The Israeli Palestinian Conflict

The Palestinian Authority, senior Palestinian religious leaders and local figures in east Jerusalem are waging a campaign to keep the Israeli curriculum out of east Jerusalem schools.

In recent months Palestinians have been waging a campaign in Jerusalem to prevent the introduction of the Israeli curriculum into Palestinian educational institutions in east Jerusalem.
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Hamas’ strategic priority of military buildup over civilian infrastructure and population needs contributes greatly to the severe hardships in the Gaza Strip.

Recently, the issue of the severe economic situation of the Gaza Strip became part of the Palestinian, Israeli and international agenda. The hardships are manifested by the failing civilian infrastructure (medicine, supply of electricity, water, sewage disposal) and by the worsening of the quality of life of the Gazan population.
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (January 31 – February 6, 2018)

This past week terrorist events focused on the murder of an Israeli civilian, Itamar Ben-Gal, at the entrance to the city of Ariel. In the village of al-Yamoun (northern Samaria) the Israeli security forces killed Ahmed Nasr Jarar, a senior operative in the squad responsible for the shooting attack that killed Rabbi Raziel Shevah (January 9, 2018). This past week two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip fell in Israeli territory.
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (January 18 – 30, 2018)

This past week in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip demonstrations and riots continued. One rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory, the first in four weeks. In Samaria there were two notable incidents: the detention of a uniformed Palestinian who tried to enter the community of Itamar and the discovery of a chain of 11 IEDs north of Tulkarm. In the Gaza Strip the hardships of the population increase.
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Senior Fatah and Palestinian Authority (PA) figures pay a condolence call to the family of the terrorist who killed Rabbi Raziel Shevah in a shooting attack in Samaria; Mahmoud Abbas also offered his condolences.

On January 22, 2018, three senior Fatah figures paid a condolence call at the mourning tent erected by the family of Ahmed Isma'il Muhammad Jarar (one of the terrorists who carry out the shooting attack near Havat Gilad in Samaria that killed Rabbi Raziel Shevah).
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (January 17 – 23, 2018)

This past week terrorist events focused on three popular terrorism ["popular resistance"] attacks. The Fatah movement disseminated notices calling "to escalate the popular resistance" and "to turn the lives of the settlers into a living hell." Mahmoud Abbas gave two speeches this past week. The first was a speech with strong rhetoric at the al-Azhar conference The second, with softer rhetoric was given at a press conference in Brussels
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