Palestinian population in West Bank

‘Area A’ prohibition is for Jews not just Israelis - comment

Mayor Kuznitz warns that traffic near Kalkilya puts Israelis at risk and urges enforcement of the entry ban.

 Red signposts warn Israelis not to enter ‘Area A’ – the prohibition is for Jews.
 Israeli soldiers guard during a protest of Jewish settlers outside the West Bank city of Nablus, May 30, 2024

Katz’s populist move threatens Israel’s stability in the West Bank - editorial

 SOUVENIR SHOPS around Manger Square in Bethlehem are shuttered, earlier this month.

Israeli settlers kill one Palestinian, wound three in West Bank, Palestinian health ministry says

 A plenum session and a vote on reviving the Ultra Orthodox enlistment bill at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on June 11, 2024.

'No Palestinian state west of the Jordan River,' 63 Knesset members say


Palestinian poll shows Hamas widely supported in Gaza, West Bank - analysis

A recent poll shows that 61% of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza prefer Hamas to be in control of the Gaza Strip

HAMAS MEMBERS in Gaza.

Israeli settlements expand by record amount, UN rights chief says

The five-month-old Gaza war has put a renewed focus on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as foreseen by the Oslo accords from the early 1990s.

A general view of houses in the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in the West Bank

Israel's cabinet agrees to continue ban on Palestinian workers

The decision to stall the entry of Palestinian workers was made for security reasons, especially following reports that Gazan workers supplied Hamas with key information for its attack.

 Palestinian laborers, who were in Israel during the Hamas October 7 attack, arrive at the Rafah border after being sent back by Israel to the strip, in the southern Gaza Strip, November 3, 2023.

The myth of escalating settler violence - opinion

An ugly, fringe phenomenon falsely puffed up to ‘balance’ the crimes of Hamas

 PRESIDENT ISAAC Herzog and US Vice President Kamala Harris meet in Washington, earlier this year. Harris has warned against ‘settler violence.’

In the West Bank, spiking violence and an idle economy spur fears of a broadening conflict

This year is already the bloodiest in the West Bank in nearly two decades, and fears are compounding of the situation escalating further.

 Palestinians inspect the damage after last night raid of Israeli security forces, in the West Bank city of Jenin, October 30, 2023.

Palestinian unemployment in West Bank, Gaza Strip on decline - report

The report also indicated that 22% of Palestinian wage employees work in Israel and in settlements in the West Bank

 Palestinian men work in an orchard near Kibbutz Nir Am, southern Israel, February 20, 2022.

Rioters gathered on Gaza Border after West Bank calls for Day of Rage

Hundreds of people congregated and burned tires near the edge of the Gaza fence. Security sources say the riots are incitement for a “day of rage” in Gaza in solidarity with Palestinians in West Bank

 Palestinians burn tires and hurl stones at Israeli forces during a protest on the border with Israel, east of Gaza City, January 26, 2022.

Family of activist who died in Palestinian custody turn to ICC

Nizar Banat, a critic of President Mahmoud Abbas, died in 2021 within an hour of his arrest. His family now seeks accountability for the death.

 Palestinian demonstrators attend an anti-Palestinian Authority protest, forty days after the death of Nizar Banat, a critic of the Palestinian Authority, Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank August 2, 2021.

Hamas: PA won’t let us celebrate in West Bank

Hamas, established in 1987, is expected to hold a major rally in the Gaza Strip later this week to mark its birthday.

 Palestinian Hamas supporters take part in an anti-Israel rally over tensions in Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 14, 2022

UNRWA opens new school garden for Palestinian girls in the West Bank

This garden marks the start of UNRWA's "community greening" initiative for Palestinian communities in the West Bank.

 A young girl places stones at the base of a tree in the new garden at Beit Anan Girls School in the West Bank during the garden's inaugural ceremony on November 10, 2022.

Israel delays 24-hour opening of Allenby crossing for Palestinians once more

This marks the second delay in the project since Prime Minister Yair Lapid promised US President Joe Biden in July that he would expand the hours of operation.

 Israeli soldiers stand near the entrance to Allenby Bridge, a crossing point between Jordan and the West Bank, March 10, 2014.