Israel government approves plans for thousands more homes in occupied West Bank<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//07//03//israeli-strikes-in-the-occupied-west-bank-kill-at-least-eight/">Israeli strikes in the occupied West Bank kill at least eight<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//07//19//israeli-protesters-block-highways-train-stations-as-netanyahu-moves-ahead-with-judicial-ov/">Israeli protesters block highways, train stations as Netanyahu moves ahead with judicial overhaul<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Netanyahu, 73, keeps a busy schedule and his office says he is in good health. But over the years, it has released few details or medical records. On 15 July, he was rushed to Sheba with dizziness. He later said he had been out in the hot sun and had not drunk enough water.<\/p>\n<p>His return for the pacemaker procedure indicated his health troubles were more serious than initially indicated. In the video, Netanyahu said that he was outfitted with a monitor after last week's hospitalization and that when an alarm beeped late Saturday, it meant he required a pacemaker right away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel excellent, but I listen to my doctors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Roy Beinart, the senior physician and director at the Davidai Arrhythmia Center at Sheba's Heart Institute, said in a video that Netanyahu was called in to get the pacemaker because he experienced \u201ca temporary arrhythmia,\u201d or irregular heartbeat, Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//77//14//42//808x539_cmsv2_dc78adc5-f141-5efb-bb98-fd9474dae864-7771442.jpg/" alt=\"Ohad Zwigenberg/Copyright 2023 The AP All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/384x256_cmsv2_dc78adc5-f141-5efb-bb98-fd9474dae864-7771442.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/640x427_cmsv2_dc78adc5-f141-5efb-bb98-fd9474dae864-7771442.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/750x500_cmsv2_dc78adc5-f141-5efb-bb98-fd9474dae864-7771442.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/828x552_cmsv2_dc78adc5-f141-5efb-bb98-fd9474dae864-7771442.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/1080x720_cmsv2_dc78adc5-f141-5efb-bb98-fd9474dae864-7771442.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/1200x800_cmsv2_dc78adc5-f141-5efb-bb98-fd9474dae864-7771442.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/1920x1281_cmsv2_dc78adc5-f141-5efb-bb98-fd9474dae864-7771442.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Marchers who completed the last leg of a four-day trek from Tel Aviv to Israel's parliament to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Ohad Zwigenberg/Copyright 2023 The AP All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"The implantation went smoothly, without any complications. He is not in a life-threatening condition. He feels great and is returning to his daily routine,\u201d Beinart said.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear what the hospitalization meant for the judicial overhaul, which has bitterly divided the nation. Netanyahu said he expected to be released in time to go to the Knesset for Monday's vote. In the meantime, his office said the weekly meeting of his Cabinet, usually held each Sunday morning, had been postponed.<\/p>\n<p>A pacemaker is used when a patient\u2019s heart beats too slowly, which can cause fainting spells, according to the National Institutes of Health. It can also be used to treat heart failure. By sending electrical pulses to the heart, the device keeps a person\u2019s heartbeat at a normal rhythm. Patients with pacemakers often return to regular activities within a few days, according to NIH.<\/p>\n<p>The procedure normally involves a doctor inserting the pacemaker near the collarbone, according to Mayo Clinic. A hospital stay of at least a day is usually required.<\/p>\n<p>As Netanyahu spoke, thousands of Israelis camped out in Jerusalem's main park, just a short walk from the Knesset, after completing a four-day march from Tel Aviv to rally opposition to the judicial overhaul. Late Saturday, hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets in Tel Aviv and other cities in a last-ditch show of force hoping to head off the judicial overhaul.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//77//14//42//808x539_cmsv2_be2b3e4d-939b-52d4-a207-439a587f8c05-7771442.jpg/" alt=\"Ohad Zwigenberg/Copyright 2023 The AP All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/384x256_cmsv2_be2b3e4d-939b-52d4-a207-439a587f8c05-7771442.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/640x427_cmsv2_be2b3e4d-939b-52d4-a207-439a587f8c05-7771442.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/750x500_cmsv2_be2b3e4d-939b-52d4-a207-439a587f8c05-7771442.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/828x552_cmsv2_be2b3e4d-939b-52d4-a207-439a587f8c05-7771442.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/1080x720_cmsv2_be2b3e4d-939b-52d4-a207-439a587f8c05-7771442.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/1200x800_cmsv2_be2b3e4d-939b-52d4-a207-439a587f8c05-7771442.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/1920x1281_cmsv2_be2b3e4d-939b-52d4-a207-439a587f8c05-7771442.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Thousands of Israelis march to Jerusalem.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Ohad Zwigenberg/Copyright 2023 The AP All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In scorching heat that reached 33C, the procession into Jerusalem turned the city's main entrance into a sea of blue and white Israeli flags as marchers completed the last leg of a four-day, 70-kilometre trek from Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<p>The marchers, who grew from hundreds to thousands as the march progressed, were welcomed in Jerusalem by throngs of cheering protesters before they set up camp in rows of small white tents.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed overhaul has drawn harsh criticism from business and medical leaders, and a fast-rising number of military reservists in key units have said they will stop reporting for duty if the plan passes, raising concern that Israel's security could be threatened. An additional 10,000 reservists announced they were suspending duty Saturday night, according to \"Brothers in Arms,\" a protest group representing retired soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 top former security chiefs, including retired military commanders, police commissioners and heads of intelligence agencies, joined those calls on Saturday, signing a letter to Netanyahu accusing him of compromising Israel\u2019s military and urging him to halt the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The signatories included Ehud Barak, a former Israeli prime minister, and Moshe Yaalon, a former army chief and defence minister. Both are political rivals of Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-euronews\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"auto widget__ratio widget__ratio--16x9\">\n <iframe type=\"text\/html\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//embed//2325008/" width=\"100%\" loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen seamless>\n <\/iframe>\n <\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe legislation is crushing those things shared by Israeli society, is tearing the people apart, disintegrating the IDF and inflicting fatal blows on Israel\u2019s security,\u201d the former officials wrote.<\/p>\n<p>In his statement, Netanyahu said he would continue to seek a compromise with his opponents. He paused the plan in March after widespread demonstrations, but he revived it last month after compromise talks collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>Israel Katz, a senior Cabinet minister from Netanyahu\u2019s Likud party, said the bill would pass one way or another Monday and rejected the pressure from the ranks of the military, the most respected institution among Israel's Jewish majority. \u201cThere is a clear attempt here to use military service to force the government to change policy,\u201d he told Channel 12 TV.<\/p>\n<p>The overhaul measure would limit the Supreme Court's oversight powers by preventing judges from striking down government decisions on the basis that they are \u201cunreasonable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Proponents say the current \u201creasonability\u201d standard gives judges excessive powers over decision-making by elected officials. 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Fresh protests in Israel against planned overhaul of judicial system","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Fresh protests in Israel against planned overhaul of judicial system","titleListing2":"Fresh protests in Israel against planned overhaul of judicial system","leadin":"People in Israel took to the streets again on Tuesday in protest against government plans to overhaul the judicial system, a move which would reduce the powers of the Supreme Court.","summary":"People in Israel took to the streets again on Tuesday in protest against government plans to overhaul the judicial system, a move which would reduce the powers of the Supreme Court.","url":"watch-fresh-protests-in-israel-against-planned-overhaul-of-judicial-system","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Protesters in Israel blocked highways and gathered outside Tel Aviv's stock exchange and military headquarters on Tuesday in the latest countrywide demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's planned judicial overhaul. \n\nThis latest \u201cday of disruption\u201d came as longtime allies of the prime minister pushed a contentious piece of legislation through a parliamentary committee ahead of a vote expected next week. \n\nOutside the Tel Aviv stock exchange, demonstrators ignited smoke bombs, drummed, and chanted, and held up signs reading \u201csave our startup nation\u201d and \u201cdictatorship will kill the economy\u201d. \n\nThe bill making its way through parliament this week would eliminate the Supreme Court's ability to strike down government decisions it deems unreasonable. \n\n","htmlText":"<p><strong>Protesters in Israel blocked highways and gathered outside Tel Aviv's stock exchange and military headquarters on Tuesday in the latest countrywide demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's planned judicial overhaul.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This latest \u201cday of disruption\u201d came as longtime allies of the prime minister pushed a contentious piece of legislation through a parliamentary committee ahead of a vote expected next week.<\/p>\n<p>Outside the Tel Aviv stock exchange, demonstrators ignited smoke bombs, drummed, and chanted, and held up signs reading \u201csave our startup nation\u201d and \u201cdictatorship will kill the economy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The bill making its way through parliament this week would eliminate the Supreme Court's ability to strike down government decisions it deems unreasonable.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1689675033,"publishedAt":1689699097,"updatedAt":1689699428,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/07\/18\/watch-fresh-protests-in-israel-against-planned-overhaul-of-judicial-system","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/76\/01\/62\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_0c7d8303-3554-524e-a059-f611c6b9d0b4-7760162.jpg","altText":"Israelis protest in Tel Aviv against government plans to overhaul the judicial system ","caption":"Israelis protest in Tel Aviv against government plans to 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used water cannon and deployed mounted officers to disperse demonstrators in Tel Aviv.","leadin":"Dozens were arrested, said police, who used water cannon and deployed mounted officers to disperse demonstrators in Tel Aviv.","summary":"Dozens were arrested, said police, who used water cannon and deployed mounted officers to disperse demonstrators in Tel Aviv.","url":"watch-israel-gripped-by-further-protests-over-controversial-judicial-reform-plans","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Protesters in Israel blocked highways and staged demonstrations at the Tel Aviv airport on Tuesday in a further show of resistance to the government's judicial overhaul package which critics say poses a threat to democracy. \n\nDozens were arrested, said police, who used water cannon and deployed mounted officers to disperse demonstrators in Tel Aviv. \n\nThe plan was announced in January by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, subsequently splitting the nation and sparking one of the country's 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protests of government's plan to overhaul judiciary","leadin":"Thousands of Israeli protesters took to the streets on Tuesday and blocked highways leading to Jerusalem, Haifa and Tel Aviv as part of countrywide demonstrations against the government's planned judicial overhaul that has divided the nation.","summary":"Thousands of Israeli protesters took to the streets on Tuesday and blocked highways leading to Jerusalem, Haifa and Tel Aviv as part of countrywide demonstrations against the government's planned judicial overhaul that has divided the nation.","url":"israelis-block-highways-in-nationwide-protests-of-governments-plan-to-overhaul-judiciary","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The demonstrations came the morning after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s parliamentary coalition gave initial approval to a bill to limit the Supreme Court\u2019s oversight powers, pressing forward with contentious proposed changes to the judiciary despite widespread opposition. \n\nThe legislation is one of several bills proposed by Netanyahu\u2019s ultranationalist and ultra-Orthodox allies. The plan has provoked months of sustained protests by opponents who say it is pushing the country toward authoritarian rule. \n\nAnti-overhaul activists called for nationwide mass demonstrations throughout the day, including protests at Israel\u2019s main international airport that could disrupt travel. \n\nOn Tuesday, 300 reservists from the military\u2019s cyber unit signed a letter saying they would not volunteer for service, explaining the government has demonstrated \u201cit is determined to destroy the state of Israel.\u201d \n\n\u201cSensitive cyber abilities with the potential for being used for evil must not be given to a criminal government that is undermining the foundations of democracy,\u201d the letter said. \n\nPolice used a water cannon to clear protesters who blocked a main artery leading to Jerusalem. Officers arrested several others who had obstructed a highway next to the central city of Modiin. Demonstrators blocked a main highway in Haifa with a large banner reading \u201cTogether we will be victorious,\u201d snarling traffic along the beachfront. \n\nPolice said 42 people were arrested for public disturbance during the protests. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The demonstrations came the morning after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s parliamentary coalition gave initial approval to a bill to limit the Supreme Court\u2019s oversight powers, pressing forward with contentious proposed changes to the judiciary despite widespread opposition.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation is one of several bills proposed by Netanyahu\u2019s ultranationalist and ultra-Orthodox allies. The plan has provoked months of sustained protests by opponents who say it is pushing the country toward authoritarian rule.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-overhaul activists called for nationwide mass demonstrations throughout the day, including protests at Israel\u2019s main international airport that could disrupt travel.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7729348,7697216,7721562\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//07//05//palestinians-survey-destruction-after-most-intense-israeli-west-bank-raid-in-decades/">Palestinians survey destruction after most intense Israeli West Bank raid in decades<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//07//01//tens-of-thousands-of-israelis-protest-against-proposed-judicial-reform/">Tens of thousands of Israelis protest against proposed judicial reform<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//06//21//hundreds-of-israeli-settlers-torch-palestinian-homes-and-cars-after-deadly-shooting-at-set/">Hundreds of Israeli settlers torch Palestinian homes and cars after deadly shooting at settlement <\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, 300 reservists from the military\u2019s cyber unit signed a letter saying they would not volunteer for service, explaining the government has demonstrated \u201cit is determined to destroy the state of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSensitive cyber abilities with the potential for being used for evil must not be given to a criminal government that is undermining the foundations of democracy,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n<p>Police used a water cannon to clear protesters who blocked a main artery leading to Jerusalem. Officers arrested several others who had obstructed a highway next to the central city of Modiin. Demonstrators blocked a main highway in Haifa with a large banner reading \u201cTogether we will be victorious,\u201d snarling traffic along the beachfront.<\/p>\n<p>Police said 42 people were arrested for public disturbance during the protests.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1689061596,"publishedAt":1689095840,"updatedAt":1689096607,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/07\/11\/israelis-block-highways-in-nationwide-protests-of-governments-plan-to-overhaul-judiciary","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/74\/30\/40\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_84cb7537-0f96-5b83-a40b-5b13179e8251-7743040.jpg","altText":"Demonstrators block a highway leading to Jerusalem, during a protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government to overhaul the judicial system.","caption":"Demonstrators block a highway leading to Jerusalem, during a protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government to overhaul the 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a suspected car-ramming attack in Tel Aviv","leadin":"At least seven people have been injured in a suspected car-ramming attack in Tel Aviv. It comes as Israel launches its most intense military operation in the occupied West Bank in years.","summary":"At least seven people have been injured in a suspected car-ramming attack in Tel Aviv. It comes as Israel launches its most intense military operation in the occupied West Bank in years.","url":"at-least-9-palestinians-dead-as-israel-launches-most-intense-military-operation-in-west-ba","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Israeli troops pressed ahead with their hunt for Palestinian militants and weapons in a West Bank refugee camp Tuesday, after military bulldozers tore through alleys and thousands of residents fled to safety. The two-day Palestinian death toll rose to 10. \n\nThe crackdown was reminiscent of Israeli military tactics during the second Palestinian uprising in the early 2000s.\u00a0 \n\nIt comes at a time of growing domestic pressure for a tough response to recent attacks on Israeli settlers, including a shooting last month that killed four Israelis. \n\nThe operation took place in the Jenin refugee camp - an area in the northern West Bank that has long been known as a bastion of militants. The fighting, which began shortly after midnight, continued past nightfall. \n\nThroughout the day, black smoke rose from the crowded streets of the camp, a densely populated neighbourhood that is home to some 14,000 people, while exchanges of fire rang out and drones could be heard buzzing overhead. Military bulldozers ploughed through narrow streets, damaging buildings as they cleared the way for Israeli forces. \n\n\u201cThere are bulldozers destroying the streets, snipers are inside and on roofs of houses, drones are hitting houses and Palestinians are killed in the streets,\u201d said Jamal Huweil, a political activist in the camp, predicting the operation would fail. \n\nThe military blocked traffic in and out of Jenin, and the city resembled a ghost town. Streets were empty as armoured Israeli vehicles patrolled. Piles of burning tires and garbage containers littered traffic circles. Power and water supplies were knocked out in the camp. \n\nPalestinian youths occasionally threw stones at army vehicles before darting away. \n\nWith the sound of shooting and explosions in the background, at least 10 ambulances rushed to the overwhelmed local hospital as relatives checked to see if loved ones were inside. One ambulance arrived with a bullet hole in front. \n\nThe Palestinians and three Arab countries with normalized ties with Israel \u2013 Jordan, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates \u2013 condemned the incursion, as did the 57-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation. \n\nLate Monday, the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank held an emergency meeting and said it was halting its already limited contacts with Israel. Leaders said a freeze on security coordination would remain in place, and they vowed to step up activity against Israel in the United Nations and international bodies. They also planned to minimise contact with the United States. \n\nIsrael\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was unswayed. \n\n\u201cIn recent months, Jenin has turned into a safe haven for terrorism. We are putting an end to this,\u201d he said. He said the troops were destroying militant command centres and confiscating weapons supplies and factories. He claimed the operation was taking place with \u201cminimum harm to civilians\u201d. \n\nRear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the chief military spokesman, said there were a total of about 10 airstrikes - most of them aimed at keeping gunmen away from ground troops. He accused militants of operating next to a United Nations building and storing weapons inside of a mosque. \n\nHe said Israel launched the operation because some 50 attacks over the past year had emanated from Jenin. \n\nNeither the prime minister nor Hagari gave any indication of when the operation would end. \n\nUN Mideast envoy Tor Wennesland warned that the escalation in the West Bank was \u201cvery dangerous.\u201d Asked about the Israeli drone attacks on residential areas, UN spokesman Farhan Haq said: \"Attacks on heavily populated areas are violations of international humanitarian law\". \n\nLynn Hastings, the UN humanitarian coordinator in the Palestinian areas, said on Twitter that she was \u201calarmed by the scale of Israeli forces operation\" and noted the airstrikes in a densely populated refugee camp. She said the UN was mobilising humanitarian aid. \n\nUNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said many camp residents were in need of food, drinking water and milk powder. \n\nLate Monday, hundreds of Palestinians left the camp to flee the fighting. The Israeli army said it allowed people who wanted to leave to do so. The Palestinian Red Crescent rescue service said as many as 3,000 people had left by midnight, and they expected the exodus to continue. \n\nThe Jenin camp and an adjacent town of the same name have been a flashpoint since Israeli-Palestinian violence began escalating in spring 2022. \n\nIsrael says it has stepped up activity because the Palestinian Authority is too weak to maintain quiet. It also accuses its archenemy Iran of funding militant groups involved in the fighting. \n\nPalestinians reject such claims, saying the violence is a natural response to 56 years of occupation, including stepped-up settlement construction by Israel's government and increased violence by Jewish settlers. \n\nThe Israeli-Palestinian conflict is experiencing its most violent period since the second intifada between 2000 and 2005.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\n\nMore than 130 Palestinians have been killed this year in the occupied West Bank, part of more than a yearlong spike in violence that has seen some of the worst bloodshed in the area in nearly two decades. \n\nIsrael says the raids are meant to beat back militants. The Palestinians say such violence is inevitable in the absence of any political process with Israel and increased West Bank settlement construction and violence by extremist settlers. \n\nIsrael says most of those killed have been militants, but stone-throwing youths protesting the incursions and people uninvolved in confrontations have also died. \n\nIsrael captured the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians seek those territories for their hoped-for independent state. