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  • Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu denies bribery allegations

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  • David Keyes: Netanyahu aide steps aside amid sexual misconduct claims

    David Keyes (r) speaks to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, June 24, 2018 Image copyright Reuters Image caption David Keyes (R) was appointed Benjamin Netanyahu’s foreign media spokesman in 2016

    A senior aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is taking a leave of absence following a series of sexual misconduct allegations.

    David Keyes said he wanted to clear his name from “false and misleading accusations”.

    The Times of Israel says that 12 women have accused him of inappropriate behaviour.

    One of them, New York State Senate candidate Julia Salazar, accused him publicly of sexual assault on Tuesday.

    Wall Street Journal reporter Shayndi Raice later wrote on Twitter that she, too, had had “a terrible encounter” with Mr Keyes.

    The other 10 women have asked to remain anonymous, the Israeli newspaper reported.

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    In a statement on Thursday, Mr Keyes, 34, said he was “fully confident that the truth will come out”.

    “In light of the false and misleading accusations against me and in order not to distract from the important work of the prime minister, I have asked to take time off to clear my name,” he said.

    The Times of Israel says the allegations took place before Mr Keyes was appointed Mr Netanyahu’s foreign media spokesman in 2016.

    It quotes sources as saying that Mr Keyes had been asked to stay away from certain offices in New York because of his behaviour.

    The prime minister’s office said it had accepted Mr Keyes’ request to take time off, the newspaper added.

    Responding on Twitter to Ms Salazar’s accusation, Ms Raice said: “I also had a terrible encounter with David Keyes once and 100% believe her. I knew this would come out about him at some point.”

    She accused Mr Keyes of having “absolutely no conception of the word ‘no’” and described him as a “predator”.

    On Thursday, several Israeli politicians called on Mr Netanyahu to suspend Mr Keyes until the reports could be clarified.

  • Paraguay and Israel in spat over Jerusalem embassy

    Image copyright AFP/Getty Images Image caption Paraguay’s former president Horacio Cartes (left, with Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu) had decided to move the country’s embassy in Might

    Mr Trump had unveiled the new US stance in December 2017, declaring that he regarded Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

    He stated he had “judged this course of action to be within the easiest interests of the U.s.a. of The Usa, and the pursuit of peace among Israel and the Palestinians”.

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    Guatemala then showed it would also make the shift to Jerusalem, and the Czech Republic reopened its honorary consulate within the city.

    Why is the standing of Jerusalem so contentious?

    as it is going to the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

    Mr Trump’s decision to know Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the u.s. embassy was once denounced by the Palestinians, who stated it confirmed the us could not be a impartial mediator.

    UN member states additionally voted decisively at the General Meeting in favour of a solution effectively calling the united states declaration “null and void” and important it’s cancelled.

    Israel regards Jerusalem as its “everlasting and undivided” capital, while the Palestinians declare East Jerusalem – occupied by Israel within the 1967 Heart East struggle – because the capital of a long run state.

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    Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem hasn’t ever been known internationally, and in step with the 1993 Israel-Palestinian peace accords, the general standing of Jerusalem is meant to be discussed within the latter tiers of peace talks.

    Since 1967, Israel has constructed a dozen settlements, home to about TWO HUNDRED,000 Jews, in East Jerusalem. Those are considered unlawful below international regulation, though Israel disputes this.

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  • Israel to reopen Gaza cargo crossing if calm holds

    File photo showing a lorry waiting at the Kerem Shalom cargo crossing in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah (24 July 2018) Symbol copyright AFP Image caption Kerem Shalom is the main lifeline for the 2 million other folks residing in Gaza

    Israel’s defence minister has introduced it will reopen the principle shipment crossing with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday if the relative calm of latest days maintains.

    Avigdor Lieberman also stated the fishing zone off Gaza’s coast may over again be prolonged to 17km (NINE nautical miles).

    Israel shut the Kerem Shalom crossing for all however humanitarian deliveries 5 weeks in the past in reaction to attacks via Palestinians alongside the border.

