The Latest Breaking News from the West Bank

Israeli-Palestinian relations have been locked in a never-ending cycle of death, destruction and misery and the war in Gaza should be the last

An extended truce-deal, attacks in the West Bank, and Hamas’s invite to Elon Musk – here are major updates.

Israel and Hamas have agreed to extend their truce by at least a day to allow negotiations to continue on swapping Israeli hostages held in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners. France, meanwhile, has suggested the European Union consider sanctions on Israeli settlers who have targeted Palestinians in the West Bank.

With olives the largest single agricultural product on the West Bank, Palestinians say Israeli restrictions and settler violence are losing them $70m

While the world remains fixated on the devastating October 7 Hamas attacks and the subsequent Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, there has been a pronounced – and mostly unnoticed – escalation in violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Israel has called Palestinians released under a truce with Hamas violent ‘terrorists.’ But most haven’t been charged.

Palestinian militants have admitted to publicly executing two men in the West Bank as a warning to those reporting to Israel.

Could Hamas’s rival, the PA, return to rule Gaza? Would Palestinians even accept it?

Elizabeth Price's son Hisham Awartani was one of three men of Palestinian descent shot on Saturday in Vermont. Speaking to NPR from Ramallah, Price fears her son "is confronting a life of disability."

In Palestinian cities in the occupied West Bank, long the turf of president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party, the green flag of Islamist rival Hamas is flying ever higher thanks to prisoner-hostage exchanges.

As Gaza reels from Israel’s devastating bombardments, here’s a brief history of the conflict using maps and charts.