The Latest Breaking News from the West Bank

Israeli media said the military also conducted airstrikes, reviving a tactic it had largely halted during the past two decades.

Israeli forces hit the city of Jenin with drone strikes during an operation on Monday that included hundreds of troops and set off a gunbattle lasting into the morning, killing at least five people in a major escalation of West Bank violence.

Religious nationalists emboldened now their representatives are major players in Benjamin Netanyahu’s new administration

The last time that I visited the West Bank, occupied by Israel since 1967, was almost 20 years ago. In a camp outside Bethlehem a delightful 31-year-old woman named Hanavi Ramban, mother of five children, said to me: “A Palestinian state is the only hope for us the refugees, who…

The killing of a young father during a rampage through his quiet village underlines the impossible options for Palestinians in the occupied territories

The U.N. Security Council is urging Israel and the Palestinians to avoid actions that can further inflame tensions in the volatile West Bank

Calls grow for the Palestinian Authority to protect Palestinians against increasing violent settler attacks.

Israeli media say the country's far-right government has approved plans to build over 5,000 of new homes in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank

Israeli police say that a Palestinian assailant has opened fire at an Israeli military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank before being shot and killed

White House comments come after US ambassador to Israel said Washington will not ‘stand by and watch settler violence’.

Israel’s security agency says it has detained three Israeli settlers on suspicion of involvement in mass rampages through Palestinian towns in the occupied West Bank this week following the killing of four Israelis