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Israel strikes [1] a number of sites [2] in Gaza [3] after a rocket lands [4] near the [5] Israeli port [6] of Ashdod. [7](Reuters/Ma’an/PNN/JTA/Ha’
DM Ya’alon [8] blames Islamic Jihad [9] for the latest rocket fired [10] at Israel. (AP/Ha’aretz/Times of Israel) PM Netanyahu says Hamas is responsible [11] for all fire from Gaza. (Jerusalem Post) Hamas says they have arrested the Gaza rocket launchers [12]. (Ynet) Egyptian officials demand that “Israel hold its aggression" [13] and practice restraint toward Gaza. (Jerusalem Post) An Amnesty International report [14] says Hamas committed [15] war crimes [16] against Palestinian civilians [17]in Gaza [18] during last summer’s war [19]. (Reuters/AP/New York Times/JTA/AFP/Ynet) Egypt reopens [20] its Rafah border crossing with Gaza for two days. (AFP) Israeli occupation forces continue demolitions in the Silwan neighborhood [21] of occupied East Jerusalem. (Ma’an) Israeli forces shut down a checkpoint [22] in the occupied West Bank. (Ma’an) Violations against female Palestinian journalists [23] by Israeli military forces and Palestinian security forces have tripled since 2010. (Ma’an) Iraq’s Shi'ite paramilitaries [24] say they had taken charge [25] of the campaign to drive ISIS [26] from thewestern province of Anbar [27]. (Reuters/New York Times/Washington Post/The National) FM Zarif says the Yemen war will end up harming Saudi Arabia [28]. (Reuters) UNSG Ban says [29] he asked his Special Envoy to postpone Geneva peace talks [30] planned for May 28. (Reuters/AP) Seven members of a Yemeni family are killed [31] in an overnight strike by Saudi-led warplanes. (Reuters) A French diplomat says the P5+1 and Iran will probably miss an end-of-June deadline [32] for a comprehensive nuclear agreement. (AP) Commentary: Israel Harel [33] says yesterday’s Gaza rocket shows the “quiet isn’t so quiet.” (Ha’aretz) Avi Issacharoff [34] says Hamas leaders have an interest in keeping things calm after yesterday’s flareup, but only to a certain extent. (Times of Israel) Ron Kampeas [35] says on two-states, tensions between Pres. Obama and Netanyahu have calmed for now. (JTA) Raphael Ahren [36] asks if Netanyahu is “two-faced” on the two-state solution. (Times of Israel) Neri Zilber [37] says Israel’s coalition government is a shaky mess but Netanyahu’s “wheeling and dealing” have cemented his hold on power. (Foreign Policy) Ha’aretz [38] says integrating Palestinian citizens of Israel into the planning agencies wouldn’t solve all the problems, but it would increase trust. (Ha’aretz) Linda Gradstein [39] says Palestinians are planning to begin using solar, wind and geothermal power in an effort to cut their dependence on Israeli energy. (The Media Line) Hassan Hassan [40] writes on responses to the mosque bombing in Saudi Arabia and and the soul-searching over radicalism and sectarianism it has engendered. (The National) Sholto Byrnes [41] says It's time for the US to rethink its historical view of the Iraq invasion and its responsibilities. (The National) Abdul Rahman Al Rashed [42] looks at Turkey’s recent involvement in the Syrian war. (Al Arabiya) Eyad Abu Shakra [43] says a full year has passed since Lebanon’s presidency became vacant. (Asharq al-Awsat) Jamal Khashoggi [44] looks a how a “Libyan Taif agreement” would look like. (Al Arabiya) The New York Times [45] says Iran’s refusal to try a Washington Post reporter in public is the latest travesty in a shameful case. (New York Times)
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