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Jewish settlers demonstrating yesterday in front of a house in Hebron that they evacuated from last week (EPA)

Palestinian Policeman Shoots Israeli Soldiers Near Ramallah

by Kifah Ziboun | Feb 1, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

A Palestinian police officer shot Israeli soldiers at an Israeli army roadblock near the Beit El settlement in the West Bank which is used by important figures. The occupying army said that the officer arrived at the roadblock known as the “Beit El” or “DCO” roadblock...

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Residents believed to be hostages and used as human shields of Moro National Liberation Front rebels wave white cloth and shout to the government soldiers to “stop firing” while standing in the rebels’ positions in downtown Zamboanga city, in southern Philippines September 11, 2013. (REUTERS/Erik De Castro)

Muslim rebels display human shield tied by rope in southern Philippine standoff

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 11, 2013 | World

Philippines, Reuters—Rogue Muslim rebels seeking to declare an independent state put a dozen civilians tied together by rope on display as a human shield on Wednesday as a standoff with security forces in a southern Philippine city entered its third day. Waving white...

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Palestinian flags flutter at the closed gate of the Rafah crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip. Source: AFP Photo/Said Khatib

Egyptian official: All options open in dealing with Sinai soldiers’ kidnappers

by Abdul Sattar Hatita | May 19, 2013 | Middle East

Cairo/Gaza, Asharq Al-Awsat—North Sinai security chief Gen. Samih Beshadi said yesterday that all options are now open in dealing with the kidnappers of the seven Egyptian soldiers. This comes in conjunction with the continuing closure of the Rafah Crossing with Gaza...