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Israeli troops kill 5 Palestinian gunmen in West Bank raid

Israeli forces have killed five Palestinian gunmen in a raid on a West Bank refugee camp

The Independent UK · Feb 6, 2023

How will Israel's far-right government affect the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

From withholding nearly $40 million in tax revenue from the Palestinian Authority, to pledges to expand West Bank settlements and the Israeli security minister's controversial visit to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, the first months of Israel's most far-right government in history presage a bleak outlook for peaceful relations between Israelis…

France 24 · Feb 6, 2023

Israeli forces kill five Palestinians in Jericho raid

Palestinians say the raid comes after a weeklong Israeli siege of the West Bank city.

Al Jazeera · Feb 6, 2023

Israeli forces kill unarmed Palestinian man in occupied West Bank

Abdullah Sami Qalalweh, 26, was shot and killed near the town of Huwara, south of Nablus, officials said.

Al Jazeera · Feb 4, 2023

Israeli troops shoot Palestinian man in West Bank

Israeli troops killed a Palestinian man near the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Friday, after the man tried to attack a soldier at a military outpost, the Israeli army said.

Reuters · Feb 3, 2023

Israeli Army Kills Palestinian at Checkpoint, Officials Say

The Palestinian health ministry said Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian on Friday at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, the latest bloodshed in an Israeli-Palestinian flare-up. The Israeli military said the man, identified by Palestinians as Abdullah Qalalweh, 25, approached troops at Hawara checkpoint near the city…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Feb 3, 2023

Palestinian teenager dreamt of being a chef before attack, teachers say

In the middle of last week, 13-year-old Palestinian Mahmoud Aleiwat was pressing his teachers for the school report he needed so he could go to a Jerusalem college to train as a chef.

Reuters · Feb 3, 2023

Fight over Israel’s judiciary as Palestinians look on

Protests continue against PM Netanyahu’s moves to weaken the Supreme Court, as violence escalates in occupied West Bank.

Al Jazeera · Feb 3, 2023

Israel Probes Legality of US Giving Artifact to Palestinians

An ivory spoon dating back 2,700 years that was recently repatriated to the Palestinian Authority from the United States has sparked a dispute with Israel's new far-right government over the cultural heritage in the occupied West Bank. The clash brings into focus the political sensitivities surrounding archaeology in the Middle…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Feb 3, 2023

Israel probes legality of US giving artifact to Palestinians

Israel’s ultranationalist heritage minister has ordered officials to examine the legality of the U.S. government’s historic repatriation of an artifact to the Palestinian Authority

The Independent UK · Feb 3, 2023