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October 20, 2015

Israel Arrests Dozens in West Bank amid Ongoing Violence 
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is visiting Israel and the Occupied
Territories today amid a spate of Palestinian stabbing attacks and an
intensified Israeli crackdown. In the latest violence, Israeli forces
killed a Palestinian man near Hebron in the occupied West Bank after
they say he tried to stab an Israeli soldier. In a separate incident
near Hebron today, an Israeli man was run over and killed by a
Palestinian truck driver, who later turned himself in and said it was an
accident. Overnight, Israeli security forces arrested more than 30
Palestinians in the West Bank, including top Hamas official Hassan
Yousef, whom the Israeli government accuses of inciting the recent
violence.

 

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