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We reject Israel’s attempts to alter status of Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron and to usurp authority of the Palestinian people,’ Turkish Foreign Ministry says - Anadolu Ajansı

Top church leaders in the Holy Land have condemned intensifying Israeli settler violence on the only entirely Christian Palestinian village remaining in the occupied West Bank.

"Israeli settlers and security forces have intensified their killings, attacks and harassment of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in the past weeks," Thameen Al-Kheetan, a spokesperson for the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OCHCR), told reporters in Geneva.

Christian leaders accused Israeli settlers on Monday of attacking sacred sites in the West Bank, in violence that one said was forcing some to consider quitting the occupied territory.

The suspect, a pregnant mother of five, was asked to transfer funds to the West Bank through an experienced money changer, as well as a suitcase filled with weapons – missions she actually carried out

CNN crew allegedly targeted while on assignment investigating the death of 20-year-old Florida native Saif al-Din Kamil Abdul Karim Musalat.

The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) minister for foreign affairs, Varsen Aghabekian Shahin, described as “shocking and disappointing” the European Union’s refusal to act against Israel for violations in Gaza and the West Bank.