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What the resumption of Israel-Hamas fighting means for Palestinians in Israeli jails

Human rights groups say Israel stepped up arrests in the occupied West Bank during the war. Only a fraction of those arrested have been released as part of hostage and prisoner exchanges.

WEKU

The daily, grinding violence in the West Bank is worse than ever before. Why does it go unseen?

The Israeli government is stripping away our freedoms – economic, physical, even the ability to celebrate, says health researcher Layth Hanbali

The Guardian - UK

Families arrive from the West Bank to care for the 3 college students shot in Vermont

Nearly a week after three college students of Palestinian descent were shot and seriously wounded while taking an evening walk, relatives of two of the victims have arrived in Vermont from the war-torn West Bank to care for their loved ones

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Extremist Israeli settlers attacking Palestinian civilians in the West Bank to face America visa bans

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the restrictions which could be imposed within weeks

Evening Standard

‘My son was killed on October 6. There was no Hamas’

Family of teen killed in West Bank before Hamas attack says Israel’s actions against Palestinians not about Hamas.

Al Jazeera

Blinken urges Israel to protect civilians amid tough Gaza truce talks

Mediators Qatar and Egypt push for further extension to pause in hostilities as deal holds for a week.

Al Jazeera

Israel-Hamas war: List of key events, day 55

An extended truce-deal, attacks in the West Bank, and Hamas’s invite to Elon Musk – here are major updates.

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Temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas extended for seventh day

Israel and Hamas have agreed to extend their truce by at least a day to allow negotiations to continue on swapping Israeli hostages held in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners. France, meanwhile, has suggested the European Union consider sanctions on Israeli settlers who have targeted Palestinians in the West Bank.

Radio France Internationale

‘No work and no olives’: harvest rots as West Bank farmers cut off from trees

With olives the largest single agricultural product on the West Bank, Palestinians say Israeli restrictions and settler violence are losing them $70m

The Guardian - UK

Israel must act ‘in accordance with the laws of war’, Blinken says in Tel Aviv

Speaking from Tel Aviv on Thursday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stressed that Israel must conduct its military operations “in accordance with the laws of war” and called for more to be done to protect civilians as a Gaza truce extension was set to expire Friday morning. Six Israeli…

France 24

Since the Gaza war began, violence against Palestinians has also surged in the West Bank – and gone virtually unnoticed

While the world remains fixated on the devastating October 7 Hamas attacks and the subsequent Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, there has been a pronounced – and mostly unnoticed – escalation in violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

The Conversation

Israeli forces kill two Palestinian children in occupied West Bank raid

Residents of Jenin camp, which has seen nightly raids since October 7, say they were ‘shocked’ at scale of attack.

Al Jazeera

Eight-year-old boy among four reported dead in Israeli raid on Jenin

Palestinian officials say incursion in West Bank also killed boy of 15 as IDF reports deaths of terror leader and associate

The Guardian - UK

'Welcome Back': Joy In West Bank As Freed Prisoners Return

A red keffiyeh scarf around her neck and a beaming smile on her face, Rouba Assi fell into her friends' arms after being freed from an Israeli prison.

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Al Jazeera

Israel-Hamas war: List of key events, day 54

The truce is nearing its end as Israel escalates crackdown in the occupied West Bank; here are the recent updates.

The Guardian - AU

Qatar mediator says latest prisoner release would comprise 16 children and 14 women – as it happened

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Al Jazeera

Israel-Hamas war: List of key events, day 53

As the truce extends and northern Gaza’s hospitals fear fuel shortages, here are the major updates.

The Independent UK

Live updates | Israel and Pakistan extend truce, agree to free more hostages and prisoners

Israel and Hamas have agreed to extend their cease-fire for two days, raising the prospect of further exchanges of militant-held hostages for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel and a longer halt to their deadliest and most destructive war

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Al Jazeera

The beginning of the end? The hypothetical future of Palestinian politics

Could Hamas’s rival, the PA, return to rule Gaza? Would Palestinians even accept it?

International Business Times

Prisoner Releases Send Hamas Support Rocketing In West Bank

In Palestinian cities in the occupied West Bank, long the turf of president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party, the green flag of Islamist rival Hamas is flying ever higher thanks to prisoner-hostage exchanges.

WEKU

Hamas says it wants to extend truce after latest exchange of captives with Israel

The announcement from the Islamist militant group came after a third hostages-for-prisoners swap with Israel in which 17 captives and 39 Palestinian prisoners were released.

Evening Standard

'Multiple Palestinians killed in the West Bank,' officials claim

Multiple Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank as a fragile pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip entered its third day.

The Guardian - AU

Syria says Israeli strikes put Damascus airport out of service – as it happened

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Radio France Internationale

Israeli army says 17 hostages handed over to Red Cross by Hamas

Hamas fighters on Sunday confirmed the handover of 17 hostages to the Red Cross – the third round of hostage-prisoner swaps on day three of a fragile four-day truce between Israel and the Palestinian militants.

The Independent UK

Israeli forces kill at least 8 Palestinians in surging West Bank violence, health officials say

Health officials say Israeli forces operating in the occupied West Bank killed at least eight Palestinians in a 24-hour period

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