Links to two reports: from West Bank Alerts and Peoples Dispatch; others are accessible by clicking on their names below. (Scroll down for WEST BANK 2-9-26 and IRAN, GAZA and MEDIA.) — MCM

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FROM FEB. 11  ‘Dignity and desecration,’ by Cara MariAnna | West Bank Alerts  Texts arrived from a West Bank friend on Sunday afternoon. Adnan al–Abayat sent videos and photographs showing Jewish settlers vandalizing a small rural mosque in the governorate of Bethlehem. READ MORE . . .

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Israel approves new measures aimed at expanding its control over the West Bank, by Aseel Saleh | Peoples Dispatch  The Israeli security cabinet endorsed on Sunday a series of measures that would “dramatically” change procedures related to land registration and property acquisition in the West Bank. READ MORE . . .