WEST BANK: In the occupied West Bank, OCHA reported that violence is continuing due to the olive harvest season, which started on October 9. There have been over 85 attacks by settlers on Palestinian farmers and their land, disrupting the harvest, injuring more than 110 people, and damaging over 3,000 trees in 50 villages. [...]

WEST BANK: A total of 88 Palestinians were freed from Israeli prisons and sent to the occupied West Bank. The other nearly 2,000 individuals, including about 1,700 Palestinians taken from Gaza during the war and held without charges, were returned to Gaza. A few of them would continue on to neighboring countries. Israel released [...]

WEST BANK: A senior official from the United Arab Emirates cautioned Israel on Tuesday that taking over the West Bank would cross a “red line” and would “end the vision of regional integration.” This warning came just two days before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to have an important meeting with his ministers about [...]

WEST BANK: Israel has officially approved a debated settlement project in the occupied West Bank that would divide the area into two. Palestinians and human rights organizations argue that this could ruin hopes for establishing a future Palestinian state. As Israel continues to expand settlements, life is becoming harder for Palestinians in the occupied West [...]

WEST BANK: US House Speaker Mike Johnson has made a rare and controversial visit to the Israeli settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank. During his trip, Johnson declared the territory as “rightfully” Jewish, a statement welcomed by Israeli settlement leaders but strongly condemned by Palestinian officials and international bodies. Critics view the visit [...]

WEST BANK: A Palestinian American lost his life in the Israeli-occupied West Bank last week during a clash with settlers, U.S. officials reported. Khamis Ayyad, who was in his 40s, passed away on Thursday from smoke inhalation in Silwad, a village located in the central West Bank close to several Israeli settlements, as stated by [...]

WEST BANK: In the village of Susiya, located in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinians believed their situation couldn’t get any worse as Jewish settlers attacked them repeatedly and destroyed their beloved olive trees. Then, armed settlers began to target their water sources. The people of Susiya accuse these Israeli settlers of cutting water pipes and [...]

WEST BANK: For three decades, Mohammad Abu Zahra, a Palestinian from the southern West Bank, was employed in construction in Israel. This job offered a relatively good salary, significantly higher than what similar work would pay in the West Bank. Over 21 months into the conflict, the number of work permits has not recovered. Most [...]

West Bank: The United Nations reported that an Israeli military operation initiated in January in the northern part of the occupied territory has displaced tens of thousands of individuals, leading to worries about potential "ethnic cleansing." Since the start of Israel's "Iron Wall" operation in the northern West Bank, approximately 30,000 Palestinians have been forcibly [...]

West Bank: A 5th-century church and an ancient Christian cemetery were severely vandalized by Israeli settlers in Taybeh, the last Christian town in the West Bank. The priests from the Latin, Greek Catholic, and Greek Orthodox churches in Taybeh issued a strong appeal to the international community, expressing their grave concern over the escalating and [...]