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View all search resultsAt the start of Operation Iron Wall, Israeli military, police and other forces entered the camps and killed civilians, destroyed hundreds of homes and damaged infrastructure, according to the UN rights office.
Indonesia joined a coalition of Muslim countries on Friday in condemning recent Israeli attacks on mosques in the occupied West Bank, warning that escalating violence in the Palestinian enclave risks undermining already fragile efforts to stabilize the Middle East.
"The policies and practices of the Israeli government, including a further entrenchment of Israeli control, are undermining stability and prospects for a two-state solution," read a joint statement from several countries, including Britain, France, Germany and Australia.
Most electoral lists are aligned with President Mahmoud Abbas's secular-nationalist Fatah party or running as independents, with no lists affiliated with Fatah's archrival Hamas.
Under the law, passed in parliament on Monday, Palestinians in the occupied West Bank convicted by military courts of carrying out deadly attacks classified as "terrorism" will face the death penalty as a default sentence.
The US mission in Jerusalem said Tuesday that as part of an initiative to mark the 250th anniversary of US independence, it would provide Americans with "routine passport services in Efrat on Friday, February 27... for one day only".
Israel has approved a series of initiatives this month backed by far-right ministers, including launching a process to register land in the West Bank as "state property" and allowing Israelis to purchase land there directly.
Indonesia and seven other Muslim countries have strongly condemned Israel’s decision to claim large tracts of land in the occupied West Bank as “state land” and to approve land registration there, calling the move a grave violation of international law.
Foreign ministers of Muslim countries, including Indonesia, condemned the illegal Israeli decisions, which are seen as an attempt to impose "unlawful" Israeli sovereignty, Saudi Arabia said in a statement.
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