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Clashes break out in central Hebron
HEBRON, Monday, May 17, 2021 (WAFA) – Clashes broke out today between Palestinians and Israeli forces in Bab al-Zawyeh area in central Hebron city, in the southern West Bank, according to WAFA correspondent.
WAFA correspondent said Israeli soldiers stationed at the military checkpoint at the entrance to Shuhada Street clashed with Palestinian protesters and fired stun grenades towards protesters and nearby commercial shops, which forced owners to close their shops.
No injuries were reported.
Jonathan Pollard Urges “Dual Loyalty” And Spying For Israel
Jonathan Pollard, who as a civilian intelligence analyst for the U.S. Navy in the 1980s was found guilty of spying for Israel and served 30 years in prison, not only has no regrets for his action but urges other American Jews to follow in his footsteps.
Now a resident of Israel, which he considers his real “home,”
Pollard was interviewed by the Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom (March 25, 2021). He said, “The bottom line on this charge of dual loyalty is, I’m sorry, we’re Jews, and if we’re Jews we will always have dual loyalty.” Pollard said Jews were deluding themselves if they thought of America as their home. He suggested that he would counsel a young Jewish American working in an American security agency to spy for Israel, as he did.
Apr. 30, 2021 3:20 PM
Izz a-Din al-Batash still doesn’t really know what happened to his eye. His parents are afraid to tell him what’s lurking beneath the bandages. He may have removed them himself in secret and seen the gaping hole, or maybe not. In the meantime, his father switches to Hebrew when he talks to us about the eye his son lost.
Izz a-Din is a wiry, shy boy of 14. He lives with his parents, five brothers and two sisters in a renovated stone building in the Old City of Hebron – an area that’s under the control of Israel and its settlers, which has been virtually emptied of its Palestinian community for some time. Only the poorest and the weakest remain in this ancient ghost city, whose dying market this week sputtered briefly to life under the aegis of Ramadan.