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The Latest Breaking News from West Bank

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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Blinken expresses 'sorrow' over deaths of innocent Palestinians on Ramallah trip

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is wrapping up a two-day visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank on Tuesday with renewed appeals for Israeli-Palestinian calm amid an alarming spike of violence.

France 24

Palestinians in Khan al-Ahmar stand ground amid displacement plan

The village’s years-long legal battle with Israeli authorities for its survival has captured international attention.

Al Jazeera

Palestinian President Abbas blames Israel for violence

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas blamed Israel on Tuesday for a sharp escalation of violence in the West Bank as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged calm on both sides and reaffirmed Washington's commitment to a two state solution.

Reuters

Send terrorists to the electric chair, says Israel's new extreme right minister

Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's comments came after seven people were shot dead at a synagogue in East Jerusalem and as violent incidents were reported in Jerusalem and the West Bank

Daily Mirror

Blinken in Mideast renews appeal for Israel-Palestinian calm

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is wrapping up a two-day visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank with renewed appeals for Israeli-Palestinian calm amid an alarming spike of violence

The Independent UK

In West Bank, Blinken presses for two-state solution

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shuttled from Israel to the Palestinians' West Bank on Tuesday, appealing for an end to resurgent violence and reaffirming Washington's backing for a two-state solution to the decades-long conflict.

Reuters

Number of Armed Israeli Settlers in West Bank Stands at About 100,000

Israeli anti-violence associations have raised the alarm on the consequences of government plans for easing restrictions on settlers’ gun ownership and said that such a move will lead to more grief and hostility for generations to come. “A previous government led by Benjamin Netanyahu took decisions to facilitate granting arms…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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The Guardian - UK

Israel and Palestine: what has caused violence to flare up again?

Deadly attacks in recent days raise fear of spiralling bloodshed, with support for moribund ‘peace process’ at all-time low

Reuters

Israel and Palestinians risk deeper conflict in a distracted world

After bloodshed in Jerusalem and the West Bank and a month since Israel's most right-wing government took office, Israel and the Palestinians risk sliding into a cycle of wider confrontation with pressure on both sides for retaliation, analysts say.

Al Jazeera

Jenin refugee camp residents defiant after deadly Israeli assault

Palestinians pledge to ‘keep fighting’ illegal Israeli occupation following largest military raid in Jenin since 2002.

Evening Standard

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken begins Middle East trip by urging ‘calm’ between Israel and Palestine

Blinken blasted the recent loss of civilian life in violent attacks as ‘deeply disturbing’

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Israeli forces kill Palestinian man in Hebron as tensions spiral

Naseem Abu Fouda, 26, is the 35th Palestinian to be killed by Israel so far in January 2023.

The Independent UK

Blinken urges Israel-Palestinian calm as violence soars

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is urging Israel and the Palestinians to exercise restraint and ease tensions amid a spike in violence that has put the region on edge

France 24

Blinken calls for ‘urgent steps to restore calm’ between Israel, Palestinians

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a joint press conference in Israel on Monday, as Blinken urged a de-escalation in violence that has flared in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Reuters

Blinken reaffirms need for two-state solution after talks with Netanyahu

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Israelis and Palestinians to ease tensions on Monday during a visit to Jerusalem, reaffirming a long-stalled peace vision of two states side by side as the only path forward.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Palestinians Say Israeli Troops Kill Man in West Bank

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man in a flashpoint city in the occupied West Bank on Monday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. The killing marks the latest bloodshed in spiraling violence that comes as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits the region. The Israeli military had no immediate comment.…

The Independent UK

Palestinians say Israeli troops kill man in West Bank

The Palestinian Health Ministry says Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man in a flashpoint city in the occupied West Bank

Los Angeles Times

Is Israel's new government destroying democracy? Blinken surveys situation on Middle East trip

As Israel in recent weeks put together its most right-wing, religiously conservative government in history, senior U.S. officials insisted on waiting and seeing just how radical things would get.

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