The Latest Breaking News from West Bank

Israeli forces killed Abu Akleh ‘without justification’, UN inquiry says

UN-mandated body says Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh victim of ‘excessive and disproportionate force’.

Al Jazeera · Oct 16, 2023

Israel-Hamas war: history shows the dangers of a creeping occupation

The US president, Joe Biden, has warned Israel that occupying Gaza “would be a big mistake”. The warning seemed to be aimed directly at voices within the Israeli government who are calling for Israel to not only destroy Hamas, but also to occupy the Palestinian territory.

The Conversation · Oct 16, 2023

A Palestinian mother fled to the US for safety. 12 years on, war in her homeland fueled her son’s murder

Hanaan Shahin left the West Bank in 2011 in search of a better life in the US. More than a decade later, she and her six-year-old son Wadea Al-Fayoume were targeted in a deadly attack allegedly driven by fresh violence in her homeland. Martha McHardy reports

The Independent UK · Oct 16, 2023

Palestinian Americans watch with dread, as family members in Gaza struggle to stay alive

For Palestinian Americans, there’s a sense of helplessness and hopelessness as many struggle to hear from their families in Gaza

The Independent UK · Oct 14, 2023

Israeli army and settler attacks against Palestinians in West Bank increase

At least 55 Palestinians have been killed since last Saturday, and more than 1,100 others wounded.

Al Jazeera · Oct 14, 2023

While the world is watching Gaza, violence fuels growing tensions in the occupied West Bank

With the world’s attention focused on the war in Gaza, tensions have risen in the occupied West Bank, where 54 Palestinians were killed over the past week in clashes with Israeli troops, arrest raids and attacks by Jewish settlers

The Independent UK · Oct 14, 2023

Some Gaza residents with Israeli work permits unable to return home

Hundreds of Gaza residents who were working in Israel when Hamas launched its deadly attack find themselves stranded in the West Bank, after Israel cut off access to the enclave. They are among some 18,000 Gaza residents who have work permits for Israel. Some workers say they chose to leave…

France 24 · Oct 13, 2023

A war that ends the Saudi-Israel ‘normalisation’ process

The Gaza war has once again placed the Palestinian issue at the centre of West Asian politics

The Hindu · Oct 13, 2023

Shock and retribution: Israel pounds Gaza after Hamas attack

First came the shock, then the horror and now the escalation. Israel's government had been putting the squeeze on the West Bank when the unprecedented attack came from Gaza, stunning the world and targeting the innocent. Seven days later, Israel dropping leaflets on the Gaza Strip, the prelude to a…

France 24 · Oct 13, 2023

Forced from Israel for being Palestinian, they fear what comes next for them – and their families in Gaza

Amir and his companions were beneficiaries of a scheme allowing 18,000 people from Gaza to work in Israel. Now, they have fled to the West Bank having faced retribution for last weekend’s attack by the militants of Hamas, writes Kim Sengupta in Ramallah

The Independent UK · Oct 13, 2023