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After more than 80 Israeli captives have been released by Hamas in return for 180 Palestinian prisoners, Israel has accused Hamas of breaking the ceasefire agreement.

While the world remains fixated on the devastating October 7 Hamas attacks and the subsequent Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, there has been a pronounced – and mostly unnoticed – escalation in violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Protesters have denounced state-owned Israeli company Mekorot for its human rights record as it expands in Argentina.

When Israeli warplanes swooped over the Gaza Strip following Hamas militants’ brutal attack on southern Israel, Palestinians say a different kind of war took hold in the occupied West Bank

Communities who have clung on for decades are leaving their homes in the face of rising attrition by Israelis

Israel can’t afford to cast a blind eye on settler violence

Dozens of Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank in the days after Hamas' attack on southern Israel.

Palestinians in the territory are facing a harsh crackdown from Israeli forces and threats to their lives from settlers

Across the dusty villages of the occupied West Bank, where Israeli water pipes don’t reach, Palestinians say they can't get enough water to wash their clothes — let alone irrigate their farms

Attacks on Palestinian homes and farms in the West Bank have continued to multiply since the formation of Israel’s new ultra-nationalist government, the most right-wing in Israeli history, following elections in November 2022. Israeli settlers have been documented using a new strategy to seize land: accusing Palestinian farmers of stealing…

Palestinian killed as settlers backed by the Israeli army burn dozens of houses, cars in West Bank in revenge attacks.