The Latest Breaking News from West Bank

The Israeli military said Thursday it has filed terror charges against a senior member of the Islamic Jihad militant group whose arrest in the occupied West Bank helped spark three days of heavy fighting in Gaza earlier this month. Islamic Jihad had demanded the release of Bassam al-Saadi and another…

Ahmad Hreish, 28, has been held for the past 81 days without trial by the Palestinian Authority.

Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid decided not to meet his Norwegian counterpart Anniken Huitfeldt during her visit to Israel in September. Diplomatic sources in Tel Aviv said Lapid's decision comes in protest against Norway’s announcement in June to label products from Israeli settlements with their place of origin. They stressed…

A Palestinian prisoner who has been on hunger strike for over 160 days in protest over his detention by Israel could die at any moment, his lawyer said on Wednesday.

The Israeli military said Wednesday it has discharged four soldiers for attacking Palestinians without cause, after video circulated on social media showing them beating and kicking two detainees. The soldiers had stopped a Palestinian vehicle north of the West Bank city of Ramallah two weeks ago and forced the driver…

Jordan said on Wednesday it had doubled the electricity supply sold to the occupied West Bank city of Jericho to 80 megawatts, helping reduce its reliance on power supplied by Israel. They said the extra supplies came from a power station in the Jordan Valley linked to an existing Palestinian…

A group of Palestinian passengers flew to Cyprus from an Israeli airport on Monday, but the flight was not organized under a promised arrangement easing travel restrictions for residents of the occupied West Bank, an airports authority spokesperson said. Israeli authorities agreed earlier this month, following pressure from the United…

A federal judge has rejected a request by Vermont ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's to block a plan by its corporate parent to have an intermediary sell its products in east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank

Judge says company did not show sales of its ice cream in occupied Palestinian territories caused ‘irreparable harm’.

A group of Palestinian passengers flew to Cyprus from an Israeli airport on Monday, but the flight was not organised under a promised arrangement easing travel restrictions for residents of the occupied West Bank, an airports authority spokesperson said.

Critics say flights do little to make it easier for Palestinians living in territories occupied by Israel to travel.