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The 322-page joint report from the ACLU and Amnesty International claims that the University violated free speech rights and imposed more punitive punishments for pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

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Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s finance minister who has sweeping powers over Israeli rule in the West Bank, defines Israel's plan as the Decisive Plan. In Hebrew, the word he uses — “hachra’ah” — carries a stronger political meaning than “decisive.”

The West Bank is far more strategically and ideologically vital to Israel than any war it is fighting-it is the area in which Israel has the most longstanding, coherent and unchallenged goal: as much land for Jews with as few Palestinians as possible

Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed a warning about the attack from United Arab Emirates President Mohammed bin Zayed. Hamas immediately offered to release all Israeli hostages taken in the attack, demanding nothing in return, but Israel refused the deal.