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Gianluca Pacchiani

Gianluca Pacchiani

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Gazans abort border riots as Israel reopens crossing in reported Egypt-brokered deal

The Hamas terror group ruling Gaza reportedly informed Egypt that it will work to make sure that riots on the barrier will end on Thursday evening,...

28.09.2023 10

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Netanyahu government nixed effective programs to fight Arab crime, experts say

A heinous killing shocked the northern village of Basmat Tab’un on Wednesday. Five people from the same Bedouin family were gunned down by masked...

28.09.2023 10

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Video of Jewish men treading on Muslim graves on Yom Kippur sparks condemnation

A video showing a group of Jewish young men stepping on gravestones in Jerusalem’s Bab al-Rahmeh Muslim cemetery drew harsh condemnation by the...

27.09.2023 20

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5 family members shot dead in northern home, raising toll in Arab community to 188

Six people were killed in two attacks in northern Israel on Wednesday, five of them in a mass shooting, the latest incidents in the worsening crime...

27.09.2023 20

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Gianluca Pacchiani

New Saudi envoy to PA said to cancel visit to Al Aqsa to avoid Palestinian backlash

Nayef al-Sudairi, the newly appointed Saudi ambassador to the Palestinians, reportedly canceled a planned visit Wednesday to the Al Aqsa Mosque on...

27.09.2023 20

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Hezbollah journalist films self within touching distance of IDF tank on border

A Lebanese journalist for Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Manar TV filmed himself Tuesday standing next to an Israeli tank on the border between Israel and...

26.09.2023 10

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Amid tensions, Fatah offshoot accuses Islamist rivals of turning West Bank into Syria

In a video circulating on social media since Tuesday, a dozen militants of the pro-Fatah Tanzim militia accused a rival Islamist armed group of...

20.09.2023 10

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Israeli captain playing for the Palestinians: ‘Can’t separate politics from sports’

Ataa Jaber, the former captain of the U-21 Israeli national soccer team, has joined the Palestinian squad, becoming the highest-profile player to make...

19.09.2023 20

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Palestinian professor who took students to Auschwitz: Holocaust denial imperils peace

Palestinian peace activist Mohammed Dajani saw his academic career disrupted after he taught Palestinian students about the Holocaust from a Jewish...

17.09.2023 40

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Controversial coalition bill would allow Shin Bet to vet all teachers for terror ties

The coalition is looking to pass a controversial bill that will enable the Shin Bet security service to perform background checks on all 200,000 of...

16.09.2023 30

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Gaza terror groups stage military drill to mark anniversary of Israeli pullout

The Gaza Strip’s so-called “Joint Operations Room,” composed of various Palestinian terror groups, held a military drill Tuesday morning to mark...

12.09.2023 20

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Palestinian academics sign open letter condemning Abbas’s antisemitic comments

A group of Palestinian academics and intellectuals signed an open letter on Sunday to condemn the “morally and politically reprehensible comments”...

11.09.2023 20

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Abbas spokesman claims PA chief was quoting academics when he used antisemitic tropes

A spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the PA leader’s recent statements using antisemitic tropes were in fact...

10.09.2023 30

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Gianluca Pacchiani

The woman who teaches Jewish Israelis how to protest in Arabic

Sondos Alhoot is one of the few Arab Israelis to have taken the stage at the weekly protests in Tel Aviv against the government’s judicial overhaul....

08.09.2023 20

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Report of IDF strip-searching Palestinian women causes uproar, draws UN criticism

A recent Israel Defense Forces raid into a Palestinian home in Hebron, during which five female members of a family were reportedly forced to strip...

06.09.2023 10

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Smotrich says Israel to withhold millions from PA to repay electricity debt

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has announced that Israel will start withholding money from the funds it collects on behalf of the Palestinian...

06.09.2023 10

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Abbas blames US for Israel’s ‘return to policy of incursions’

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday that it holds the US responsible for Israel’s return to policies of  “killings and...

05.09.2023 20

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Gianluca Pacchiani

East Jerusalem school teaching Israeli curriculum is set on fire

A Palestinian school in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Kafr Aqab was set on fire on Sunday night. The school, named Ilya, has been the first one...

05.09.2023 20

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Libyan PM said to have met with Mossad chief in Jordan to discuss normalization

The Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar reported on Monday that Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh held a meeting with the head of the Mossad, David...

04.09.2023 40

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Hamas said considering resuming provocations along Gaza border

After hundreds of Gazans staged a violent protest near the border with Israel on August 21, with some hurling explosive devices or attempting to break...

31.08.2023 10

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Opposition MK holds rare meeting with Palestinian officials in Ramallah

Labor lawmaker Gilad Kariv met with high-ranking officials from the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank Tuesday, the first such publicly disclosed...

31.08.2023 20

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Tunisian president rules out any chance of establishing diplomatic ties with Israel

Tunisian President Kais Saied said this week that the word “normalization” does not exist for him when it comes to Israel. Saied made the comments...

31.08.2023 50

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Recalling ‘cruelty’ of former homeland, some Libyan Jews cast wary eye on contacts

From his home in the coastal Israeli city of Bat Yam, Pedatzur Ben-Attiya recalled a time when he used to recruit “spies” to send into Libya....

29.08.2023 30

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Peace with Lybia is doubtful, but contact, aided by local Jews, started years ago

On Sunday, Israel announced that Foreign Minister Eli Cohen met with his Libyan counterpart, Najla Mangoush, last week in Italy, the first-ever...

28.08.2023 30

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Fatah council calls for ‘escalation of unarmed resistance’ against Israel

After three days of meeting, Fatah’s Revolutionary Council (FRC) ended its latest session on Saturday with a call for an “escalation of the...

