Palestine weekly: Olive harvest opens under assault
Israeli settlers and forces beat Palestinians, set property on fire and steal crops across the occupied West Bank.
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Israeli settlers and forces beat Palestinians, set property on fire and steal crops across the occupied West Bank.
Israel ordered East Jerusalem consulate to be closed after Britain sanctioned settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Palestinians and activists report an increased use of drones in the occupied West Bank, particularly by the army and settlers, to whom the government supplies the drones directly. The drones are used to intimidate, monitor, demolish and make daily life unbearable.
Israeli forces detain and assault journalists in Jabal Qamass area in Beita, south of Nablus.
Funeral held for Palestinian man killed in the occupied West Bank
Attacks on Palestinians in the area are growing at unprecedented levels.
Israeli settlers are encroaching ever closer to Ramallah, the de facto capital of the occupied West Bank.
The resolution cites a 'lack of accountability' by Israel's government and an 'inability to secure justice' by the US.
A group of settlers attacked two homes belonging to the Al-Tubasi family in northern West Bank village.
Palestinians face delayed medical care and long journeys as Israel tightens movement restrictions across the West Bank.
British foreign minister vows to 'match word with action' when it comes to defending Palestinian rights.
Israel has shut occupied West Bank crossings for a week, further restricting Palestinian movement and holy site access.
Israel will revoke the diplomatic accreditation of Dutch officials based in the occupied West Bank after the Netherlands began enforcing a ban on goods from Israeli settlements, Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Sunday. The officials have seven days to surrender their Israeli-issued diplomatic papers, he said.
Israeli road closures have become a part of daily life for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Smotrich’s words should not be dismissed as mere election rhetoric, human rights experts and analysts warn.
Comments come as Israeli authorities announce military closure across occupied West Bank, citing Jewish holiday Sukkot.
Little-known Israeli map team is redrawing land boundaries as Palestinians face growing illegal settlement expansion.
On September 2, the Israeli army demolished the village of Khirbet a-Taban in the occupied West Bank. The village is located in Masafer Yatta, an area Israel declared a restricted military zone. Residents of the area have been reporting an increase in demolitions by the Israeli army and harassment by Israeli settlers since the October 7 Hamas attack.
Israeli soldier Neria Leiter wounded in a suspected car-ramming attack near the illegal settlement of Beit Horon.
Project would effectively cleave Palestinian territory in half and has prompted widespread international condemnation.
The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office on Wednesday issued a stinging rebuke to French President Emmanuel Macron's UN speech denouncing settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. Macron's remarks that "Hamas has never struck in the West Bank" was a "grotesque absurdity", said the statement.
Jordan's King Abdullah II decried Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank as a strategy of ‘forced displacement.'
AI tools push forced evictions of Palestinians, automating demolitions in occupied territories under Israeli control.
Palestinians in the West Bank navigate Israeli road closures and attacks with help from a local radio station.
In al-Mughayyir, Palestinians say they are being squeezed into a smaller part of their own village in the West Bank.
Israeli rights group B'Tselem said Monday that Israeli actions in the occupied West Bank form part of a greater project designed to make it impossible for Palestinians to exist together as a people. In a report titled "The Elimination Project", the group alleged five connected Israeli tactics and policies in the West Bank: "violence, ethnic cleansing, movement restrictions, economic strangulation, social and political destruction". FRANCE 24's Selina Sykes reports.
Israeli rights group B'Tselem said Monday that Israeli actions in the occupied West Bank form part of a greater project designed to make it impossible for Palestinians to exist together as a people. In a report titled "The Elimination Project", the group alleged five connected Israeli tactics and policies in the West Bank: "violence, ethnic cleansing, movement restrictions, economic strangulation, social and political destruction". FRANCE 24's Selina Sykes reports.
B'Tselem says settlement expansion, displacement and curbs are not isolated abuses, but decades-old, coordinated system.
Armed settlers in military uniforms are seizing land and attacking Palestinian communities with near-total impunity.
Palestinian Prisoner’s Society says detained include children, journalists and ex-prisoner freed in recent exchange deal