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Israeli troops pressed ahead with their hunt for Palestinian militants and weapons in a West Bank refugee camp Tuesday, after military bulldozers tore through alleys and thousands of residents fled to safety. The two-day Palestinian death toll rose to 10.<\/p>\n<p>The crackdown was reminiscent of Israeli military tactics during the second Palestinian uprising in the early 2000s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It comes at a time of growing domestic pressure for a tough response to recent attacks on Israeli settlers, including a shooting last month that killed four Israelis.<\/p>\n<p>The operation took place in the Jenin refugee camp - an area in the northern West Bank that has long been known as a bastion of militants. The fighting, which began shortly after midnight, continued past nightfall.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the day, black smoke rose from the crowded streets of the camp, a densely populated neighbourhood that is home to some 14,000 people, while exchanges of fire rang out and drones could be heard buzzing overhead. Military bulldozers ploughed through narrow streets, damaging buildings as they cleared the way for Israeli forces.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7421376,7358096\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//02//23//its-the-right-time-for-the-eu-to-step-in-and-bring-peace-to-the-middle-east/">It's the right time for the EU to step in and bring peace to the Middle East<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//01//30//blinken-calls-for-urgent-steps-to-restore-calm-between-israel-and-palestine/">Blinken calls for 'urgent steps' to restore calm between Israel and Palestine<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are bulldozers destroying the streets, snipers are inside and on roofs of houses, drones are hitting houses and Palestinians are killed in the streets,\u201d said Jamal Huweil, a political activist in the camp, predicting the operation would fail.<\/p>\n<p>The military blocked traffic in and out of Jenin, and the city resembled a ghost town. Streets were empty as armoured Israeli vehicles patrolled. Piles of burning tires and garbage containers littered traffic circles. Power and water supplies were knocked out in the camp.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinian youths occasionally threw stones at army vehicles before darting away.<\/p>\n<p>With the sound of shooting and explosions in the background, at least 10 ambulances rushed to the overwhelmed local hospital as relatives checked to see if loved ones were inside. One ambulance arrived with a bullet hole in front.<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinians and three Arab countries with normalized ties with Israel \u2013 Jordan, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates \u2013 condemned the incursion, as did the 57-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//72//48//88//808x539_cmsv2_8323d96a-4a73-5acf-8a21-8ec30735c333-7724888.jpg/" alt=\"Nasser Nasser/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/72\/48\/88\/384x256_cmsv2_8323d96a-4a73-5acf-8a21-8ec30735c333-7724888.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/72\/48\/88\/640x427_cmsv2_8323d96a-4a73-5acf-8a21-8ec30735c333-7724888.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/72\/48\/88\/750x500_cmsv2_8323d96a-4a73-5acf-8a21-8ec30735c333-7724888.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/72\/48\/88\/828x552_cmsv2_8323d96a-4a73-5acf-8a21-8ec30735c333-7724888.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/72\/48\/88\/1080x720_cmsv2_8323d96a-4a73-5acf-8a21-8ec30735c333-7724888.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/72\/48\/88\/1200x800_cmsv2_8323d96a-4a73-5acf-8a21-8ec30735c333-7724888.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/72\/48\/88\/1920x1281_cmsv2_8323d96a-4a73-5acf-8a21-8ec30735c333-7724888.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">An injured Palestinian is carried into a hospital during an Israeli military raid in the Jenin refugee camp, a militant stronghold in the occupied West Bank, Monday, July 3.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Nasser Nasser/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Late Monday, the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank held an emergency meeting and said it was halting its already limited contacts with Israel. Leaders said a freeze on security coordination would remain in place, and they vowed to step up activity against Israel in the United Nations and international bodies. They also planned to minimise contact with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was unswayed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn recent months, Jenin has turned into a safe haven for terrorism. We are putting an end to this,\u201d he said. He said the troops were destroying militant command centres and confiscating weapons supplies and factories. He claimed the operation was taking place with \u201cminimum harm to civilians\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the chief military spokesman, said there were a total of about 10 airstrikes - most of them aimed at keeping gunmen away from ground troops. He accused militants of operating next to a United Nations building and storing weapons inside of a mosque.<\/p>\n<p>He said Israel launched the operation because some 50 attacks over the past year had emanated from Jenin.<\/p>\n<p>Neither the prime minister nor Hagari gave any indication of when the operation would end.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//72//58//86//808x539_cmsv2_3c6563c3-fcee-5bca-af30-87087e2bd00e-7725886.jpg/" alt=\"Adel Hana/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/72\/58\/86\/384x256_cmsv2_3c6563c3-fcee-5bca-af30-87087e2bd00e-7725886.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/72\/58\/86\/640x427_cmsv2_3c6563c3-fcee-5bca-af30-87087e2bd00e-7725886.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/72\/58\/86\/750x500_cmsv2_3c6563c3-fcee-5bca-af30-87087e2bd00e-7725886.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/72\/58\/86\/828x552_cmsv2_3c6563c3-fcee-5bca-af30-87087e2bd00e-7725886.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/72\/58\/86\/1080x720_cmsv2_3c6563c3-fcee-5bca-af30-87087e2bd00e-7725886.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/72\/58\/86\/1200x800_cmsv2_3c6563c3-fcee-5bca-af30-87087e2bd00e-7725886.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/72\/58\/86\/1920x1281_cmsv2_3c6563c3-fcee-5bca-af30-87087e2bd00e-7725886.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Palestinian demonstrators wave their national flags while others burn tires during a protest against an Israeli military raid in the West Bank city of Jenin.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Adel Hana/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>UN Mideast envoy Tor Wennesland warned that the escalation in the West Bank was \u201cvery dangerous.\u201d Asked about the Israeli drone attacks on residential areas, UN spokesman Farhan Haq said: \"Attacks on heavily populated areas are violations of international humanitarian law\".<\/p>\n<p>Lynn Hastings, the UN humanitarian coordinator in the Palestinian areas, said on Twitter that she was \u201calarmed by the scale of Israeli forces operation\" and noted the airstrikes in a densely populated refugee camp. She said the UN was mobilising humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n<p>UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said many camp residents were in need of food, drinking water and milk powder.<\/p>\n<p>Late Monday, hundreds of Palestinians left the camp to flee the fighting. The Israeli army said it allowed people who wanted to leave to do so. The Palestinian Red Crescent rescue service said as many as 3,000 people had left by midnight, and they expected the exodus to continue.<\/p>\n<p>The Jenin camp and an adjacent town of the same name have been a flashpoint since Israeli-Palestinian violence began escalating in spring 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Israel says it has stepped up activity because the Palestinian Authority is too weak to maintain quiet. It also accuses its archenemy Iran of funding militant groups involved in the fighting.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7602200,7724876\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//07//03//israeli-strikes-in-the-occupied-west-bank-kill-at-least-eight/">Israeli strikes in the occupied West Bank kill at least eight<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//05//13//watch-israeli-strike-hits-house-in-northern-gaza/">Watch: Israeli strike hits house in northern Gaza<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Palestinians reject such claims, saying the violence is a natural response to 56 years of occupation, including stepped-up settlement construction by Israel's government and increased violence by Jewish settlers.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is experiencing its most violent period since the second intifada between 2000 and 2005.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>More than 130 Palestinians have been killed this year in the occupied West Bank, part of more than a yearlong spike in violence that has seen some of the worst bloodshed in the area in nearly two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Israel says the raids are meant to beat back militants. The Palestinians say such violence is inevitable in the absence of any political process with Israel and increased West Bank settlement construction and violence by extremist settlers.<\/p>\n<p>Israel says most of those killed have been militants, but stone-throwing youths protesting the incursions and people uninvolved in confrontations have also died.<\/p>\n<p>Israel captured the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians seek those territories for their hoped-for independent state.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1688428339,"publishedAt":1688454037,"updatedAt":1688932320,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/07\/04\/at-least-9-palestinians-dead-as-israel-launches-most-intense-military-operation-in-west-ba","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/72\/58\/98\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_a986ffc8-a823-5d5e-84ac-e52a6f071c75-7725898.jpg","altText":"Residents of the Jenin refugee camp evacuate their homes as the Israeli military pressed ahead with an operation in the area. ","caption":"Residents of the Jenin refugee camp evacuate their homes as the Israeli military pressed ahead with an operation in the area. ","captionCredit":"Majdi Mohammed\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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of thousands of Israelis protest against proposed judicial reform","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":"Tens of thousands of Israelis protest against proposed judicial reform","leadin":"Protests against the government's proposal to reform the judiciary have gained more momentum in Israel.","summary":"Protests against the government's proposal to reform the judiciary have gained more momentum in Israel.","url":"tens-of-thousands-of-israelis-protest-against-proposed-judicial-reform","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"As they entered their 26th week on Saturday tens of thousands of people protested across the country. \n\n\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies in the coalition government say the reforms are necessary to rein in the judiciary which they say intervenes too much. \n\n\nThey want to see more powers given to elected officials, including themselves. \n\nMeanwhile Netanyahu is on trial for corruption. \n\nThe proposals sparked a protest movement that draws tens of thousands each Saturday. \n\nDuring the height of the crisis they blocked major roads and stopped trains, succeeding at one point in forcing Netanyahu to be airlifted to the airport for an overseas trip rather than drive. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>As they entered their 26th week on Saturday tens of thousands of people protested across the country. <\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies in the coalition government say the reforms are necessary to rein in the judiciary which they say intervenes too much. <\/p>\n<p>They want to see more powers given to elected officials, including themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Netanyahu is on trial for corruption.<\/p>\n<p>The proposals sparked a protest movement that draws tens of thousands each Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>During the height of the crisis they blocked major roads and stopped trains, succeeding at one point in forcing Netanyahu to be airlifted to the airport for an overseas trip rather than drive.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1688232091,"publishedAt":1688245827,"updatedAt":1688246463,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/07\/01\/tens-of-thousands-of-israelis-protest-against-proposed-judicial-reform","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/72\/15\/64\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_f50176b7-85be-5f8c-aadc-9a680f46e377-7721564.jpg","altText":"Protesters against proposed changes to the judiciary in Israel. 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The ministry did not immediately comment. \n\nThe international community, along with Palestinians, considers settlement construction illegal or illegitimate and obstacles to peace. \n\n\u201cThe Netanyahu government is moving forward with its aggression and open war against the Palestinian people, whether through a policy of killing or through settlement expansion,\" said Palestinian official Wasel Abu Yousef. \n\nOver 700,000 Israelis now live in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem \u2013 territories captured by Israel in 1967 and sought by the Palestinians for a future state. \n\nIsrael\u2019s government, which took office in late December, is dominated by religious and ultranationalist politicians with close ties to the settlement movement. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Israel\u2019s far-right government on Monday approved plans to build over 5,000 new homes in the occupied West Bank\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The decision raised tensions with Palestinians at a time of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//06//21//tension-continues-to-rise-between-israelis-and-palestinians-in-the-west-bank/">rising violence in the occupied territory.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The units are at various stages of planning, and it was not immediately clear when construction would begin. The ministry did not immediately comment.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7697216\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//06//21//hundreds-of-israeli-settlers-torch-palestinian-homes-and-cars-after-deadly-shooting-at-set/">Hundreds of Israeli settlers torch Palestinian homes and cars after deadly shooting at settlement <\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The international community, along with Palestinians, considers settlement construction illegal or illegitimate and obstacles to peace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Netanyahu government is moving forward with its aggression and open war against the Palestinian people, whether through a policy of killing or through settlement expansion,\" said Palestinian official Wasel Abu Yousef.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//70//98//58//808x454_cmsv2_37f74cee-1940-5d77-9912-106645d00154-7709858.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/70\/98\/58\/384x216_cmsv2_37f74cee-1940-5d77-9912-106645d00154-7709858.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/70\/98\/58\/640x360_cmsv2_37f74cee-1940-5d77-9912-106645d00154-7709858.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/70\/98\/58\/750x422_cmsv2_37f74cee-1940-5d77-9912-106645d00154-7709858.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/70\/98\/58\/828x466_cmsv2_37f74cee-1940-5d77-9912-106645d00154-7709858.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/70\/98\/58\/1080x608_cmsv2_37f74cee-1940-5d77-9912-106645d00154-7709858.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/70\/98\/58\/1200x675_cmsv2_37f74cee-1940-5d77-9912-106645d00154-7709858.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/70\/98\/58\/1920x1080_cmsv2_37f74cee-1940-5d77-9912-106645d00154-7709858.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">FILE - This file photo shows a part of new housing projects in the West Bank Israeli settlement of Givat Ze'ev, Monday, June 18, 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Over 700,000 Israelis now live in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem \u2013 territories captured by Israel in 1967 and sought by the Palestinians for a future state.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s government, which took office in late December, is dominated by religious and ultranationalist politicians with close ties to the settlement movement.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1687828941,"publishedAt":1687846665,"updatedAt":1687847948,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/06\/27\/israel-government-approves-plans-for-thousands-more-homes-in-occupied-west-bank","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/70\/98\/70\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_465ad959-6d10-5aaa-b07c-d4c93219a9fd-7709870.jpg","altText":"A housing project under constraction is seen in the West Bank Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, Monday, June 26, 2023.","caption":"A housing project under constraction is seen in the West Bank Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, Monday, June 26, 2023.","captionCredit":"Ohad Zwigenberg\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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Second, this cellulose polymer acts as a chemical camouflage,\" Dr. Jonathan Bohbot, the lead researcher from Hebrew University's Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, explained. \n\n\"It prevents your smell that attracts mosquitoes and brings more mosquitoes in, and then, it also releases our repellent very slowly. So, it extends its duration of protection,\" he added. \n\n\nAccording to Bohbot, typical topical repellents - meaning ones that are applied to the skin - work by preventing mosquitoes from biting the individual. \n\n\nThe team\u2019s repellent acts by preventing the mosquito from approaching an individual in the first place. \n\nThe formula is a combination of two natural components: indole, a fragrant substance found in flowers, and a polymer called cellulose. \n\nThe team's findings, published in a study in the journal PNAS Nexus in April, reported an 80 per cent decrease in feeding on human skin when a thin coat of cellulose nanocrystals were applied. \n\n\nThe combined effect of cellulose nanocrystals with indole was found to reduce egg-laying post exposure by 99.4 per cent. \n\n\n\"The combination of this polymer and our repellent is the perfect personal protection system you could imagine, long-range effect and long duration,\" said Bohbot. \n\nHis team says it hopes to bring the new repellent to the market next year. \n\nFor more on this story, watch the video in the media player above. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Summer has arrived in the northern hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>But along with sunshine, longer evenings, and warmer temperatures, the season also brings with it an inevitable wave of mosquitoes and the nuisance of their bites.<\/p>\n<p>Worse still are the malaria-carrying varieties of the insect whose bites cause hundreds of thousands of deaths annually around the world.<\/p>\n<p>To combat them. scientists at the Hebrew University in Israel have developed a new kind of insect repellent - a \"chemical camouflage\" - that they say will deter 99 per cent mosquitoes from landing on skin where it is applied.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"3066258\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2018//01//30//you-can-train-mosquitos-not-to-bite-you-by-swatting-them-finds-new-research/">You can train mosquitos not to bite you by swatting them, finds new research<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"First, it's a mechanical protection against mosquitoes biting through your skin. Second, this cellulose polymer acts as a chemical camouflage,\" Dr. Jonathan Bohbot, the lead researcher from Hebrew University's Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, explained.<\/p>\n<p>\"It prevents your smell that attracts mosquitoes and brings more mosquitoes in, and then, it also releases our repellent very slowly. So, it extends its duration of protection,\" he added. <\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7132358\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2022//10//20//why-are-mosquitoes-attracted-to-you-it-could-be-your-smell-scientists-say/">Why are mosquitoes attracted to you? It could be your smell, scientists say<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>According to Bohbot, typical topical repellents - meaning ones that are applied to the skin - work by preventing mosquitoes from biting the individual. <\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s repellent acts by preventing the mosquito from approaching an individual in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>The formula is a combination of two natural components: indole, a fragrant substance found in flowers, and a polymer called cellulose.<\/p>\n<p>The team's findings, published in a study in the journal PNAS Nexus in April, reported an 80 per cent decrease in feeding on human skin when a thin coat of cellulose nanocrystals were applied. <\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6351990\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2022//01//07//swedish-scientists-have-developed-synthetic-blood-to-attract-and-kill-malaria-carrying-mos/">Swedish scientists have developed synthetic 'blood' to attract and kill malaria-carrying mosquitoes<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The combined effect of cellulose nanocrystals with indole was found to reduce egg-laying post exposure by 99.4 per cent. <\/p>\n<p>\"The combination of this polymer and our repellent is the perfect personal protection system you could imagine, long-range effect and long duration,\" said Bohbot.<\/p>\n<p>His team says it hopes to bring the new repellent to the market next year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more on this story, watch the video in the media player above.<\/strong><\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1685955419,"publishedAt":1686390957,"updatedAt":1686390957,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/next\/2023\/06\/10\/scientists-have-developed-a-super-repellent-that-can-stop-99-of-mosquitos-from-biting-your","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/65\/27\/46\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_4d836034-ba17-5332-8062-17f562b0bda3-7652746.jpg","altText":"Image shows a mosquito. 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Killings appeared to be connected to a thwarted drug smuggling attempt.","summary":"Three Israeli solders and an Egyptian officer killed in shootout near border with Egypt. Killings appeared to be connected to a thwarted drug smuggling attempt.","url":"three-israeli-soldiers-and-egyptian-policeman-killed-in-border-shootout","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A gunbattle involving an Egyptian border guard in southern Israel along the border left three Israeli soldiers and the Egyptian officer dead Saturday, officials said.