Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has informed the commander of the Israeli border police's West Bank undercover unit that he was being promoted, after two of his subordinates executed unarmed Palestinians who attempted to surrender, Haaretz reported...
HRW Says Israel’s ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ of West Bank Refugee Camps Amounts to War Crimes
Human Rights Watch said in a report on Thursday that the Israeli military's forced displacement of Palestinians in three refugee camps in the northern Israeli-occupied West Bank amounts to "ethnic cleansing" and "war crimes." The IDF began a major military offensive...
Israeli Settlers Beat Palestinian Journalist in Attack on Olive Harvest in the West Bank
A Palestinian journalist who works for Reuters was beaten on Saturday by Jewish settlers who attacked an olive harvest south of the city of Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Settlers from an illegal outpost nearby descended on a group of about 40 people,...
Israeli Knesset Advances Bill To Annex the West Bank During Vance Visit
The Israeli Knesset on Wednesday advanced a bill to annex the Israeli-occupied West Bank as Vice President JD Vance is visiting Israel. According to Haaretz, the bill to annex the Palestinian territory passed a preliminary vote in a vote of 25-24 and still needs to go...
Israel’s Smotrich Says West Bank Villages Should Be Destroyed Like Cities in Gaza After Jerusalem Shooting
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Monday that villages in the Israeli-occupied West Bank should look like cities in Gaza that have been reduced to rubble in response to the shooting at a bus stop in Jerusalem that killed six Israelis. Smotrich, a West...
In Visit to Illegal West Bank Settlement, Netanyahu Says He Kept 25-Year-Old Promise To Thwart a Palestinian State
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited a Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Sunday and said that he had fulfilled a promise to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state that he made to the settlers 25 years ago. According to The...
Smotrich Announces Major West Bank Settlement Expansion To ‘Bury the Idea of a Palestinian State’
The Israeli government is moving forward with a plan for the massive expansion of illegal Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank that would cut off the northern part of the Palestinian territory from its southern regions, a plan Israeli Finance Minister...
Israeli Knesset Passes Non-Binding Resolution Calling for the Annexation of the West Bank
The Israeli Knesset on Wednesday passed a non-binding resolution that calls for the annexation of the occupied West Bank, a symbolic show of support for the total takeover of the Palestinian territory. The motion passed in a vote of 71-13, with two opposition parties...
Israel Transfers Important West Bank Mosque to Settler Control
The Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank is incredibly important to Muslims dating back over 2,000 years. Israel occupied the mosque in 1967 and converted half of it to an important Jewish shrine called the Cave of the Patriarchs. The site has been a source of tension in...
Church Leaders Visit Christian West Bank Village Under Israeli Settler Attack
The leaders of Christian churches in the Holy Land visited the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Monday to show support amid increasing settler attacks. The Council of Patriarchs and Heads of Churches of Jerusalem said in a...


