Israel vows to stay in occupied West Bank
Far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said that 2024 had been a 鈥榬ecord鈥� year for demolitions of Palestinian constructions鈥�
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West Bank Palestinians in 鈥榚xtremely precarious鈥� situation
Doctors Without Borders denounced on Monday the 鈥榚xtremely precarious鈥� situation of Palestinians displaced by the on-going Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank.
Palestinians denounce Israeli recognition of new West Bank settlements
The Palestinian foreign ministry condemned on Sunday an Israeli decision to recognise more than a dozen new settlements in the occupied West Bank, upgrading existing neighbourhoods to independent settlement status.
Israel鈥檚 West Bank settlement policy a war crime: UN
Israel must evacuate all settlers from the West Bank and make reparations for decades of illegal settlement, the UN rights chief said on Tuesday, describing the policy as 鈥榓 war crime鈥�.
Israel鈥檚 annexation drive
IT HAS the feeling of a ghastly ending, one pushed along by desperation and eagerness. First, levelling Gaza and turning it to an uninhabitable moonscape, with the promise of a territory free of Palestinians. Then, displacing and destroying the already precarious holdings of Palestinian residents in the West Bank, all the time subjecting them to curfews, arrests and...
Israel accused of wanting to 鈥榓nnex West Bank by force鈥�
Palestinian group Islamic Jihad on Monday accused Israel of wanting to 鈥榓nnex the West Bank by force鈥� after Israel deployed tanks into the occupied territory for the first time in decades.
Israel to keep troops in West Bank camps
Israel on Sunday said troops would stay in West Bank refugee camps for the coming year, announcing expanded military operations including tank deployments, after the displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinians...
FROM GAZA TO THE WEST BANK: Israel鈥檚 unyielding war machine
鈥楢 year of combat鈥欌�攖his is how Israel鈥檚 new chief of staff, Eyal Zamir, described 2025 at a conference organised by the Israeli ministry of defence...
West Bank healthcare in dire state: MSF
The healthcare system in the occupied West Bank has been in 鈥榓 state of perpetual emergency鈥� since October 2023, the Doctors Without Borders group said in a new report published on Thursday.
Israeli raid in West Bank kills one
The Palestinian health ministry said one person was killed by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank on Sunday, a day after a deadly series of air strikes in the occupied territory...
Israel moves its war on Palestinians to the West Bank
ON JANUARY 23rd, the Israeli army continued its offensive on the Jenin refugee camp in the north of the occupied Palestinian West Bank for the third consecutive day. The offensive, dubbed 鈥業ron Wall鈥� has killed 10 Palestinians so far, and left at least 40 wounded...
Hundreds leave Jenin as Israel presses raid
A Palestinian official said hundreds of people began leaving their homes in a flashpoint area of the occupied West Bank on Thursday as Israeli forces pressed a deadly operation.
West Bank鈥檚 men of the CIA
FOLLOWING a ten-day siege, the Palestinian Authority began, on December 14, a violent raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank.
Crippling UNRWA
THE man has a cheek.聽 Having lectured Iranians and Lebanese about what (and who) is good for them in terms of rulers and rule (we already know what he thinks of the Palestinians), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been keeping busy on further depriving access and assistance to those in Gaza and the West Bank...
Israel鈥檚 war on journalism
THERE are some 4,000 foreign reporters accredited in Israel to cover the war. They stay in luxury hotels. They go on dog and pony shows orchestrated by the Israeli military. They can, on rare occasions, be escorted by Israeli soldiers on lightning visits to Gaza, where they are shown alleged weapons caches or tunnels the military says are used by Hamas...
18 killed in Israeli strike on West Bank
At least 18 people were killed in the West Bank refugee camp of Tulkarm, the Palestinian health ministry said late Thursday, following an air strike that the Israeli military claimed killed a local Hamas leader.
Israel serves 45-day closure order on Al Jazeera in West Bank after raid
Armed and masked Israeli forces raided the office of Al Jazeera in the occupied West Bank on Sunday and served a 45-day closure order on the global news channel.
Raided West Bank city holds funerals
The families of Palestinians killed in an air strike in the occupied West Bank city of Tubas held funerals on Friday after Israeli forces withdrew following their latest raid in the territory.
Family demands probe into Israeli killing of American
The family of a Turkish-American woman shot dead while demonstrating against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank demanded an independent investigation into her death on Saturday, accusing the Israeli military of killing her 鈥榲iolently鈥�...
Testing the boundaries for ethnic cleansing in West Bank
THERE is a pretence of novelty in Israel鈥檚 most recent offensive in the West Bank, which it has glibly called 鈥極peration Summer Camps.鈥� Even before it began, Israel announced that the operation was...
Arms embargo on Israel is not a radical idea, it鈥檚 the law
AS ISRAEL launches its largest military assault in the West Bank in twenty years, I cannot stop thinking about the people I met in the occupied territory. I think of the mother in Jenin who was on the phone with her two sons seconds before their house was burned in an Israeli raid. I think of the wife of a man who was being held in an Israeli prison without...
Israeli troops on day four of deadly West Bank raid
Israel pressed on with a large-scale military operation in the occupied West Bank against Palestinian militants for a fourth day Saturday, as fierce fighting raged in the nearly 11-month Gaza war...
Death toll rises as Israeli West Bank raids enter second day
The death toll climbed on Thursday as Israel pressed a large-scale military operation in the occupied West Bank for a second day, despite UN concerns it is 鈥榝uelling an already explosive situation鈥�...
12 killed by Israel in West Bank
Palestinian officials said Israeli forces killed 12 people in three separate raids in the northern West Bank on Tuesday, as violence in the occupied territory showed...
Israeli forces tie wounded Palestinian to jeep in West Bank raid
Israeli troops tied a wounded Palestinian to a military vehicle during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, the army said on Sunday, admitting that...
Israel kills three in Lebanon, W Bank
Lebanon鈥檚 state media on Sunday reported that two civilians were killed in an Israeli strike in the south of the country, as fighting between Israel and the powerful...
Israeli settlers seize Palestinian land by shepherding
Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank say armed Jewish settlers are increasingly seizing their lands by bringing livestock to so-called shepherding outposts and...
5 Israeli military units committed abuses in West Bank: US
The United States has concluded that five Israeli security force units committed serious human rights violations against Palestinians in the West Bank before the...
Israel pounds Gaza as West Bank violence surges
Israel carried out deadly strikes in Gaza, first responders in the war-battered Palestinian territory said on Sunday, as violence flared in the occupied West Bank...
W Bank protests over Palestinians held in Israeli prisons
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank rallied on Wednesday calling for the release of prisoners held by Israel without charge and for families to again be able to visit their...