\u00a0 \n\nIt was a rare instance of deadly violence along the frontier. \n\nLt. Col. Richard Hecht, an Israeli army spokesperson, said the fighting began overnight when soldiers thwarted a drug-smuggling attempt across the border. \n\nSeveral hours later, two soldiers in a guard post were shot and killed. Their bodies were found after the shooting, when they did not respond to radio communications. \n\nHecht said the killings appeared to be connected to the thwarted drug smuggling attempt. The army said the Egyptian border guard was killed in a second exchange of fire in which a third Israeli soldier was killed. \n\nThe Egyptian military said an Egyptian border guard crossed the border security barrier and exchanged fire with Israeli forces while he was chasing drug traffickers. It said in a statement that the Egyptian border guard was killed along with three Israeli troops. \n\nHecht said an investigation was being conducted in full cooperation with the Egyptian army. He said troops were searching for other possible assailants. \n\nIt was the first deadly exchange of fire along the Israel-Egypt border in over a decade. \n\nThe Israeli army said one of the killed soldiers was a woman. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>A gunbattle involving an Egyptian border guard in southern Israel along the border left three Israeli soldiers and the Egyptian officer dead Saturday, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was a rare instance of deadly violence along the frontier.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Col. Richard Hecht, an Israeli army spokesperson, said the fighting began overnight when soldiers thwarted a drug-smuggling attempt across the border.<\/p>\n<p>Several hours later, two soldiers in a guard post were shot and killed. Their bodies were found after the shooting, when they did not respond to radio communications.<\/p>\n<p>Hecht said the killings appeared to be connected to the thwarted drug smuggling attempt. The army said the Egyptian border guard was killed in a second exchange of fire in which a third Israeli soldier was killed.<\/p>\n<p>The Egyptian military said an Egyptian border guard crossed the border security barrier and exchanged fire with Israeli forces while he was chasing drug traffickers. It said in a statement that the Egyptian border guard was killed along with three Israeli troops.<\/p>\n<p>Hecht said an investigation was being conducted in full cooperation with the Egyptian army. 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Those killings set off a barrage of militant fire and the conflagration threatened to drag the region into another all-out war until an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire took hold late Saturday. \n\nWhile the calm appeared to bring a sense of relief to Gaza's 2 million people and hundreds of thousands of Israelis who had been largely confined to bomb shelters in recent days, the agreement did nothing to address the underlying issues that have fueled numerous rounds of fighting between Israel and Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip over the years. \n\nIn Gaza, residents surveyed the latest damage caused to their surroundings, with gaping holes left in the apartments serving as what Israel said were hideouts for the six senior Islamic Jihad members killed during this round. Gaza\u2019s main cargo crossing with Israel reopened Sunday after warnings that keeping it closed would force Gaza's sole power plant to shut down, deepening a power crisis. \n\nIsrael was gradually lifting restrictions on residents in southern Israel, which had borne the brunt of the rocket fire. \n\nIsraeli officials expressed satisfaction with the latest battle, having killed at least six members of Islamic Jihad's top commanders in what it says were pinpointed strikes based on solid intelligence. But at least 13 of those killed in Gaza were civilians, among them children as young as 4 years old, as well as women. \n\nIsrael has faced criticism in the past from rights groups over the civilian casualties in its bombardments in Gaza. Israel says it does its utmost to avoid harming civilians in its strikes and says militants operate from within the territory's densely populated areas to fire rockets indiscriminately at Israeli communities. \n\nEven if some of the strikes were precise, others destroyed the homes of uninvolved Palestinians. \n\n\"If they want to target a house, let them target it alone. Why destroy the whole neighbourhood? Why?\u201d said Mai Sarson, whose house in Deir el-Balah was reduced to ruins in an Israeli strike. \n\nThe Israeli military reported over 1,400 launches throughout the fighting, with some rockets reaching as far as the Tel Aviv and Jerusalem areas. Israeli jets struck more than 400 targets, according to a preliminary military tally, which also showed about a fifth of the rockets were misfired and landed in Gaza, while most of the rest were either intercepted or landed in open areas. \n\nThe Gaza violence came after more than a year of fighting in the occupied West Bank, where the Israeli military has been staging near-nightly arrest raids and Palestinians have carried out repeated attacks. Tensions could once again soar this week when nationalist Israelis hold an annual march through a sensitive area of Jerusalem's Old City, which the Palestinians view as provocative. \n\nIsrael captured the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians claim all three areas for a future state. Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, but Hamas subsequently overran the territory and expelled forces loyal to the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority. \n\nIsrael and Egypt have maintained a blockade over Gaza in what Israel says is a policy aimed at preventing Hamas from arming. The Palestinians and international rights groups say the policy, which restricts the movement of people and goods in and out of Gaza, amounts to collective punishment. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>A fragile cease-fire between Israeli forces and militants in the Gaza Strip Sunday appeared to be held Sunday after five days of clashes that killed 33 Palestinians and two people in Israel. <\/p>\n<p>The latest round of Gaza fighting was sparked Tuesday when Israeli jets killed three top commanders from the Islamic Jihad militant group in response to earlier rocket launches from Gaza. Those killings set off a barrage of militant fire and the conflagration threatened to drag the region into another all-out war until an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire took hold late Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>While the calm appeared to bring a sense of relief to Gaza's 2 million people and hundreds of thousands of Israelis who had been largely confined to bomb shelters in recent days, the agreement did nothing to address the underlying issues that have fueled numerous rounds of fighting between Israel and Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip over the years.<\/p>\n<p>In Gaza, residents surveyed the latest damage caused to their surroundings, with gaping holes left in the apartments serving as what Israel said were hideouts for the six senior Islamic Jihad members killed during this round. Gaza\u2019s main cargo crossing with Israel reopened Sunday after warnings that keeping it closed would force Gaza's sole power plant to shut down, deepening a power crisis.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7602666,7602200\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//05//14//gaza-celebrates-egyptian-brokered-ceasefire-between-israel-and-palestinians/">Gaza celebrates Egyptian-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Palestinians<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//05//13//watch-israeli-strike-hits-house-in-northern-gaza/">Watch: Israeli strike hits house in northern Gaza<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Israel was gradually lifting restrictions on residents in southern Israel, which had borne the brunt of the rocket fire.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli officials expressed satisfaction with the latest battle, having killed at least six members of Islamic Jihad's top commanders in what it says were pinpointed strikes based on solid intelligence. 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The protesters distanced themselves from Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip this week, claiming it was a deliberate distraction.","summary":"Around 2,000 people marched in Tel Aviv on Saturday in a weekly protest against government judicial reform, that took place despite a ban imposed for security reasons. The protesters distanced themselves from Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip this week, claiming it was a deliberate distraction.","url":"anti-government-protesters-in-israel-defy-ban-on-street-demonstrations-over-security-fears","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Protestors took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Saturday for their weekly march against government judicial reform plans. \n\nAround 2,000 people ignored a government ban on street demonstrations over security concerns. \n\nThe marchers claimed a week of intense bombardments in Gaza was meant \u201cto distract us all\u201d from the actions of the far right government of Benjamin Netanyahu, sometimes known by the nickname Bibi. \n\n\"Acts done in Gaza are there in order to distract all of us from Bibi\u2019s trial, from the dictatorship regulations and laws that they are planning to pass, and this has nothing to do with the problems with the Arabs in Israel, nothing to do at all,\" said one of the marchers, Paula Keusch. \n\n\"We don't want the violence in the south, in Gaza, to continue, and we don\u2019t want that while this violence continues and the government keeps on advancing the legislation that will break down Israel's democracy,\" said Karen Saar. \n\nIn five days of intense fighting 33 Palestinians and two Israelis have been killed. \n\nThis week's fighting was the worst in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since an August flare-up that killed nearly 50 Palestinians. \n\nThe conflict has escalated since veteran Israeli politician Benjamin Netanyahu returned to power late last year, heading a coalition with extreme right and ultra-Orthodox parties. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Protestors took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Saturday for their weekly march against government judicial reform plans.<\/p>\n<p>Around 2,000 people ignored a government ban on street demonstrations over security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The marchers claimed a week of intense bombardments in Gaza was meant \u201cto distract us all\u201d from the actions of the far right government of Benjamin Netanyahu, sometimes known by the nickname Bibi.<\/p>\n<p>\"Acts done in Gaza are there in order to distract all of us from Bibi\u2019s trial, from the dictatorship regulations and laws that they are planning to pass, and this has nothing to do with the problems with the Arabs in Israel, nothing to do at all,\" said one of the marchers, Paula Keusch.<\/p>\n<p>\"We don't want the violence in the south, in Gaza, to continue, and we don\u2019t want that while this violence continues and the government keeps on advancing the legislation that will break down Israel's democracy,\" said Karen Saar.<\/p>\n<p>In five days of intense fighting 33 Palestinians and two Israelis have been killed.<\/p>\n<p>This week's fighting was the worst in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since an August flare-up that killed nearly 50 Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict has escalated since veteran Israeli politician Benjamin Netanyahu returned to power late last year, heading a coalition with extreme right and ultra-Orthodox parties.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1684016258,"publishedAt":1684050537,"updatedAt":1684052046,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/05\/14\/anti-government-protesters-in-israel-defy-ban-on-street-demonstrations-over-security-fears","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/27\/34\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_0f0314dd-f6aa-50f3-a908-d1bc64c2c23a-7602734.jpg","altText":"Anti-government protestors in Tel Aviv, Israel, May 13, 2023","caption":"Anti-government protestors in Tel Aviv, Israel, May 13, 2023","captionCredit":"AFP","captionUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"sourceUrl":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":5412,"slug":"benjamin-netanyahu","urlSafeValue":"benjamin-netanyahu","title":"Benjamin Netanyahu","titleRaw":"Benjamin 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Israel"},"grapeshot":"'neg_facebook_2021','neg_mobkoi_castrol','pos_equinor','pos_facebook','pos_pmi','pos_ukraine-russia','pos_ukrainecrisis','gs_politics','castrol_negative_uk','gb_sensitive_news-ent','neg_facebook_q4','gs_politics_issues_policy','gs_politics_misc','sm_politics','gs_law','gs_law_misc','gt_negative_anger','gt_negative','gv_death_injury','gs_society','gs_society_religion','gb_death_injury_news-ent'","versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"path":"\/2023\/05\/14\/anti-government-protesters-in-israel-defy-ban-on-street-demonstrations-over-security-fears","lastModified":1684052046},{"id":2272254,"cid":7602666,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":"230514_NWSU_51631620","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Gaza celebrates Egyptian-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Palestinians","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Gaza celebrates a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinians","titleListing2":"Gaza celebrates Egyptian-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Palestinians","leadin":"There were celebrations in the streets of Gaza on Saturday night as an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire brought hopes of peace after five days of bloodshed in which 33 Palestinians and two Israelis have died in air strikes and rocket attacks.","summary":"There were celebrations in the streets of Gaza on Saturday night as an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire brought hopes of peace after five days of bloodshed in which 33 Palestinians and two Israelis have died in air strikes and rocket attacks.","url":"gaza-celebrates-egyptian-brokered-ceasefire-between-israel-and-palestinians","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Israel and the Islamic Jihad militant group in the Gaza Strip agreed to an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire late Saturday, seeking to halt five days of intense fighting that killed 33 Palestinians, including at least 13 civilians. Two people in Israel were killed by rocket fire. \n\nThe tenuous cease-fire appeared to take effect just after 10 pm, with a last-minute burst of rocket fire and Israeli airstrikes stretching several minutes past the deadline announced by Egypt. Late Saturday, Israel reported additional incoming fire and said it was again striking in Gaza. But the calm appeared to be quickly restored. \n\nWhile the ceasefire appeared to bring a sense of relief to Gaza's more than two million people and hundreds of thousands of Israelis who had been largely confined to bomb shelters in recent days, the agreement did nothing to address the underlying issues that have fuelled numerous rounds of fighting between Israel and Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip over the years. \n\nIn Gaza, Islamic Jihad spokesman Tareq Selmi said Israel had agreed to halt its policy of targeted strikes on the group's leaders. \"Any stupidity or assassination by the occupation will be met with a response and the Zionist enemy bears the responsibility,\" he said. \n\nBut in a statement thanking Egypt for its mediation efforts, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's national security adviser, Tzachi Nanegbi, said that \"quiet would be answered with quiet\" and Israel would do \"everything that it needs to in order to defend itself.\" \n\nTensions could quickly resume next week when Israel holds a contentious march through a main Palestinian thoroughfare in Jerusalem's Old City. \n\nStill, as the truce took hold, the deafening whooshes of outgoing rockets and booms of Israeli airstrikes were replaced by the honking of cars in Gaza. Streets that had been desolate in recent days quickly teemed with people revelling in the ceasefire, waving Palestinian flags and flashing victory signs from speeding vehicles. Amid the celebration, a fruit vendor used a loudspeaker, enthusiastically promoting his supply of bananas. \n\nThe latest violence erupted Tuesday when Israeli airstrikes killed three senior Islamic Jihad commanders. Israel said the airstrikes were in response to a burst of rocket fire the previous week and that its attacks have been focused on Islamic Jihad targets. But residents in Gaza said the homes of people uninvolved in fighting also had been struck. \n\nAt least 10 civilians, including women, young children and uninvolved neighbours were killed in those initial strikes, which drew regional condemnation. \n\nOver the past few days, Israel has conducted more airstrikes, killing other senior Islamic Jihad commanders and destroying their command centres and rocket-launching sites. But the airstrikes showed no signs of stopping the rocket fire, prompting Islamic Jihad to declare victory. \n\nIsrael reported over 1,200 launches throughout the fighting, with some rockets reaching as far as the Tel Aviv and Jerusalem areas. Israel said about a quarter of the rockets were misfired and landed in Gaza, while most of the rest were either intercepted or landed in open areas. But an 80-year-old woman and a Palestinian labourer who was working inside Israel were killed by rocket fire. A Palestinian human rights group said three people, including two children, were killed in Gaza by errant rockets. \n\nIt was the latest in a long series of battles between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza since the Islamic militant group Hamas seized control of the seaside territory in 2007. Israel and Hamas have fought four wars, and there have been numerous smaller flare ups as well. \n\nSaturday's deal did not address many of the causes of the repeated fighting, including Israel's ongoing blockade of Gaza, the large arsenals of weapons possessed by Hamas and Islamic Jihad and Israeli policies in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem. \n\nThe Palestinian Authority, which governs semi-autonomous parts of the West Bank, said Gaza's main cargo crossing with Israel would open Sunday. Hamas' government warned on Saturday that if the crossing doesn't open, the lone power plant in Gaza will stop, further deepening a power crisis. \n\n\nThe more powerful Hamas has praised Islamic Jihad's strikes but remained on the sidelines during the latest round of fighting, limiting the scope of the conflict. As the de facto government held responsible for the abysmal conditions in the blockaded Gaza Strip, Hamas has recently tried to keep a lid on its conflict with Israel. Islamic Jihad, on the other hand, a more ideological and unruly militant group wedded to violence, has taken the lead in the past few rounds of fighting with Israel. \n\nIn a reminder of the combustible situation in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military raided the Balata refugee camp near the northern city of Nablus, sparking a firefight that killed two Palestinians. In a separate incident near the northern city of Jenin, Israeli police said they shot and killed a suspected Palestinian assailant who ran toward soldiers wielding a knife. \n\nIsraeli-Palestinian fighting has surged in the West Bank under Israel's most right-wing government in history. Since the start of the year, 111 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, at least half of them affiliated with militant groups, according to a tally by The Associated Press. In that time, 20 people have been killed in Palestinian attacks on Israelis. \n\nThe truce could be further tested on Thursday when Israeli nationalists plan their annual \"Jerusalem Day\" march through the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City. The march, meant to celebrate Israel's capture of the Old City and its Jewish holy sites in 1967, is a frequent source of friction and helped spark an 11-day war with Hamas in 2021. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Israel and the Islamic Jihad militant group in the Gaza Strip agreed to an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire late Saturday, seeking to halt five days of intense fighting that killed 33 Palestinians, including at least 13 civilians. Two people in Israel were killed by rocket fire.<\/p>\n<p>The tenuous cease-fire appeared to take effect just after 10 pm, with a last-minute burst of rocket fire and Israeli airstrikes stretching several minutes past the deadline announced by Egypt. Late Saturday, Israel reported additional incoming fire and said it was again striking in Gaza. But the calm appeared to be quickly restored.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//60//26//66//808x539_cmsv2_1a89cc41-99a4-5ebe-9c33-3f17a5517903-7602666.jpg/" alt=\"Fatima Shbair/Copyright 2023, The AP. All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/26\/66\/384x256_cmsv2_1a89cc41-99a4-5ebe-9c33-3f17a5517903-7602666.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/26\/66\/640x427_cmsv2_1a89cc41-99a4-5ebe-9c33-3f17a5517903-7602666.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/26\/66\/750x500_cmsv2_1a89cc41-99a4-5ebe-9c33-3f17a5517903-7602666.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/26\/66\/828x552_cmsv2_1a89cc41-99a4-5ebe-9c33-3f17a5517903-7602666.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/26\/66\/1080x720_cmsv2_1a89cc41-99a4-5ebe-9c33-3f17a5517903-7602666.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/26\/66\/1200x800_cmsv2_1a89cc41-99a4-5ebe-9c33-3f17a5517903-7602666.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/26\/66\/1920x1281_cmsv2_1a89cc41-99a4-5ebe-9c33-3f17a5517903-7602666.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Palestinians celebrate the announcement of a cease-fire after five days of fighting between Israel and the Islamic Jihad militant group in Gaza City, Saturday, May 13, 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Fatima Shbair/Copyright 2023, The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>While the ceasefire appeared to bring a sense of relief to Gaza's more than two million people and hundreds of thousands of Israelis who had been largely confined to bomb shelters in recent days, the agreement did nothing to address the underlying issues that have fuelled numerous rounds of fighting between Israel and Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip over the years.<\/p>\n<p>In Gaza, Islamic Jihad spokesman Tareq Selmi said Israel had agreed to halt its policy of targeted strikes on the group's leaders. \"Any stupidity or assassination by the occupation will be met with a response and the Zionist enemy bears the responsibility,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>But in a statement thanking Egypt for its mediation efforts, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's national security adviser, Tzachi Nanegbi, said that \"quiet would be answered with quiet\" and Israel would do \"everything that it needs to in order to defend itself.\"<\/p>\n<p>Tensions could quickly resume next week when Israel holds a contentious march through a main Palestinian thoroughfare in Jerusalem's Old City.<\/p>\n<p>Still, as the truce took hold, the deafening whooshes of outgoing rockets and booms of Israeli airstrikes were replaced by the honking of cars in Gaza. Streets that had been desolate in recent days quickly teemed with people revelling in the ceasefire, waving Palestinian flags and flashing victory signs from speeding vehicles. Amid the celebration, a fruit vendor used a loudspeaker, enthusiastically promoting his supply of bananas.<\/p>\n<p>The latest violence erupted Tuesday when Israeli airstrikes killed three senior Islamic Jihad commanders. Israel said the airstrikes were in response to a burst of rocket fire the previous week and that its attacks have been focused on Islamic Jihad targets. But residents in Gaza said the homes of people uninvolved in fighting also had been struck.<\/p>\n<p>At least 10 civilians, including women, young children and uninvolved neighbours were killed in those initial strikes, which drew regional condemnation.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few days, Israel has conducted more airstrikes, killing other senior Islamic Jihad commanders and destroying their command centres and rocket-launching sites. But the airstrikes showed no signs of stopping the rocket fire, prompting Islamic Jihad to declare victory.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//60//26//66//808x539_cmsv2_1434910a-2673-5e51-b17f-815e641704af-7602666.jpg/" alt=\"Tsafrir Abayov/Copyright 2023 The AP All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/26\/66\/384x256_cmsv2_1434910a-2673-5e51-b17f-815e641704af-7602666.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/26\/66\/640x427_cmsv2_1434910a-2673-5e51-b17f-815e641704af-7602666.