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  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Israel announces expansion of settlements in occupied West Bank

    Ministers hail decision as ‘historic’ but move likely to increase international condemnation

    Israeli flags are prominently displayed on and around the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, West Bank in April 2025
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    UK considers sanctions against Israeli far-right ministers

    Discussions regard travel ban and asset freeze on finance minister Bezalel Smotrich and security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with the finance minister Bezalel Smotrich
  • Monday, 5 May, 2025
    News in-depthPalestinian territories
    Inside Israel’s ‘Gazafication’ of the West Bank

    UN body says over 900 Palestinians killed since October 7 2023 in occupied territory as Netanyahu deploys air strikes

    Palestinians leave Tulkarm in the West Bank on March 5 2025
  • Wednesday, 5 March, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Arab states endorse alternative to Trump’s postwar Gaza plan

    Proposals envisage transitional rule by Palestinian technocrats and role for UN peacekeepers in the enclave and West Bank

    Beit Lahia in northern Gaza
  • Sunday, 23 February, 2025
    West Bank residents cannot return to cleared camps, says Israeli defence minister

    IDF troops will remain in territory’s north all year as military operation expands and PM delays release of Palestinian prisoners

    Israeli soldiers detain a youth after preventing access to Palestinians waiting to be let back into the Jenin refugee camp on Wednesday
  • Thursday, 20 February, 2025
    Israel
    Israel blames Palestinian militants for Tel Aviv bus bombs

    Operations stepped up by Israel military in northern West Bank after public transport is targeted

    Forensic personnel inspect a bus following its explosion in Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv, Israel
  • Thursday, 6 February, 2025
    News in-depthPalestinian territories
    Palestinians fear their Trump nightmare has begun

    US president’s plan to expel Gazans may embolden Israeli ultranationalists bent on annexing West Bank

    A protester in Ramallah burns a picture of Donald Trump, which has a red cross drawn over it
  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2025
    Ten killed as Israel pursues military operation in occupied West Bank

    Minister talks of eliminating ‘terrorists’ but Palestinians say plan is to ‘gradually annex’ their land

    Israeli military vehicles in the West Bank city of Jenin on January 22 2025
  • Tuesday, 21 January, 2025
    Trump signals strong pro-Israel stance by lifting West Bank sanctions

    US president withdraws measures against extremist Jewish settlers even as dozens attack Palestinian village

    Emergency responders at the scene near the West Bank outpost of Ramat Gilad
  • Friday, 17 January, 2025
    News in-depth
    Palestinian security forces crack down on West Bank militants

    Authorities launch operation as they seek a role in postwar Gaza

    A relative mourns over the body of journalism student Shatha Sabbagh
  • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
    Palestinian Authority
    Al Jazeera says Palestinian Authority is trying to ‘hide the truth’ with ban

    PA suspends broadcaster following extensive coverage of its crackdown on West Bank militants

    Palestinian police disperse demonstrators during a protest against clashes between Palestinian security forces and militants in the northern occupied West Bank
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    Israel
    Far-right Israeli minister’s call to annex West Bank sparks outrage

    Diplomats including EU’s Josep Borrell say move would breach international law and threaten regional stability

  • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
    ReviewFilm
    No Other Land — stark account of destruction in the West Bank

    Documentary made by Palestinians and Israelis shows rural homes razed and fragile cross-border kinship imperilled

  • Monday, 28 October, 2024
    US leads efforts to keep lifeline for West Bank lenders open

    Yellen warns Netanyahu of ‘economic catastrophe’ if Israel refuses to extend waiver for Palestine banks

    Palestinians queue at ATMs in Nablus, in the occupied West Bank
  • Sunday, 27 October, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israel bill to restrict UN relief for Palestinians sparks ‘grave concern’

    Foreign ministers of seven major nations oppose draft legislation that could hobble UN aid agency UNRWA

    Palestinians receive food aid distributed by UNRWA
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Visual investigation
    How extremist settlers in the West Bank became the law

    Mobilisation of violent settlers has intensified Palestinians’ fears of attacks and displacement

    A composite image of settlers overlaid on a map of the West Bank
  • Sunday, 8 September, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Three Israelis killed in shooting on West Bank-Jordan border

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemns attack and closes crossings with Arab neighbour

    A sign pointing towards the King Hussein Bridge
  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    US protester shot dead in West Bank

    Turkish-American dual national Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was killed by Israeli troops, says Turkey

    Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    Middle East war
    At least five killed as Israel’s West Bank operation enters second day

    Military presses on with major raid in occupied Palestinian territory

    Israeli soldiers, equipped with rifles and tactical gear, run through a rubble-strewn street in Tulkarm, located in the north of the occupied West Bank
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Nine killed as Israeli military mounts large West Bank incursion

    Israel Defense Forces surround Jenin refugee camp in one of biggest incursions in months

    Israeli soldiers operate during a raid in the Nur Shams camp for Palestinian refugees near the city of Tulkarem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank
  • Monday, 29 July, 2024
    News in-depth
    The West Bank has so much cash its lenders are worried

    Bank earnings in Palestinian territory have been hit and theft is rising as Israeli curbs and war fallout leave over $1bn idling in vaults

  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    Israeli military seizes plot in ancient West Bank ruin

    Government plans to raise national flag at Sebastia as it widens grip on cultural heritage sites

    A horse belonging to Israeli settler Yinon Levi iat his farm in the West Bank outpost of Meitarim
  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    Israel
    Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal, UN court rules

    Landmark opinion by International Court of Justice adds to Israel’s diplomatic isolation

    Israeli police and soldiers on patrol in the West Bank
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    The Big Read
    The Palestinian Authority’s shrinking influence in the West Bank

    Surging settler violence, military raids and economic pressure have further undermined the credibility of the PA leadership

    A Palestinian man stands in a house gutted by fire
  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Israel approves legalisation of five West Bank outposts, says Smotrich

    Measures announced by ultranationalist minister draw fierce criticism from Palestinians and Israeli leftwing

    Israeli settlers march to the Evyatar outpost
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