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According to reports, thousands have taken to the streets of Israel in protest of the government’s judicial reforms. Reportedly, police threw stun grenades in an effort to clear the Ayalon highway, Tel Aviv on Wednesday. According to a report, academics announced a petition on Thursday morning, signatories include professors, researchers and administrators from various Israeli universities.

Reportedly, the balance of powers was damaged by the High Court of justice’s 1990’s constitutional revolution. According to the report, the court has gained too many powers, including judicial review of basic law and increased scope of the reasonableness clause.

Herod Antipas was a son of king Herod and bore the title tetrarch (ruler of a quarter of the land). He ruled Galilee and Peroa, east of the Jordan from 4 bc to 39 ordinary time. He is widely known for the murder of John the baptist.

When Herod the tetrarch took his brother Philip’s wife, Herodius, John said it was unlawful. According to the 1st Century writer Josephus, Herod didn’t kill him because of the great influence he had over the people who might start a rebellion. On Herod’s birthday the daughter of Herodius danced for his guests and he promised to give her anything she wanted. She asked for John’s head on a plate. Herod ordered that her request be granted and had John beheaded in prison. His head was brought to the girl on a platter which she brought to her mother. John’s disciples took his body and buried it, then went and told Jesus. Herod Antipas died in exile in France or Spain not before 39 ordinary time.

According to a report, a meeting of g20 foreign ministers is taking place in New Delhi on Thursday, the first time the u.s. secretary of state and the russian prime minister will be in the same room since the g20 meeting in Bali last July. Reportedly, representatives of 40 countries including non g20 members and multinational organisations are meeting to discuss the global economy.

According to the report, the meeting comes days after a meeting of finance ministers and the central bank govenors failed to come up with a joint statement over insurmountable differences between the countries. Reportedly, the first anti corruption working group was held on February 28.

According to reports, there were 68 Palestinian refugee camps, 58 official and ten unofficial. Reportedly, most were established between 1948-50 during the arab Israeli war, ten were established in 1967 during the six day war. According to a report, any Palestinian suspected of terrorism was relocated to Gaza along with his family. Reportedly, there were 22 camps in Gaza though many are now villages with houses. According to reports, blockades and controls have resulted in a high level of unemployment and poverty, many are dependant on food and cash assistance from unrwa, the u.n. relief and works agency for Palestine. Reportedly, other problems are water contamination and sewage works

According to reports, hamas took control of Gaza from fatah, the Palestinian nationalist party in 2007. Reportedly, hamas held 74 of the 132 seats of the palestinian legislative council, but since 2007 the plc has not convened. According to a report, new Israeli controls came into effect in May 2022, resulted in the restriction and tracking of foreign nationals in the palestinian communties.

The old city of Jerusalem is a 0.9 square km walled area in east Jerusalem. The temple mount is a hill in the old city and the old site of the temple of Jerusalem. The retaining walls include the western wall, built by king Herod to renovate the second temple. It replaced Solomon’s temple which was destroyed by Assyrians during the Babylonian empire. The second temple was rebuilt by jewish men after returning from Babylon in 538 bc. It was destroyed by roman soldiers around 70 ordinary time.

Judea was a client kingdom of Rome. Herod I, called Herod the great was appointed king of the jews around 40 bc, largely because of his father who had been a client to the greek empire state and had good relations with Julius Caesar. He was probably palestinian. His mother converted to judaism. He is believed to have been born in Judea or his father’s birth place of Edom (southern Israel). His parents and Edomites are identified by a contemporary as being Idumaean (Arabian), possibly a political persuasion, also the majority of the population of western Judea. Probably from Iraq or Jordan.

Herod’s elder brother served as governor of Jerusalem, and Herod who was appointed a client general of Syria ruled Judea semi autonomously. He was known for his building works. The enclosure around the cave of the patriarchs, the port at Caesarea, the fort at Masada and the Herodium.

Jesus of Nazareth was born into the Herodian kingdom of Judah. Herod is attributed to an order to murder every male child two years and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem at the time of the birth of Jesus. A majority of Herodian biographers discount this. He died of a painful disease of unknown cause around 4 bc in Jericho.

According to reports, trade, governance and the role of eu judges were issues the uk wished to address in Monday’s meeting with the eu president concerning a revised northern Ireland protocol. Reportedly, eu law will remain in northern Ireland as this is deemed the only way to maintain an invisible border on the island of Ireland, but the uk expect a new deal allowing Westminster to set vat, state aid and alcohol duty.