27.08.2023 30

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Cabinet discusses ‘traffic-light’ system for Arab municipal funding

A new plan was presented to the cabinet to allow Arab municipalities to keep receiving government funds while ensuring that the money will not end up...

27.08.2023 20

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Israeli-Palestinian aquaculture farm wraps up pilot program

A four-year pilot project managed by the Israeli Agriculture Ministry in cooperation with the Civil Administration — the Defense Ministry agency in...

24.08.2023 20

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Gianluca Pacchiani

‘3 innocent people from my family were killed for no reason,’ says Abu Snan resident

Funerals took place on Wednesday in the northern Israeli village of Abu Snan for three cousins of the Druze Sa’ab family killed in a shooting attack...

23.08.2023 20

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Arab local officials are under threat, criminologist warns, as violent crime soars

The unrelenting violent crime wave battering Arab Israeli society is seeping into the political sphere two months ahead of local elections, putting...

23.08.2023 40

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Fighting community’s boycott of politics, lawyer runs to be Jerusalem’s 1st Arab mayor

Waleed Abu Tayeh sat down to discuss his mayoral election campaign in the Saint George Hotel, meters from the Green Line that separates East and West...

22.08.2023 30

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Scuffles as Arab mayors, MKs protest against budget cuts outside Netanyahu’s office

Representatives of Arab local authorities staged a protest in Jerusalem on Monday morning against Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s refusal to...

21.08.2023 40

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Hamas and Islamic Jihad seen importing Gaza military tactics to the West Bank

Palestinian terror groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad have been exploiting the power vacuum in the northern West Bank to strengthen their military...

15.08.2023 30

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Hamas talks local Gaza elections — in apparent push for general Palestinian ballot

Hamas, the terror group ruling over the Gaza strip, organized on Monday a broad “consultative meeting” to discuss local elections in the...

15.08.2023 30

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Gianluca Pacchiani

College head assails Smotrich for defunding programs for Jerusalem Arabs

The head of a major Jerusalem college issued a warning against cuts in funding to academic preparatory programs for East Jerusalem Palestinians,...

14.08.2023 50

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Protests against Hamas reemerge in the streets of Gaza, but will they persist?

On July 30, thousands of people throughout the Gaza Strip took to the streets demanding better living conditions, in a rare display of public anger...

08.08.2023 30

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Gianluca Pacchiani

In latest cut to Arab funds, Smotrich freezes money for integration in academia

In his latest move to curtail funds earmarked for the Arab public, Finance Minister Betzalel Smotrich announced on Monday the freeze of a five-year,...

07.08.2023 10

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Marwan Barghouti’s wife launches international campaign for his release

Meeting the Jordanian foreign minister in Amman last week, Fadwa Barghouti, wife of jailed Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti, announced the...

02.08.2023 30

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Armed clashes erupt overnight between PA forces and terror group fighters in Jenin

Armed clashes erupted between the Palestinian Authority’s security forces and members of local armed terror groups on the streets of Jenin Tuesday...

02.08.2023 30

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Jordanian army arrests man allegedly attempting to infiltrate from Israel

An official Jordanian military source told Arab news outlets Wednesday that a Jordanian border guard had caught a man trying to infiltrate into...

02.08.2023 30

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Gianluca Pacchiani

National security adviser: Hezbollah tent in Israeli territory is ‘childish’ move

National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi on Monday described the tent that Hezbollah has set up in Israeli territory north of the Blue Line between...

01.08.2023 30

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Leading Saudi columnist says it’s ‘highly likely’ peace with Israel is possible

The Saudi press has reacted in recent days to speculation about a possible peace deal with Israel, and to reports on Saturday that the United States...

31.07.2023 30

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Gianluca Pacchiani

PA announces move to boost independence of its judiciary, drawing praise from US

In parallel with the judicial overhaul that has been making headlines in Israel over the past months, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas...

30.07.2023 30

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Iran claims it dismantled Mossad-led spy network planning to blow up Soleimani’s tomb

Tehran alleges that a group controlled by Israeli spy agency’s cells in Europe was also planning attacks against civilian gatherings

24.07.2023 9

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Gianluca Pacchiani

UK remands Islamist preacher in custody on terror charges

LONDON, United Kingdom — British Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary was remanded in custody by a UK magistrate on Monday, after London’s...

24.07.2023 10

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Man shot dead near Kafr Yasif, marking 130th killing in Arab community this year

A man was shot dead Monday in Abu Snan, an Arab village near the northern town of Kafr Yasif, marking the 130th violent killing in the community this...

24.07.2023 10

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Gianluca Pacchiani

As Palestinian factions seek reconciliation in Cairo, Islamic Jihad to boycott talks

While Hamas has accepted Mahmoud Abbas’s invitation, PIJ says it cannot participate as long as the PA holds some of its members

23.07.2023 8

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Iran: ‘Crisis at heart of Zionist regime deeper than crisis in its PM’s heart’

With Israeli society increasingly fractured over the country’s democratic character and future, Iran on Sunday mocked the Jewish state’s troubles...

23.07.2023 20

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Gianluca Pacchiani

At Netanyahu trial, former Walla editor describes ‘outside meddling’ in coverage

The trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continued on Tuesday at the Jerusalem District Court with the testimony of  Yinon Magal, a Channel 14...

19.07.2023 20

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Lost Israeli antiquities said to reemerge in Trump’s Florida residence

Israel has discovered that a set of ancient pottery lamps that it lent to the White House for a temporary exhibit in 2019, and which it has been...

18.07.2023 10

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Gianluca Pacchiani

Gaza group demands release of Palestinian prisoners in swap for Israeli held in Iraq

A Palestinian prisoners association on Sunday called on Iraq to conclude a deal with Israel to exchange Israeli researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov, abducted...

18.07.2023 10

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Gianluca Pacchiani

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