On Wednesday night, Jewish settlers attacked the town of Kafr Malik east of Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, resulting in the killing of three Palestinians by the Israeli military. According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, dozens of settlers rampaged...
Israeli Minister Calls for Israeli Control Over Syria and Lebanon
Unusually far-right even in the generally far-right Israeli cabinet, Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu has sparked some new controversy today in a speech to an ultra-nationalist youth conference, where he called for Israel to have full control over both Syria and...
Israeli Defense Minister: ‘We Will Build a Jewish Israeli State’ in the West Bank
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz declared on Friday that Israel would build a "Jewish Israeli state" in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Katz's comments came a day after the Israeli government approved 22 additional West Bank settlements, which are illegal under...
Israel Approves Biggest West Bank Settlement Expansion in Over 30 Years
Israel has approved the establishment of 22 Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank as it continues its policy of the de facto annexation of the Palestinian territory. Peace Now, an Israeli settlement watchdog, said the approval marks the biggest...
Israeli Troops Kill Five Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank
On Tuesday, the Palestinian Authority said that Israeli troops killed at least five Palestinians in the occupied West Bank over the previous 24-hour period as the Israeli military continued raids in the territory as part of an operation that was launched in January....
House Foreign Affairs Chair Tells Staff to Refer to Israeli-Occupied West Bank as ‘Judea and Samaria’
Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee who previously volunteered with the Israeli military, has ordered committee staff to refer to the Israeli-occupied West Bank as "Judea and Samaria," a biblical name the state of Israel uses to refer...
Israeli Defense Minister Says 40,000 Forcibly Displaced Palestinians in West Bank Cannot Return Home
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Sunday that the Israeli military has forcibly displaced 40,000 Palestinians in the northern occupied West Bank and that they couldn't return home as the IDF will be operating in the area over the next year, raising fears of a...
Netanyahu Orders West Bank Escalation After Empty Buses Explode in Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered a massive escalation in the Israeli-occupied West Bank after three empty buses exploded in the Israeli city of Bat Yam near Tel Aviv, The Times of Israel reported on Thursday. "The Prime Minister has ordered the...
Israeli Military Kills Pregnant Woman in West Bank as It Expands Raids
On Sunday, a pregnant Palestinian woman was among two women killed by Israeli forces during a raid in the Nur Shams refugee camp near the northern West Bank city of Tulkarm. Sundus Shalabi, 23, who was eight months pregnant, was shot by Israeli gunfire while traveling...
Israeli Settler Leaders Welcome Trump’s Call for Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza
Israeli settler leaders have welcomed President Trump's call for Palestinians to be removed from the Gaza Strip, which would amount to ethnic cleansing, and are calling for his plans to be implemented. On Tuesday, Trump had called for Palestinians to be removed from...