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Israeli forces executed another teenage girl at a checkpoint in Hebron on Sunday. Her name was Dania Ersheid, she was 17 and a student. A witness at the scene, standing in back of Arsheid in line at the checkpoint adjacent the Ibrahimi Mosque, said the teen raised her arms and stated “I don’t have a knife” before she was shot with “eight to 10 bullets” before she fell to the ground.

For the clearest distillation of Israeli political thinking there is no better place to start than at the top. Haaretz’s Barak Ravid reports on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s message to a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that although he doesn’t want a binational state, “at this time we need to control all of the territory for the foreseeable future. . . I’m asked if we will forever live by the sword — yes.”

B’Tselem video showing six Israeli soldiers beating a Palestinian worker who was just minding his own business resulted in the man’s release from five days of detention. The soldiers likely will face no charges.