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/26\/66\/750x500_cmsv2_1434910a-2673-5e51-b17f-815e641704af-7602666.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/26\/66\/828x552_cmsv2_1434910a-2673-5e51-b17f-815e641704af-7602666.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/26\/66\/1080x720_cmsv2_1434910a-2673-5e51-b17f-815e641704af-7602666.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/26\/66\/1200x800_cmsv2_1434910a-2673-5e51-b17f-815e641704af-7602666.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/26\/66\/1920x1281_cmsv2_1434910a-2673-5e51-b17f-815e641704af-7602666.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Israelis rest in the bomb shelter of an apartment building to stay safe from rockets fired from Gaza Strip toward Israel, Ashkelon, Israel, Saturday, May 13, 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Tsafrir Abayov/Copyright 2023 The AP All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Israel reported over 1,200 launches throughout the fighting, with some rockets reaching as far as the Tel Aviv and Jerusalem areas. Israel said about a quarter of the rockets were misfired and landed in Gaza, while most of the rest were either intercepted or landed in open areas. But an 80-year-old woman and a Palestinian labourer who was working inside Israel were killed by rocket fire. A Palestinian human rights group said three people, including two children, were killed in Gaza by errant rockets.<\/p>\n<p>It was the latest in a long series of battles between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza since the Islamic militant group Hamas seized control of the seaside territory in 2007. Israel and Hamas have fought four wars, and there have been numerous smaller flare ups as well.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday's deal did not address many of the causes of the repeated fighting, including Israel's ongoing blockade of Gaza, the large arsenals of weapons possessed by Hamas and Islamic Jihad and Israeli policies in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinian Authority, which governs semi-autonomous parts of the West Bank, said Gaza's main cargo crossing with Israel would open Sunday. Hamas' government warned on Saturday that if the crossing doesn't open, the lone power plant in Gaza will stop, further deepening a power crisis. <\/p>\n<p>The more powerful Hamas has praised Islamic Jihad's strikes but remained on the sidelines during the latest round of fighting, limiting the scope of the conflict. As the de facto government held responsible for the abysmal conditions in the blockaded Gaza Strip, Hamas has recently tried to keep a lid on its conflict with Israel. Islamic Jihad, on the other hand, a more ideological and unruly militant group wedded to violence, has taken the lead in the past few rounds of fighting with Israel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//60//26//66//808x539_cmsv2_25d2e680-4c58-5176-9178-aa4341c01660-7602666.jpg/" alt=\"Majdi Mohammed/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/26\/66\/384x256_cmsv2_25d2e680-4c58-5176-9178-aa4341c01660-7602666.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/26\/66\/640x427_cmsv2_25d2e680-4c58-5176-9178-aa4341c01660-7602666.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/26\/66\/750x500_cmsv2_25d2e680-4c58-5176-9178-aa4341c01660-7602666.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/26\/66\/828x552_cmsv2_25d2e680-4c58-5176-9178-aa4341c01660-7602666.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/26\/66\/1080x720_cmsv2_25d2e680-4c58-5176-9178-aa4341c01660-7602666.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/26\/66\/1200x800_cmsv2_25d2e680-4c58-5176-9178-aa4341c01660-7602666.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/26\/66\/1920x1281_cmsv2_25d2e680-4c58-5176-9178-aa4341c01660-7602666.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">An Israeli border police officer fires tear gas towards Palestinian protesters during an Israeli army raid on Balata refugee camp near Nablus, Saturday, May 13, 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Majdi Mohammed/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In a reminder of the combustible situation in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military raided the Balata refugee camp near the northern city of Nablus, sparking a firefight that killed two Palestinians. In a separate incident near the northern city of Jenin, Israeli police said they shot and killed a suspected Palestinian assailant who ran toward soldiers wielding a knife.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//60//26//66//808x539_cmsv2_b6456f52-8482-50df-8e89-7e8f5c851cd3-7602666.jpg/" alt=\"Majdi Mohammed/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/26\/66\/384x256_cmsv2_b6456f52-8482-50df-8e89-7e8f5c851cd3-7602666.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/26\/66\/640x427_cmsv2_b6456f52-8482-50df-8e89-7e8f5c851cd3-7602666.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/26\/66\/750x500_cmsv2_b6456f52-8482-50df-8e89-7e8f5c851cd3-7602666.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/26\/66\/828x552_cmsv2_b6456f52-8482-50df-8e89-7e8f5c851cd3-7602666.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/26\/66\/1080x720_cmsv2_b6456f52-8482-50df-8e89-7e8f5c851cd3-7602666.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/26\/66\/1200x800_cmsv2_b6456f52-8482-50df-8e89-7e8f5c851cd3-7602666.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/26\/66\/1920x1281_cmsv2_b6456f52-8482-50df-8e89-7e8f5c851cd3-7602666.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Palestinian mourners react during the funeral of Said Mesha and Adnan Araj in the Balata refugee camp near the West Bank town of Nablus Saturday, May 13, 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Majdi Mohammed/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Israeli-Palestinian fighting has surged in the West Bank under Israel's most right-wing government in history. Since the start of the year, 111 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, at least half of them affiliated with militant groups, according to a tally by The Associated Press. In that time, 20 people have been killed in Palestinian attacks on Israelis.<\/p>\n<p>The truce could be further tested on Thursday when Israeli nationalists plan their annual \"Jerusalem Day\" march through the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City. 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the second-largest militant group in Gaza after the territory\u2019s Hamas rulers - has killed 33 Palestinians in Gaza and an elderly woman in central Israel. \n\nConfrontations between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza have recurred 15 times since Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>More rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel on Saturday amid an escalation in the most violent flare-up in months despite efforts to broker a cease-fire.<\/p>\n<p>The fighting, which started on Tuesday, between Israel and Islamic Jihad - the second-largest militant group in Gaza after the territory\u2019s Hamas rulers - has killed 33 Palestinians in Gaza and an elderly woman in central Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Confrontations between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza have recurred 15 times since Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1683973651,"publishedAt":1683988245,"updatedAt":1684008385,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/05\/13\/watch-violence-escalates-between-israel-and-islamic-jihad-militants-in-the-gaza-strip","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/20\/50\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_f96a395d-ccdf-566e-b23b-28b7157adb46-7602050.jpg","altText":"Smoke rises from an explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, Saturday, May 13, 2023","caption":"Smoke rises from an explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, Saturday, May 13, 2023","captionCredit":"Hatem Moussa\/Copyright 2023, The AP. 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Israel has been hit by scores of rockets in a week of increased violence that has killed more than 30 people.","summary":"Air raids and rocket attacks continued in Gaza, with Israel targeting more Islamic Jihad fighters as the funerals of those killed in earlier strikes took place. Israel has been hit by scores of rockets in a week of increased violence that has killed more than 30 people.","url":"air-raids-and-rocket-strikes-as-death-toll-rises-in-gaza-violence","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Israeli airstrikes killed a senior militant commander in the Gaza Strip and Palestinian militants fired rockets toward Jerusalem on Friday, further escalating the most violent flare-up in months despite efforts to broker a cease-fire. \n\nAn Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinians in a residential building in Gaza City in the afternoon, according to the Palestinian health ministry. \n\nThe Israeli military said it had targeted a senior commander of the Islamic Jihad movement. The Islamic Jihad confirmed that the airstrike killed Iyad Al-Hassani, a member of the decision-making council in the group's armed wing. He is the sixth senior Islamic Jihad member to be killed in this round of fighting. \n\nEarlier in the day, bursts of rocket fire from Gaza sent warning sirens wailing as far north as the contested capital of Jerusalem - about 77 kilometres from the Gaza border - breaking a 12-hour lull that had raised hopes regional powers could soon broker a truce. \n\nThe fighting, which started on Tuesday, between Israel and Islamic Jihad - the second-largest militant group in Gaza after the territory's Hamas rulers - has killed at least 33 Palestinians in the strip, including women and children, and an 80-year-old woman in central Israel, identified in Israeli media as Inga Avramian. \n\nAs Islamic Jihad stepped up its longer-range rocket attacks, a projectile slammed into an open field in the Israeli settlement of Bat Ayin, south of Jerusalem, said Josh Hasten, a spokesperson for the area. Residents in nearby Israeli settlements reported hearing explosions. Dull thuds could be heard inside Jerusalem, home to major sites holy to Christianity, Judaism and Islam. \n\n\"The bombing of Jerusalem sends a message,\" Islamic Jihad said in a statement. \"What is happening in Jerusalem is not separate from Gaza.\" \n\nIn response, Israeli warplanes struck Islamic Jihad military posts and mortar shell launchers across the Gaza Strip, the military said. \n\nThe office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was conducting a security assessment to mount a further response. \"We continue,\" he tweeted. \n\nThe Israeli military urged residents living within 40 kilometres of the Gaza boundary to remain close to bomb shelters and limit public gatherings until Saturday evening. All big events, including the weekly Saturday protest against the government's divisive plans to overhaul the judiciary, were cancelled. \n\nThe sirens wailing near Jerusalem on Friday took some back to the spring of 2021, when Hamas fired rockets toward the city, which helped set off a bloody 11-day Gaza war. At that time, the militant group cited a provocative far-right march through the Palestinian neighbourhoods of Jerusalem as one of the reasons for its rocket barrage, along with the displacement of Palestinians from the city's east. \n\nIsraeli police said they will allow the same Jewish ultranationalist parade - meant to celebrate Israel's capture of east Jerusalem - to take place next Thursday. \n\nSince Tuesday, Israeli strikes have killed five senior Islamic Jihad figures and hit at least 215 targets in Gaza, including rocket launch sites and militants preparing to use them. Islamic Jihad has retaliated with over 900 rockets fired toward densely populated parts of Israel. \n\nIsraeli bombs and shells have destroyed 47 housing units, and damaged 19 so badly they were uninhabitable, leaving 165 Palestinians homeless, Gaza's housing ministry reported. In addition, nearly 300 homes sustained some damage. \n\nPalestinians on Friday surveyed the wreckage from the fighting. \n\n\"The dream that we built for our children, for our sons, has ended,\" said Belal Bashir, a Palestinian living in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, whose family home was reduced to a heap of rubble in an airstrike late Thursday. He, his young daughters and two-week-old son would have been killed in the thundering explosion if they hadn't run outside when they heard shouting, he said. \n\n\"We were shocked that our house was targeted,\" he added as he pulled his children's dolls and blankets from a gaping bomb crater. \n\nThe Palestinian dead included six children and four women, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Two of the children were killed by suspected misfired Palestinian rockets, according to the Israeli military and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights. Over 100 Palestinians have been wounded. \n\nThe civilians deaths have drawn condemnation from the Arab world and concern from the United States and Europe. In its past four wars against Hamas, Israel has repeatedly faced accusations of war crimes due to the high civilian death tolls and its use of heavy weapons against the crowded enclave. Israel, in turn, contends that Palestinian militant groups use civilians as human shields by fighting in their midst. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Israeli airstrikes killed a senior militant commander in the Gaza Strip and Palestinian militants fired rockets toward Jerusalem on Friday, further escalating the most violent flare-up in months despite efforts to broker a cease-fire.<\/p>\n<p>An Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinians in a residential building in Gaza City in the afternoon, according to the Palestinian health ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military said it had targeted a senior commander of the Islamic Jihad movement. The Islamic Jihad confirmed that the airstrike killed Iyad Al-Hassani, a member of the decision-making council in the group's armed wing. He is the sixth senior Islamic Jihad member to be killed in this round of fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, bursts of rocket fire from Gaza sent warning sirens wailing as far north as the contested capital of Jerusalem - about 77 kilometres from the Gaza border - breaking a 12-hour lull that had raised hopes regional powers could soon broker a truce.<\/p>\n<p>The fighting, which started on Tuesday, between Israel and Islamic Jihad - the second-largest militant group in Gaza after the territory's Hamas rulers - has killed at least 33 Palestinians in the strip, including women and children, and an 80-year-old woman in central Israel, identified in Israeli media as Inga Avramian.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//60//15//20//808x539_cmsv2_4d5309b1-f95d-5b7d-a59f-392e47b017eb-7601520.jpg/" alt=\"Fatima Shbair/Copyright 2023, The AP. All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/384x256_cmsv2_4d5309b1-f95d-5b7d-a59f-392e47b017eb-7601520.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/640x427_cmsv2_4d5309b1-f95d-5b7d-a59f-392e47b017eb-7601520.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/750x500_cmsv2_4d5309b1-f95d-5b7d-a59f-392e47b017eb-7601520.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/828x552_cmsv2_4d5309b1-f95d-5b7d-a59f-392e47b017eb-7601520.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/1080x720_cmsv2_4d5309b1-f95d-5b7d-a59f-392e47b017eb-7601520.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/1200x800_cmsv2_4d5309b1-f95d-5b7d-a59f-392e47b017eb-7601520.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/1920x1281_cmsv2_4d5309b1-f95d-5b7d-a59f-392e47b017eb-7601520.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Palestinian mourners carry the body of Abdelhaleim Najjar, a member of Islamic Jihad militant group, at his funeral May 12, 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Fatima Shbair/Copyright 2023, The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>As Islamic Jihad stepped up its longer-range rocket attacks, a projectile slammed into an open field in the Israeli settlement of Bat Ayin, south of Jerusalem, said Josh Hasten, a spokesperson for the area. Residents in nearby Israeli settlements reported hearing explosions. Dull thuds could be heard inside Jerusalem, home to major sites holy to Christianity, Judaism and Islam.<\/p>\n<p>\"The bombing of Jerusalem sends a message,\" Islamic Jihad said in a statement. \"What is happening in Jerusalem is not separate from Gaza.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//60//15//20//808x539_cmsv2_2e59d845-a5aa-5b74-bf44-b79a5d6adffa-7601520.jpg/" alt=\"Fatima Shbair/Copyright 2023, The AP. All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/384x256_cmsv2_2e59d845-a5aa-5b74-bf44-b79a5d6adffa-7601520.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/640x427_cmsv2_2e59d845-a5aa-5b74-bf44-b79a5d6adffa-7601520.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/750x500_cmsv2_2e59d845-a5aa-5b74-bf44-b79a5d6adffa-7601520.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/828x552_cmsv2_2e59d845-a5aa-5b74-bf44-b79a5d6adffa-7601520.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/1080x720_cmsv2_2e59d845-a5aa-5b74-bf44-b79a5d6adffa-7601520.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/1200x800_cmsv2_2e59d845-a5aa-5b74-bf44-b79a5d6adffa-7601520.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/1920x1281_cmsv2_2e59d845-a5aa-5b74-bf44-b79a5d6adffa-7601520.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Palestinian mourners carry the body of Alian Abu Wadi, a member of Islamic Jihad militant group, at his funeral Friday, May 12, 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Fatima Shbair/Copyright 2023, The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In response, Israeli warplanes struck Islamic Jihad military posts and mortar shell launchers across the Gaza Strip, the military said.<\/p>\n<p>The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was conducting a security assessment to mount a further response. \"We continue,\" he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military urged residents living within 40 kilometres of the Gaza boundary to remain close to bomb shelters and limit public gatherings until Saturday evening. All big events, including the weekly Saturday protest against the government's divisive plans to overhaul the judiciary, were cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>The sirens wailing near Jerusalem on Friday took some back to the spring of 2021, when Hamas fired rockets toward the city, which helped set off a bloody 11-day Gaza war. At that time, the militant group cited a provocative far-right march through the Palestinian neighbourhoods of Jerusalem as one of the reasons for its rocket barrage, along with the displacement of Palestinians from the city's east.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli police said they will allow the same Jewish ultranationalist parade - meant to celebrate Israel's capture of east Jerusalem - to take place next Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Since Tuesday, Israeli strikes have killed five senior Islamic Jihad figures and hit at least 215 targets in Gaza, including rocket launch sites and militants preparing to use them. Islamic Jihad has retaliated with over 900 rockets fired toward densely populated parts of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli bombs and shells have destroyed 47 housing units, and damaged 19 so badly they were uninhabitable, leaving 165 Palestinians homeless, Gaza's housing ministry reported. In addition, nearly 300 homes sustained some damage.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//60//15//20//808x539_cmsv2_ea85c0bd-f066-5ef9-b0bc-5fc82b7424b6-7601520.jpg/" alt=\"Fatima Shbair/Copyright 2023, The AP. All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/384x256_cmsv2_ea85c0bd-f066-5ef9-b0bc-5fc82b7424b6-7601520.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/640x427_cmsv2_ea85c0bd-f066-5ef9-b0bc-5fc82b7424b6-7601520.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/750x500_cmsv2_ea85c0bd-f066-5ef9-b0bc-5fc82b7424b6-7601520.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/828x552_cmsv2_ea85c0bd-f066-5ef9-b0bc-5fc82b7424b6-7601520.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/1080x720_cmsv2_ea85c0bd-f066-5ef9-b0bc-5fc82b7424b6-7601520.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/1200x800_cmsv2_ea85c0bd-f066-5ef9-b0bc-5fc82b7424b6-7601520.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/1920x1281_cmsv2_ea85c0bd-f066-5ef9-b0bc-5fc82b7424b6-7601520.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Palestinian Belal Bashir collects his children's toys from his damaged house after it was struck by an Israeli airstrike in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Friday, May 12, 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Fatima Shbair/Copyright 2023, The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Palestinians on Friday surveyed the wreckage from the fighting.<\/p>\n<p>\"The dream that we built for our children, for our sons, has ended,\" said Belal Bashir, a Palestinian living in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, whose family home was reduced to a heap of rubble in an airstrike late Thursday. He, his young daughters and two-week-old son would have been killed in the thundering explosion if they hadn't run outside when they heard shouting, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\"We were shocked that our house was targeted,\" he added as he pulled his children's dolls and blankets from a gaping bomb crater.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//60//15//20//808x539_cmsv2_24d32768-f164-52a5-9403-c398fe0c39ae-7601520.jpg/" alt=\"Ariel Schalit/Copyright 2023 The AP All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/384x256_cmsv2_24d32768-f164-52a5-9403-c398fe0c39ae-7601520.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/640x427_cmsv2_24d32768-f164-52a5-9403-c398fe0c39ae-7601520.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/750x500_cmsv2_24d32768-f164-52a5-9403-c398fe0c39ae-7601520.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/828x552_cmsv2_24d32768-f164-52a5-9403-c398fe0c39ae-7601520.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/1080x720_cmsv2_24d32768-f164-52a5-9403-c398fe0c39ae-7601520.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/1200x800_cmsv2_24d32768-f164-52a5-9403-c398fe0c39ae-7601520.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/1920x1281_cmsv2_24d32768-f164-52a5-9403-c398fe0c39ae-7601520.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Municipality workers inspect the damage to an apartment building a day after it was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Rehovot, Israel, Friday, May 12, 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Ariel Schalit/Copyright 2023 The AP All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Palestinian dead included six children and four women, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Two of the children were killed by suspected misfired Palestinian rockets, according to the Israeli military and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights. Over 100 Palestinians have been wounded.<\/p>\n<p>The civilians deaths have drawn condemnation from the Arab world and concern from the United States and Europe. In its past four wars against Hamas, Israel has repeatedly faced accusations of war crimes due to the high civilian death tolls and its use of heavy weapons against the crowded enclave. Israel, in turn, contends that Palestinian militant groups use civilians as human shields by fighting in their midst.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1683926380,"publishedAt":1683962285,"updatedAt":1683963965,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/05\/13\/air-raids-and-rocket-strikes-as-death-toll-rises-in-gaza-violence","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/60\/15\/20\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_00753717-53b6-5bfe-93c3-e778d30ce3c6-7601520.jpg","altText":"Smoke rises from an explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike, in Gaza Strip, Friday, May 12, 2023. ","caption":"Smoke rises from an explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike, in Gaza Strip, Friday, May 12, 2023. ","captionCredit":"Hatem Moussa\/Copyright 2023, The AP. 