The Latest Breaking News from the West Bank

Haredi parties once remained narrowly focused on their own voters’ needs. Now they’re getting involved in policies affecting everyone.

The Israeli army has beefed up its forces across the occupied West Bank and prepared for the demolition of the homes of two Palestinian gunmen who killed four Israelis in one of the worst attacks in the past year of violence

Generations of Palestinians have worked the terraced hillsides of the West Bank farming village of Battir, southwest of Jerusalem

A surge in violence this year has killed 128 Palestinians and 24 people on the Israeli side so far, according to a tally by The Associated Press.

Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank, the latest death in a surge of violence that has wracked the region

Israeli helicopter gunships have hit targets in the occupied West Bank during a gunbattle in the city of Jenin between Israeli troops and militants

The finance minister was granted sweeping powers to expedite construction, bypassing measures in place for 27 years.

The Israeli government has reportedly informed the US of plans to expand the number of settlements in the occupied West Bank by up to 4,000.

The Biden administration sees new settlement building as undermining the prospects for a two-state solution.

In February, dozens of young Israeli settlers in the West Bank led a punitive expedition to the Palestinian town of Huwara in the north, near Nablus, following the murder of two of their own. They burned several buildings in the town and threw stones, injuring several residents and killing one,…

Mohammed al-Tamimi was shot in the head while riding in a car in the West Bank with father, who was also injured