Tag Archives: West Bank

Israel has authorized the construction of three more settler outposts in the occupied West Bank despite US warnings that any such approvals can jeopardize the viability of a two-state solution with Palestinians and normalization efforts with Saudi Arabia. The far-right cabinet of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Wednesday …

Israeli military forces have arrested a high-ranking leader of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement during a raid in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, in the latest upsurge of violence in the region. Local sources said large numbers of Israeli forces conducted a raid early on Monday on …

Israeli forces on Friday killed a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry and the army said, with the latter adding that a soldier was lightly wounded. Mehdi Bayadsa, 29, was killed by “bullets from the occupation (Israel) near the Rantis military checkpoint, west of Ramallah,” the …

Ten European countries have called on Israel to halt the demolition of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank. In a joint statement issued on Sunday, the consulates general of Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Britain, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, and the Office of the European Union Representative to the …

A major European trade union organization has boycotted products made in Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, calling on the European Union’s member states to ban the import and export of such commodities. The decision was made on Thursday during the 15th session of the European Trade Union Confederation …

Israeli military forces have wounded 13 Palestinian youths and arrested 14 others during a raid on a refugee camp in the eastern West Bank city of Ariha, amid rising violence in the occupied territories. Palestine’s official Wafa news agency, citing local sources, reported on Thursday that Israeli troops stormed the …

The Israeli occupation forces have fatally shot two Palestinian men and injured seven others in a raid on the Balata refugee camp near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, amid the regime’s relentless aggression against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Information Center said on Saturday that the …

Israeli military forces have demolished a donor-funded Palestinian primary school in the central part of the occupied West Bank, in a flagrant violation of Palestinian children’s right to education. Witnesses and local officials said the Israeli army raided Beit Ta’mir village, located six kilometers (3.7 miles) southeast of Bethlehem, on …

Israeli troops have shot and killed two Palestinians during a raid on a refugee camp in the northern part of the West Bank, amid increasing tensions following the martyrdom of a top leader of the Islamic Jihad resistance movement in an Israeli jail. The two martyrs shot by the occupation …

Israeli forces have killed three Palestinian men and injured several others during a raid on the West Bank city of Nablus, followed by a separate act of aggression that killed a woman near the city. In a statement released on Thursday, the Palestinian Health Ministry initially said the facial features …

Israeli troops carried out demolitions Wednesday of the homes of two Palestinians allegedly accused of carrying out deadly attacks on Israelis in the occupied West Bank last year. The army said the demolitions targeted the homes of Mohammed Souf, 18, accused of a “car-ramming and stabbing attack” which killed three …

A Palestinian teenager has been fatally shot by Israeli forces during clashes in the south of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem. Palestine’s official Wafa news agency said the 16-year-old Palestinian, identified as Mustafa Amer Sabbah, was killed on Friday by Israeli “live fire” during confrontations that broke out …

Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian man in the central part of the occupied West Bank over an alleged stabbing and car-ramming attack against the regime’s troops. The Israeli military claimed in a statement that the incident occurred near the illegal settlement of Ariel, located close to the Palestinian …

Israeli forces have killed a young Palestinian man and injured three others during a raid on a refugee camp in the eastern West Bank city of Ariha, amid simmering tensions across the occupied territories. The governor of Ariha and the Jordan Valley, Jihad Abu al-Asal, told the official Palestinian Wafa …

Two Palestinians have been shot dead during an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, as the Israeli regime’s far-right Netanyahu administration intensifies its deadly raids across the occupied territories. The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that confrontations broke out soon after Israeli forces stormed …

A general strike has been held across towns and cities in the occupied Palestinian territories following the Israeli regime’s killing of a Palestinian youth near the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds on the second Friday of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. Palestinian media said …

Israeli forces have fatally shot a young Palestinian in front of one of the gates to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds as the occupying regime ramps up violence against Muslim worshipers in the fasting holy month of Ramadan. The Palestinian media said the young …

Palestinians have held rallies to commemorate the 47th anniversary of Land Day, in honor of the struggle against Israeli settler-apartheid oppression and the call for freedom, justice, and equality. People in the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and East al-Quds took to the streets on Thursday to mark the event that …

Israeli authorities have published tenders for more than 1,000 new settler units in the West Bank and East al-Quds, irrespective of the international outcry against the Tel Aviv regime’s illegal settlement expansion activities and land grab policies across the occupied Palestinian territories. The anti-settlement group Peace Now said in a …

The Israeli regime forces have killed four Palestinians, including a teenager, during a raid in the occupied northern West Bank city of Jenin, a week after three others were killed in an assault on the city. The Thursday raid – the latest since Israel intensified attacks on areas in the …