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","summary":"There has been a third day of bloodshed, mourning and intense fighting as the Israeli air force targeted leaders of Islamic Jihad in their homes while Palestinians responded with rocket barrages. ","url":"deadly-fighting-between-israeli-jets-and-islamic-jihad-continues-as-egypt-pushes-truce","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip killed two militant commanders on Thursday, while a 70-year-old man was killed by Palestinian rocket fire in the first fatality inside Israel amid the current wave of fighting.\u00a0 \n\nIt has been the worst bout of fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza in months. The conflagration, now on its third day, comes at a time of soaring tensions and spiking violence over the past year in the occupied West Bank. \n\nPalestinian militants launched unrelenting rocket barrages into Israel throughout the day. One rocket struck an apartment block in the central Israeli city of Rehovot, killing a 70-year-old man, the MADA rescue service said. It said four others were moderately wounded. \n\nEarlier Thursday, the Israeli military pressed ahead with its strikes against the Islamic Jihad militant group and said a senior commander in charge of the group's rocket launching force, Ali Ghali, was killed when his apartment was hit. \n\nLater in the day, Israel said it killed another Islamic Jihad commander who was meant to replace Ghali in southern Gaza. Islamic Jihad confirmed the man, Ahmed Abu Daqqa, was one of its commanders. \n\nThe Health Ministry in Gaza said a total of 30 people have been killed since the fighting erupted. Among the dead were at least nine Islamic Jihad militants, 10 civilians and nine others, including four whom Israel says were killed in failed rocket launches, whose affiliation remained uncertain. \n\nMilitary spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari told Israeli Army Radio that two other militants were also killed in the early morning strike, although no group immediately claimed them as members, and that the rest of the building remained intact. \n\n\"The apartment was targeted in a very precise way,\" Hagari said. \"I hope this leads to a reduction, a blow and a disruption of the Islamic Jihad rocket abilities.\" \n\nThe strikes targeted the top floor of a building in a residential, Qatari-built complex in the southern Gaza Strip. The pre-dawn airstrike in the city of Khan Younis caused damage to three surrounding buildings. The complex, known as Hamad City, consists of several tall buildings and thousands of housing units. The strike created panic among residents, with falling debris and shattered glass littering the streets. \n\n\"My children started crying. I did not see anything because of the dust, broken glasses, and debris,\" said Abdullah Hemaid, who lives across from the targeted building. \n\nIslamic Jihad said Ghali was a commander in charge of its rocket squad and a member of its armed group's decision-making body. The group has said it will only ceasefire if Israel agrees to halt targeted killings of its fighters. \n\nThe current round of fighting erupted overnight Tuesday when Israel killed three senior Islamic Jihad commanders in near-simultaneous airstrikes. \n\nOn Wednesday, a state-run Egyptian TV station announced that Egypt, a frequent mediator between the sides, had brokered a ceasefire. But with the violence continuing late Thursday, there was still no breakthrough. \n\nThe Israeli military says that in its strikes on some 150 targets, it has zeroed in on militants with what it says are precision strikes. But children, among them a 4-year-old, were also killed. \n\nHagari, the military spokesman, told Army Radio that a quarter of the rockets launched have fallen in Gaza, killing at least four, including a 10-year-old girl, two 16-year-olds and a 51-year-old man. That claim could not immediately be independently confirmed. \n\nCeasefire talks in Cairo \n\nEfforts to mediate a ceasefire were still underway Thursday with top Islamic Jihad political bureau member Mohamad al-Hindi arriving in Cairo to discuss details. A delegation of Egyptian mediators also was travelling to Israel, according to Israeli press reports. \n\nEgyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said that \"despite our strenuous efforts, these efforts still have not yielded the desired fruits and results.\" \n\nIsraeli officials declined to comment. \n\nThe initial Israeli airstrikes set off a burst of rocket fire on Wednesday that triggered air-raid sirens throughout southern and central Israel. \n\nThe military said more than 500 rockets have been fired toward Israel. It said most were intercepted by Israel's missile defence system or fell in open areas. \n\nDamage was reported when rockets slammed into buildings that were empty because residents had fled the area. Three buildings in the southern town of Sderot were struck Thursday, officials said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties. \n\nIsrael says the airstrikes are a response to a barrage of rocket fire launched last week by Islamic Jihad in response to the death of one of its West Bank members from a hunger strike while in Israeli custody. \n\nIsrael has come under international criticism for the high civilian toll. In past conflicts, rights groups have accused Israel of committing war crimes due to the high number of civilian deaths. Israel says it does its utmost to avoid civilian casualties and holds militant groups responsible because they operate in heavily populated residential areas. It also says militants fire rockets indiscriminately at Israeli communities. \n\nIn signs that both sides were trying to show restraint, Israel has avoided attacks on the ruling Hamas militant group, targeting only the smaller and more militant Islamic Jihad. Hamas, which has much more to lose than Islamic Jihad, also has remained on the sidelines. \n\nIsrael and Hamas have fought four wars and numerous smaller engagements since the Islamic militant group took control of Gaza in 2007. \n\nThe army said that schools would remain closed and restrictions on large gatherings would remain in place in southern Israel until at least Friday. Residents were instructed to stay near bomb shelters. \n\nMeanwhile, in the occupied West Bank, where Israeli-Palestinian violence has surged over the past year, the Palestinian Health Ministry said a 30-year-old man died after he was shot by Israeli troops in a raid on Wednesday, and that a 66-year-old Palestinian man died after he was shot during a gun battle between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants in a refugee camp near the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem on Thursday. \n\nThe Israeli army said it has arrested 25 suspected Islamic Jihad members in West Bank raids in recent days. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip killed two militant commanders on Thursday, while a 70-year-old man was killed by Palestinian rocket fire in the first fatality inside Israel amid the current wave of fighting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It has been the worst bout of fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza in months. The conflagration, now on its third day, comes at a time of soaring tensions and spiking violence over the past year in the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinian militants launched unrelenting rocket barrages into Israel throughout the day. One rocket struck an apartment block in the central Israeli city of Rehovot, killing a 70-year-old man, the MADA rescue service said. It said four others were moderately wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Thursday, the Israeli military pressed ahead with its strikes against the Islamic Jihad militant group and said a senior commander in charge of the group's rocket launching force, Ali Ghali, was killed when his apartment was hit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//59//65//72//808x539_cmsv2_0c7d5b96-7fac-5ad5-b51c-3d1c95f437a5-7596572.jpg/" alt=\"Fatima Shbair/Copyright 2023, The AP. All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/65\/72\/384x256_cmsv2_0c7d5b96-7fac-5ad5-b51c-3d1c95f437a5-7596572.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/65\/72\/640x427_cmsv2_0c7d5b96-7fac-5ad5-b51c-3d1c95f437a5-7596572.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/65\/72\/750x500_cmsv2_0c7d5b96-7fac-5ad5-b51c-3d1c95f437a5-7596572.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/65\/72\/828x552_cmsv2_0c7d5b96-7fac-5ad5-b51c-3d1c95f437a5-7596572.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/65\/72\/1080x720_cmsv2_0c7d5b96-7fac-5ad5-b51c-3d1c95f437a5-7596572.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/65\/72\/1200x800_cmsv2_0c7d5b96-7fac-5ad5-b51c-3d1c95f437a5-7596572.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/65\/72\/1920x1281_cmsv2_0c7d5b96-7fac-5ad5-b51c-3d1c95f437a5-7596572.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Palestinians inspect the rubble of the home of Ali Ghali, a senior Islamic Jihad commander,killed in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, Gaza, May 11, 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Fatima Shbair/Copyright 2023, The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Later in the day, Israel said it killed another Islamic Jihad commander who was meant to replace Ghali in southern Gaza. Islamic Jihad confirmed the man, Ahmed Abu Daqqa, was one of its commanders.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Ministry in Gaza said a total of 30 people have been killed since the fighting erupted. Among the dead were at least nine Islamic Jihad militants, 10 civilians and nine others, including four whom Israel says were killed in failed rocket launches, whose affiliation remained uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>Military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari told Israeli Army Radio that two other militants were also killed in the early morning strike, although no group immediately claimed them as members, and that the rest of the building remained intact.<\/p>\n<p>\"The apartment was targeted in a very precise way,\" Hagari said. \"I hope this leads to a reduction, a blow and a disruption of the Islamic Jihad rocket abilities.\"<\/p>\n<p>The strikes targeted the top floor of a building in a residential, Qatari-built complex in the southern Gaza Strip. The pre-dawn airstrike in the city of Khan Younis caused damage to three surrounding buildings. The complex, known as Hamad City, consists of several tall buildings and thousands of housing units. The strike created panic among residents, with falling debris and shattered glass littering the streets.<\/p>\n<p>\"My children started crying. I did not see anything because of the dust, broken glasses, and debris,\" said Abdullah Hemaid, who lives across from the targeted building.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//59//79//48//808x454_cmsv2_3db0e0e0-162a-541a-8d68-aacb376af0bb-7597948.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/79\/48\/384x216_cmsv2_3db0e0e0-162a-541a-8d68-aacb376af0bb-7597948.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/79\/48\/640x360_cmsv2_3db0e0e0-162a-541a-8d68-aacb376af0bb-7597948.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/79\/48\/750x422_cmsv2_3db0e0e0-162a-541a-8d68-aacb376af0bb-7597948.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/79\/48\/828x466_cmsv2_3db0e0e0-162a-541a-8d68-aacb376af0bb-7597948.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/79\/48\/1080x608_cmsv2_3db0e0e0-162a-541a-8d68-aacb376af0bb-7597948.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/79\/48\/1200x675_cmsv2_3db0e0e0-162a-541a-8d68-aacb376af0bb-7597948.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/79\/48\/1920x1080_cmsv2_3db0e0e0-162a-541a-8d68-aacb376af0bb-7597948.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, in Gaza<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Islamic Jihad said Ghali was a commander in charge of its rocket squad and a member of its armed group's decision-making body. The group has said it will only ceasefire if Israel agrees to halt targeted killings of its fighters.<\/p>\n<p>The current round of fighting erupted overnight Tuesday when Israel killed three senior Islamic Jihad commanders in near-simultaneous airstrikes.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, a state-run Egyptian TV station announced that Egypt, a frequent mediator between the sides, had brokered a ceasefire. But with the violence continuing late Thursday, there was still no breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military says that in its strikes on some 150 targets, it has zeroed in on militants with what it says are precision strikes. But children, among them a 4-year-old, were also killed.<\/p>\n<p>Hagari, the military spokesman, told Army Radio that a quarter of the rockets launched have fallen in Gaza, killing at least four, including a 10-year-old girl, two 16-year-olds and a 51-year-old man. That claim could not immediately be independently confirmed.<\/p>\n<h2>Ceasefire talks in Cairo<\/h2><p>Efforts to mediate a ceasefire were still underway Thursday with top Islamic Jihad political bureau member Mohamad al-Hindi arriving in Cairo to discuss details. A delegation of Egyptian mediators also was travelling to Israel, according to Israeli press reports.<\/p>\n<p>Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said that \"despite our strenuous efforts, these efforts still have not yielded the desired fruits and results.\"<\/p>\n<p>Israeli officials declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>The initial Israeli airstrikes set off a burst of rocket fire on Wednesday that triggered air-raid sirens throughout southern and central Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The military said more than 500 rockets have been fired toward Israel. It said most were intercepted by Israel's missile defence system or fell in open areas.<\/p>\n<p>Damage was reported when rockets slammed into buildings that were empty because residents had fled the area. Three buildings in the southern town of Sderot were struck Thursday, officials said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Israel says the airstrikes are a response to a barrage of rocket fire launched last week by Islamic Jihad in response to the death of one of its West Bank members from a hunger strike while in Israeli custody.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has come under international criticism for the high civilian toll. In past conflicts, rights groups have accused Israel of committing war crimes due to the high number of civilian deaths. Israel says it does its utmost to avoid civilian casualties and holds militant groups responsible because they operate in heavily populated residential areas. It also says militants fire rockets indiscriminately at Israeli communities.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//59//79//48//808x539_cmsv2_dabc1822-2dbb-54cc-85a0-ff567026efb4-7597948.jpg/" alt=\"Ariel Schalit/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/79\/48\/384x256_cmsv2_dabc1822-2dbb-54cc-85a0-ff567026efb4-7597948.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/79\/48\/640x427_cmsv2_dabc1822-2dbb-54cc-85a0-ff567026efb4-7597948.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/79\/48\/750x500_cmsv2_dabc1822-2dbb-54cc-85a0-ff567026efb4-7597948.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/79\/48\/828x552_cmsv2_dabc1822-2dbb-54cc-85a0-ff567026efb4-7597948.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/79\/48\/1080x720_cmsv2_dabc1822-2dbb-54cc-85a0-ff567026efb4-7597948.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/79\/48\/1200x800_cmsv2_dabc1822-2dbb-54cc-85a0-ff567026efb4-7597948.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/79\/48\/1920x1281_cmsv2_dabc1822-2dbb-54cc-85a0-ff567026efb4-7597948.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A man covered in a prayer shawl holds a holy book as he stands by a structure destroyed by rocket fire from the Gaza Strip by Palestinian militants, in Ashkelon, May 11, 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Ariel Schalit/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In signs that both sides were trying to show restraint, Israel has avoided attacks on the ruling Hamas militant group, targeting only the smaller and more militant Islamic Jihad. Hamas, which has much more to lose than Islamic Jihad, also has remained on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Israel and Hamas have fought four wars and numerous smaller engagements since the Islamic militant group took control of Gaza in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The army said that schools would remain closed and restrictions on large gatherings would remain in place in southern Israel until at least Friday. Residents were instructed to stay near bomb shelters.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in the occupied West Bank, where Israeli-Palestinian violence has surged over the past year, the Palestinian Health Ministry said a 30-year-old man died after he was shot by Israeli troops in a raid on Wednesday, and that a 66-year-old Palestinian man died after he was shot during a gun battle between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants in a refugee camp near the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli army said it has arrested 25 suspected Islamic Jihad members in West Bank raids in recent days.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1683820995,"publishedAt":1683833996,"updatedAt":1683902174,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/05\/11\/deadly-fighting-between-israeli-jets-and-islamic-jihad-continues-as-egypt-pushes-truce","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/79\/48\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_500832f7-6e69-5ffb-9e42-3617e0253a8e-7597948.jpg","altText":"Palestinian relatives mourn for Islamic Jihad commander Ali Ghali and his brother, Mohammed Ghali, both killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza strip, May 11, 2023.","caption":"Palestinian relatives mourn for Islamic Jihad commander Ali Ghali and his brother, Mohammed Ghali, both killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza strip, May 11, 2023.","captionCredit":"Fatima Shbair\/Copyright 2023 The AP All rights reserved","captionUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"sourceUrl":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":683},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/79\/48\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_3db0e0e0-162a-541a-8d68-aacb376af0bb-7597948.jpg","altText":"Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, in Gaza","caption":"Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, in Gaza","captionCredit":"AP Photo","captionUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"sourceUrl":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/79\/48\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_dabc1822-2dbb-54cc-85a0-ff567026efb4-7597948.jpg","altText":"A man covered in a prayer shawl holds a holy book as he stands by a structure destroyed by rocket fire from the Gaza Strip by Palestinian militants, in Ashkelon, May 11, 2023 ","caption":"A man covered in a prayer shawl holds a holy book as he stands by a structure destroyed by rocket fire from the Gaza Strip by Palestinian militants, in Ashkelon, May 11, 2023 ","captionCredit":"Ariel Schalit\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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Palestinian militant commander killed in latest Israeli strikes on Gaza","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Israeli strikes kill top militant group commander in Gaza","titleListing2":"Top Palestinian militant commander killed in latest Israeli strikes on Gaza as conflict in the region escalates","leadin":"As violence continues to escalate the latest Israeli strikes on Gaza kill a top commander of the group Palestinian Islamic Jihad.","summary":"As violence continues to escalate the latest Israeli strikes on Gaza kill a top commander of the group Palestinian Islamic Jihad.","url":"top-palestinian-militant-commander-killed-in-latest-israeli-strikes-on-gaza","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The group\u00a0Palestinian Islamic Jihad has confirmed an Israeli air strike on an apartment block in the Gaza Strip on Thursday morning killed one of its top members and two colleagues. \n\nThe Israeli military said Ali Ghali was the chief of Jihad's rocket squad. \n\nThe latest violence comes a day after Israeli strikes on Gaza killed three top Islamic Jihad militants and 12 others, including four children, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.\u00a0 \n\nOn Wednesday,\u00a0Israel's Iron Dome air defence system intercepted hundreds of rockets launched from the Gaza Strip. \n\n The Israeli army and Gaza militants are continuing to trade heavy cross-border fire, with at least 24 Palestinians killed amid the worst escalation of violence to hit the coastal territory in months. \n\nAlthough most of the rockets from Gaza are intercepted a number got through causing significant damage. \n\nThe office of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has voiced \u201cdeep concern\u201d over the violence and warned Israel it must adhere to international law. He also condemned the indiscriminate launching of rockets from Gaza into Israel. \n\nEgypt, a frequent mediator between the sides, reportedly brokered a cease-fire, but the truce efforts appeared to falter as fighting intensified late on Wednesday, with neither side showing any sign of backing down. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The group\u00a0Palestinian Islamic Jihad has confirmed an Israeli air strike on an apartment block in the Gaza Strip on Thursday morning killed one of its top members and two colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military said Ali Ghali was the chief of Jihad's rocket squad.<\/p>\n<p>The latest violence comes a day after Israeli strikes on Gaza killed three top Islamic Jihad militants and 12 others, including four children, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday,\u00a0Israel's Iron Dome air defence system intercepted hundreds of rockets launched from the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7594358,7589642,7590722\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//05//09//israeli-air-strikes-on-gaza-kill-militant-commanders-and-family-members/">Israeli air strikes on Gaza kill militant commanders and family members<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//05//09//watch-aftermath-of-israeli-air-strikes-in-gaza-strip/">WATCH: Aftermath of Israeli air strikes in Gaza Strip <\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//05//10//palestinian-militants-fire-rockets-after-israel-strikes-gaza/">Palestinian militants fire rockets after Israel strikes Gaza<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Israeli army and Gaza militants are continuing to trade heavy cross-border fire, with at least 24 Palestinians killed amid the worst escalation of violence to hit the coastal territory in months.<\/p>\n<p>Although most of the rockets from Gaza are intercepted a number got through causing significant damage.<\/p>\n<p>The office of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has voiced \u201cdeep concern\u201d over the violence and warned Israel it must adhere to international law. He also condemned the indiscriminate launching of rockets from Gaza into Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt, a frequent mediator between the sides, reportedly brokered a cease-fire, but the truce efforts appeared to falter as fighting intensified late on Wednesday, with neither side showing any sign of backing down.