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Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said its release “is vital to ensuring transparency and accountability” in the death of Shireen Abu Akleh.
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen called Monday for the White House to release an official American report on the accidental killing of a reporter last year during a firefight between the IDF and Palestinian terrorists in Jenin.
The administration should “immediately declassify” last month’s summation report of the U.S. Security Coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority (USSC) on the May 2022 death of Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian journalist with American citizenship, “in its entirety,” the Maryland Democrat said.
“I strongly believe that its public release is vital to ensuring transparency and accountability … and to avoiding future preventable and wrongful deaths – goals we should all support,” he added.
Van Hollen criticized Israel’s refusal to let the USSC team interview “key witnesses,” seemingly referring to the IDF soldiers who were involved in the clash. Saying that the report provides “very important insights” about how this IDF unit and others “operate in the West Bank,” he also noted that Israel had rejected Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s call for the IDF to rethink its rules of engagement in the region.
“Such a review remains necessary,” he said.
For over a year, since the beginning of a serious uptick in terror attacks, IDF forces have been going on almost-nightly raids in Judea and Samaria to arrest suspects and confiscate illegal weapons. Just last week, 32-year-old Meir Tamari was murdered in a drive-by shooting in an attack for which the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, affiliated with Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction, took credit.
Jenin is a hotbed of terrorism, and the IDF force came under attack when it entered the city looking for wanted men last May. The PA and Al Jazeera, Abu Akleh’s employer, claimed no Palestinians were shooting in the area where the journalist had been standing, clearly marked as a member of the press – a claim that the IDF contested.
The internal Israeli investigation into her death, which American officials were allowed to observe, concluded that the badly mangled bullet that hit Abu Akleh could not be proven to have come from an Israeli weapon, although “likely.” The Israeli government apologized last month for her death.
Van Hollen is a qualified Israel supporter. Although the 64-year-old legislator has gone on record backing Israel’s right to defend itself against terrorism, he consistently calls for applying the “two-state solution” to the Palestinian-Israel conflict and is strongly supported by the left-wing J-Street advocacy group.
While saying that he opposes the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement that targets Israel, he does not support anti-BDS legislation, citing First Amendment concerns.
In March, Van Hollen criticized Israel when the government voted to roll back the Disengagement Law to enable Jews to return to the four settlements in northern Samaria that had been destroyed in the 2005 disengagement.
Last month, he led 15 colleagues in a letter to Blinken stating that Israel should be allowed to join the Visa Waiver Program only if all U.S. citizens are allowed free travel to Israel, “regardless of national origin, religion, or ethnicity.” He cited problems that American Palestinians or Muslim tourists have had at Israel’s borders, which have generally stemmed from Israel’s security concerns.
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The E1 building plan was originally presented nearly three decades ago, in 1994, and received initial approval from the Civil Administration in 2004.
By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News
A planning committee that could approve plans for a new Jewish neighborhood near Jerusalem is scheduled to meet next week, paving the way for building to begin for the long-postponed project – but it’s unclear if the meeting will actually happen.
The Subcommittee for Objections within the Higher Planning Committee of the Civil Administration is currently slated to meet next Monday to hear opposition to the construction of 3,400 new housing units in the E1 area, on the outskirts of a Jerusalem suburb.
Should the plan be approved, the construction would create a new neighborhood in Ma’ale Adumim that would essentially connect the Judean desert city to Jerusalem.
The Palestinian Authority and pro-Palestinian groups are vehemently opposed to the construction, as it would create major geographic challenges for a potential contiguous Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria.
Notably, the E1 building plan was originally presented nearly three decades ago, in 1994, and received initial approval from the Civil Administration in 2004.
Since then, the project has been repeatedly delayed by numerous prime ministers and governments, due to intense pressure from the U.S. and European Union.
While the subcommittee is expected to meet next week, this exact session had already been postponed once in 2023. The meeting was also postponed three times in 2022.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated the Biden administration’s opposition to building in E1 during an AIPAC summit in Washington D.C. on Monday.
“Settlement expansion clearly presents an obstacle to the horizon of hope we seek,” Blinken said, adding that Jewish building in the region “damages prospects for two states.”
During U.S.-brokered security summits earlier in 2023, Israeli officials reportedly pledged to freeze settlement building and expansion for the foreseeable future.
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“We are at the dawn of a new era for humanity, an era of artificial intelligence. Things are changing at a dizzying pace and Israel must formulate a national policy on this issue,” Prime Minister Netanyahu said after speaking with innovator-entrepreneur Elon Musk.
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A New York Times article on Sunday painted President Joe Biden’s advanced age in a positive light, describing him as sharp, fit and possessing “striking stamina.”
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“The Prison Service can try to cover it up, but this serious incident really happened,” said a guard who was witness to the attack.
By World Israel News Staff
After a prominent criminal was denied leave from prison to attend his father’s funeral, his associates rioted in a correctional facility in Israel, holding guards hostage for hours and threatening to stab them.
According to a Yediot Ahronot report, the incident took place at Rimonim Prison in central Israel several months ago, but it was not acknowledged by authorities until recently.
Several guards spoke to the outlet on the condition of anonymity, confirming that the hostage-taking occurred and that the prison authorities granted a concession in order to end the crisis.
The incident began after the father of Uday Jerushi, a notorious Arab-Israeli organized crime boss, was shot and killed. Jerushi, who is incarcerated at Rimonim Prison in central Israel, was denied permission to leave the facility to attend the funeral.
Chaos ensued shortly after he learned of the decision. Jerushi and about 30 of his associates reportedly began rioting in their wing.
Then, Jerushi and his affiliates approached two guards while brandishing improvised stabbing devices, taking the pair hostage and threatening to harm them should the authorities not reverse their decision.
The guards were released two hours later, after a senior officer at the prison agreed to allow Jerushi to watch his father’s funeral via a Zoom broadcast.
The Prison Service launched an investigation into the incident, but the report downplayed the grave nature of the event and minimized failures on the part of the authorities, a Shin Bet employee told Yediot Ahronot.
“The Prison Service can try to cover it up, but this serious incident really happened,” a guard who was a witness to the attack told Yediot Ahronot.
“For long hours, the guards who were there feared for their lives and felt that they had no protection. Instead of the Prison Service learning lessons, they are busy denying [reality].”
Another guard confirmed to the outlet that “the investigation was designed to gloss over the incident, not to find out what really happened.”
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