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It wasn’t until the evening of a “solidarity mission” to Israel, 10 days and more than 4,000 deaths into the ongoing war, that Gov. Kathy Hochul advocated publicly for humanitarian
It wasn t until the evening of a “solidarity mission” to Israel, 10 days and more than 4,000 deaths into the ongoing war, that Gov. Kathy Hochul advocated publicly for humanitarian
One of the triggers for the recent conflagration in East Jerusalem, which quickly spread across Israel, was an effort to evict Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
Like so many real-estate cases over the so-called Green Line that delineates 1948 Israel from the West Bank territory it has occupied since the 1967 war, ownership questions are murky. Attempts to identify the owners of the company behind the purchase of these six homes – and the source of the company’s funds – leads to a complex tapestry of obscure overseas companies. So intricate is this tapestry that it is impossible to know for sure who financed the planned evictions that led to the violence.