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A man waves a Palestinian flag as he walks past an Israeli armored vehicle during a military operation in the West Bank refugee camp of Tulkarem, in Tulkarem, September 4, 2024
THE number of people killed in Israeli strikes in Syria has risen to 14 with more than 40 wounded, Syrian media said yesterday.
The Israelis have also continued to carry out military raids in the occupied West Bank, as well as the continuing devastation of Gaza.
Israeli strikes in central Syria hit several areas late on Sunday, damaging a highway in Hama province and sparking fires, Syrian news agency Sana said.
For those who lived in Yanoun, its disappearance is not just a local tragedy, but a stark symbol of escalating violence, displacement and impunity across the occupied West Bank, says JANE HARRIES
RAMZY BAROUD looks at how entire West Bank communities have been shattered, their social and physical fabric deliberately dismantled by Israel to enable its formal annexation
VIJAY PRASHAD looks at the web of militias and drug-trafficking gangs that emerged in the Sweida region through the Syrian civil war, and how they relate to recent clashes and Israel’s intervention