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Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich holds a map of an area near the settlement of Maale Adumim in the West Bank

Ireland signs statement condemning Israeli West Bank plan

Ireland is among 21 countries to sign a joint statement calling Israel's approval of a major settlement project in the West Bank "unacceptable and a violation of international law".

Middle East • 21 Aug

A man walks past the headquarters of the Norges Bank Investment Management with two planters full of yellow flowers outside

Norway wealth fund excludes six companies linked to Gaza

Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, said today it had decided to exclude six companies with connections to the West Bank and Gaza from its portfolio, following an ethics review of its Israeli investments.

Business • 18 Aug

UN calls East Jerusalem settlement plan a 'war crime'

The UN human rights office has described Israel's decision to build a new settlement near East Jerusalem as a "war crime".

Middle East • 15 Aug

Israeli settlement plan would 'bury' Palestinian state

Israel's far-right Minister for Finance Bezalel Smotrich has announced that work will start on a long-delayed settlement to divide the West Bank and cut if off from East Jerusalem.

Middle East • 14 Aug

Palestinians rush up a hill next to fires as they try to chase off Israeli settlers in the village of Sinjil, in the occupied West Bank

Calls for probe after settlers kill American in West Bank

A US-Palestinian man has been killed in an Israeli settler attack in the occupied West Bank, his family has said, demanding that Washington launch an investigation into his death.

Middle East • 12 Jul

A Palestinian resident of Rammun village north east of Ramallah stands next to a car damaged by Israeli settlers

Arab ministers condemn Israel 'ban' on West Bank visit

The foreign ministers of five Arab countries who had planned to visit the occupied West Bank this weekend, condemned Israel's decision to block their trip.

Middle East • 31 May

Israeli tanks and bulldozers take positions in the Jenin camp for Palestinian refugees, in the occupied West Bank

Israeli tanks enter West Bank for first time in 20 years

Israel has sent tanks into the occupied West Bank for the first time in more than 20 years as it ordered the military to prepare for an "extended stay" to fight Palestinian militant groups in the area's refugee camps.

Middle East • 23 Feb

Hamas fighters escort Israeli hostages before handing them over to a Red Cross team in Gaza over the weekend

Israeli military to 'significantly reinforce' around Gaza

The Israeli military has said it would "significantly reinforce" areas around Gaza after Hamas announced its intention to postpone the release of Israeli hostages, part of a truce agreement for the territory.

Middle East • 10 Feb

Israeli forces conduct a raid in the Nur Shams camp for Palestinian refugees near Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank

Palestinians say Israeli forces kill 3 in West Bank raid

The Palestinian health ministry reported that Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank shot dead three people, including a woman who was eight months pregnant, while the military said it had "targeted terrorists" in a raid.

Middle East • 10 Feb

The Israeli army carried out a large-scale military operation in the city of Tulkarm and Tulkarm camp in the West Bank

Israeli forces kill two in West Bank raids - Palestinians

The Palestinian health ministry said that Israeli forces killed two people in separate overnight raids in the occupied West Bank, including one in Jenin where the Israeli military is conducting a major offensive.

Middle East • 29 Jan

Israeli military vehicles and construction equipment patrol the streets and alleys as the Israeli army continues its attacks

Jenin residents leave homes amid Israeli West Bank raid

Israeli drones fitted with loudspeakers ordered people to leave their homes in Jenin, residents said, as the military demolished a number of houses on the third day of a major operation in the West Bank city.

Middle East • 24 Jan

Josep Borrell seen speaking EU foreign ministers today, including Tánaiste Micheál Martin

EU's Borrell eyes sanctions on two Israeli ministers

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said he has asked the bloc's members to consider imposing sanctions on two Israeli ministers for "hate messages" against Palestinians, messages that he said broke international law.

Middle East • 29 Aug 24

A road destroyed in Israeli raids on the West Bank today

Israel approves biggest West Bank land seizure in decades

Israel has approved its biggest land seizure in the occupied West Bank in more than three decades, a move criticised by activists as detrimental to hopes of a peace agreement with Palestinians.

Middle East • 03 Jul 24

Volker Turk said at least 505 Palestinians had been killed in the West Bank

UN decries 'unfathomable' killings in the West Bank

The UN's rights chief has demanded an end to violence in the occupied West Bank, saying it was "unfathomable" that more than 500 Palestinians had been killed there since 7 October.

World • 04 Jun 24

Civil Defence Authority teams remove bodies from under the rubble in Khan Yunis, Gaza

Dozens of bodies found buried at Gaza hospital

Gaza's civil defence has said dozens of bodies had been found buried at a Gaza hospital complex previously raided by Israel, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to ramp up military pressure on Hamas.

Middle East • 21 Apr 24

Smoke billowing over Khan Younis following Israeli bombardment

Israel checking if attack killed senior Hamas commander

Israel's military has said it has been trying to confirm whether Hamas's deputy military leader had been killed in an airstrike on an underground compound in central Gaza.

Middle East • 11 Mar 24

Israeli soldiers protecting Jewish settlers who launched an attack on the Palestinian town of Deir Sharaf following a shooting that killed an Israeli

US imposes sanctions over 'intolerable' settler violence

The US has imposed sanctions on a handful of extremist Jewish settlers over violence against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, in a rare step against Israelis as war rages with Hamas, officials said.

Middle East • 01 Feb 24

The Security Council 'expressed sorrow for the loss of civilian lives'

United Nations urges restraint amid West Bank violence

The UN Security Council has expressed sadness over the recent deaths of civilians in violence in the occupied West Bank and urged all parties to "refrain from unilateral actions that further inflame tensions."

World • 27 Jun 23

Jewish settlers carried out attacks in various parts of the West Bank after the killing of 4 Israelis

Israel admits failings over fatal West Bank attacks

The Israeli army acknowledged it "failed" to prevent an attack by Jewish settlers on a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank, during which one villager was killed.

World • 23 Jun 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 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

Locals inspect the car where the men were killed in Jenin

Three Palestinians killed in Israeli army raid in Jenin

Three Palestinians were killed and ten others were wounded this morning during an Israeli army raid in Jenin, a stronghold of armed Palestinian factions in the occupied West Bank.

World • 17 Jun 22

Al Jazeera journalist shot dead in West Bank

A journalist with Al Jazeera has been shot dead while she was covering a raid by Israeli troops in the West Bank's refugee camp.

World • 11 May 22

The Israeli government has approved the construction of 1,355 Israeli Jewish settlement units in the West Bank

US 'deeply concerned' about planned Israeli settlements

The US has voiced concern about Israel's decision to build settlements in the West Bank, saying it will "strongly oppose" such expansion on occupied Palestinian land.

World • 26 Oct 21

An Israeli bulldozer during demolition of a Bedouin encampment in the north of the occupied West Bank

Ireland joins UN calls for Israel to stop demolitions

The United Nations, Ireland, and four other European members of the Security Council have called on Israel to stop demolitions of Bedouin settlements in the Jordan Valley.

Israel • 27 Feb 21