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1683753981,"publishedAt":1683781588,"updatedAt":1683783006,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/05\/11\/top-palestinian-militant-commander-killed-in-latest-israeli-strikes-on-gaza","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/59\/56\/62\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_3c32e02a-62ef-5311-aeaa-ca5cbd62b65a-7595662.jpg","altText":"Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system fires to intercept a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, near Sderot, Israel, Wednesday, May 10, 2023.","caption":"Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system fires to intercept a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, near 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Israelis block roads in protest against Netanyahu legal plan","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"WATCH: Israelis block roads in protest against Netanyahu legal plan","titleListing2":"WATCH: Israelis block roads in protest against Netanyahu legal plan","leadin":"Israelis blocked roads and demonstrated on Thursday against a contentious government plan to overhaul the judiciary, hoping to ramp up pressure on lawmakers after parliament reconvened this week following a month-long recess.","summary":"Israelis blocked roads and demonstrated on Thursday against a contentious government plan to overhaul the judiciary, hoping to ramp up pressure on lawmakers after parliament reconvened this week following a month-long recess.","url":"watch-israelis-block-roads-in-protest-against-netanyahu-legal-plan","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paused the overhaul in March after intense pressure and the opposing sides are trying to reach a compromise agreement. But in a sign of the mistrust of his intentions, tens of thousands have continued to protest every Saturday night since. \n\nThursday's midweek protest was expected to be smaller, but demonstrators are hoping to remind legislators of their presence and their ability to disrupt the country over their opposition to the overhaul. \n\nMajor roads and intersections in seaside Tel Aviv and elsewhere were choked off by dozens of protesters waving Israeli flags. \n\nDemonstrations took place outside the homes of Israel's ceremonial president and of the country's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who in exchange for the plan being paused demanded Netanyahu grant him authority over a new national guard, which critics say would amount to his own personal militia. \n\nPolice said one protester was arrested for causing disturbances. \n\nProtest leaders have billed Thursday's event a call for \u201cequality,\u201d expanding their criticism to the rising cost of living in Israel and the military draft exemptions granted to most ultra-Orthodox Jews. \n\nProtesters also gathered in Bnei Brak, an ultra-Orthodox city just east of Tel Aviv, against the military draft exemptions contained in the draft law. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paused the overhaul in March after intense pressure and the opposing sides are trying to reach a compromise agreement. But in a sign of the mistrust of his intentions, tens of thousands have continued to protest every Saturday night since.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday's midweek protest was expected to be smaller, but demonstrators are hoping to remind legislators of their presence and their ability to disrupt the country over their opposition to the overhaul.<\/p>\n<p>Major roads and intersections in seaside Tel Aviv and elsewhere were choked off by dozens of protesters waving Israeli flags.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrations took place outside the homes of Israel's ceremonial president and of the country's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who in exchange for the plan being paused demanded Netanyahu grant him authority over a new national guard, which critics say would amount to his own personal militia.<\/p>\n<p>Police said one protester was arrested for causing disturbances.<\/p>\n<p>Protest leaders have billed Thursday's event a call for \u201cequality,\u201d expanding their criticism to the rising cost of living in Israel and the military draft exemptions granted to most ultra-Orthodox Jews.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters also gathered in Bnei Brak, an ultra-Orthodox city just east of Tel Aviv, against the military draft exemptions contained in the draft law.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1683196639,"publishedAt":1683229516,"updatedAt":1683231244,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/05\/04\/watch-israelis-block-roads-in-protest-against-netanyahu-legal-plan","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/58\/02\/30\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_d089d9dd-854d-5ae1-8ca8-fe66dfa2ef6d-7580230.jpg","altText":"Israelis block roads in protest against Netanyahu legal plan in Tel Aviv, Israel. 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","summary":"Israeli forces have killed three Palestinian men it suspected were involved in a shooting that killed a British-Israeli woman and her two daughters. 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Hundreds of people packed the funerals, and Lucy Dee's husband has been a recurring figure in Israeli media, calling for national unity amid a deep societal rift.\u00a0 \n\nIn a statement after the raid, Hamas said the three men, identified as Hassan Qatnani, Moaz al-Masri and Ibrahim Jabr, were its members, and it claimed responsibility for the April attack. Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant congratulated Israeli forces \"for eliminating the terrorist squad\". \n\nIsrael has been staging near-nightly arrest raids into occupied West Bank villages, towns and cities for more than a year.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\nIsrael says the raids are meant to dismantle militant networks and thwart future attacks. Palestinians see the attacks as further entrenchment of Israel\u2019s 56-year, open-ended occupation. \n\nAt least 250 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since the raids began. Just under 50 people have been killed in Palestinian attacks against Israelis. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank killed three Palestinians wanted in connection with a shooting attack that killed a British-Israeli settler and two of her daughters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced the death of at least three people from bullet wounds in the clashes in Nablus, where a large contingent of soldiers, border police and intelligence agents entered and surrounded the house where the three men were staying.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It said that two of the dead had \"completely disfigured\" facial features \"due to the intensity of the shooting\".\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military said the men were behind an attack last month on a car near a Jewish West Bank settlement that killed Lucy Dee, a British-Israeli woman, and two of her daughters, Maya and Rina.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7574990,7560040,7518532\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//04//07//two-killed-in-west-bank-after-israeli-strikes-in-lebanon-and-gaza-strip/">Two killed in West Bank after Israeli strikes in Lebanon and Gaza Strip<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//04//26//divisions-plague-israels-independence-and-memorial-days/">Divisions plague Israel's Independence and Memorial Days<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//05//02//palestinian-hunger-strikers-death-triggers-rocket-barrage-against-israel/">Palestinian hunger striker's death triggers rocket barrage against Israel<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The initial deadly attack shocked Israelis because it reduced the Dee family from seven members to four. Hundreds of people packed the funerals, and Lucy Dee's husband has been a recurring figure in Israeli media, calling for national unity amid a deep societal rift.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a statement after the raid, Hamas said the three men, identified as Hassan Qatnani, Moaz al-Masri and Ibrahim Jabr, were its members, and it claimed responsibility for the April attack. Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant congratulated Israeli forces \"for eliminating the terrorist squad\".<\/p>\n<p>Israel has been staging near-nightly arrest raids into occupied West Bank villages, towns and cities for more than a year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Israel says the raids are meant to dismantle militant networks and thwart future attacks. Palestinians see the attacks as further entrenchment of Israel\u2019s 56-year, open-ended occupation.<\/p>\n<p>At least 250 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since the raids began. Just under 50 people have been killed in Palestinian attacks against Israelis.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1683187675,"publishedAt":1683210723,"updatedAt":1683211564,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/05\/04\/israeli-forces-kill-three-palestinians-suspected-of-shooting-british-israeli-women","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/96\/66\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_5594b7ff-90b7-58d2-b470-b627139dc4df-7579666.jpg","altText":"Palestinians carry the bodies of Hassan Qatnani, Moaz al-Masri and Ibrahim Jabr, draped in the Hamas militant group flags, during their funeral in Nablus","caption":"Palestinians carry the bodies of Hassan Qatnani, Moaz al-Masri and Ibrahim Jabr, draped in the Hamas militant group flags, during their funeral in Nablus","captionCredit":"AP Photo ","captionUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"sourceUrl":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/96\/78\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_a940e98a-413a-5f83-af5e-27847e4faaa0-7579678.jpg","altText":null,"caption":null,"captionCredit":"Majdi Mohammed\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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His death after an 86-day hunger strike raises the potential for renewed violence between Israel and Palestinian militant groups as violence surges in the West Bank. \n\n\nShortly after his death was announced, Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired a volley of rockets into southern Israel. Palestinians called for a general strike in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and protests were expected later in the day. \n\nItamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's ultranationalist minister in charge of prisons, raised the alert level in those facilities in what his office described as a precautionary measure against riots. \n\nPalestinian prisoners have for years gone on lengthy hunger strikes to protest their detentions and to seek concessions from Israel. The tactic has become a last recourse for resistance against what Palestinians see as unjust incarcerations. The prisoners often become dangerously ill by refusing food but deaths are rare. \n\nIslamic Jihad spokesman\u00a0Dawood Shahab called Adnan's death \u201ca full-fledged crime\", \n\n\"The Israeli occupation bears full and direct responsibility,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \n\nAround 200 people gathered outside Adnan's home in the occupied West Bank town of Arraba, holding signs bearing his image and calling for revenge. Adnan's widow, Randa Musa, told those gathered outside that \u201cwe do not want a single drop of bloodshed\" in response to his death. \n\n\u201cWe do not want rockets to be fired or a following strike on Gaza,\u201d she urged the crowd in an impassioned address. \n\nPalestinian prisoners are seen as national heroes and any perceived threat to them in Israeli detention can touch off tensions or violence. Israel has often conceded to demands to release prisoners or shorten their sentences after they staged life-threatening hunger strikes. Israel sees Adnan and other Palestinian prisoners as security threats accused of involvement in deadly attacks or plots. \n\nAdnan, 45, began his strike shortly after being arrested on 5 February.\u00a0 \n\nOver the years, he has been repeatedly arrested by Israel and became a symbol of steadfastness in the face of Israel's occupation when he began staging lengthy hunger strikes just over a decade ago. \n\nAmong his six hunger strikes was a 66-day protest in 2012, and two other strikes in 2015 and 2018 that lasted 56 and 58 days respectively. Israel released Adnan after the 2015 strike. He is credited with turning hunger strikes into a recurring tool for protest among Palestinian detainees and a helpful bargaining chip against Israeli authorities. \n\nAccording to the Palestinian Prisoners Club, which represents former and current prisoners, Adnan was arrested 12 times and spent about eight years in Israeli prisons, most of that time under so-called administrative detention, in which suspects are held indefinitely without charge or trial. \n\nHis death comes as Israel is led by its most right-wing government ever, and as prisons and Palestinian prisoners are overseen by Ben-Gvir, who has previously tightened restrictions on the Palestinian inmates, including shortening their shower time and closing prison bakeries. \n\nBen-Gvir called on prison officials to exhibit \u201czero-tolerance toward hunger strikes and unrest in security prisons\u201d and ordered prisoners be confined to their cells. \n\nIsrael is currently holding more than 1,000 Palestinian detainees without charge or trial, the highest number since 2003, according to the Israeli human rights group HaMoked. \n\nThat figure has grown in the past year as Israel has carried out almost nightly arrest raids in the occupied West Bank in the wake of a string of deadly Palestinian attacks in Israel in early 2022. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Khader Adnan, a leader in the Islamic Jihad group, is the first Palestinian prisoner to die since Palestinian inmates began staging protracted hunger strikes about a decade ago. His death after an 86-day hunger strike raises the potential for renewed violence between Israel and Palestinian militant groups as violence surges in the West Bank. <\/p>\n<p>Shortly after his death was announced, Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired a volley of rockets into southern Israel. Palestinians called for a general strike in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and protests were expected later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's ultranationalist minister in charge of prisons, raised the alert level in those facilities in what his office described as a precautionary measure against riots.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//57//36//94//808x539_cmsv2_8083ddc6-48f2-5b2d-af7d-c8555fb6fe71-7573694.jpg/" alt=\"Majdi Mohammed/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/36\/94\/384x256_cmsv2_8083ddc6-48f2-5b2d-af7d-c8555fb6fe71-7573694.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/36\/94\/640x427_cmsv2_8083ddc6-48f2-5b2d-af7d-c8555fb6fe71-7573694.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/36\/94\/750x500_cmsv2_8083ddc6-48f2-5b2d-af7d-c8555fb6fe71-7573694.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/36\/94\/828x552_cmsv2_8083ddc6-48f2-5b2d-af7d-c8555fb6fe71-7573694.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/36\/94\/1080x720_cmsv2_8083ddc6-48f2-5b2d-af7d-c8555fb6fe71-7573694.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/36\/94\/1200x800_cmsv2_8083ddc6-48f2-5b2d-af7d-c8555fb6fe71-7573694.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/36\/94\/1920x1281_cmsv2_8083ddc6-48f2-5b2d-af7d-c8555fb6fe71-7573694.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Palestinian kids wave their national flag and hold posters showing Khader Adnan, who died in Israeli prison after a nearly three-month hunger strike.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Majdi Mohammed/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Palestinian prisoners have for years gone on lengthy hunger strikes to protest their detentions and to seek concessions from Israel. The tactic has become a last recourse for resistance against what Palestinians see as unjust incarcerations. The prisoners often become dangerously ill by refusing food but deaths are rare.<\/p>\n<p>Islamic Jihad spokesman\u00a0Dawood Shahab called Adnan's death \u201ca full-fledged crime\",<\/p>\n<p>\"The Israeli occupation bears full and direct responsibility,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Around 200 people gathered outside Adnan's home in the occupied West Bank town of Arraba, holding signs bearing his image and calling for revenge. Adnan's widow, Randa Musa, told those gathered outside that \u201cwe do not want a single drop of bloodshed\" in response to his death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not want rockets to be fired or a following strike on Gaza,\u201d she urged the crowd in an impassioned address.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7358096,7523050,7519056\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//04//10//palestinian-teenager-killed-in-raid-as-thousands-of-israeli-settlers-march-to-west-bank-ou/">Palestinian teenager killed in raid as thousands of Israeli settlers march to West Bank outpost<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//04//08//israel-mobilises-army-reserves-after-attacks-in-tel-aviv-occupied-west-bank/">Israel mobilises army reserves after attacks in Tel Aviv, occupied West Bank<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//01//30//blinken-calls-for-urgent-steps-to-restore-calm-between-israel-and-palestine/">Blinken calls for 'urgent steps' to restore calm between Israel and Palestine<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Palestinian prisoners are seen as national heroes and any perceived threat to them in Israeli detention can touch off tensions or violence. Israel has often conceded to demands to release prisoners or shorten their sentences after they staged life-threatening hunger strikes. Israel sees Adnan and other Palestinian prisoners as security threats accused of involvement in deadly attacks or plots.<\/p>\n<p>Adnan, 45, began his strike shortly after being arrested on 5 February.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, he has been repeatedly arrested by Israel and became a symbol of steadfastness in the face of Israel's occupation when he began staging lengthy hunger strikes just over a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>Among his six hunger strikes was a 66-day protest in 2012, and two other strikes in 2015 and 2018 that lasted 56 and 58 days respectively. Israel released Adnan after the 2015 strike. He is credited with turning hunger strikes into a recurring tool for protest among Palestinian detainees and a helpful bargaining chip against Israeli authorities.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//57//36//94//808x539_cmsv2_23cbf44e-ed5f-5cac-b8ea-1ec6fd43bcc5-7573694.jpg/" alt=\"Majdi Mohammed/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/36\/94\/384x256_cmsv2_23cbf44e-ed5f-5cac-b8ea-1ec6fd43bcc5-7573694.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/36\/94\/640x427_cmsv2_23cbf44e-ed5f-5cac-b8ea-1ec6fd43bcc5-7573694.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/36\/94\/750x500_cmsv2_23cbf44e-ed5f-5cac-b8ea-1ec6fd43bcc5-7573694.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/36\/94\/828x552_cmsv2_23cbf44e-ed5f-5cac-b8ea-1ec6fd43bcc5-7573694.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/36\/94\/1080x720_cmsv2_23cbf44e-ed5f-5cac-b8ea-1ec6fd43bcc5-7573694.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/36\/94\/1200x800_cmsv2_23cbf44e-ed5f-5cac-b8ea-1ec6fd43bcc5-7573694.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/36\/94\/1920x1281_cmsv2_23cbf44e-ed5f-5cac-b8ea-1ec6fd43bcc5-7573694.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Relatives of Khader Adnan, a Palestinian who died in Israeli prison after a nearly three-month hunger strike, mourn at his family home in the West Bank.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Majdi Mohammed/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>According to the Palestinian Prisoners Club, which represents former and current prisoners, Adnan was arrested 12 times and spent about eight years in Israeli prisons, most of that time under so-called administrative detention, in which suspects are held indefinitely without charge or trial.<\/p>\n<p>His death comes as Israel is led by its most right-wing government ever, and as prisons and Palestinian prisoners are overseen by Ben-Gvir, who has previously tightened restrictions on the Palestinian inmates, including shortening their shower time and closing prison bakeries.<\/p>\n<p>Ben-Gvir called on prison officials to exhibit \u201czero-tolerance toward hunger strikes and unrest in security prisons\u201d and ordered prisoners be confined to their cells.<\/p>\n<p>Israel is currently holding more than 1,000 Palestinian detainees without charge or trial, the highest number since 2003, according to the Israeli human rights group HaMoked.<\/p>\n<p>That figure has grown in the past year as Israel has carried out almost nightly arrest raids in the occupied West Bank in the wake of a string of deadly Palestinian attacks in Israel in early 2022.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1683005773,"publishedAt":1683020644,"updatedAt":1683021124,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/05\/02\/palestinian-prisoner-dies-in-israel-after-long-hunger-strike","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/35\/86\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_a038ead6-a23e-5f4b-9bef-f35aa566dfe4-7573586.jpg","altText":"Palestinian Khader Adnan, center, is greeted by Palestinians after his release from an Israeli prison in the West Bank village of Arrabeh near Jenin, Sunday, July 12, 2015.","caption":"Palestinian Khader Adnan, center, is greeted by Palestinians after his release from an Israeli prison in the West Bank village of Arrabeh near Jenin, Sunday, July 12, 2015.","captionCredit":"Majdi Mohammed\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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The demonstrations have brought cities to a standstill and continued as the country celebrated its 75th Independence Day.","summary":"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to overhaul the judiciary has stoked widespread discontent and spurred weeks of protests. The demonstrations have brought cities to a standstill and continued as the country celebrated its 75th Independence Day.","url":"divisions-plague-israels-independence-and-memorial-days","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The contradictions that make up Israel \u2014 its economic and military prowess and its deep divisions and rancorous politics \u2014 were on full display Tuesday as the country mourned its fallen soldiers and began celebrating its 75th Independence Day. \n\nThe jarring transition from Israel's Memorial Day to its landmark anniversary ceremony which was meant to be a stunning display of unity, transcending the usual noise of Israeli politics, came as the country faces one of the gravest crises in its history. The events reflected the troubles of a nation preoccupied not only with its external enemies but with its internal conflicts. \n\nSupreme Court \n\nA plan by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government to overhaul the judiciary has stoked widespread discontent and spurred weeks of protests that have brought cities to a standstill. Critics fear the changes would weaken the Supreme Court and erode the country's democratic character. Netanyahu and his supporters argue the overhaul is needed to rein in a liberal and overly interventionist court of unelected judges. \n\nFighter pilots have threatened to stop reporting for duty. High-tech investors have considered relocating. The nation's leaders have openly warned of civil war. Following weeks of mass protests and dissent from within his own coalition, Netanyahu said he would pause the overhaul in hopes of finding a compromise. \n\nOn Tuesday, arguments and protests over the judicial crisis broke out at a few burial sites, offering what many Israelis considered to be an undignified backdrop for the most solemn day on Israel's national calendar, in honour of its 24,213 war dead and 4,255 victims of militant attacks. \n\nHonouring war dead \n\nAt a cemetery in the southern city of Beersheba, hard-line National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir attended and addressed a Memorial Day ceremony, even after bereaved families appealed to him to stay away \u2014 or at least not speak on behalf of the government. When he was 18, Ben-Gvir was banned from compulsory military service on the grounds of his extremist ideology and conviction for incitement to racism and support for a terrorist group. \n\nEven before Ben-Gvir turned up at the graveyard, scuffles and insult-laden shouting matches broke out between his supporters and opponents. Some attendees threw water at each other after the ceremony. \n\nIn Tel Aviv, a group of bereaved families held a separate ceremony to avoid visiting cemeteries and interacting with right-wing politicians whose presence drew shouts of \"Shame!\" from protesters. \n\n\"This year, the Israeli nation is torn between extremists,\" said Israel Shur, who attended an alternative ceremony in Tel Aviv near the building where Israeli independence was declared 75 years ago. \"We don't want to confront the politician bringing their agenda inside our sacred place.