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Atef Safadi / EPA
Palestinians hurl stones at an Israeli police vehicle during clashes next to the Ofer military prison, south of the West Bank town of Ramallah, on Feb. 25, 2013. Palestinians clashed with Israeli soldiers after the funeral of a Palestinian who died in an Israeli jail.
Darren Whiteside / Reuters
Palestinians carry the body of Arafat Jaradat during his funeral in the West Bank village of Se'eer, near Hebron, on Feb. 25, 2013. Jaradat's death in an Israeli jail on Saturday and a hunger strike by four other prisoners have raised tension in the West Bank, where stone-throwers have clashed repeatedly with Israeli soldiers in recent days.
Ammar Awad / Reuters
A relative mourns during the funeral of Arafat Jaradat in Se'eer on Feb. 25, 2013.
Tensions flared in the West Bank after the death of a Palestinian detainee who died in an Israeli prison. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
The Associated Press reports — A Palestinian man who died under disputed circumstances in Israeli custody was given a hero's funeral Monday, with thousands thronging his gravesite and Palestinian police firing a 21-gun salute.
Palestinian officials, citing an autopsy, say Arafat Jaradat was tortured during Israeli interrogation, while Israeli officials said more tests are needed to determine the cause of death.
The weekend death of the 30-year-old gas station attendant and father of two comes amid rising West Bank tensions that have prompted talk in Israel about the possibility of a new Palestinian uprising. There have also been daily protests in support of some 4,600 Palestinians held by Israel. Read the full story.
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Palestinians mourn over the body of Arafat Jaradat during his funeral on Feb. 25, 2013.
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An Israeli soldier fires tear gas and rubber bullets at Palestinian stone throwers during clashes next to the Ofer military prison on Feb. 25, 2013.
Mohamad Torokman / Reuters
A stone-throwing Palestinian protester uses a sling to throw back a tear gas canister fired by Israeli troops during clashes outside the Ofer military prison on Feb. 25, 2013.
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Congrats interns. You are now slick enough with the Pals vs Isrs photo cliches to feed from the MSNBC dung pile in the break room. Keep it up!
Zio-nazi oppressors murder and imprison without question. Zio-nazi's poisen wells, burn orchards, bulldoze homes and steal land without consequence. zio-nazi's daily humiliate and make life miserable for the Palestinians in the open air concentration camps they have forced them into: and all the while the zio-nazi's cry to the world about intifadas they have lured the Palestinians into so they can commit more evil on them. Where are the good people of israel, the israeli's who condemn this arrogant evil behaviour. They exist, but the right wing, murdering n-yahoo government squashes them, the vampire n-yahoo has cut out their tongues. World opinion is against n-yahoo and his gang of criminals. Stand up israel, stop this blood sucker.
You know, a lot of what is wrong with you can be handled via medication. It won't really be necessary for your parents to have you spayed and lobotomized after all. There still hope you can be productive and, because of that, we are saving a place for you at the broom factory.
The Palestinian cause/suffering/problem won't end until Israel accepts permanent territories or kills off the majority of Palestinians, and acceptance seems far off.
I don't see how any of this is any good for anybody. Israel grew out of a world backlash against Naziism and the evil it did to them. Israel was carved out of the land of Palestine, not out of Germany as should have occurred. Arabs retaliated - wouldn't you if someone came and took away your country and gave it to someone else? Israel beat them time with our help. I grew up believing what I was taught: that they were in the right. I no longer think so. I am not one of those fools who arbitrarily picks a side and then sticks with it to the death. I can change when I realize I am wrong.
Palestine was stolen twice: first when the UN established Israel and then more of it in the subsequent war. But the displaced ask mostly for compromise: give them back what was stolen by war and let Israel keep what was stolen by the UN. And allow Palestinians to hold citizenship in their own land - the part that is now called Israel - if they were born there. It is their home, too and was first. I don't see how any of this can be considered unreasonable.