West Bank

US announces visa bans after warning Israel over West Bank violence

President Joe Biden and other senior US officials have warned repeatedly that Israel must act to stop violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank.

Bogged by internal tensions, Israel looks to Palestine for distraction

Since the beginning of the year, attacking Palestine has been Israel’s way of diverting people’s focus from political tensions at home.

Israel-Palestine Conflict / UN’s commemoration of Nakba and the West’s complicity

This moment serves as a reflection, and a reminder, of the Western complicity in perpetuating the injustice against Palestinians.

Modi becomes first Indian PM to visit West Bank

Narendra Modi becomes the first Indian prime minister to visit the occupied West Bank where he holds talks with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas as part of a Middle East tour.

4 Palestinians killed in anti-Israeli knife attacks

Four Palestinians are shot dead and a fifth wounded in attacks on Israelis in east Jerusalem and the West Bank Saturday, as violence that has fuelled concerns of an uprising showed no let-up.

Fears of escalation in Israel-Palestinian violence

Deadly violence between Israel and the Palestinians flared Friday as a Jewish holy site was torched in the West Bank, prompting a "very concerned" US President Barack Obama to call for calm.

Palestinians torch Jewish shrine amid 'revolution' calls

Palestinians torched a site revered by Jews in the West Bank overnight, Israeli and Palestinian sources said on Friday.

Israeli air raid: Mother,daughter killed in Gaza

Israel says its jets have hit two targets in the Gaza Strip, which killed a woman and her young daughter in a nearby house.

Manicured fingers throwing stones: Palestinian women join unrest

Young Palestinian women have increasingly joined males to hurl rocks at Israeli soldiers and chant slogans as unrest has spread in recent days in the occupied West Bank.

September 7, 2015
September 7, 2015

West Bank arson attack claims new victim

A Palestinian woman has died of injuries she sustained during an arson attack on her home in the West Bank that killed her husband and infant son.

July 31, 2015
July 31, 2015

Palestinian fury as infant dies in 'Jewish settler' arson attack

Palestinian officials say Israel is "fully responsible" for the death of an infant in an arson attack blamed on Jewish settlers in the West Bank.

February 24, 2015
February 24, 2015

Palestinian shot dead by Israeli troops

Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the military and a Palestinian hospital

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