Palestinians have clashed with Israeli forces and settlers across the West Bank as violence continued to grip the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel. In the southern West Bank city of Hebron, Palestinian demonstrators marched from [ More … ]
Palestinians have torched a site in the West Bank revered by Jews and others worldwide in an incident that threatens to further inflame more than two weeks of deadly unrest, as new  protests were planned [ More … ]
Israeli forces have shot and killed two more Palestinians, with these two killings the total number of killed Palestinians in the last 15 days has increased to be at least 30 Palestinians. A young Palestinian [ More … ]
The Israeli authorities erected roadblocks and checkpoints in some Arab neighbourhoods of East Jerusalem on Wednesday and deployed hundreds of police officers and soldiers on the roads and buses, a response to a wave of [ More … ]
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel called an emergency meeting of top security officials and ministers after four attacks by Palestinians left three Israelis dead. It is the most intense eruption so far in two weeks [ More … ]
In an analysis in Al-Monitor author Ben Caspi notes that Israel is deeply divided during the wave of violence in the area. “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu always tries to grab the stick by both [ More … ]
Imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti delivered an impassioned plea to the international community to tackle the root causes of violence between Palestinians and Israelis on Sunday, as he praised the “new Palestinian generation†for resisting [ More … ]
Haaretz An Israeli soldier tried to detain a minor during clashes in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh on Friday, but a number of Palestinian women and children managed to stop him. According to [ More … ]
The Israeli nature authority objected to the decision of the war ministry to resume construction of the separation barrier near Beit Jala, south of Occupied Jerusalem, after the Supreme Court had invalidated the building of [ More … ]
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