The Latest Breaking News from West Bank

Florida bill seeks to ban use of ‘West Bank’ in schools and state agencies

The bill would mandate use of the biblical term ‘Judea and Samaria’ after a similar effort passed in Arkansas

The Guardian - US · Feb 4

‘A violation of our history’: Palestinian uproar over Israel’s plan to seize historic West Bank site

Residents of Sebastia say heritage project is pretext for massive land grab and expansion of Jewish settlements

The Guardian - UK · Feb 2

C of E bishops criticise UK inaction over Israel’s ‘West Bank de facto annexation’

Three bishops accuse British government of contributing to ‘culture of impunity’ in the occupied territory

The Guardian - UK · Feb 1

Palestinian refugees’ West Bank football pitch saved after Uefa president lobbies Israel

A football pitch used by refugees in the occupied West Bank has been saved from demolition after an intervention by the president of Uefa, Aleksander Ceferin

The Guardian - UK · Jan 20

Israel bulldozes Unrwa headquarters in East Jerusalem

Palestinian refugee agency compound is demolished, while teargas is fired at UN vocational school in West Bank

The Guardian - UK · Jan 20

‘The settlers brought the violence’: the ethnic cleansing of a West Bank village

Ras ‘Ein al ‘Auja is a community of about 135 families – and the only one remaining in this part of the Jordan valley

The Guardian - UK · Jan 14

Israel poised to start construction of bypass through heart of West Bank

Road project, part of blueprint for new illegal settlement in E1 area east of Jerusalem, is considered a tool of annexation

The Guardian - UK · Jan 13

Video shows masked, armed men beating a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank

Dozens of masked men armed with sticks attacked a plant nursery and beat a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank

The Independent UK · Jan 10

Israel clears final hurdle to start settlement construction that would cut the West Bank in two

A government tender says Israel has cleared the final hurdle before starting construction on a controversial settlement project near Jerusalem that would effectively cut the West Bank in two

The Independent UK · Jan 6

Israel pushes ahead with vast illegal settlement in heart of West Bank

Exclusive: Tender posted for construction of 3,401 homes in settlement designed to ‘bury idea of a Palestinian state’

The Guardian - UK · Jan 6