The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement says the recent killing of four Israelis is a “natural response” to Tel Aviv’s crimes in the occupied West Bank. “The attack is a natural response to the crimes of the occupiers,” the UK tabloid Daily Mirror quoted a commander for the Islamic movement as saying on Tuesday. Hamas spokesman [...]

Unidentified gunmen reportedly shoot and kill four Israelis travelling in their vehicle in the south of the occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank. The incident took place near the Kiryat Arba Jewish settlement close to the city of al-Khalil (Hebron) on Tuesday, AFP reported. The dead, identified as two males and two females, are [...]

Israeli occupation forces raided at dawn today the “Hamza” mosque in the town of “Seir”, east of Hebron in the West Bank. Security sources said that the Israeli occupation forces raided the mosque in the early dawn, and searched and tampered with its contents, and searched a number of houses in the town of “Seir”. [...]

Palestinian Authority (PA) police break up a gathering in the West Bank city of Ramallah, which was held to protest the upcoming direct talks with Israel. The activists had gathered in a hall in the city to oppose the new Mideast peace talks, backed by the United States, reflecting PA’s sense of vulnerability. The negotiations [...]

The Palestinians have slammed Israel for refusing to halt its illegal settlement activity in the West Bank, saying Tel Aviv has rejected a “serious” peace process. On Monday, Israeli media reported that a forum of seven top cabinet ministers would reject an expected statement from the Middle East Peace Quartet demanding the resumption of direct [...]

Hundreds of Israeli border police and security officials were deployed in occupied East Jerusalem Thursday night, witnesses said, with more hundreds more observed arriving in the area Friday morning, witnesses said. As Palestinians from the West Bank, Jerusalem and cities inside Israel make their way to the Haram Ash-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary which houses the Al-Aqsa [...]

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained today two Palestinian boys in the Old City area, in Hebron city, in the West Bank. Local sources reported that IOF detained Adel Al-Slaima, 17, from the Old City in Hebron and then transferred him to Keriat Arba settlement The sources added that they detained Majd Al-Jabari, 14, while he [...]

Israel has released an Iranian reporter after keeping him in custody for more than three hours near the Israeli-built separation barrier in the West Bank. The IRIB reporter was detained in the city of Qalqilya, located in the northwest of the West Bank, on Tuesday morning near the separation barrier. The reporter was in Qalqilya, [...]

Israeli soldiers have attacked and injured three protesters while dozens more suffered from tear gas inhalation at the weekly protest against the apartheid wall in the West Bank town of Bil’in. On Friday, Palestinian and international peace activists attended the rally against the apartheid wall, which cuts Palestinian villagers off from more than 60 percent [...]

Israel speeds up the building of its West Bank separation barrier despite Palestinian protests against the project that devours hectares of their farmland. Residents in the Palestinian village of al-Walajeh said the Israeli army picked up the pace of work on the “apartheid wall” near the town — south of al-Quds (Jerusalem) — this week, [...]

Armed Israeli settlers have attacked a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank in retaliation for Tel Aviv’s demolition of an illegal settlement outpost. Dozens of settlers from the illegal Yizhar settlement, near the city of Nablus, stormed the neighboring Burin village on Monday evening and set fire to an olive orchard, Ma’an news agency [...]

The German government has criticized the Israelis for a reported plan to separate and seal off the Gaza Strip from the rest of the Palestinian territories. Germany remains committed to a “two-state” solution with the Gaza Strip and the West Bank as a unified Palestinian nation, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on Saturday. “In [...]

The Israeli military has leveled two houses, accommodating 13 members of a Palestinian family in the occupied West Bank, claiming it had found no residents there. The demolition went ahead on Thursday, leaving the al-Shawamreh household to trawl through the debris for their belongings, AFP reported. The family reportedly had nine children. “These specific houses [...]

Palestinian officials say the Israeli army has issued orders preventing residents of four villages in the southern West Bank from entering their land. The orders declared Palestinian farms a closed military zone. They ordered farmers to evacuate and confiscated their farming equipment, Ma’an news agency quoted the mayor of Beit Ula as saying on Sunday. [...]

Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, reported that five residents suffered concussions and bruises in two separate attacks carried out by Israeli soldiers and settlers in the city. The sources stated that settlers attacked Al Baq’a area, east of Hebron, uprooted four olive trees and attacked four residents. [...]

Israeli settlement councils plan to build 2700 new settlements in the West Bank immediately after the existing settlement freeze on September 27. The plans await approval by Israeli Housing Ministry and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, daily Haaretz reported on Monday. In larger cities, plans have already been authorized, the report said. The news comes [...]

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained more than 20 Palestinians today from Dorah town in Al Khalil, in the West Bank. Witness said that IOF detained more than 20 citizens after raiding and searching their houses, adding that they beat them and forced them to leave their houses. The witness added that the majority of the [...]

The United Nations warns that Israel’s easing of West Bank blockades is not sufficient and in many areas it has not created any improvement. Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Wednesday that the easing of roadblocks has been concentrated in central parts of the West [...]

Prominent American scholar Noam Chomsky says Washington cannot apply its policy of oppression to Tehran, saying it is not in Iran’s nature to follow orders. Speaking in Beirut after Israel denied him entry into the occupied West Bank, Chomsky said the US is not concerned about what government is in power, adding that it solely [...]

Israeli settlers have shot dead a Palestinian youth in the occupied West Bank over a protest against Israelis’ obstruction of roads in the area. Palestinian security sources say the slain 14-year-old boy was from the village of Mazra’a al-Sharqia near Ramallah. The teenage boy was killed when an Israeli settler shot at a number of [...]