The Latest Breaking News from West Bank

The Palestinian Authority has blocked the registration of a legal advocacy group representing critics and opponents detained in Palestinian jails, a move condemned as the authority’s latest effort to stifle civil society in the occupied West Bank

One of the world's oldest churches, built on top of a cave in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and festooned with golden icons, attracts thousands of Christian pilgrims every year.

Israeli soldiers shot dead two Palestinian gunmen who opened fire at a military post near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, Israel's Defense Minister said. "Their successful operation prevented an attack against Israeli citizens," Defense Minister Gallant said in a statement. Earlier, the military had said…

Karen Dee said "my heart is already so full of pain, I am paralysed by all the pain" and that "to lose your mother is like losing your life" as she spoke in front of hundreds who had gathered for her funeral in an Israeli settler town in the West…

Israel halted visits by Jews and tourists to a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site on Tuesday and its military said soldiers shot dead two Palestinian gunmen in the occupied West Bank, as a wave of unrest showed no sign of subsiding.

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Israeli forces are searching for the gunmen responsible for killing two British-Israeli sisters and their mother in an attack in the West Bank.

Decision comes as Israel hit with rocket strikes from Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria in recent days

Rabbi Leo Dee, 51, criticised the gunman who killed his wife and two daughters with a Kalashnikov rifle near the Hamra settlement in the occupied West Bank on Friday