    Rights groups stated the move amounted to illegal collective punishment.

    Kerem Shalom is the primary lifeline for the two million people residing in Gaza, and the territory’s financial system is nearly totally dependent on it.

    Symbol copyright EPA Image caption A barrage of rockets hit Sderot and different southern Israeli cities last Wednesday

    The Israeli govt closed Kerem Shalom on 9 July in retaliation for incendiary kite and balloon attacks by Palestinians and makes an attempt to infiltrate its territory.

    The arson attacks have sparked masses of fires in southern Israel since April, burning greater than 3,000 hectares (7,FOUR HUNDRED acres) of forest and farmland and inflicting masses of lots of bucks of damage.

    Mr Lieberman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that they had agreed to make use of a “heavy hand” in opposition to the militant workforce Hamas, which dominates Gaza, to influence it to end the assaults. But there were a few flare-ups in violence given that then that experience raised fears of a new war.

    Image copyright AFP Image caption A cultural centre that Israel said was once getting used via Hamas was once focused

    Final Wednesday night time, militants fired more than 180 rockets and mortars into southern Israel and the Israeli army carried out more than 150 air strikes on “military and strategic” objectives in Gaza. The escalation left 3 Palestinians lifeless and seven civilians in Israel injured.

    A truce mediated through Egypt and the UN reportedly got here into effect the next evening, and there had been fewer stories of incendiary balloons and kites being launched due to the fact.

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    After assembly senior security officials on Tuesday, Mr Lieberman said: “It used to be determined that if the relative quiet along the Gaza border that started this week continues till tomorrow morning, the Kerem Shalom Crossing will reopen at 09:00 (06:00 GMT) the next day to come and the fishing zone shall be prolonged again to 9 nautical miles from the coast.”

    The defence minister brought that this used to be meant to be a sign to Palestinians that “keeping up the quiet is first and most useful within the pastime of Gaza citizens”.

    Symbol copyright EPA Image caption Avigdor Lieberman (C) discussed reopening Kerem Shalom with senior security officers

    more than ONE HUNDRED SIXTY Palestinians had been killed through Israeli forces for the reason that end of March – most right through protests alongside the Gaza-Israel border at which thousands have expressed their improve for the declared right of Palestinian refugees to return to their ancestral homes in what’s now Israel.

    One Israeli soldier has been shot useless through a Palestinian sniper throughout the similar period.

    The reopening of Kerem Shalom comes because the United Nations and Egypt try to broker a long-term ceasefire among Israel and Hamas and enhance the humanitarian scenario in Gaza.

    Earlier on Tuesday, Israel’s finance minister confirmed a file that Mr Netanyahu had secretly met Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi in Egypt in Would Possibly. The 2 men are said to have mentioned the terms for a ceasefire, the easing of the blockade of Gaza, and the rebuilding of its infrastructure.

    Image copyright AFP Image caption Israel limited Gaza’s fishing zone to three nautical miles ultimate month

    Israel and Egypt imposed a land, sea and air blockade on Gaza whilst Hamas strengthened its power over the territory in 2007 via ousting its opponents, a yr after profitable legislative elections. The 2 countries say the blockade is for self-defence.

    In a separate development on Tuesday, the UN company for Palestinian refugees said that it will no longer have the ability to open faculties for more than part one million children in Gaza, the West Financial Institution, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon this month because it had run out of cash to pay their 22,000 teachers.

    Unrwa officers said the verdict via US – which has long been the agency’s greatest unmarried donor – to withhold $305m (£240m) of funding this 12 months used to be the main reason behind the monetary concern. The Trump management has mentioned it’s going to withhold price range until Unrwa makes unspecified “reforms”.

  • Chile minister resigns over Human Rights Museum row

    The entrance to the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago during an exhibition in October 2017 of declassified CIA documents that show US involvement in General Pinochet Symbol copyright Reuters Symbol caption The Museum of Historical Past and Human Rights used to be opened to keep alive the reminiscence of crimes dedicated throughout the years of military govt

    Chile’s culture minister, Mauricio Rojas, has resigned after complaint over feedback he made in 2015 about a human rights museum.

