| The southern area thrived after the 2014 war, and will thrive again now, still faster | Karameh is the site of a 1968 battle — fought a few months after the defeat of Arab states by Israel in 1967 — between a combined force of Palestinian fighters and Jordanian army soldiers against Israeli troops, and is symbolic across the Arab world |
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| He also confirms reports that Blinken intends to visit the region soon | That position held throughout the entire 11-day conflict, but about mid-way through the US picked up its efforts aimed at reaching a ceasefire after giving Israel several days to target Hamas infrastructure |
It is not illegal to wave a Palestinian flag in Israel, but police often use it as a pretext for breaking up protests, insisting that it can lead to unrest.
| The group say some of the pro-Palestinian protests in recent weeks featured signs invoking age-old antisemitic accusation that Jews are responsible for killing Jesus as well as Holocaust analogies demonizing Zionists The ADL says it has also received more reports of possible antisemitic incidents since the conflict broke out in Israel, with 193 reports in the week after the crisis began, up from 131 the previous week | Of them, 61 were in serious condition, 171 in moderate condition and 240 suffered acute anxiety attacks |
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| Children in the south and center of the country have been home for a number of days as those areas came under rocket fire from Gaza | Pakistan is fighting several low-level insurgencies in the impoverished province, waged by Islamist, separatist and sectarian groups |
United halted flights from all three US cities to Israel on May 12.