The Latest Breaking News from the West Bank

The US president, Joe Biden, has warned Israel that occupying Gaza “would be a big mistake”. The warning seemed to be aimed directly at voices within the Israeli government who are calling for Israel to not only destroy Hamas, but also to occupy the Palestinian territory.

Hanaan Shahin left the West Bank in 2011 in search of a better life in the US. More than a decade later, she and her six-year-old son Wadea Al-Fayoume were targeted in a deadly attack allegedly driven by fresh violence in her homeland. Martha McHardy reports

Of the 255 people who took the repatriation flights, Clare O’Neil says, most are Australian citizens and family members

The family of a father and son killed by Israeli settlers in Gaza speak exclusively to The Independent about the impact of losing loved ones to Israeli settler violence

In my lifetime, leaders on both sides have talked of justice and freedom. Here in the West Bank, those days seem long ago, says author Raja Shehadeh

Palestinians in the territory are facing a harsh crackdown from Israeli forces and threats to their lives from settlers

For Palestinian Americans, there’s a sense of helplessness and hopelessness as many struggle to hear from their families in Gaza

With the world’s attention focused on the war in Gaza, tensions have risen in the occupied West Bank, where 54 Palestinians were killed over the past week in clashes with Israeli troops, arrest raids and attacks by Jewish settlers

Hundreds of Gaza residents who were working in Israel when Hamas launched its deadly attack find themselves stranded in the West Bank, after Israel cut off access to the enclave. They are among some 18,000 Gaza residents who have work permits for Israel. Some workers say they chose to leave…

The Gaza war has once again placed the Palestinian issue at the centre of West Asian politics

First came the shock, then the horror and now the escalation. Israel's government had been putting the squeeze on the West Bank when the unprecedented attack came from Gaza, stunning the world and targeting the innocent. Seven days later, Israel dropping leaflets on the Gaza Strip, the prelude to a…