The lawyer for a 30-year-old Palestinian married father of two who has admitted in a plea bargain to rape by deception said Wednesday he will appeal his client's sentence, which was handed up Monday.
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As this new Israeli film makes all too clear, the death we witness is just the latest in an ongoing series of tragedies, forming a cycle of violence that imperils all of the characters here. The blood that is spilled ensures we’ll soon see more of the same. That kind of body count makes for a bleak and deeply troubling portrait of modern Israel. However, the fact that Ajami was made by a team of Israelis and Palestinians working together suggests that these streets don’t always have to be so mean.
Israel will allow a shipment of clothes and shoes to be delivered to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip for the first time in its almost three-year-old tight blockade of the enclave, Palestinian officials said on Monday.
They said the first 10 truckloads would be arriving via the Israeli-controlled Gaza border point on Thursday.
Israel is under international pressure to relax its blockade, which the United Nations says punishes Gaza's 1.5 million people over their leaders - the Islamist group Hamas, considered by Israel and others a terrorist organization.
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By announcing he doesn't want another term in office, embattled Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pushed the Mideast peace effort into unknown territory Thursday, opening the way to a succession battle that could play into the hands of his rival, the militant Hamas.
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