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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)
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Israeli police storm Jerusalem holy site after rock-throwing
Israeli police enter the Al Aqsa Mosque compound where they clashed with Palestinian protesters following early morning prayers in Jerusalem's Old City, Friday, April 22, 2022. Israeli police and Palestinian youths clashed again at the major Jerusalem holy site sacred to Jews and Muslims on Friday despite a temporary halt to Jewish visits to the site, which are seen as a provocation by the Palestinians. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
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Gaza violence intensifies as Jerusalem clashes resume
Palestinians chant slogans as Israeli security forces escort a group of Jews outside Damascus Gate, in Jerusalem's Old City, Wednesday, April 20, 2022. Police prevented hundreds of ultra-nationalist Israelis from marching around predominantly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem's Old City. The event planned for Wednesday was similar to one that served as one of the triggers of last year's Israel-Gaza war. AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
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Rocket fired at Israel from Gaza as Mideast tensions mount
Flames and smoke rise during Israeli airstrikes central Gaza strip in on April 21, 2022. - Israeli jets struck Gaza in the early hours of April 21, witnesses and security sources said, hours after militants in the Palestinian enclave fired a rocket into the Jewish state. The strikes, the second in 48 hours after a previous rocket strike, were concentrated on the centre of the blockaded coastal territory, they said. (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP) (Photo by BASHAR TALEB/AFP via Getty Images)
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Police restrict march by ultra-nationalist Israelis in Jerusalem’s Old City
An Israeli police officer blocks right wing activists from marching towards Jerusalem's Old City, in Jerusalem, Wednesday, April 20, 2022. Police prevented hundreds of ultra-nationalist Israelis from marching around predominantly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem's Old City. The event planned for Wednesday was similar to one that served as one of the triggers of last year's Israel-Gaza war. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Israel says it intercepted rocket fired from Gaza
FILE - Israeli army soldiers guard a section of Israel's separation barrier, in the West Bank village of Nilin, west of Ramallah, Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021. Two Palestinian men were critically injured by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Monday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, the latest incident in a wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)
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Clashes erupt at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque, 152 Palestinians hurt
Israeli security forces gather after Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli police clashed at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound on April 15, 2022. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Church of the Holy Sepulchre’s ancient altar rediscovered, researchers say
People view paintings during a visit to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in Jerusalem's Old City, April 11, 2022. Picture taken April 11, 2022. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
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Israelis mount their own COVID-19 vehicular convoy protest
A demonstrator waves an Israeli flag as an Israeli "Freedom Convoy" heads towards Jerusalem to protest against restrictions to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), near Ein Hemed, February 14, 2022. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
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Israeli police try to contain violence in east Jerusalem
Palestinian protesters and Jewish settlers clash in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, February 13, 2022. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
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Two Israeli soldiers killed by friendly fire
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Hamas gunman kills 1 before Israeli police shoot him dead
Israeli security personnel and members of Zaka Rescue and Recovery team carry the body of a Palestinian man who was fatally shot by Israeli police after he killed one Israeli and wounded four others in a shooting attack in Jerusalem's Old City, Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
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Israel proposes U.S. open consulate for Palestinians in West Bank, not Jerusalem
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks to reporters following a session at the Knesset (Israeli parliament), in Jerusalem on November 4, 2021. - Israeli lawmakers passed the country's first state budget in three years, in a victory for the disparate governing coalition, ahead of a key vote on a 2022 spending package. (Photo by Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Palestinians reject offer to delay their Jerusalem eviction
Palestinian activist Muna al-Kurd, center, stands with her neighbors at a press conference in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of east Jerusalem, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021. Palestinian families in the tense neighborhood of Jerusalem have rejected an offer that would have delayed their eviction by Jewish settlers. In a statement on Tuesday, the four families said their decision springs from "our belief in the justice of our cause and our right to our homes and our homeland." (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
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Israel opposes Biden plan to reopen U.S. Palestinian mission in Jerusalem
FILE PHOTO: Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid speaks during a news conference as he meets with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita in Rabat, Morocco August 11, 2021. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal
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Jewish prayers held discreetly at contested Jerusalem shrine
Religious Jews face the Temple Mount, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Monday, Aug. 2, 2021. Jewish prayers at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site, known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, were once unthinkable. But they have quietly become the norm in recent years, defying longstanding convention, straining a delicate status quo and raising fears that they could trigger a new wave of violence in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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Israel asks for help as wildfires rage near Jerusalem
A firefighting plane disperses fire retardant as it assists in extinguishing a fire near the Israeli village of Beit Meir, outskirts of Jerusalem, August 16, 2021. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
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Jerusalem covered in smoke as wildfire rages outside city
An Israeli soldier carries a box of sandwiches as he walks with a fellow soldier through the Machane Yehuda market under a sky darkened by nearby wildfires, in Jerusalem, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021.(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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Ruling on Palestinians facing eviction postponed
Protesters hold signs during a hearing on the possible evictions of Palestinian from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem, outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, Monday, Aug. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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Ben & Jerry’s says it will stop selling its ice cream in Palestinian territories
WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 20: Ben and Jerry's ice cream is stored in a cooler at an event where founders Jerry Greenfield and Ben Cohen gave away ice cream to bring attention to police reform at the U.S. Supreme Court on May 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. The two are urging the ending of police qualified immunity. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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Israeli club Beitar calls off match with Barcelona over Jerusalem
Moshe Hogeg, one of the owners of Beitar Jerusalem FC soccer club speaks in an interview in the Team training ground in Jerusalem, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020. The owner of Israel's Beitar Jerusalem soccer club has given himself an ambitious task. Weeks after bringing in a wealthy Emirati investor as co-owner, Moshe Hogeg says he is determined to remove the stain of racism from his team. Beitar is the only major Israeli team never to have signed an Arab player, and its fans have been known to make racist chants at matches. Hogeg says he and his Emirati partner aim to turn the team into both an Israeli soccer powerhouse and a model of coexistence. “We are actively looking for A-class players," he says. "Religion is not a factor by any means.” (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)