According to a report, northern Ireland business groups have demanded that the existing standstill arrangements suspending checks on controls and food, brought into effect in March 2021 are continued, this means no customs declarations or physical checks. Reportedly, a red lane will only apply to any goods destined for the eu single market, and the eu will have access to real time data from hm revenue and customs to determine which goods qualify and to track them. According to the report, tánaiste and foreign affairs minister Micheál Martin said that the framework was a genuune response to their (unionists) concerns.

Reportedly, the eu have amended laws to allow british approved medicine to be applied to northern Ireland but a new set of rules are to be applied in December. According to the report, the uk expect a new arbitration panel of northern Ireland judges concerning sanitary controls to replace the european court of justice.

According to a report, the league of nations mandate for Palestine was a decree for the british administration of Palestine. Reportedly, the mandate document was based on article 22 of the covenant of the league of nations and the supreme council of the principle allied powers over former territories of the Ottoman empire. According to reports, remapping resulted in Samaria and east Jerusalem becoming part of the british protectorate of Jordan; another region of controversy is the Golan heights, all of which Israel captured during the 1967 six day war, along with the Sinai Peninsula, a desert region bordering Israel and Gaza.

Reportedly, Isrealis left slave conditions in Egypt around the 14th Century bc during the middle Assyrian empire and lived as nomads in the Sinai desert, spying on the land of Canaan (Israel) which was inhabited by different cultural groups. They destroyed everyone living in the cities of Ai and Jericho in Samaria (which was later recolonised). Afterwards some Israeli tribes didn’t want to continue into the land and were allotted various territories in Jordan and elsewhere. The Golan heights, originally inhabited by Syrians was allotted to the tribe of Manasseh, and the city of Golan became a city of refuge where anyone guilty of manslaughter would go to avoid reprisals.

According to reports, Egypt was a british protectorate until 1922, afterwards the uk maintained control of finance, foreign affairs and a garrison to secure the Suez Canal, a significant trade route. Reportedly, second world war death camps gave birth to a return to the jewish homeland for many Jewish people. According to reports, the 1947 u.n. partition plan planned to partition Palestine into a jewish state, an arab state and a special international regime for Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Reportedly, Israel’s 1948 declaration of independence resulted in the end of the british mandate and an invasion of a military coalition of arab states. According to reports. Israel’s ships were banned from using the Suez Canal and egyptian territorial waters, blocking trade. Reportedly, the second arab israeli war also known as the Suez war broke out in 1956 when Britain, France and Israel launched a joint attack against Egypt, but withdrew in 1957 due to international pressure.

Reportedly, Egypt demanded unef leave the Sinai and Gaza in 1967. According to a report, the six day war resulted in Israel controlling most of Israel/Palestine including west Jerusalem which had been allotted an international zone. Reportedly, until 1967 Gaza was officially controlled by the united arab republic, though hamas is believed to be controlled by Arabia. When Israel withdrew in 2007 Israeli citizens were displaced. Complaints concerning Israelis settling in Samaria could be seen as apartheid.

According to reports, Israeli planes struck two sites in northern and central Gaza said to be a weapons manufacturing site and a military compound operated by hamas. Reportedly, video footage posted online showed explosions at the al Bureij and al Shati refugee camps. Some refugee camps are known to provide refuge to militants. According to reports, the attacks followed six rockets launched on Israel from Gaza, five were intercepted, one fell on open ground. Reportedly, there were no casualties on either side.

According to a report, a Gaza border crossing allowing Palestinians with permits to enter Israeli administrated land was temporarily closed due to hamas led incitement related to recent terror attacks. Reportedly, hamas have recruited Gazan youths, inciting them to violence. According to a report, Israel largely sealed the border following the hamas takeover of Gaza because the Palestinian authority were no longer providing security.

Reportedly, the u.n.’s middle east envoy was scheduled to meet with a hamas representative in Gaza on Thursday. According to the report, egyptian officials have also been involved in dialogue.

According to reports, ten Palestinians died in the city of Nablus when the Israeli military attempted to arrest three men suspected of shooting attacks in Samaria. Reportedly, the men were tracked down to a building where they were believed to be hiding out. According to the report, the Israeli military said they asked the suspects to surrender, who began an offensive, shooting heavily, bystanders threw rocks.

Reportedly, hamas criticised the bloody battle saying they are running out of parience, though they are believed to control Gaza, the Palestinian authority in Samaria has talked about working towards peaceful arrests with Israel.

According to a report, the Israeli government have voted on a bill which aims to allow parliament to overule the supreme court. Reportedly, protesters against the bill attempted to break through the barricades in front of the Knesset on Monday, though on Tuesday the result of the vote on two amendments that will strengthen the government’s executive was 63 in favour, 47 against. According to the report, the vote was the first of three concerning government authority. Reportedly, the second and third readings are expected by the end of March.