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Israeli Regional Cooperation Minister Tzai Hanegbi, a close ally of Prime Minister Netanyahu, cropped, December 28, 2016. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool/Flash90)

Senior Israeli gov’t minister warns Palestinians of ‘third Nakba’

Tzachi Hanegbi, a close ally of Netanyahu, threatens Palestinians with ethnic cleansing in response to the latest round of violence. A senior minister in the Israeli government and a close ally of Prime Minister Netanyahu warned the Palestinian people over the weekend of mass expulsion and ethnic cleansing if they don’t put an end to the…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man July 24, 2017

Children of the Abu Darouj family walk near the ruins of their destroyed home in the village of Zawaydeh, Gaza Strip, March 17, 2015. Five members of the family were killed during the 2014 war, including two children. (Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

UN: 75,000 Palestinians in Gaza still displaced from 2014 war

Only 16 percent of destroyed or severely damaged households have been made habitable, a new UN survey finds. Some 75,000 Palestinians, including an estimated 44,000 children, remain internally displaced in the Gaza Strip almost two years after the devastating war with Israel that killed over 2,000 people, according to a United Nations survey of the…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man April 12, 2016