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Two robotic guns sit atop a guard tower bristling with surveillance cameras pointed at the Aroub refugee camp in the West Bank, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. Israel has installed robotic weapons that can fire tear gas, stun grenades and sponge-tipped bullets at Palestinian protesters. The robots, perched over a crowded Palestinian refugee camp and in a flash point West Bank city, use artificial intelligence to track targets. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

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Israel deploys remote-controlled robotic guns in West Bank
By SAM MCNEIL - Associated Press
Wed,11/16/22-1:15AM , 133 Reads
AL-AROUB REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — In two volatile spots in the occupied West Bank, Israel has installed robotic weapons that can fire tear gas, stun grenades and sponge-tipped bullets at Palestinian protesters.
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Palestinian security forces clash with Palestinians following an arrest raid against local militants, in the West Bank city of Nablus Sept. 20, 2022. The rare eruption of deadly clashes this week between Palestinians and their own security forces has cast a spotlight on the growing ranks of disenfranchised, impoverished young men taking up arms. Many have spent their entire lives in a territory occupied by Israel, scarred by infighting and segmented by checkpoints. They have no hope in the long-stalemated peace process. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)

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Palestinian strife highlights lost hopes of armed youths
By SAM MCNEIL - Associated Press
Thu,09/22/22-9:50AM , 110 Reads
NABLUS, West Bank (AP) — Nablus was a battered city. Shops gaped open to the street, their windows smashed. Street signs were overturned. Ash stained the roads. Armored vehicles roamed the city center, still pockmarked and splattered with paint from a day of protests.
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Goats gaze on a hillside where Beduins have grazed their animals for generations near Rumihat in the Galilee region, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. Plans to turn the 2,500-acre area into a wildlife corridor have sparked rare protest from Bedouin in the northern Galilee region who were one of the few Arabs embracing early Zionist pioneers before 1948, and since served in the police and military, and elebrated by the military for their knowledge of the land, they say the government now seeks to sever their ties to the same land. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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Conservation plan highlights Arabs' fraught ties to Israel
By SAM MCNEIL - Associated Press
Thu,09/08/22-2:33AM , 81 Reads
HILF, Israel (AP) — Ayoub Rumeihat opened his palms to the sky in prayer as he stood among tombstones for Bedouins killed in action while serving the state of Israel.

Finishing the holy words, he gazed at the distant Mediterranean Sea across a valley full of olives and oak where his community has grazed goats for generations.
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A child wearing a mask holds on to the ears of a Tiger sculpture on the first day of the Lunar Year of the Tiger in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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On Lunar New Year, Chinese offer prayers at temples
By SAM MCNEIL - Associated Press
Tue,02/01/22-4:12AM , 158 Reads
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese people rang in the Lunar New Year on Tuesday despite pandemic restrictions, as small crowds gathered at temples to offer traditional prayers for the Year of the Tiger.
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