The Latest Breaking News from West Bank

For Palestinians, the traditional olive harvest mired in conflict

Local workers have joined forces with European and Israeli activists to help farmers collect their crop

The Independent UK · Feb 2, 2023

US presses PA to accept plan to quash Palestinian armed groups

The US is putting the onus on the Palestinian Authority to improve security in the West Bank, despite Israeli raids.

Al Jazeera · Feb 2, 2023

Commentary: Israel and Iran are in a state of escalation, with the US on the razor’s edge

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is spending part of this week in the Middle East, where he’s scheduled to meet with Israeli, Palestinian and Egyptian officials to reduce the roiling violence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. But you can bet that Blinken will also take this opportunity to…

Chicago Tribune · Feb 2, 2023

Blinken pressed Abbas to accept U.S. security plan for Jenin and Nablus

The Palestinians had many reservations about the plan, the U.S. and Israeli officials said.

Axios · Feb 1, 2023

Palestinians fire rockets, Israel hits Gaza days after U.S. call for calm

Israeli aircraft struck in Gaza on Thursday in response to Palestinian rocket fire, days after the United States called for calm, but there was no immediate sign of a wider escalation in violence following days of tension.

Reuters · Feb 1, 2023

Palestinians face removal as far-right Israel vows expansion

The long-running dispute over the West Bank Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar has resurfaced this week as a focus of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The Independent UK · Feb 1, 2023

Why the violence between Israel and the Palestinians may be entering a devastating new phase

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken rushed to the Middle East this week to make yet another push for a negotiated settlement between Israel and the Palestinians following yet another dramatic escalation in violence between the two sides.

The Conversation · Feb 1, 2023

Blinken visits the Palestinian West Bank, where residents are disillusioned and leaders are angry

DEIR DIBWAN, West Bank — Maisoon Ali, a Palestinian banker, has a message for visiting U.S Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 1, 2023

Antony Blinken warns of ‘shrinking horizon of hope’ for Palestinians during visit to West Bank

‘Restoring calm is our immediate task,’ says US secretary of state

The Independent UK · Jan 31, 2023

The Palestinian president and his unfulfilled quest for a state

Mahmoud Abbas spent much of his life before becoming Palestinian president in the shadow of Yasser Arafat, long the figurehead of the Palestinian cause, but he has never secured the same status in the role and has not brought his people closer to statehood.

Reuters · Jan 31, 2023