West Bank Stories

UN rights office condemns continuing Israeli military operation in West Bank
UN News  |  Feb 16, 2025

Many of those killed were unarmed and posed no imminent threat, said the UN rights office, calling the killings “part of an expanding pattern of Israe...

Four Israeli soldiers swapped for 200 Palestinians; north Gaza shut over hostages
Reuters  |  Jan 26, 2025

Cheering crowds greeted the releases on either side, including Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv and Palestinians assembled in Ramallah.

West Bank violence imperils Gaza ceasefire, UN rights office warns
Reuters  |  Jan 24, 2025

The operation was launched within days of the start of a ceasefire in Gaza that saw the first exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners h...

Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza, Egypt to host Hamas leaders for ceasefire talks
Reuters  |  Nov 30, 2024

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of "using the weapon of starvation against the people (in northern Gaza) to displace them from thei...

UN report warns of ‘Genocidal Project’ as Israel advances in Gaza and West Bank
Christopher Lynn Hedges  |  Oct 31, 2024

Thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank towns of Jenin, Nablus, Qalqilya, Tubas and Tulkarem live for days under curfew, making it difficult to acc...

Britain 'deeply concerned' by Israel's operation in occupied West Bank
Reuters  |  Aug 30, 2024

The spokesperson added the UK "strongly condemns settler violence", and that it was in no one's interest for further conflict and instability to sprea...

UN Human Rights Chief condemns over 500 West Bank killings, calls for accountability
UN News  |  Jun 04, 2024

On Saturday, Israeli forces shot dead 16-year-old Ahmed Ashraf Hamidat and critically wounded 17-year-old Mohammed Musa Al Bitar near Aqabat Jaber ref...

Four killed in Israeli raid on West Bank's Jenin
AFP  |  Oct 30, 2023

Four Palestinians were killed Monday during an early-morning Israeli raid in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, the Palestinian health ministry sai...

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