The Latest Breaking News from Ramallah

The Palestinian villages south of Nablus face severe settler violence and warn the assaults will only increase.

Human rights groups say Israel stepped up arrests in the occupied West Bank during the war. Only a fraction of those arrested have been released as part of hostage and prisoner exchanges.

Tahseen Ali Ahmad, Kinnan Abdalhamid and Hisham Awartani, all 20, are childhood friends and ‘incredibly tight’ – especially now

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Dozens of women and children released from prison in Israel were held without trial or charge, a practice rights group says violates international law, writes Bel Trew

A red keffiyeh scarf around her neck and a beaming smile on her face, Rouba Assi fell into her friends' arms after being freed from an Israeli prison.

Elizabeth Price's son Hisham Awartani was one of three men of Palestinian descent shot on Saturday in Vermont. Speaking to NPR from Ramallah, Price fears her son "is confronting a life of disability."

In Palestinian cities in the occupied West Bank, long the turf of president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party, the green flag of Islamist rival Hamas is flying ever higher thanks to prisoner-hostage exchanges.

Thirty-nine Palestinian women and children were released from Israeli jails on Friday during a pause in fighting.

Indian woman Lubna Nazir Shaboo and her daughter safely reach Egypt from Gaza after Indian missions in the region help with their evacuation. They crossed Rafah border crossing and move to Cairo. Indian missions in Ramallah, Tel Aviv and Cairo helped make evacuation possible.

As Palestinians in the West Bank protest against Israel’s war on Gaza, they’re facing increasing attacks themselves.