Palestine

Israel and Palestinians risk deeper conflict in a distracted world

JERUSALEM/GAZA (Reuters) – After bloodshed in Jerusalem and the West Bank and a month since Israel’s most right-wing government took office, Israel and the Palestinians risk sliding into a cycle of wider confrontation with pressure on both sides for retaliation, analysts say. A Palestinian gunman shot dead seven people near a synagogue in Jerusalem’s outskirts

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In West Bank, Blinken presses for two-state solution

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shuttled from Israel to the Palestinians’ West Bank on Tuesday, appealing for an end to resurgent violence and reaffirming Washington’s backing for a two-state solution to the decades-long conflict. Blinken is urging calm on both sides after last week’s killing by a Palestinian gunman of seven people outside

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