Israel’s approval of new West Bank settlements has drawn strong reactions globally, with the EU and OIC warning the move could deepen tensions and weaken chances of a negotiated peace.
Israeli authorities are preventing dozens of families of Palestinian prisoners deported to Egypt from travelling from the West Bank, head of the Palestinian Prisoners Club, Abdullah al-Zaghari, said Wednesday.
The latest attempt by far-right lawmakers in Israel’s parliament to push a bill applying Israeli law to the occupied West Bank was, by all measures, a symbolic gesture.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz on Sunday ordered the military to prepare for a yearlong presence in refugee camps in the West Bank as Israel escalates the ongoing large-scale military campaign in the occupied Palestinian territory.
Yemen's Houthi forces fired a missile at Israel early on Tuesday, triggering sirens in wide areas, including Tel Aviv and some Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to an Israeli military statement.
The leaders of four EU member states have urged the bloc to agree on a firm position complete with sanctions on the situation in the West Bank.
The US Vice President spoke with the Israeli President on the one-month anniversary of Hamas's terrorist attack against Israel on October 7.
Israeli authorities said that Wednesday's operation in Nablus targeted three suspects that were planning attacks on Israel.
A Palestinian was killed during clashes with the Israeli soldiers in the town of Halhul near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, according to Palestinian medics and eyewitnesses.
A Palestinian man died of injuries he sustained during an Israeli raid last week in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, medics have confirmed.
