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Ban Ki-moon called on the perpetrators of what he called a 'terrorist act' to face justice

UN condemns Palestinian toddler killing

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the killing of an 18-month-old boy in an arson attack by suspected Jewish settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

News • 01 Aug 15

A military spokesperson said the incident was an accident

Palestinian killed by Israeli jeep in West Bank

An Israeli army jeep struck and killed a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank this morning, with the military and locals giving conflicting accounts of the circumstances.

News • 14 Jun 15

Israeli border guards at a crossing point into the West Bank

Netanyahu suspends Palestinian travel ban

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the suspension of a controversial measure banning Palestinians from riding the same buses as Jewish settlers when returning from Israel to the West Bank.

News • 20 May 15

Israeli policemen escort an ambulance transporting the Palestinian who allegedly stabbed an Israeli soldier after his arrest in Tel Aviv yesterday

Palestinian shot dead in clashes in West Bank

A young Palestinian has been shot dead during clashes with the Israeli army in the southern West Bank.

News • 11 Nov 14

Israeli soldiers patrol close to the scene, in the West Bank, where a woman was allegedly stabbed to death

US condemns stabbing attacks in Israel, West Bank

The United States has condemned a series of stabbings in Tel Aviv and the West Bank, urging both Israelis and Palestinians to ease rising tensions.

News • 11 Nov 14

Israeli security forces on duty at the separation barrier in the village of Bilin, near the West Bank city of Ramallah last week

Israel claims West Bank land for settlement

Israel has announced a land appropriation in the occupied West Bank that an anti-settlement group termed the biggest in 30 years, drawing Palestinian condemnation and a rebuke from the US.

News • 01 Sep 14

Israeli soldiers during a night raid on the West Bank village of Arura

Palestinian teen killed in West Bank arrest raids

Israeli soldiers shot dead a teenage Palestinian boy in overnight clashes in the occupied West Bank as they pressed a hunt for three missing Israeli teenagers, medical sources said.

News • 20 Jun 14

Israel blames Hamas for the disappearance of the three teenagers in the West Bank

Israel intensifies teen hunt with 30 new arrests

Israeli troops arrested 30 Palestinians in the West Bank overnight as they ramped up a massive search for three teenagers believed kidnapped by Hamas, the Israeli army said today.

News • 19 Jun 14

Decision on settlements described as attempt to undermine peace talks (Pic: EPA)

Israel criticised over settlement plans

Palestinian officials have criticised Israeli authorities over their decision to approve the construction of over 500 apartments in occupied East Jerusalem.

News • 06 Feb 14

UNICEF estimates that 700 Palestinian children are arrested in the West Bank every year

Israeli treatment of Palestinian children faulted

Palestinian children detained by the Israeli military are subject to widespread, systematic ill-treatment that violates international law, a United Nations Children Fund report has said.

News • 06 Mar 13

The UN inquiry said Israeli settlements in the West Bank violate international law

Israel must end illegal settlements - UN inquiry

United Nations human rights investigators have called on Israel to halt settlement expansion and withdraw all Jewish settlers from the occupied West Bank.

News • 31 Jan 13

Israeli border police prepare to evacuate Palestinian protesters from the scene in the controversial West Bank area known as E1

Israel evacuates people from area of West Bank

Israeli security forces have evacuated an area in the West Bank in which about 100 Palestinian and international activists had pitched tents as a protest against Israeli plans to build a settlement there.

News • 14 Jan 13

Israel plans to build 3,000 new settlement units in the West Bank

Gilmore calls on Israel to halt settlements

Minister for Foreign Affairs Eamon Gilmore has called on the Israeli government to withdraw its plans to expand Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

News • 04 Dec 12

Israeli reserve soldiers and army vehicles depart the Gaza border area following Wednesday's truce

Israeli gunfire kills man near Gaza border

The Health Ministry in Gaza has said a Palestinian man has died after being shot near a border fence by Israeli soldiers.

News • 23 Nov 12

A woman holds a key saying 'Haifa, we will return for sure'

Thousands of Palestinians mark Nakba Day

Thousands of Palestinians have taken to the streets of the West Bank and Gaza in memory of the "catastrophe" which befell them when Israel was founded in 1948.

News • 15 May 12

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