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April 1, 2026 2:22 PM

Jailed Palestinians fear death by hanging without due process under new Israeli law

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank voiced fears on Tuesday that their jailed relatives could be hanged without due process after Israel adopted a new law making the death penalty the default sentence for Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks. The law would also apply to Israeli citizens, but by defining the lethal attacks in question as those "negating Israel's existence" it would be very unlikely that it would be used against Jewish Israelis, critics say. The law, which passed late on ...

March 16, 2026 9:25 AM

Israeli forces kill 16 people in Gaza and the West Bank, medics say

Israeli forces killed 16 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, health officials said, in one of the heaviest death tolls in a single day in weeks, as Israel continued to launch attacks on Lebanon and Iran. Medics and the interior ministry of the Hamas-run Gaza said an Israeli airstrike killed a senior police official and eight other officers when it hit their vehicle near the entrance to Zawayda town in the central Gaza Strip. At least 14 other people, mostly bystanders, were wounde...

February 16, 2026 11:40 AM

Israeli cabinet approves West Bank land registration, Palestinians condemn ‘de-facto annexation’

Israel's cabinet on Sunday approved further measures to tighten Israel's control over the occupied West Bank and make it easier for settlers to buy land, a move Palestinians called a "de-facto annexation". The West Bank is among the territories that Palestinians seek for a future independent state. Much of it is under Israeli military control, with limited Palestinian self-rule in some areas run by the Western-backed Palestinian Authority. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is faci...

January 20, 2026 3:22 PM

Israel demolishes buildings in UN Palestinian agency’s East Jerusalem compound

Israel demolished structures inside the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency's East Jerusalem compound on Tuesday after seizing the site last year, in an act condemned by the agency as a violation of international law. Surrounded by Israeli forces, bulldozers razed several large buildings and other smaller structures inside the United Nations Relief and Works Agency's compound, where dozens of agency staff once worked. UNRWA, which has been accused of bias by Israel, has not used the building since...

December 5, 2025 9:29 AM

Anti-Hamas Gazan tribal leader killed in setback for Israeli policy

The head of an armed Palestinian faction that opposes Hamas in Gaza died while mediating a family dispute, the group said on Thursday, in what would be a blow to Israeli efforts to support Gazan clans against the Islamist movement. Yasser Abu Shabab, a Bedouin tribal leader based in Israeli-held Rafah in southern Gaza, had led the most prominent of several small anti-Hamas groups that emerged in Gaza during the war that began more than two years ago. His death would be a boost to Hamas, which ...

November 29, 2025 9:10 AM

UN says Israeli forces’ killing of two West Bank Palestinians looks like ‘summary execution’

The United Nations said on Friday that the killing of two Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank by Israeli security forces the previous day appeared to be a "summary execution." In footage captured by Palestine TV, Israeli security forces opened fire at two men in the northern West Bank city of Jenin after they appeared to have surrendered. The men were seen leaving the building and lifting their shirts before lying on the ground in apparent surrender. The forces then appeared to direct th...

November 28, 2025 9:45 AM

Israeli forces kill two Palestinians in West Bank who appeared to be surrendering

Israeli security forces shot two Palestinian men on Thursday who appeared to be surrendering and unarmed during a raid in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestine TV news footage showed. In the footage, the men are seen exiting a building surrounded by armed Israeli forces in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, lifting their shirts and lying on the ground in an apparent surrender. The forces then appeared to direct the men back inside the building before opening fire at close range. A Reute...

October 28, 2025 12:15 PM

Israeli forces kill three Palestinian militants in the West Bank, police say

Israeli security forces killed three Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, a police spokesperson said. The forces shot at the militants who were planning attacks in the area of Jenin refugee camp, then also struck by air, according to Israeli police and the Israeli military. There was no immediate comment from Palestinian officials. A wide scale Israeli military operation launched in January in the Jenin camp, long been a stronghold of militant groups including Hamas and...

October 24, 2025 9:41 AM

Trump dismisses bid by some Israeli lawmakers to annex West Bank

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday dismissed an effort by some Israeli lawmakers to push forward with annexation of the occupied West Bank, saying Israel is "not going to do anything with the West Bank." A bill applying Israeli law to the West Bank, a move tantamount to annexation of a territory that Palestinians seek for part of a future independent state, won preliminary approval by Israeli lawmakers on Wednesday. U.S. Vice President JD Vance said earlier during a visit to Israel that T...

October 2, 2025 10:20 AM

Israel stops 13 Gaza aid boats, organisers say, sparking international criticism

Israeli forces have stopped 13 boats carrying foreign activists and aid bound for Gaza, but 30 boats are continuing to sail towards the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave, flotilla organisers said on Thursday. A video from the Israeli foreign ministry verified by Reuters showed the most prominent of the flotilla's passengers, Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, sitting on a deck surrounded by soldiers. "Several vessels of the Hamas-Sumud flotilla have been safely stopped and their passenge...