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Adalah, the mother of Palestinian prisoner Kamal Jouri, inspects the ruins of the house belonging to the family which was demolished by Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Nablus, Thursday, June 22, 2023. Jouri is accused of shooting and killing an IDF soldier last year near Nablus. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israel demolishes alleged Palestinian attacker’s home in volatile occupied West Bank

By Ilan Ben Zion - Associated Press

A view of the West Bank village of Battir, whose terraces are a UNESCO cultural landscape, Sunday, June 4, 2023. Environmental groups say an Israeli settlement project slated for a nearby hilltop could threaten the ancient terraces of the village, which has been recognized as a UNESCO world heritage site. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

In the West Bank, UNESCO site Battir could face a water shortage from a planned Israeli settlement

By Ilan Ben Zion - Associated Press

Mourners carry the body of Nachman Mordoff, 17, during his funeral in the West Bank Israeli settlement of Shilo, Wednesday, June 21, 2023. Mordoff was among four Israelis killed by two Palestinian attackers that opened fire at a restaurant and gas station near the Israeli settlement of Eli in the West Bank on Tuesday. The attackers were killed by Israeli fire as violence continued to roil the West Bank. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israel beefs up troop presence in West Bank after Palestinian attack that killed 4 civilians

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Smoke rises from fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants in the West Bank city of Jenin Monday, June 19, 2023. Israeli helicopter gunships struck targets in the West Bank, during a fierce gunbattle in which Palestinian militants detonated a roadside bomb next to an Israeli military vehicle. At least three Palestinians, including a 15-year-old boy, were killed. Several dozens of Palestinians were wounded and the Israeli military said seven members of the border police and the army were hurt. They said troops came under fire during an arrest raid in Jenin and shot back at gunmen. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israeli troops kill a Palestinian man in renewed clashes in the occupied West Bank

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Smoke rises from fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants in the West Bank city of Jenin Monday, June 19, 2023. Israeli helicopter gunships struck targets in the West Bank, during a fierce gunbattle in which Palestinian militants detonated a roadside bomb next to an Israeli military vehicle. At least three Palestinians, including a 15-year-old boy, were killed. Twenty-nine Palestinians and seven Israeli border police and soldiers were wounded. The Israeli military said troops came under fire during an arrest and shot back at gunmen. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Gunbattle in Jenin: 3 Palestinians killed, 29 others wounded in Israeli raid in West Bank

By Ilan Ben Zion - Associated Press

Bezalel Smotrich, Israeli Minister of Finance, addresses the parliament in Jerusalem, March 27, 2023. Israel's government on Sunday, June 18 granted a pro-settlement firebrand authority over planning in the occupied West Bank and lifted red tape on the settlement housing approval process, Israeli media reported. The government gave Smotrich control over planning in West Bank settlements, a condition he had made to join the government. (AP Photo/Maya Alerruzzo, file)

Israeli government gives settler minister control over West Bank settlement planning

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, arrives for a vote on picking two lawmakers to serve on a judge selection panel, in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, Jerusalem, Wednesday, June 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israeli parliament vote deals setback to Netanyahu and judicial overhaul plan

By Josef Federman - Associated Press

Palestinians, some armed, celebrate as Israeli security forces withdraw from Balata refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank after their alleged failure to arrest a wanted militant in the heavily militarized camp, near the city of Nablus Tuesday, June 13, 2023. An Israeli military raid set off a gunfight with militants that killed a 19-year-old Palestinian man on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israeli military raid kills 1 Palestinian, 4 people wounded in separate West Bank shooting attack

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Israeli border police officers stand guard as participants march in the annual Pride parade in Jerusalem, Thursday, June 1, 2023. Thousands of people march in Jerusalem's Pride parade on Thursday, an annual event that is taking place this year under Israel's most right-wing government ever, stacked with openly homophobic members. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Thousands march in Jerusalem Pride parade, first under Israel’s most right-wing government ever

By Isaac Scharf and Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

Israeli soldiers search in the West Bank village of Qafin for the suspected gunmen who shot and killed an Israeli civilian near the entrance to a Jewish settlement of Hermesh, Tuesday, May 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israeli army says Palestinian gunmen kills Israeli civilian in West Bank shooting

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A woman walks at the inner courtyard of the Tower of David Museum, in Jerusalem's Old City, after a three-year renovation project, Monday, May 22, 2023. The tower, an ancient fortress on the western edge of the Old City, contains remnants of successive fortifications built one atop the other dating back over two millennia. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Jerusalem’s redesigned Tower of David museum opens after 3-year renovation

By Ilan Ben Zion - Associated Press

Israeli soldiers and Border Police are deployed at the site where Israeli settlers burned Palestinian cars and wheat fields in the village of al-Mughayyir near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday, May 26, 2023. Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian farmers and torched five vehicles in the village, the official Palestinian news agency reported. It added that five farmers were injured when settlers beat them. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.(AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israeli military: Palestinian man killed after alleged stabbing attempt in West Bank settlement

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Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, center, attends a march marking Jerusalem Day, an Israeli holiday celebrating the capture of east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war, in front of the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem's Old City, Thursday, May 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Extremist Israeli Cabinet minister visits sensitive Jerusalem holy site

By Tia Goldenberg and Josef Federman - Associated Press

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) **FIILE**

Israeli crowds chant racist slogans, taunt Palestinians during Jerusalem march

By Ilan Ben Zion - Associated Press

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) **FIILE**

Hamas calls on Palestinians to confront Israeli victory parade in Jerusalem’s Old City

By Fares Akram - Associated Press

Palestinians inspect the rubble of a house after it was struck by an Israeli airstrike in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, Friday, May 12, 2023. On the fourth day of fighting between Israel and Islamic Jihad, the second-largest militant group in Gaza.(AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Israel, Islamic Jihad reach cease-fire to end 5 days of fighting

By Fares Akram and Joseph Federman - Associated Press

Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, in Gaza City, Thursday, May 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Israeli airstrikes, Palestinian rockets continue even as hopes for a cease-fire grow

By Fares Akram and Isabel DeBre - Associated Press

Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, in Gaza, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. Palestinian militants fired dozens of rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel on Wednesday, in a first response to Israeli airstrikes that have killed 16 Palestinians, including three senior militants and at least 10 civilians. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Palestinian militants fire rockets after Israel strikes Gaza

By Fares Akram and Ilan Ben Zion - Associated Press

Illustration on the 75th anniversary of the founding of Israel by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Israel’s 75th birthday: Despite endless war, Jewish state survives and even thrives

By Clifford D. May

A worshipper stands in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem, Jan. 29, 2022, and holds his mobile phone showing a threatening message. The May 2021 text, signed "Israeli intelligence," reads: "Hello! You have been spotted as having participated in acts of violence in Al-Aqsa Mosque, and we will hold you accountable." Israel’s Shin Bet internal security agency is defending its use of a surveillance tool that was used to send threatening text messages to Palestinian protesters at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site two years ago. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Israeli security agency defends use of threatening messages

By Josef Federman - Associated Press