The Latest Breaking News from West Bank

A Palestinian gunman killed one person and wounded at least three others in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank before being shot dead by a guard, the Israeli military, medics and a settlement spokesperson said.

Jerusalem (AFP) - A gun attack in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron wounded five people on Saturday, including four Israelis and a Palestinian, with the assailant shot dead, Israel's emergency services and the army said.

The Israeli army on Friday announced a partial easing of the tight blockade it imposed on the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The decision was not welcomed by settlers, who continued to hold rallies in various parts of the West Bank, protesting against what they called “the tolerance of…

The Israeli army’s Chief of Staff, Aviv Kohavi, ordered on Friday commanders of the military divisions to reduce the “rampant insecurity” committed by settlers in the West Bank. Although the Israeli army had participated in many of the settlers’ attacks against Palestinians, Kohavi specifically criticized settlers who unreasonably behaved against…

The UN Middle East envoy said 2022 is on course to be the deadliest year for Palestinians in the West Bank since the UN started tracking fatalities in 2005, and he called for immediate action to calm “an explosive situation” and move toward renewing Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

The U.N. Mideast envoy says 2022 is on course to be the deadliest year for Palestinians in the West Bank since the U.N. started tracking fatalities in 2005 and called for immediate action to calm “an explosive situation” and move toward renewing Israeli-Palestinian negotiations

Tel Aviv (AFP) - Once deemed a pariah in Israel's political arena, extreme-right leader Itamar Ben-Gvir may play a decisive role in the country's next government.

More than a thousand Bedouin Palestinians living in the hills of Mount Hebron in the West Bank are at risk of losing their homes under zoning laws that allow the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to evict them at any time. In the 1980s, the IDF declared their homeland a so-called…

Israeli forces killed two Palestinian militants on Friday, Palestinian sources said, in what the Israeli military said was a response to a shooting at soldiers in the occupied West Bank.

Two Palestinians were killed and a third was wounded by Israeli army fire in the occupied West Bank early Friday, Palestinian health officials said, as conflicting claims about the incident emerged. The shooting near the city of Nablus, the West Bank's second largest, was the latest sign of escalation in…

Imad Abu Rasheed, 47, and Ramzi Zabara, 35, were killed by the Israeli army south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.