Settlement-grown dates shipped to Australia labelled 'produce of Israel', rights group says

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Israeli forces detain 45 in West Bank and bomb Gaza camps, Al Jazeera reports

On Wednesday, Al Jazeera reported that Israeli forces detained 45 people across the occupied West Bank and bombed displacement camps in Gaza. Also on Wednesday, the rights group Global Echo said settlement-grown dates were shipped to Australia labelled as Israeli produce. In Hebron, families have been returning home after Israeli forces ended a siege of the city.

• On Tuesday, four Palestinians were reported killed by Israeli forces in Gaza and a fifth died of wounds. Nearly 1,600 Palestinians have reportedly been killed since a US-brokered ceasefire took effect in October last year.
• Hebron's governor, Khaled Dudin, said on Monday that Israeli forces had pulled out after a ten-day siege. Earlier reports said nearly 5,000 people had been displaced.
• Al Jazeera says Israeli soldiers detained its correspondent Montaser Nassar during a raid on his Hebron home, reported on Tuesday.
• Global Echo says 85 of 132 shipments over eight years contained more than US$5m of organic dates grown in illegal West Bank settlements.