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Asmaa al-Ghoul is a columnist for Al-Monitor's Palestine Pulse and a journalist from the Rafah refugee camp based in Gaza.
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Alul, a 44-year-old journalist with the Arab Now news agency, was detained by Hamas security services in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on January 3 and released on January 11.
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![A Palestinian girl uses a slingshot to throw stones at Israeli troops during clashes in the West Bank city of Bethlehem October 14, 2015. Seven Israelis and 30 Palestinians, including children and assailants, have been killed in two weeks of bloodshed in Israel, Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank. The violence has been partly triggered by Palestinians' anger over what they see as increased Jewish encroachment on Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound, also revered by Jews as the site of two destroyed Jewish](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2015/10/RTS4FL0.jpg/RTS4FL0.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=2JXBbL6O)
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