The Latest Breaking News from the West Bank

The surprise attack on Israel has brought the militant group back into the spotlight. A Hamas official tells NPR the attack was meant in part to lead to the release of Palestinians in Israeli jails.

Israeli forces have killed dozens of Palestinians in West Bank following Hamas terror attacks which left hundreds of Israelis dead

The scale of Hamas’ attack on Israel on 7 and 8 October is unprecedented and the failure of the Israeli army and secret services, astonishing. Yet for observers such as former Israeli ambassador to France, Elie Barnavi, the events that have unfolded in the region over the past days were…

Set up in the mid-90s as an interim body on the path to Palestinian statehood, the PA faces a crisis of legitimacy

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict was reignited once again on October 7 after a surprise offensive launched by Hamas against Israel. In retaliation, Israel ordered air strikes and a "complete siege" of the Gaza Strip, the Hamas-run Palestinian enclave. This is a new deadly episode in a conflict that has its roots…

The causes of this conflict are deep-rooted and complex, spanning at least two centuries

Hamas attack compared to Yom Kippur War; Israel's largest reserve mobilization

It’s killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions. And its future lies in its past. We break it down.

In hindsight, the drivers of Hamas’s startlingly well-planned, land-sea-air attack on Israel on Saturday were in plain sight.