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Jason Greenblatt, U.S. President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy, arrives to visit Kibbutz Nahal Oz, just outside the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel August 30, 2017. Photo by Amir Cohen/Reuters

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Trump’s Mideast peace envoy is preparing to leave White House

By Zeke Miller, Matthew Lee, Associated Press

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar speaks alongside Reps. Rashida Tlaib (right), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (center) and Ayanna Pressley (left) at a news conference held after Democrats in the U.S. Congress moved to formally condemn President Donald Trump's attacks on the four minority congresswomen on Capitol Hill in Washington, on July 15, 2019. Photo by Erin Scott/Reuters

Israel bars Reps. Omar and Tlaib from visiting the country

The newly-elected Muslim members of Congress are outspoken critics of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.

By Ilan Ben Zion, Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press

The Dome of the Rock is seen in the background as Israeli police clash with Palestinian worshippers on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount as Muslims mark Eid al-Adha, in Jerusalem's Old City on August 11, 2019. Photo by Ammar Awad/Reuters

How clashes at Jerusalem holy site undermine a fragile truce

Muslim worshippers and Israeli police clashed Sunday at a major Jerusalem holy site during prayers marking the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha.

By Ilan Ben Zion, Associated Press

An Israeli military bulldozer demolishes a building near a military barrier in Sur Baher, a Palestinian village on the edge of East Jerusalem in an area that Israel captured and occupied in the 1967 Middle East War on July 22, 2019. Photo by Ammar Awad/Reuters

Israeli crews demolish Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem

The demolitions cap a years-long legal battle over the buildings, built along the invisible line straddling the city and the occupied West Bank.

By Alon Bernstein, Associated Press

What Palestinians want more than Trump’s peace plan

The White House has unveiled part of its Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, a $50 billion economic blueprint designed to double Palestinian GDP and create a million jobs. Jared Kushner likened the proposal to the Marshall Plan, which revitalized Western Europe after…

News Wrap: Federal prosecutors believe Trump could have been charged with obstruction

In our Monday news wrap, a bipartisan group of more than 370 federal prosecutors signed a statement contending that, based on details from the Mueller report, President Trump would have been charged with obstruction of justice if he were not…

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Israel, Hamas take first steps toward Gaza cease-fire deal

By Isabel Debre, Associated Press

A cease-fire deal appeared to take hold between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers on Sunday, with Israel expanding the permitted fishing zone and easing some tight restrictions on movement through its two main crossings with the Palestinian enclave.

Tens of thousands of Gaza protesters join anniversary march

By Fares Akram, Associated Press

Tens of thousands of Palestinians on Saturday rallied at points near the Israeli border to mark the first anniversary of weekly protests in the Gaza Strip, as Israeli troops shot tear gas and opened fire at small crowds of activists…

Netanyahu survives political crisis, but Hamas emerges stronger

By Josef Federman, Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday survived a political showdown that had threatened to bring down his coalition and trigger early elections. But while Netanyahu can declare victory, the big winner of the crisis appears to be Hamas.

U.S. cuts aid to Palestinians by more than $200 million

By Matthew Lee, Associated Press

The Trump administration has decided to cut more than $200 million in bilateral aid to the Palestinians, following a review of the funding for projects in the West Bank and Gaza, the State Department said Friday.