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The incident came amid a general escalation in attacks in Judea and Samaria in recent weeks. This past Tuesday, a Palestinian man was shot and killed after lunging at IDF soldiers protecting the Gush Etzion Junction south of Jerusalem. Earlier this month, a 40-year-old mother was seriously injured when she was hit by a volley of rocks while returning home from work. She remains in critical condition at Ramat Gan’s Tel Hashomer Hospital and is said to suffer severe brain damage.
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President Donald Trump lost his primary means of communication when he was permanently suspended from Twitter on Friday. The tech giant said in a statement that it had removed the President’s account after he ran afoul of its community guidelines. The permanent suspension followed a temporary suspension of his personal account on Thursday, leading the President to tweet from his official government Twitter handle. “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them – specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter – we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” said Twitter. The decision to ban the President for life comes after five people were killed when a mob stormed the Capitol on Wednesday. The violence shocked Americans and led a host of social media giants, including Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram, to freeze the President’s accounts temporarily. In a statement, Twitter accused Trump of inciting the mob to break
into the Capitol building and alleged that his alleged support of the riot was leading to more violence. “Plans for future armed protests have already begun proliferating on and off Twitter, including a proposed secondary attack on the U.S. Capitol and state capitol buildings on January 17, 2021,” Twitter said. “In the context of horrific events this week, we made it clear on Wednesday that additional violations of the Twitter Rules would potentially result in this very course of action,” the statement continued. “Our public interest framework exists to enable the public to hear from elected officials and world leaders directly. It is built on a principle that the people have a right to hold power to account in the open.” The ban deprives Trump of his main conduit to his supporters, complicating his plans to remain relevant on the U.S. political scene after he leaves office on January 20. For years, Trump has used Twitter as a means to bypass the traditional media and speak directly to his base, racking up 88 million followers. But Trump began to tangle with Twitter earlier this year as the social media giant began to gradually limit his reach over accusations that the President was spreading disinformation. In May, Twitter began adding a warning label to Trump’s tweets and prevented users from liking or sharing his tweets that spoke of voter fraud.
Chicago Public Schools Reopen
Despite the threat of financial penalties, half of Chicago’s teachers stayed home this week as the city’s public school system reopened for the first time since last March. Thousands of children returned to the classroom on Monday in the first phase of Chicago’s plan to reopen its public school system. The schools had remained closed since the initial COVID-19 outbreak due to pressure from the powerful teacher’s union, which alleged that
