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American tourist arrested for smashing ancient Roman statues at museum in Israel
This image released by Israel Police shows two ancient Roman statues toppled at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. Israeli police have arrested an American tourist at the museum after he hurled works of art to the floor, defacing two second-century Roman statues. The vandalism late Thursday raised questions about the safety of Israel's priceless collections and stirred concern about a rise in attacks on cultural heritage in Jerusalem. (Israel Police via AP)
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Palestinian opens fire in West Bank settlement, wounding six people before being killed
Members of Israeli security forces deploy at the site of a reported attack in the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in the occupied West Bank, on August 1, 2023. A suspected Palestinian gunman opened fire on August 1 at a group of Israelis in an occupied West Bank settlement, wounding four before being "neutralised" by an off-duty border officer, police said. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)
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In photos: Protests erupt across Israel after lawmakers approve Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul
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Israeli security forces use a water cannon to disperse demonstrators blocking the entrance of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem.
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Hundreds of thousands march in Israel, as former security chiefs call for halt to legal overhaul
Thousands of Israelis march to Jerusalem in protest of plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, in Jerusalem, Saturday, July 22, 2023. Thousands of demonstrators entered the last leg of a four-day and nearly 70-kilometer (roughly 45-mile) trek from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Protest organizers planned to camp overnight outside Israel's parliament on Saturday. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
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Israeli crowds chant racist slogans, taunt Palestinians during Jerusalem march
FILE - Israelis wave national flags in front of Damascus Gate outside Jerusalem's Old City to mark Jerusalem Day, an Israeli holiday celebrating the capture of the Old City during the 1967 Mideast war, Sunday, May 29, 2022. The ruling Hamas militant group in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, May 17, 2023, called on Palestinians to confront a flag-waving parade planned by Jewish nationalists through the main Palestinian thoroughfare in Jerusalem’s Old City.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Palestinian militants, Israeli military exchange fire despite efforts to broker truce
Smoke rises from an explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike, in Gaza Strip, Friday, May 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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Suspected shooting attack in Jerusalem wounds two Israeli men
Israeli security forces search for suspects following a shooting attack in the neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in east Jerusalem,Tuesday, April 18, 2023. A Palestinian gunman shot and wounded two Israelis in Jerusalem on Tuesday, police said. The two wounded, who were shot while inside a vehicle, were treated for moderate gunshot wounds. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
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Holy Land Christians say attacks rising in far-right Israel
FILE - Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa leads the Easter Sunday Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and rose from the dead, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Sunday, April 9, 2023. Since the rise of Israel's most right-wing government in history, church leaders say the 2,000-year-old Christian community in Jerusalem has come under increasing attack, with an uptick in harassment of clergy and vandalism of religious properties. Several church leaders, including the head of the Roman Catholic Church in the region, told The Associated Press they fear that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ultranationalist coalition has empowered extremists. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)
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Tensions build around Jerusalem shrine after Syria rockets
Jewish visitors walk past people reading the Koran, at the compound that houses Al-Aqsa Mosque, known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, while tension arises during clashes in Jerusalem's Old City, April 9, 2023. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
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Israeli military says 3 rockets fired from Syria
Israeli security forces examine the scene of a shooting near the Israeli settlement of Hamra in West Bank at the Jordan Valley, Friday, April 7, 2023. Israeli medics say an alleged Palestinian shooting attack in the northern West Bank killed two women and seriously wounded another. The Israeli military said security forces were searching for the attacker. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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Two dead as violence in Jerusalem, West Bank simmers
FILE PHOTO: Israeli police stand guard near a security incident scene near Al-Aqsa compound also known to Jews as the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City, April 1, 2023. REUTERS/Ammar Awad/File Photo
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Israeli police fatally shoot man at Jerusalem’s holy site
Israeli police deploy in the Old City of Jerusalem after shots were fired in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Saturday, April 1, 2023. (AP Photo/ Mahmoud Illean)
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In photos: Mass protests erupt in Israel amid Netanyahu's judicial reforms
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A driver tries to remove barrier placed by protesters against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial overhaul plan outside the parliament in Tel Aviv,Israel.