\" \n\nAs is customary, people across the country came to a standstill for two minutes when the whine of air raid sirens sounded late in the morning. Motorists and pedestrians froze in the street, got out of their cars and stood with heads bowed. Bereaved families visited cemeteries while television and radio programming shifted to sombre music and documentaries about slain soldiers. \n\n\"Citizens of Israel, the siren this year, the intensely Israeli signature call, is a wake-up call for all of us. The cost of internal strife is heavy,\" Israel's figurehead President Isaac Herzog said late Monday. \n\nIn a speech at the ceremony at a Jerusalem military cemetery, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recalled the lives of several fallen soldiers and spoke of the \"brotherhood\" of the Israeli people, a kinship fortified by military service that is compulsory for most Jews. \n\n\"We will stand together as brothers and ensure our independence from generation to generation,\" Netanyahu said. \"We will bow our heads to the bravery of the fallen.\" \n\n75th Independence Day \n\nAfter sundown on Tuesday, the country shifted from its melancholic contemplation to exuberant celebration, kicking off its 75th Independence Day as trumpets blared and drums rolled. The doleful ballads performed at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl became pulsating dance tunes. The dark space became illuminated by flashing blue and white lights. \n\nNetanyahu sought to emphasise national unity in his pre-recorded address at the mass commemoration. \"Doing it together means crying together in memorial services and rejoicing together at Independence Day,\" he said. \n\nYet even as the party got underway and the speaker of parliament, Amir Ohana, began lighting the first of 12 torches, representing the 12 tribes of Israel, crowds of anti-government protesters poured into the streets of central Tel Aviv. They unfurled a massive banner featuring a blazing torch labelled \"Democracy.\" \n\nProtesters also planned demonstrations for Saturday \u2014 the 17th week in a row. The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, is set to resume next week following its break over the national holidays. \n\nThe Independence Day celebration went smoothly despite swirling fears of disturbances. Transportation Minister Miri Regev, who is overseeing the ceremony, had directed the event's organisers to cut away from the live broadcast in the event of anti-government protests, Channel 12 News, Israel's top television programme, reported. \n\nIsrael declared independence on May 14, 1948, but the holiday, like all national holidays, is observed according to the Hebrew calendar. Palestinians generally commemorate what they call the \"nakba,\" or the \"catastrophe,\" of 1948 \u2014 in which hundreds of thousands of them fled or were forced from their homes during the war surrounding Israel's creation \u2014 on May 15. \n\nThis year's commemorations come as Israeli-Palestinian fighting in the occupied West Bank surges to heights unseen in years. Just before the sirens wailed on Tuesday, the Israeli military said a Palestinian shooting attack in the West Bank wounded an Israeli. \n\nA day earlier, Israeli security forces killed a Palestinian man in a West Bank raid and five people were wounded when a Palestinian rammed his car into pedestrians near a popular Jerusalem market before being shot and killed. \n\nIsrael has fought half a dozen wars with neighbouring Arab countries, battled two Palestinian uprisings and endured scores of deadly militant attacks since its establishment in 1948. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The contradictions that make up Israel \u2014 its economic and military prowess and its deep divisions and rancorous politics \u2014 were on full display Tuesday as the country mourned its fallen soldiers and began celebrating its 75th Independence Day.<\/p>\n<p>The jarring transition from Israel's Memorial Day to its landmark anniversary ceremony which was meant to be a stunning display of unity, transcending the usual noise of Israeli politics, came as the country faces one of the gravest crises in its history. The events reflected the troubles of a nation preoccupied not only with its external enemies but with its internal conflicts.<\/p>\n<h2>Supreme Court<\/h2><p>A plan by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government to overhaul the judiciary has stoked widespread discontent and spurred weeks of protests that have brought cities to a standstill. Critics fear the changes would weaken the Supreme Court and erode the country's democratic character. Netanyahu and his supporters argue the overhaul is needed to rein in a liberal and overly interventionist court of unelected judges.<\/p>\n<p>Fighter pilots have threatened to stop reporting for duty. High-tech investors have considered relocating. The nation's leaders have openly warned of civil war. Following weeks of mass protests and dissent from within his own coalition, Netanyahu said he would pause the overhaul in hopes of finding a compromise.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, arguments and protests over the judicial crisis broke out at a few burial sites, offering what many Israelis considered to be an undignified backdrop for the most solemn day on Israel's national calendar, in honour of its 24,213 war dead and 4,255 victims of militant attacks.<\/p>\n<h2>Honouring war dead<\/h2><p>At a cemetery in the southern city of Beersheba, hard-line National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir attended and addressed a Memorial Day ceremony, even after bereaved families appealed to him to stay away \u2014 or at least not speak on behalf of the government. When he was 18, Ben-Gvir was banned from compulsory military service on the grounds of his extremist ideology and conviction for incitement to racism and support for a terrorist group.<\/p>\n<p>Even before Ben-Gvir turned up at the graveyard, scuffles and insult-laden shouting matches broke out between his supporters and opponents. Some attendees threw water at each other after the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>In Tel Aviv, a group of bereaved families held a separate ceremony to avoid visiting cemeteries and interacting with right-wing politicians whose presence drew shouts of \"Shame!\" from protesters.<\/p>\n<p>\"This year, the Israeli nation is torn between extremists,\" said Israel Shur, who attended an alternative ceremony in Tel Aviv near the building where Israeli independence was declared 75 years ago. \"We don't want to confront the politician bringing their agenda inside our sacred place.\"<\/p>\n<p>As is customary, people across the country came to a standstill for two minutes when the whine of air raid sirens sounded late in the morning. Motorists and pedestrians froze in the street, got out of their cars and stood with heads bowed. Bereaved families visited cemeteries while television and radio programming shifted to sombre music and documentaries about slain soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>\"Citizens of Israel, the siren this year, the intensely Israeli signature call, is a wake-up call for all of us. The cost of internal strife is heavy,\" Israel's figurehead President Isaac Herzog said late Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech at the ceremony at a Jerusalem military cemetery, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recalled the lives of several fallen soldiers and spoke of the \"brotherhood\" of the Israeli people, a kinship fortified by military service that is compulsory for most Jews.<\/p>\n<p>\"We will stand together as brothers and ensure our independence from generation to generation,\" Netanyahu said. \"We will bow our heads to the bravery of the fallen.\"<\/p>\n<h2>75th Independence Day<\/h2><p>After sundown on Tuesday, the country shifted from its melancholic contemplation to exuberant celebration, kicking off its 75th Independence Day as trumpets blared and drums rolled. The doleful ballads performed at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl became pulsating dance tunes. The dark space became illuminated by flashing blue and white lights.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu sought to emphasise national unity in his pre-recorded address at the mass commemoration. \"Doing it together means crying together in memorial services and rejoicing together at Independence Day,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>Yet even as the party got underway and the speaker of parliament, Amir Ohana, began lighting the first of 12 torches, representing the 12 tribes of Israel, crowds of anti-government protesters poured into the streets of central Tel Aviv. They unfurled a massive banner featuring a blazing torch labelled \"Democracy.\"<\/p>\n<p>Protesters also planned demonstrations for Saturday \u2014 the 17th week in a row. The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, is set to resume next week following its break over the national holidays.<\/p>\n<p>The Independence Day celebration went smoothly despite swirling fears of disturbances. Transportation Minister Miri Regev, who is overseeing the ceremony, had directed the event's organisers to cut away from the live broadcast in the event of anti-government protests, Channel 12 News, Israel's top television programme, reported.<\/p>\n<p>Israel declared independence on May 14, 1948, but the holiday, like all national holidays, is observed according to the Hebrew calendar. Palestinians generally commemorate what they call the \"nakba,\" or the \"catastrophe,\" of 1948 \u2014 in which hundreds of thousands of them fled or were forced from their homes during the war surrounding Israel's creation \u2014 on May 15.<\/p>\n<p>This year's commemorations come as Israeli-Palestinian fighting in the occupied West Bank surges to heights unseen in years. Just before the sirens wailed on Tuesday, the Israeli military said a Palestinian shooting attack in the West Bank wounded an Israeli.<\/p>\n<p>A day earlier, Israeli security forces killed a Palestinian man in a West Bank raid and five people were wounded when a Palestinian rammed his car into pedestrians near a popular Jerusalem market before being shot and killed.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has fought half a dozen wars with neighbouring Arab countries, battled two Palestinian uprisings and endured scores of deadly militant attacks since its establishment in 1948.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1682455009,"publishedAt":1682529599,"updatedAt":1682529964,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/04\/26\/divisions-plague-israels-independence-and-memorial-days","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/00\/56\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_e2590012-d8bc-5b59-aeca-8a11c71d898a-7560056.jpg","altText":"Israelis protesting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government plans to overhaul the judicial system hold an alternative Independence Day observance in Tel Aviv, Israel, ","caption":"Israelis protesting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government plans to overhaul the judicial system hold an alternative Independence Day observance in Tel Aviv, Israel, ","captionCredit":"Ohad Zwigenberg\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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A fight many in Europe know all too well. \n\nThe struggle against extremism connected people across communities \n\nIsrael\u2019s next 75 years are being shaped right now by waves of protests driven by Israelis from all walks of life. \n\nMilitary reservists, including fighter pilots and special forces commanders, academics and university students, entrepreneurs and high-tech professionals, small business owners, youth and older people \u2014 all of them are joining forces in the streets of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Beersheba, the Galilee and across the country to preserve our ethos of sacrifice, survival, and grit.\u00a0 \n\nAnd to act as a bulwark against extremism and authoritarianism as well. \n\nThese social bonds across communities, awakened by the protest movement, are a triumph.\u00a0 \n\nThe battle has created a common denominator for the next big chapter in Israel\u2019s history: an enduring social contract built around democracy, inclusion, co-existence, economic opportunity, and regional cooperation. \n\nAnd in this battle, we are winning. \n\nUnified by the spirit of innovation and audacity, the people will not stop \n\nThe fight is far from over, but the hardline coalition\u2019s fervent efforts to dramatically remake Israel\u2019s judiciary \u2013 and threaten its democracy and economy \u2013 have been stopped in their tracks, for now.\u00a0 \n\nTo ensure they are not renewed, the protests will continue, further bolstering our communal ties and forging a new social roadmap. \n\nOn Israel\u2019s 75th anniversary, there is so much to celebrate. Netanyahu and his far-right ministers are paying a high price for their extremism, with polls showing nosediving public support.\u00a0 \n\nThe threat to Israel\u2019s strong economy, buoyed by its vaunted high-tech sector, is also waning. \n\nAs a driving force behind the protests, the tech sector has helped unify Israelis not just around the economic successes of building innovative products and services but also around the fundamental values that allow for this spirit of innovation, audacity, and invention. \n\nWe are standing up for our shared future\u00a0\u2014 and others might have to join us soon \n\nThe Israel we know as a tech powerhouse and a champion of democratic values will undoubtedly emerge from this crisis stronger, better, revitalised, and having internalised important lessons.\u00a0 \n\nMany across the world are watching closely.\u00a0 \n\nAs democracy is under threat worldwide, the high-tech and entrepreneurial sectors in Europe and the US may soon need to stand up for their shared future as well. \n\nToday, in Israel, millions of people from across its diverse communities are gearing up for the long-haul fight to defend our democracy and secure the next 75 years for future generations.\u00a0 \n\nAnd we will prevail. \n\nErel Margalit is an Israeli venture capitalist and a former Knesset member. He is the founder and Executive Chairman of the Jerusalem-based venture capital firm Jerusalem Venture Partners, and Margalit Startup City, the international collection of thematic socio-economic hubs. \n\nAt Euronews, we believe all views matter. Contact us at view@euronews.com to send pitches or submissions and be part of the conversation. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>As Israel celebrates its 75th Independence Day, just a day after a sombre, difficult Memorial Day, Israelis find themselves at a critical junction.<\/p>\n<p>For months, hundreds of thousands of people across Israel\u2019s communities \u2014 secular and religious, Jews, Arabs, and Druze, from the cities in the far north and south to the Kibutzim across the country \u2014 all have poured into the streets to join one of the biggest peaceful protest movements this country has ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>The battle is not just over the Netanyahu government\u2019s contentious plans to overhaul Israel\u2019s independent judiciary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is also a fight for this country\u2019s legacy, democracy, and future. A fight many in Europe know all too well.<\/p>\n<h2>The struggle against extremism connected people across communities<\/h2><p>Israel\u2019s next 75 years are being shaped right now by waves of protests driven by Israelis from all walks of life.<\/p>\n<p>Military reservists, including fighter pilots and special forces commanders, academics and university students, entrepreneurs and high-tech professionals, small business owners, youth and older people \u2014 all of them are joining forces in the streets of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Beersheba, the Galilee and across the country to preserve our ethos of sacrifice, survival, and grit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And to act as a bulwark against extremism and authoritarianism as well.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">These social bonds across communities, awakened by the protest movement, are a triumph.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//56//13//94//808x539_cmsv2_05510c4a-c18b-5345-a459-367a83857fa9-7561394.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo/Oded Balilty\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/13\/94\/384x256_cmsv2_05510c4a-c18b-5345-a459-367a83857fa9-7561394.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/13\/94\/640x427_cmsv2_05510c4a-c18b-5345-a459-367a83857fa9-7561394.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/13\/94\/750x500_cmsv2_05510c4a-c18b-5345-a459-367a83857fa9-7561394.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/13\/94\/828x552_cmsv2_05510c4a-c18b-5345-a459-367a83857fa9-7561394.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/13\/94\/1080x720_cmsv2_05510c4a-c18b-5345-a459-367a83857fa9-7561394.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/13\/94\/1200x800_cmsv2_05510c4a-c18b-5345-a459-367a83857fa9-7561394.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/13\/94\/1920x1281_cmsv2_05510c4a-c18b-5345-a459-367a83857fa9-7561394.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Tens of thousands of Israelis attend a protest against plans by PM Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, 15 April 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo/Oded Balilty<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>These social bonds across communities, awakened by the protest movement, are a triumph.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The battle has created a common denominator for the next big chapter in Israel\u2019s history: an enduring social contract built around democracy, inclusion, co-existence, economic opportunity, and regional cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>And in this battle, we are winning.<\/p>\n<h2>Unified by the spirit of innovation and audacity, the people will not stop<\/h2><p>The fight is far from over, but the hardline coalition\u2019s fervent efforts to dramatically remake Israel\u2019s judiciary \u2013 and threaten its democracy and economy \u2013 have been stopped in their tracks, for now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To ensure they are not renewed, the protests will continue, further bolstering our communal ties and forging a new social roadmap.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7525674,7421376\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//04//11//brussels-boycott-of-israels-new-right-wing-government-would-only-make-it-more-anti-eu/">Brussels' boycott of Israel\u2019s new right-wing government would only make it more anti-EU<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//02//23//its-the-right-time-for-the-eu-to-step-in-and-bring-peace-to-the-middle-east/">It's the right time for the EU to step in and bring peace to the Middle East<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On Israel\u2019s 75th anniversary, there is so much to celebrate. Netanyahu and his far-right ministers are paying a high price for their extremism, with polls showing nosediving public support.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//56//13//94//808x539_cmsv2_1bdc8982-2e33-5ff5-8c40-300e02444885-7561394.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo/Oded Balilty\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/13\/94\/384x256_cmsv2_1bdc8982-2e33-5ff5-8c40-300e02444885-7561394.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/13\/94\/640x427_cmsv2_1bdc8982-2e33-5ff5-8c40-300e02444885-7561394.jpg 640w, 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Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, March 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo/Oded Balilty<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The threat to Israel\u2019s strong economy, buoyed by its vaunted high-tech sector, is also waning.<\/p>\n<p>As a driving force behind the protests, the tech sector has helped unify Israelis not just around the economic successes of building innovative products and services but also around the fundamental values that allow for this spirit of innovation, audacity, and invention.<\/p>\n<h2>We are standing up for our shared future\u00a0\u2014 and others might have to join us soon<\/h2><p>The Israel we know as a tech powerhouse and a champion of democratic values will undoubtedly emerge from this crisis stronger, better, revitalised, and having internalised important lessons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many across the world are watching closely.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">Today, in Israel, millions of people from across its diverse communities are gearing up for the long-haul fight to defend our democracy and secure the next 75 years for future generations.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.8168582375478928\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//56//13//94//808x662_cmsv2_9f9cb7c9-6366-56e1-8cde-a1dbd97f5e99-7561394.jpg/" alt=\"Micha Brickman/Courtesy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/13\/94\/384x314_cmsv2_9f9cb7c9-6366-56e1-8cde-a1dbd97f5e99-7561394.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/13\/94\/640x523_cmsv2_9f9cb7c9-6366-56e1-8cde-a1dbd97f5e99-7561394.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/13\/94\/750x613_cmsv2_9f9cb7c9-6366-56e1-8cde-a1dbd97f5e99-7561394.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/13\/94\/828x676_cmsv2_9f9cb7c9-6366-56e1-8cde-a1dbd97f5e99-7561394.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/13\/94\/1080x882_cmsv2_9f9cb7c9-6366-56e1-8cde-a1dbd97f5e99-7561394.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/13\/94\/1200x980_cmsv2_9f9cb7c9-6366-56e1-8cde-a1dbd97f5e99-7561394.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/13\/94\/1920x1568_cmsv2_9f9cb7c9-6366-56e1-8cde-a1dbd97f5e99-7561394.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Erel Margalit, founder and chairman of JVP at a protest against the judicial overhaul in Haifa<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Micha Brickman/Courtesy<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>As democracy is under threat worldwide, the high-tech and entrepreneurial sectors in Europe and the US may soon need to stand up for their shared future as well.<\/p>\n<p>Today, in Israel, millions of people from across its diverse communities are gearing up for the long-haul fight to defend our democracy and secure the next 75 years for future generations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And we will prevail.<\/p>\n<p><em>Erel Margalit is an Israeli venture capitalist and a former Knesset member. He is the founder and Executive Chairman of the Jerusalem-based venture capital firm Jerusalem Venture Partners, and Margalit Startup City, the international collection of thematic socio-economic hubs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At Euronews, we believe all views matter. Contact us at <a href=https://www.euronews.com/news/asia/\"mailto:view@euronews.com\">view@euronews.com to send pitches or submissions and be part of the conversation.<\/em><\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1682506759,"publishedAt":1682508576,"updatedAt":1682525955,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/04\/26\/as-we-celebrate-israels-75th-birthday-we-continue-the-fight-for-our-democracy","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/56\/13\/94\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_013864ca-3979-5709-986d-3eb099b7b9b5-7561394.jpg","altText":"Israeli demonstrators are seen through the national flag during a protest against plans by PM Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, March 2023","caption":"Israeli demonstrators are seen through the national flag during a protest against plans by PM Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, March 2023","captionCredit":"AP 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boycott of Israel\u2019s new right-wing government would only make it more anti-EU","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Boycotting Israel\u2019s new government would only make it more anti-EU","titleListing2":"VIEW | Any overreaction would only play into the right wing\u2019s hands, which already portrays the EU as an actor antithetical to Israel\u2019s national interest., Shlomo Roiter Jesner writes.","leadin":"Any overreaction would only play into the right wing\u2019s hands, which already portrays the EU as an actor antithetical to Israel\u2019s national interest., Shlomo Roiter Jesner writes.","summary":"Any overreaction would only play into the right wing\u2019s hands, which already portrays the EU as an actor antithetical to Israel\u2019s national interest., Shlomo Roiter Jesner writes.","keySentence":null,"url":"brussels-boycott-of-israels-new-right-wing-government-would-only-make-it-more-anti-eu","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The outcome of Israel\u2019s fifth election in under 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opportunities for EU foreign policy engagement with Israel\u2019s government because, as things stand, it is more than likely there to stay. \n\nPromises to far-right voters are largely symbolic \n\nThe EU is rightfully concerned over a number of primary issues. Concerns over the government\u2019s proposed judicial reform plan have been at the top of the list, which would see Israel\u2019s High Court capable of exerting significantly fewer checks and balances over the country\u2019s executive branch.