TURMUS AYYA, WEST BANK: Sanaa Shalaby says she had no idea what her estranged husband was up to until Israeli soldiers raided her home in the occupied West Bank last month. Now she’s waging a legal battle to prevent Israel from demolishing the two-story villa where she lives with her three youngest children. It’s drawing attention to Israel’s policy of punitive home
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The Guardian report that Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has tasked Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid to try and form a government after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s mandate expired on Tuesday night.
The Independent speculates whether this signals the end for Netanyahu, who has been in power for 12 years and is the country’s longest serving prime minister.
The Financial Times report that Matthew Hedges, the UK academic jailed in the United Arab Emirates for six months in 2018 has launched legal action. Hedges was detained after being accused of working for MI6. In his legal claim, the academic claims senior security officials tortured him, keeping him in cuffs, questioning him for hours and giving him a cocktail of drugs. Hedges writes in
May 06, 2021 - 4:28 AM
JERUSALEM - Israel s military and the Shin Bet security service said Thursday that they arrested a Palestinian suspect in a weekend drive-by shooting in the West Bank that left one Israeli dead and two injured.
Troops and Shin Bet operatives raided a building in the village of Silwad in the occupied West Bank, arresting Muntasser Shalaby, 44. Shalaby, a Palestinian from the nearby village of Turmus Ayya, had no known ties to militant groups, officials said. Local media reported that he also held U.S. citizenship. The U.S. embassy had no comment on the report, citing privacy concerns.
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Israel's military and the Shin Bet security service said Thursday that they arrested a Palestinian suspect in a weekend drive-by shooting in the West Bank that left one Israeli dead and two injured.