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The 100 million figure amounts to more than 1% of the global population, while only 13 countries have a bigger population than the number of forcibly displaced people in the world.

Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi says she reversed course in order to 'make gains addressing the needs of the Arab community' and after several of its local leaders placed her 'under immense pressure' to do so.

With the Jewish visits increasing in number, including over the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan that coincided this year with the Jewish Passover festival, Palestinians have cried foul.

Police say his arrest has nothing to do with his participation in the funeral procession of Shireen Abu Akleh.

Muslim youths took to the streets of the city, lighting bonfires and demanding the release of the two detained suspects.

The man, a government employee, was shot and killed inside an office complex in Budgam where he worked.

The magistrate has also ordered police to investigate Monday's mob attacks on peaceful protesters, which led to retaliatory violence that claimed nine lives and caused widespread destruction.

The Israeli army confirms it had conducted an operation but firmly denies that it deliberately targeted journalists.

Protests continued on Tuesday despite a curfew, with some people defying the shoot-on-sight order to torch buildings and vehicles.

The bloodshed unfolded as Israel marked the 74th anniversary of its founding, which has previously been a tense day in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The emergency gives sweeping powers to security forces to arrest and detain suspects for long periods without judicial supervision.

Millions of workers stayed off the job on Friday in a strike organised by the country's trade union movement, with all but one scheduled train service cancelled.