\u00a0 \n\nEU officials have kept surprisingly silent on the issue, preferring to see how the legislation, which is currently being renegotiated in light of widespread domestic opposition, plays out prior to commenting. \n\nDespite claims to the contrary, the annexation of the West Bank \u2014 another concern high on EU decision-makers\u2019 agendas\u00a0\u2014 is not a realistic prospect.\u00a0 \n\nNo matter how right-wing his government, Netanyahu is, above all, an international statesman who understands the full implications of such a move, both against his relationship with the current US administration and Abraham Accords nations.\u00a0 \n\nIt is exactly this practical approach which saw Netanyahu step back from the proposed judicial reform plan, which brought the country out in droves to demonstrate in Israel\u2019s biggest demonstrations since the 2011 cost of living protests. \n\nWhile progress will undoubtedly be made to \u201clay the groundwork\u201d for annexation and appease a right-wing electorate, the EU or the UN overreacting to such largely symbolic steps would be counterproductive. \n\nSuch was the case with the UN vote around the new government\u2019s election, which requested an opinion from the International Court of Justice on the legal status of Israel\u2019s \u201cprolonged occupation, settlement and annexation of the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967.\u201d \n\nThe trouble on Temple Mount \n\nAn example where this type of symbolic \"groundwork\" is at its most apparent is the Temple Mount, a bone of contention where even a simple change in the status quo can inflame tensions across the entire West Bank.\u00a0 \n\nNetanyahu's right-wing coalition partner Itamar Ben Gvir has been a long-time advocate of increased Jewish rights on the hill in Jerusalem's Old City, considered holy by Jewish, Muslim and Christian communities alike. \n\nWith the High Court of Justice in the past affirming the right of Jews to pray \u2014 setting as the only caveat the police\u2019s ability to limit this due to public security concerns\u00a0\u2014 the status quo can be expected to almost certainly change with Ben Gvir as Minister of National Security.\u00a0 \n\nThis has already been apparent over the course of the Passover holiday, when hundreds of Jewish worshippers ascended the Mount, despite recent riots and the continued barricades in the Al Aqsa Mosque.\u00a0 \n\nThe ascension of Jewish worshippers under similar security circumstances in previous years would have been unthinkable. \n\nIt has also been apparent from the heavy-handed reaction the security services have taken against challenges from agitators on the Temple Mount. \n\nAlthough some of the roughly 400 people who barricaded themselves inside the mosque and assaulted the Israel Police with fireworks, sticks and stones, forcing the security forces to enter the premises, might have been extremists, even Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai was made to admit that he was unhappy with footage that surfaced of violence employed at Al Aqsa. \n\nExtreme policing tactics have undoubtedly been encouraged by the approach of\u00a0Ben Gvir, responsible for overseeing the Israel Police in his capacity as minister.\u00a0 \n\nBen Gvir has called for a more heavy-handed response to security challenges, including those posed by Israeli demonstrators in recent anti-judicial reform protests. \n\nTaking a page out of Biden's book \n\nAgain, the EU should be wary of reading such a change as something it is not \u2014 such as, for example, a denial of Palestinian rights to access the Temple Mount and Al-Aqsa.\u00a0 \n\nDespite Palestinian and even Jordanian claims to the contrary, the status quo has not been violated, and any overreaction would only play into the right wing\u2019s hands, which already portrays the EU as an actor antithetical to Israel\u2019s national interest. \n\nUS President Joe Biden, although recently relatively disengaged from the Middle East-related issues, is well experienced in handling Netanyahu government crises from his time in the Obama administration. \n\nEU decision-makers would do well to learn from his ability to walk a fine line between what is perceived as strategic criticism and delicate leverage applied.\u00a0 \n\nWith regard to the plans for judicial reform, Biden, for example, expressed concern over the prospects for democratic backsliding in Israel, and even dispatched Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to the region to hammer the point home.\u00a0 \n\nYet, he refrained from taking any further steps on the issue despite calls to react more firmly. \n\nConcerns have also been expressed over the representation of Israel\u2019s Arab population in the Knesset.\u00a0 \n\nDespite challenges posed by the right, Israeli Arabs are represented by a total of 10 legislators in the Knesset.\u00a0And indicatively, the threat posed by the right wing increased the percentage of Arab voters by around 8.5% in the recent election.\u00a0 \n\nEU's own policy towards the far-right is that of appeasement, anyway \n\nEuropean decision-makers would do well to see them, as well as other more moderate members of the opposition, as strategic partners while not ostracising the government itself.\u00a0 \n\nDanish Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Asger Christensen\u2019s approach was very instructive in this regard, saying, \"It is Israel's decision [to shift to the far-right]. We will cooperate with that decision.\" \n\nEven if Israel has a far-right government, he added, \"We want to expand cooperation with Israel in Europe\u201d. \n\nSuch a policy of continued, potentially critical, engagement would be very much in line with EU policies towards previous governments, such as the most recent Benett-Lapid coalition.\u00a0 \n\nThis was treated as a perfectly legitimate government, with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen even paying the notoriously hawkish Naftali Benett a visit to Jerusalem in June of last year.\u00a0 \n\nThis was despite the Ra\u2019am party\u2019s key position in the coalition. Ra\u2019am, also known as the United Arab List, founded by convicted terrorist Sheikh Abdullah Darwish, remains affiliated with Israel\u2019s Islamic Movement and is openly homophobic. \n\nA policy of engagement would also be very much in line with the EU\u2019s own policy towards right-wing governments in the EU\u00a0\u2014 a pragmatic approach considering how the far right has become increasingly stronger, as was seen from the recent Italian and Swedish elections.\u00a0 \n\nIgnoring, or worse, boycotting, Israel\u2019s new government, no matter how right-wing or extreme, is precisely the move many in the incoming government anticipate in order to both justify their anti-European narrative and policies which emphasize why \u201cJewish\u201d interests must be placed above all else. \n\nShlomo Roiter Jesner is the president and co-founder of the Cambridge Middle East and North Africa Forum. He is also the CEO of London-based F&R Strategy Group, a geopolitical consultancy at the intersection of politics and business. \n\nAt Euronews, we believe all views matter. Contact us at view@euronews.com to send pitches or submissions and be part of the conversation.","htmlText":"<p>The outcome of Israel\u2019s fifth election in under four years has had many in the European Union concerned.<\/p>\n<p>Referred to as the victory of Israel's extreme right, Benjamin Netanyahu saw himself return to the prime minister\u2019s office in November of last year after elections in June 2021 saw his 12-year streak as PM come to an abrupt end.<\/p>\n<p>Building a solid 64-seat coalition in the Knesset, Netanyahu has managed to establish an absolute majority with the help of his long-term ultra-orthodox partners along with the newly established right-wing Religious Zionism party.<\/p>\n<p>This is arguably the strongest coalition \u2014 percentage-wise and ideologically \u2014 that Israel has seen in years.<\/p>\n<p>Claims that the coalition will fall apart or that it is only a temporary step in Netanyahu\u2019s quest to form a more moderate government are wishful thinking.<\/p>\n<p>And while concerns over what this government might be capable of are well-founded, many are still overplayed.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it might be more prudent to think about potential opportunities for EU foreign policy engagement with Israel\u2019s government because, as things stand, it is more than likely there to stay.<\/p>\n<h2>Promises to far-right voters are largely symbolic<\/h2><p>The EU is rightfully concerned over a number of primary issues. Concerns over the government\u2019s proposed judicial reform plan have been at the top of the list, which would see Israel\u2019s High Court capable of exerting significantly fewer checks and balances over the country\u2019s executive branch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>EU officials have kept surprisingly silent on the issue, preferring to see how the legislation, which is currently being renegotiated in light of widespread domestic opposition, plays out prior to commenting.<\/p>\n<p>Despite claims to the contrary, the annexation of the West Bank \u2014 another concern high on EU decision-makers\u2019 agendas\u00a0\u2014 is not a realistic prospect.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">While progress will undoubtedly be made to \u201clay the groundwork\u201d for annexation and appease a right-wing electorate, the EU or the UN overreacting to such largely symbolic steps would be counterproductive.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//52//56//74//808x539_cmsv2_3a0086e0-18e9-5031-9956-35b971826272-7525674.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo/Ariel Schalit\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/384x256_cmsv2_3a0086e0-18e9-5031-9956-35b971826272-7525674.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/640x427_cmsv2_3a0086e0-18e9-5031-9956-35b971826272-7525674.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/750x500_cmsv2_3a0086e0-18e9-5031-9956-35b971826272-7525674.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/828x552_cmsv2_3a0086e0-18e9-5031-9956-35b971826272-7525674.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/1080x720_cmsv2_3a0086e0-18e9-5031-9956-35b971826272-7525674.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/1200x800_cmsv2_3a0086e0-18e9-5031-9956-35b971826272-7525674.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/1920x1281_cmsv2_3a0086e0-18e9-5031-9956-35b971826272-7525674.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Thousands led by hardline ultranationalist Jewish settlers march to the unauthorised settlement outpost Eviatar in the northern West Bank, 10 April 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo/Ariel Schalit<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>No matter how right-wing his government, Netanyahu is, above all, an international statesman who understands the full implications of such a move, both against his relationship with the current US administration and Abraham Accords nations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is exactly this practical approach which saw Netanyahu step back from the proposed judicial reform plan, which brought the country out in droves to demonstrate in Israel\u2019s biggest demonstrations since the 2011 cost of living protests.<\/p>\n<p>While progress will undoubtedly be made to \u201clay the groundwork\u201d for annexation and appease a right-wing electorate, the EU or the UN overreacting to such largely symbolic steps would be counterproductive.<\/p>\n<p>Such was the case with the UN vote around the new government\u2019s election, which requested an opinion from the International Court of Justice on the legal status of Israel\u2019s \u201cprolonged occupation, settlement and annexation of the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>The trouble on Temple Mount<\/h2><p>An example where this type of symbolic \"groundwork\" is at its most apparent is the Temple Mount, a bone of contention where even a simple change in the status quo can inflame tensions across the entire West Bank.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu's right-wing coalition partner Itamar Ben Gvir has been a long-time advocate of increased Jewish rights on the hill in Jerusalem's Old City, considered holy by Jewish, Muslim and Christian communities alike.<\/p>\n<p>With the High Court of Justice in the past affirming the right of Jews to pray \u2014 setting as the only caveat the police\u2019s ability to limit this due to public security concerns\u00a0\u2014 the status quo can be expected to almost certainly change with Ben Gvir as Minister of National Security.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This has already been apparent over the course of the Passover holiday, when hundreds of Jewish worshippers ascended the Mount, despite recent riots and the continued barricades in the Al Aqsa Mosque.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">Extreme policing tactics have undoubtedly been encouraged by the approach of Ben Gvir, responsible for overseeing the Israel Police in his capacity as Minister of National Security.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//52//56//74//808x539_cmsv2_82e12cb7-ec1f-5d5e-8e4e-465b7f7389df-7525674.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/384x256_cmsv2_82e12cb7-ec1f-5d5e-8e4e-465b7f7389df-7525674.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/640x427_cmsv2_82e12cb7-ec1f-5d5e-8e4e-465b7f7389df-7525674.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/750x500_cmsv2_82e12cb7-ec1f-5d5e-8e4e-465b7f7389df-7525674.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/828x552_cmsv2_82e12cb7-ec1f-5d5e-8e4e-465b7f7389df-7525674.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/1080x720_cmsv2_82e12cb7-ec1f-5d5e-8e4e-465b7f7389df-7525674.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/1200x800_cmsv2_82e12cb7-ec1f-5d5e-8e4e-465b7f7389df-7525674.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/1920x1281_cmsv2_82e12cb7-ec1f-5d5e-8e4e-465b7f7389df-7525674.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Israeli police detain a Palestinian in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound following a raid of the site in the Old City of Jerusalem, 5 April 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The ascension of Jewish worshippers under similar security circumstances in previous years would have been unthinkable.<\/p>\n<p>It has also been apparent from the heavy-handed reaction the security services have taken against challenges from agitators on the Temple Mount.<\/p>\n<p>Although some of the roughly 400 people who barricaded themselves inside the mosque and assaulted the Israel Police with fireworks, sticks and stones, forcing the security forces to enter the premises, might have been extremists, even Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai was made to admit that he was unhappy with footage that surfaced of violence employed at Al Aqsa.<\/p>\n<p>Extreme policing tactics have undoubtedly been encouraged by the approach of\u00a0Ben Gvir, responsible for overseeing the Israel Police in his capacity as minister.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ben Gvir has called for a more heavy-handed response to security challenges, including those posed by Israeli demonstrators in recent anti-judicial reform protests.<\/p>\n<h2>Taking a page out of Biden's book<\/h2><p>Again, the EU should be wary of reading such a change as something it is not \u2014 such as, for example, a denial of Palestinian rights to access the Temple Mount and Al-Aqsa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite Palestinian and even Jordanian claims to the contrary, the status quo has not been violated, and any overreaction would only play into the right wing\u2019s hands, which already portrays the EU as an actor antithetical to Israel\u2019s national interest.<\/p>\n<p>US President Joe Biden, although recently relatively disengaged from the Middle East-related issues, is well experienced in handling Netanyahu government crises from his time in the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">Biden, for example, expressed concern over the prospects for democratic backsliding in Israel and even dispatched ... Anthony Blinken to the region to hammer the point home.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//52//56//74//808x539_cmsv2_edd660f4-16d1-5748-8763-e0b5f6dd0f57-7525674.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo/Oded Balilty\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/384x256_cmsv2_edd660f4-16d1-5748-8763-e0b5f6dd0f57-7525674.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/640x427_cmsv2_edd660f4-16d1-5748-8763-e0b5f6dd0f57-7525674.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/750x500_cmsv2_edd660f4-16d1-5748-8763-e0b5f6dd0f57-7525674.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/828x552_cmsv2_edd660f4-16d1-5748-8763-e0b5f6dd0f57-7525674.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/1080x720_cmsv2_edd660f4-16d1-5748-8763-e0b5f6dd0f57-7525674.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/1200x800_cmsv2_edd660f4-16d1-5748-8763-e0b5f6dd0f57-7525674.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/1920x1281_cmsv2_edd660f4-16d1-5748-8763-e0b5f6dd0f57-7525674.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">An Israeli man opposed to a contentious government plan to overhaul the judiciary holds Israeli and US flags during a protest in Tel Aviv, 30 March 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo/Oded Balilty<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>EU decision-makers would do well to learn from his ability to walk a fine line between what is perceived as strategic criticism and delicate leverage applied.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With regard to the plans for judicial reform, Biden, for example, expressed concern over the prospects for democratic backsliding in Israel, and even dispatched Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to the region to hammer the point home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet, he refrained from taking any further steps on the issue despite calls to react more firmly.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns have also been expressed over the representation of Israel\u2019s Arab population in the Knesset.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite challenges posed by the right, Israeli Arabs are represented by a total of 10 legislators in the Knesset.\u00a0And indicatively, the threat posed by the right wing increased the percentage of Arab voters by around 8.5% in the recent election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>EU's own policy towards the far-right is that of appeasement, anyway<\/h2><p>European decision-makers would do well to see them, as well as other more moderate members of the opposition, as strategic partners while not ostracising the government itself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Danish Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Asger Christensen\u2019s approach was very instructive in this regard, saying, \"It is Israel's decision [to shift to the far-right]. We will cooperate with that decision.\"<\/p>\n<p>Even if Israel has a far-right government, he added, \"We want to expand cooperation with Israel in Europe\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Such a policy of continued, potentially critical, engagement would be very much in line with EU policies towards previous governments, such as the most recent Benett-Lapid coalition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">This was treated as a perfectly legitimate government, with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen even paying the notoriously hawkish Naftali Benett a visit to Jerusalem in June of last year.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//52//56//74//808x539_cmsv2_d8b6db25-48aa-57a6-9928-6a1805cef942-7525674.jpg/" alt=\"Amir Cohen /AP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/384x256_cmsv2_d8b6db25-48aa-57a6-9928-6a1805cef942-7525674.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/640x427_cmsv2_d8b6db25-48aa-57a6-9928-6a1805cef942-7525674.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/750x500_cmsv2_d8b6db25-48aa-57a6-9928-6a1805cef942-7525674.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/828x552_cmsv2_d8b6db25-48aa-57a6-9928-6a1805cef942-7525674.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/1080x720_cmsv2_d8b6db25-48aa-57a6-9928-6a1805cef942-7525674.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/1200x800_cmsv2_d8b6db25-48aa-57a6-9928-6a1805cef942-7525674.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/1920x1281_cmsv2_d8b6db25-48aa-57a6-9928-6a1805cef942-7525674.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen pose for a photo before their meeting in Jerusalem, 14 June 2022<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Amir Cohen /AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This was treated as a perfectly legitimate government, with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen even paying the notoriously hawkish Naftali Benett a visit to Jerusalem in June of last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This was despite the Ra\u2019am party\u2019s key position in the coalition. Ra\u2019am, also known as the United Arab List, founded by convicted terrorist Sheikh Abdullah Darwish, remains affiliated with Israel\u2019s Islamic Movement and is openly homophobic.<\/p>\n<p>A policy of engagement would also be very much in line with the EU\u2019s own policy towards right-wing governments in the EU\u00a0\u2014 a pragmatic approach considering how the far right has become increasingly stronger, as was seen from the recent Italian and Swedish elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ignoring, or worse, boycotting, Israel\u2019s new government, no matter how right-wing or extreme, is precisely the move many in the incoming government anticipate in order to both justify their anti-European narrative and policies which emphasize why \u201cJewish\u201d interests must be placed above all else.<\/p>\n<p><em>Shlomo Roiter Jesner is the president and co-founder of the Cambridge Middle East and North Africa Forum. He is also the CEO of London-based F&R Strategy Group, a geopolitical consultancy at the intersection of politics and business.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At Euronews, we believe all views matter. Contact us at <a href=https://www.euronews.com/news/asia/\"mailto:view@euronews.com\">view@euronews.com to send pitches or submissions and be part of the conversation.<\/em><\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1681217660,"publishedAt":1681230388,"updatedAt":1681230525,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/04\/11\/brussels-boycott-of-israels-new-right-wing-government-would-only-make-it-more-anti-eu","programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet-web","format":"default"},"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/52\/56\/74\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_cfbad348-c2f8-5e88-985a-a07306f97cd5-7525674.jpg","altText":"Israeli flags during a protest against plans by PM Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system in Beit Lid Junction, 28 March 2023","caption":"Israeli flags during a protest against plans by PM Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system in Beit Lid Junction, 28 March 2023","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP 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