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Palestinian gunman kills Israeli as violence roils West Bank
Israeli soldiers ride in a vehicle along a road in the town of Huwara near Nablus in the occupied West Bank on February 27, 2023. - Two Israelis living in the Har Bracha settlement near Nablus were killed on February 26 in a Palestinian attack, officials said, sparking violence in which a Palestinian man was killed, while settlers torched homes and vehicles in revenge. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP) (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images)
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Jordan hosting Israeli-Palestinian talks to avert escalation in violence, officials say
Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations Riyad H. Mansour (L) listens to Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan (R) during the United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on February 20, 2023. - 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." (Photo by Yuki IWAMURA / AFP) (Photo by YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Gaza rockets, Israeli strikes follow deadly West Bank raid
A Palestinian man gestures near burning tyres during a protest near the Israel-Gaza border east of Jabalia refugee camp, on February 23, 2023. - Israel and Palestinian militants traded air strikes and rocket fire in and around Gaza, a day after the deadliest Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank in nearly 20 years. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP) (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)
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With Ukraine in mind, U.S. frantic to avert diplomatic crisis at UN over Israeli settlements
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends a panel discussion at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023. The 59th Munich Security Conference (MSC) is taking place from Feb. 17 to Feb. 19, 2023 at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
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Israel approves law to strip Arab attackers of citizenship
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Two killed, five wounded in Jerusalem car-ramming, police say
Israeli emergency responders gather at the site of a reported ramming attack in Jerusalem on February 10, 2023. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israel prepares to demolish home of Palestinian gunman
Mourners attend the funeral of Israeli couple Eli Mizrahi and his wife, Natalie, victims of a shooting attack Friday in east Jerusalem, at the cemetery in Beit Shemesh, Israel, early Sunday, Jan. 29, 2023. On Friday a Palestinian gunman opened fire outside an east Jerusalem synagogue, killing the couple and another five people, including a 70-year-old woman, and wounding three others before he was shot and killed by police, officials say. It was the deadliest attack on Israelis since 2008 and raised the likelihood of more bloodshed. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Israel to ‘strengthen’ settlements after pair of shootings in Jerusalem
Israeli police secure the site of a shooting attack near a synagogue in Jerusalem, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. A Palestinian gunman opened fire outside an east Jerusalem synagogue Friday night, killing seven people, including a 70-year-old woman, and wounding three others before police shot and killed him, officials said. It was the deadliest attack on Israelis in years and raised the likelihood of further bloodshed. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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Ultranationalist Israeli minister visits flashpoint Jerusalem holy site for first time since taking office
Israeli police secure the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. Itamar Ben-Gvir, an ultranationalist Israeli Cabinet minister, visited the flashpoint Jerusalem holy site Tuesday for the first time since taking office in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new far-right government last week. The visit is seen by Palestinians as a provocation. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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Canadian-Israeli teen killed as twin blasts shake Jerusalem, wounding 18
Mourners carry the body of 16-year-old Aryeh Shechopek who was killed in a suspected Palestinian bomb attack, at his funeral in Jerusalem November 23, 2022. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
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Israeli settlers rampage in Palestinian town in West Bank
A maksed Israeli settler (C-R) stands by while Palestinians and Israeli soldiers scuffle during clashes in the town of Huwara in the occupied West Bank on October 13, 2022. (Photo by Oren ZIV / AFP) (Photo by OREN ZIV/AFP via Getty Images)
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Deadly clashes in West Bank, shooting attack in Jerusalem
An Israeli border police officer walks at the scene of a shooting attack near the Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem, Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022. Israeli police say armed assailants have opened fire at an Israeli military checkpoint in east Jerusalem, seriously wounding at least two people. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
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Israeli nationalists chant racist slogans in Jerusalem march
Demonstrators gather with Israeli flags at the Damascus Gate of the old city of Jerusalem on May 29, 2022, during the Israeli 'flags march' to mark "Jerusalem Day". - Jerusalem is bracing for a controversial "flag march" by Israelis that has sparked warnings of a new escalation from Palestinian factions. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Jerusalem on edge ahead of contentious Israeli flag march
Israelis wave the national flag at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on May 28, 2022, on the eve of the 'flags march' to mark Jerusalem Day, which commemorates the unification of the city after Israel annexed east Jerusalem in 1967. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP) (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Palestinian Health Ministry says teen killed by Israeli fire in West Bank
Palestinians confront Israeli soldiers who stormed Huwara, Israeli-occupied West Bank, May 26, 2022. Picture taken May 26, 2022. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta
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Hamas challenges Israel over nationalist flag march in Jerusalem
FILE - Jewish ultra-nationalists wave Israeli flags during the "Flags March," next to Damascus gate, outside Jerusalem's Old City, June 15, 2021. Israeli authorities on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, said they have given the go-ahead for flag-waving Jewish nationalists to march through the heart of the main Palestinian thoroughfare in Jerusalem's Old City on May 29, in a decision that threatens to re-ignite violence in the holy city. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)
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Israeli government and court at odds over Jewish prayer at flashpoint shrine
FILE PHOTO: Jewish visitors gesture as Israeli security forces secure the area at the compound that houses Al-Aqsa Mosque, known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City, May 5, 2022. REUTERS/Ammar Awad/File Photo
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Israel court rejects petitions against Jerusalem cable car
FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2013 file photo, the Dome of the Rock Mosque in the Al Aqsa Mosque compound is seen in Jerusalem's old city. Israel plans to build a cable car to relieve traffic in Jerusalem’s Old City. The project has united architects and Palestinian activists in opposition to a project they say is an eyesore to a picturesque landscape and a ploy to entrench Israeli control over the city’s contested eastern sector.(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)
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Palestinians clash with Israeli police at Jerusalem holy site
Palestinian protesters wave Palestinian and Islamic flags as they rally at the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in Jerusalem, following the last Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, on April 29, 2022. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)