West Bank

The Israeli Occupation Forces have carried out several incursions, raids and arrests of Palestinian citizens in almost every part of the West Bank on a daily basis over the...

By Khalid Amayreh in Ramallah1 November, 2009 Anyone listening to Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas these days would think the man is a paragon of democracy and liberty. ...

BEIT IJZA, West Bank — Sabri Mohammed Ghraieb has seen the olive groves that once fringed his West Bank home turn into a Jewish settlement and prison-like walls but...

A Jewish-American, who settled in the occupied West Bank, has been charged with killing two Palestinians and attempting to murder more people. Jack Teitel told reporters at a Jerusalem...

The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continued incursions, raids and abductions of Palestinians on a daily basis in most parts of the Occupied West Bank at the rate of more...

Israel has recently approved the building of 900 additional housing units in the settlement of Gilo, in the southern part of Jerusalem, near the Palestinian town of Beit Jala....

Israeli occupation forces have launched another campaign of mass arrests in the occupied West Bank. Starting in the early hours of Monday morning, December 14, the target area encompassed...

A report issued by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) has claimed that Palestinians in the West Bank are not able to build on...

The illegal settlement of Ariel, south of Nablus and well inside the occupied West Bank, will be part of Israel in any agreement reached with the Palestinians. This claim...

Sources in the West Bank and Gaza have confirmed that six Palestinian men in their early twenties were killed this morning by Israeli occupation forces. Three of the killings...

An MP representing Hamas in the Palestinian Legislative Council has claimed that the Palestinian Authority's security agencies in the West Bank are still engaged in violence amounting to torture...

A leader of the Fatah movement in the West Bank as warned of increasing Palestinian anger at their own security institutions. His statement comes after accusations that Palestinian security...

As pilgrims from across the world descend on the West Bank city of Bethlehem for Christmas, Palestinian Christians trapped in Gaza are left to pray that they will be...

A civil servants' syndicate in the Gaza Strip denounced on Tuesday the Palestinian government in Ramallah for blocking the salaries of about 500 staff from the Gaza Strip and...

Sama: Gaza / Ramallah An opinion poll conducted by the 'Sama' News Agency on its website revealed that the majority of Palestinians support a proposal to dissolve the Palestinian...

A campaign has been started in the occupied West Bank to boycott goods produced on Israel's illegal settlements. More than 3000 Palestinian volunteers across the occupied territory are going...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURESOn Tuesday the 15th of June, two events took place in the West Bank, a Palestinian Media Conference and a graduation ceremony for students of the Holy Quran....

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The freed Palestinian prisoners were received at the various crossing points into the Palestinian Territories by large crowds of well-wishers from across the political spectrum. Prisoners from...

The Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, has reported that the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) has transferred a battalion of reserve forces into the West Bank in preparation for possible violent...

A Hebrew-language newspaper in Israel claims that the Israeli government has instructed its embassy in Washington to boycott Jewish organisations in America which oppose Israel's official policies, particularly with...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Palestinian MPs from the Change and Reform bloc met on Sunday with the head of the Catholic Church in the West Bank, Father Joseph Sa'adeh, to convey...

A Cairo University political science professor has criticised the Palestinian Authority for continuing to hold political prisoners. Professor Hassan Nafaa said that the current hunger strike by detainees in...

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has denounced the recent verdicts issued by West Bank military courts against detainees being held in West Bank prisons criticising them for being highly...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Yesterday evening (31.08.2010), International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) held a Ramadan soiree in the gardens of the Nablus library where it hosted a gathering of...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On Tuesday (23.08.2010), the Israeli army issued demolition orders for two newly built mosques in the West Bank. The first mosque is located in the village Bawarin...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES One hundred prisoners in Gaza have been released by Hamas as a sign of goodwill at the start of the month of Ramadan. The order for the...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On Wednesday, millions of Muslims world-wide welcomed the first day of the holy month of Ramadan. Ramadan is accompanied by a distinct atmosphere in each city of...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On Friday, 30 July, a group of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian fields in the town of Burin in the West Bank. They set the fields on fire...

The West Bank The Zionist settlers across the West Bank constitute a major threat to the Palestinian territories, particularly with regard to the dangers posed by the industrial waste...

Palestinians deported by Israel from the occupied West Bank and the Jewish state have called on the international community for help to return to their homes. Speaking during a...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Israeli Occupation Forces have served the people of Burka village, in the north of the West Bank with three demolition notifications for the destruction of two houses...

A deputy on the Palestinian Legislative Council has warned of an Israeli resolution to ban the export of foodstuff from the West Bank to Occupied Jerusalem. The focus, claims...