The Latest Breaking News from Nablus

Palestinian American Amer Zahr is on a mission to heal through humor. In 2015 he started bringing fellow Arab American comedians from the United States to perform stand-up across occupied Palestinian cities including Nablus, Bethlehem and Ramallah. Seven years later, Zahr's now annual Palestine Comedy Festival is still going strong.…

The Palestinian Health Ministry said Friday a man died after Israeli forces shot him during an arrest raid near Nablus in the occupied West Bank. Salah Sawafta, 58, was in critical condition after a bullet hit his head in Tubas and he died hours later, the ministry said. Sawafta was…

Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man in Nablus and shut down the offices of seven civil society organisations.

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian youth in predawn clashes in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday, Palestinian medics said. At least 30 Palestinians were wounded, four of whom were shot with live ammunition and three of whom were in critical condition, the Palestine Red Crescent said. Palestinian…

Israel closed seven Palestinian organisations it accuses of channelling aid to militant groups on Thursday, drawing condemnation from the United Nations, which said the closures appeared "totally arbitrary".

Israel is bracing for potential operations in the West Bank in retaliation for its killing of the commander of the ruling Fatah party’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, Ibrahim al-Nabulsi, and two of his comrades on Tuesday. Nabulsi’s assassination provoked widespread Palestinian anger and subsequent clashes with Israeli forces. It came just…

Egypt has sought to contain attempts to breach the truce it had brokered between Tel Aviv and the Islamic Jihad, amid continued Israeli operations targeting leaders of Palestinian resistance factions, the most recent of which was in Nablus. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi received a telephone call on Tuesday from…

Ibrahim al-Nabulsi had been on the run for months and evaded several assassination attempts by Israeli forces.

Israeli security forces killed a Palestinian militant commander and another fighter in a gunbattle in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the military said, triggering further clashes in which Palestinians said two teens were killed in separate incidents.

Israeli forces killed four people Tuesday in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, including two teens and a man Israel said was a senior militant commander. The latest violence comes two days after a truce halted deadly conflict between the Israeli military and Islamic Jihad militants in…

Israeli police say troops killed two Palestinian gunmen in a shootout in the occupied West Bank, during an arrest operation in the city of Nablus