eisenkot has emerged as the principal challenger to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Eisenkot's rise comes at a pivotal moment in Israeli politics, with the election widely viewed as a referendum on the long-serving premier's leadership in the violent aftermath of Hamas's October 7, 2023, attack on Israel. A recent Channel 12 poll put Eisenkot's new party, Yashar (Hebrew for "Straight" or "Upri
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