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Israeli Forces Shoot Palestinian Cameraman In West Bank As Settler Violence Continues

Bashar Nazzal, a cameraman with Palestine TV, was hit in the leg by live fire and taken to a local hospital for treatment.

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Reports: Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) shot a Palestinian cameraman on Friday in the village of Qalqilya in the northern West Bank, a day after a 55-year old Palestinian man was run over by an Israeli settler in the southern West Bank. A Palestinian cameraman was shot in the leg on Friday by the IOF while covering clashes in Qalqilya, Ma’an

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Amnesty: Wealthy Nations Host Only 1.7 Percent Of Syrian Refugees

Highlighting what it called “the pitiful numbers of resettlement places offered by the international community,” the report noted that the Gulf states, Russia and China had not offered a single resettlement place.

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Reports: Wealthy nations have only taken in a "pitiful" number of the millions of refugees uprooted by Syria's conflict, placing the burden on the country's ill-equipped neighbors, Amnesty International said Friday. In a statement ahead of a December 9 donors' conference in Geneva, the London-based rights group blasted as shocking the failure

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Assad Says US-led Airstrikes Against ISIS In Syria Ineffective

Asked whether the US-led airstrikes had been helpful to him, Assad, whose army has been fighting the extremist groups for over three years, told Paris Match: “You can’t end terrorism with aerial strikes.”

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The US-led strikes in Syria have made no difference, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told a French magazine Wednesday, as he accused Turkey of supporting terrorism. The US-led coalition of around 60 mainly Western and Arab states was formed several months after the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group swept across northern Iraq, seizing

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Egypt Sentences 188 Protesters To Death

The government crackdown in Egypt on Mursi supporters since the army ousted him on July 3 last year has resulted in more than 1,400 people dead and thousands jailed.

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Human rights groups slammed Egypt Wednesday over the mass death sentencing of 188 Islamists days after murder charges were dropped against ex-president Hosni Mubarak. A Cairo court sentenced 188 supporters of ousted president Mohammed Mursi to death Tuesday over the killing of 13 policemen in a village on the outskirts of Cairo on August 14,

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French MPs Recognize Palestine As A State In Non-binding Vote

The motion, which echoes similar votes recognizing Palestine in Britain, Spain and Ireland, received the backing of 339 lawmakers with 151 voting against.

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Reports: French lawmakers voted on Tuesday in favor of recognizing Palestine as a state, a symbolic move that will not immediately affect France's diplomatic stance but demonstrates growing European impatience with a stalled peace process. The motion, which echoes similar votes in Britain, Spain and Ireland, received the backing of 339

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UNHCR: Aid Cuts, Cold Weather To Have “Devastating Impact” On Syrian Refugees

Aid workers fear a major humanitarian crisis for millions of Syrian refugees in the Middle East, especially in Lebanon, after funding gaps forced the United Nations to cut food assistance for 1.7 million people.

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Reports: Aid workers fear a major humanitarian crisis for millions of Syrian refugees in the Middle East, especially in Lebanon, after funding gaps forced the United Nations to cut food assistance for 1.7 million people. Meanwhile, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday that the number of internally displaced

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Israeli Hospital Treating Wounded Syrian Rebels

Damascus has repeatedly accused the so-called “rebel groups,” such as Syria’s al-Qaeda branch, al-Nusra Front, who are active in the southern Quneitra countryside, of working hand in glove with Israel from which they receive logistic support.

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Israeli Occupation Forces transported Monday three wounded militants from Syria to its hospitals in Israeli-occupied territories of Palestine, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). Israeli TV Channel 2 said on its website that “two wounded militants” were transported from Syria to Nahariya Hospital in Galilee, northern Occupied

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