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The shooting comes amid a period of deadly attacks and military raids across the West Bank

Israeli forces shoot six Palestinians in West Bank

A t least six Palestinians were injured in an Israeli army operation in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, hours after two Israeli men were injured by gunfire near a Jewish site in annexed east Jerusalem.

World • 19 Apr 23

Palestinians react to the march organised by Israeli settlers held to demand legalisation of a settlement outpost in West Bank

West Bank violence kills teen, British-Israeli mother

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict claimed the lives of a Palestinian teenager and a British-Israeli mother who succumbed to injuries from a West Bank gun attack that earlier killed her two daughters.

World • 10 Apr 23

Rina and Maia Dee were shot dead in an attack on their car near an Israeli settlement in the West Bank on Friday

Father of killed Israeli sisters 'confident' of justice

The father of two British-Israeli sisters killed in a gun attack in the occupied West Bank has said he is "confident that justice will be done".

World • 09 Apr 23

Israeli police stand around a car used in an attack in Tel Aviv yesterday

Israel says missile alert sounded in Golan Heights

Three rockets were fired from Syria towards the Golan Heights this evening, one of which crossed into Israeli-controlled territory and landed in open ground, the Israeli military said, without giving details.

World • 08 Apr 23

Israeli security forces remove Palestinian worshippers sitting on the grounds of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound

Clashes as police enter Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque

Clashes erupted inside the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem early this morning as Israeli police said they had entered to dislodge "agitators", a move denounced as an "unprecedented crime" by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.

World • 05 Apr 23

Over 70 Palestinians have lost their lives since the start of 2023, while 13 Israelis have also been killed

Fears of escalation in violence in Israel-Palestine

Anything can happen, anywhere, any time. That's the warning from a security adviser to the EU Coordinating Office for Palestinian Police Support (EUPOL COPPS) the morning we begin our visit to Ramallah in the West Bank.

World • 12 Mar 23

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wished 'a speedy recovery to the injured' (File Pic)

Three injured in Tel Aviv attack - Israel police

Three people were shot and wounded in Tel Aviv in an attack carried out by a member of the armed wing of the Palestinian group Hamas, Israeli police said.

World • 10 Mar 23

Destroyed vehicles after Israeli forces raided Zatara in the city of Nablus

Palestinians count cost of Israeli West Bank reprisals

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Monday counted the cost of deadly violence and arson by Israeli settlers targeting a town where two Israeli brothers were killed.

World • 27 Feb 23

University students demonstrate in Gaza in support of the West Bank

Jordan talks end with pledge to prevent more violence

Israel and Palestinian officials have pledged to work towards reviving efforts to reach a "just and lasting peace" deal at the end of talks in Aqaba, saying they would work closely to prevent "further violence".

World • 26 Feb 23

Fire and smoke rise above buildings in Gaza City as Israel launched air strikes on the Palestinian enclave

Iraeli army claims air strike on Hamas complex in Gaza

Israel's security cabinet announced that it would legalise nine settlements in the occupied West Bank following a series of attacks in east Jerusalem, including one that killed three Israelis.

World • 13 Feb 23

The Israeli military said its air strikes targeted rocket and weapon production sites used by Hamas

Israel carries out air strikes on Gaza overnight

The Israeli military has said it struck Gaza overnight, hours after it intercepted a rocket launched from Gaza and following appeals from the US for all sides to calm escalating violence in Israel and the occupied West Bank.

World • 02 Feb 23

Antony Blinken and Mahmud Abbas met in Ramallah

Blinken voices sorrow over Palestinian deaths

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed his sorrow for "innocent" Palestinians killed in a spike of violence in the occupied West Bank, after meeting Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.

World • 31 Jan 23

An Israeli police officer guards the scene where two Israelis were wounded in a shooting in East Jerusalem

Israel to demolish Palestinian synagogue shooter's home

Israeli police have sealed off the Jerusalem family home of a Palestinian gunman two days after he killed seven people outside a synagogue, as fears grew of further escalation in the deadliest unrest for years in Jerusalem and the West Bank.

World • 29 Jan 23

Palestinians clash with Israeli soldiers in Jenin, West Bank

10 Palestinians killed in West Bank raids

Israeli forces in the West Bank have killed 10 Palestinians, officials in the occupied territory said, nine of them in a raid the Israeli military described as a "counter-terrorism operation".

World • 26 Jan 23

Wednesday's UN Security Council meeting was convened by Japan to discuss rising tensions in the Middle East

Israel and Palestine face off at UN as tension rises

Israeli and Palestinian diplomats traded barbs at a UN Security Council meeting yesterday morning, convened by Japan, the current Council President, to address mounting tension in the Middle East.

World • 19 Jan 23

A Palestinian protester in front of Israeli soldiers during a demonstration against Israeli settlements near the West Bank city of Nablus last year

Amnesty: Israeli restrictions on flags 'repressive'

Bolstered Israeli restrictions against flying the Palestinian flag are "a shameless attempt to legitimise racism", rights group Amnesty International have said.

World • 10 Jan 23

The International Court of Justice last weighed in on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians in 2004

UN asks World Court to judge Israel's occupation

The 193-member United Nations General Assembly asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to give an opinion on the legal consequences of Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories.

World • 31 Dec 22

Santa greets children on a street alongside Israel's separation wall in the biblical West Bank city Bethlehem, ahead of Christmas

Christmas reborn in Bethlehem after pandemic years

With a giant evergreen tree, colourful balloons in the streets and selfies in the Church of the Nativity, Christmas tourism has returned to Bethlehem after two years of Covid-related restrictions.

News Lens • 24 Dec 22

People attend the funerals of three of those killed in the West Bank today

Israeli forces kill 4 Palestinians in West Bank clashes

Israeli forces killed four Palestinians, including at least two militants, in the occupied West Bank today, medical officials said, as a months-long wave of violence continued.

World • 08 Dec 22

Al Jazeera said it had submitted new evidence and video footage which showed Israeli forces had 'directly fired' at journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and her colleagues

Al Jazeera takes journalist's killing to ICC

Al Jazeera has submitted the case of slain journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to the International Criminal Court, saying the veteran reporter was deliberately killed by Israeli forces.

World • 06 Dec 22

The attack came asIslamic Jihad threatened to retaliate after Israeli troops killed two of its leaders

Israel carries out strikes on Gaza after rocket attack

The Israeli air force said it carried out overnight air strikes against sites of the Islamist movement, Hamas, in Gaza, after a rocket was fired towards Israeli territory.

World • 04 Dec 22

Damaged seen after Israeli raid in Nablus, West Bank

Mass funerals after Israeli raids in West Bank kill six

Four Palestinians were killed and nearly 20 others injured in a raid by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

World • 25 Oct 22

Israeli security forces deploy near the scene of the checkpoint attack

Search in east Jerusalem after checkpoint attack

Israeli forces are searching for an assailant behind an attack that killed a soldier at an east Jerusalem checkpoint, authorities said, hours after two Palestinian teenagers were shot dead in an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank.

World • 09 Oct 22

Inside the office of the Union of Palestinian Women's Committees in Ramallah after it was raided by Israel forces

Human rights groups urge West to act over Israeli raids

Raids by Israel's security forces on Palestinian civil society groups have triggered a clamour from global human rights activists for an international response to protect the human rights organisations.

World • 28 Aug 22

Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of committing '50 massacres, 50 Holocausts' against Palestinians

Germany's Scholz 'disgusted' by Holocaust remark

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has voiced "disgust" at statements by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas in Berlin on the Holocaust, amid a growing outcry in Germany and Israel.

World • 19 Aug 22