    Mr Rojas got here beneath hearth after it was once found out that he had wondered the validity of the museum in Santiago.

    He known as it a montage and stated its objective used to be to shock visitors and manipulate historical past.

    The Museum of Historical Past and Human Rights files abuses during the army govt of Augusto Pinochet.

    In a guide published in 2015, Mr Rojas is quoted as saying the museum’s intention is to astonish and stop guests from reasoning.

    “it is a shameless and misguided use of a national tragedy that touched so many folks immediately,” he mentioned.

    After the scandal broke out over the weekend, Mr Rojas said those comments didn’t replicate his current view, and added that he had “never diminished nor justified unacceptable, systematic and grave human rights violations that took place in Chile”.

    But force from human rights firms and politicians from each left and proper forced him to surrender after best four days in the job.

    The Chilean President Sebastian Piñera mentioned he had frequent his resignation for the great functioning of the govt.

    The Museum of Historical Past and Human Rights used to be opened in 2010 through the then president Michelle Bachelet to remind other folks of the crimes and abuses committed throughout the years of military govt, from 1973 to 1990.

  • Israeli Arab MP resigns over debatable ‘nation state’ regulation

    Zouheir Bahloul Image copyright AFP Image caption Zouheir Bahloul branded Israel’s parliament as racist and harmful

    An Israeli Arab baby-kisser has resigned in competition to a debatable new legislation which announces Israel to be the country state of the Jewish people.

    Zouheir Bahloul, 67, branded parliament “racist” and “destructive” for passing the legislation, which additionally revokes the standing of Arabic as an reputable language.

    “The law removes the Arab inhabitants from the trail of equality in Israel,” he advised Israeli TELEVISION network Reshet.

    The invoice handed on 19 July, frightening anger from Israel’s Arab minority.

    Arab members of the Knesset tore up copies of the bill and shouted their disgust, sooner than some were thrown out of the chamber.

    Symbol copyright Reuters Symbol caption Israeli Arabs have lengthy complained of discrimination

    It was created because some Israeli Jewish politicians believe the founding concepts of Israel’s introduction, as a state for Jews of their historical fatherland, to be underneath threat.

    But Israeli Arabs, who contain approximately 20% of the country’s population, see it as evidence that Israel is downgrading their standing.

    They have equal rights underneath the regulation however have lengthy complained of being handled as 2d-magnificence voters and say they face discrimination and worse provisions than Israeli Jews.

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  • Israeli Arab MPs condemn ‘Jewish nation state’ law

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  • Israel shoots down Syrian drone with Patriot missile

    July 11 (UPI) — Military officers said they shot down a Syrian drone Wednesday that flew a few miles into Israeli territory over the ocean of Galilee.

    Israeli officials stated the unmanned drone caused rocket alert sirens in Golan Heights and Jordan Valley close to the Israel-Syria border, and was flown into Israel through Jordan.

    The drone flew for SIXTEEN minutes before it used to be intercepted.

    After it used to be shot through a U.S.-supplied Patriot missile, drone fragments fell into the water.

    “The Patriot aerial protection system recognized the danger and tracked it till its interception,” an IDF spokesperson mentioned. “The IDF will not allow any violation of Israeli airspace and will act in opposition to any try to harm its civilians.”

    The shoot-down got here weeks after Israeli forces fired at any other drone from Syria. The IDF has not yet stated exactly who flew either drone.

    “we’re prepared for the possibility of Israeli sovereignty being violated as a result of the preventing in Syria,” IDF Spokesperson Ronen Manelis stated. “Our purpose is not to allow the 1974 settlement to be violated and to not create a chance for the State of Israel.”

    The disagreement occurred as Israeli High Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Moscow to satisfy with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He instructed newshounds in advance he was once assembly with Putin to talk about Syria, Iran and “Israel’s safety needs.”