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Israeli policy in West Bank 'close to ethnic cleansing', says Ehud Olmert

The former Israeli premier decried his country's actions and policy in the West Bank just as the Israeli government announced radical plans to exert control of even more Palestinian territory.

Euronews

Israel's security cabinet approves measures to strengthen control over the West Bank

Israel's security cabinet has approved measures to strengthen control over the occupied West Bank and weaken the powers of the Palestinian Authority

The Independent UK

Friday briefing: Why a growing number of experts say Israel is practising apartheid

In today’s newsletter: As Gaza’s crossings reopen only partially and displacement accelerates in the West Bank, claims of systematic domination are being made by human rights groups, legal scholars and former Israeli officials

The Guardian - UK

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Revealed: Private jet owned by Trump friend used by ICE to deport Palestinians to West Bank

Exclusive: Luxury aircraft owned by property tycoon close to US president’s family has twice flown Palestinian men from Arizona to Tel Aviv

The Guardian - UK

‘A violation of our history’: Palestinian uproar over Israel’s plan to seize historic West Bank site

Residents of Sebastia say heritage project is pretext for massive land grab and expansion of Jewish settlements

The Guardian - UK

C of E bishops criticise UK inaction over Israel’s ‘West Bank de facto annexation’

Three bishops accuse British government of contributing to ‘culture of impunity’ in the occupied territory

The Guardian - UK

Assembling child health facilities shows our ‘solidarity’ with Gaza – Swinney

Scottish charity Kids Operating Room plans to set up paediatric health centres in the West Bank and Gaza.

Evening Standard

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Settler-only IDF units functioning as ‘vigilante militias’ in West Bank

Exclusive: ‘Regional defence’ settler units are escalating violent displacement of Palestinians, Israeli reservists and activists say

The Guardian - UK

Israeli diplomat pledges to investigate case of Italian officers held at gunpoint in West Bank

Italy says Israel’s ambassador has pledged an investigation after two Italian officers were held up by an Israeli with an automatic weapon in the West Bank

The Independent UK

‘I wish I had the power to ease his suffering’: Gaza’s cancer patients trapped by war and blockade

Thousands of Palestinian cancer patients are living without treatment as they await medical evacuation

The Guardian - UK

Israel's settler movement takes victory lap as a sparse outpost becomes a settlement within a month

Israeli settlers are celebrating the inauguration of a new settlement in the West Bank on land where Israel and the U.S. once hoped to build a hospital for Palestinian children

The Independent UK

Palestinian committee set to govern Gaza under US supervision meets in Cairo

The Palestinian committee set to govern Gaza under U.S. supervision has met for the first time in Cairo and pledged to get to work quickly

The Independent UK

‘The settlers brought the violence’: the ethnic cleansing of a West Bank village

Ras ‘Ein al ‘Auja is a community of about 135 families – and the only one remaining in this part of the Jordan valley

The Guardian - UK

Israel clears final hurdle to start settlement construction that would cut the West Bank in two

A government tender says Israel has cleared the final hurdle before starting construction on a controversial settlement project near Jerusalem that would effectively cut the West Bank in two

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The Guardian - UK

Israel pushes ahead with vast illegal settlement in heart of West Bank

Exclusive: Tender posted for construction of 3,401 homes in settlement designed to ‘bury idea of a Palestinian state’

Euronews

Israeli parliament votes down Beitar Illit annexation bill

The Israeli parliament voted against a bill to annex Beitar Illit, a large settlement in the West Bank. The vote took place on Wednesday, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was visiting the US.

Latin Times

Trump Reportedly Asked Netanyahu To 'Calm Things Down' In The West Bank During Mar-a-Lago Meeting

President Donald Trump and other top aides asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to "calm things down" in the West Bank to prevent further escalation in the region and risk undermining the Abraham Accords, according to a new report.

Axios

Trump, top aides asked Netanyahu to change policy in occupied West Bank

Trump asked Netanyahu to avoid provocative steps and "calm things down,"

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Euronews

Trump says Hamas has short period to disarm or 'there'll be hell to pay' after Netanyahu talks

Trump said he expected the reconstruction of Gaza to begin "pretty soon" but gave no further details about a timeline or who would be responsible for the construction.

The Guardian - UK

‘A gift that cannot be sold’: the Palestinian family fighting to save their West Bank farm

For more than three decades, the Nassars have battled Israeli efforts to reclassify their property as ‘state land’

The Independent UK

3 Palestinians arrested on suspicion of torching a Christmas tree at a Catholic church in West Bank

Three Palestinians have been arrested on suspicion of setting fire to a Christmas tree and damaging a Nativity scene at a Catholic Church in the West Bank city of Jenin

Evening Standard

Ireland joins international condemnation of new West Bank settlements

Helen McEntee and 13 counterparts co-signed a statement condemning new Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

The Independent UK

Thousands flock to Bethlehem to revive Christmas spirit after 2 years of war in Gaza

After two years of subdued Christmas celebrations due to war, thousands of people flocked to Bethlehem's Manger Square on Christmas Eve

The Independent UK

The West Bank brewery battling Israeli blocks to export rare Palestinian beer to the UK

IN FOCUS: Taybeh Brewery, which exports to the UK and beyond, has seen sales plummet by 70 per cent since 7 October. Its staff tell The Independent about how Israeli export controls, settler attacks and a struggling local economy have made business difficult, Alex Croft writes

Euronews

Israel approves proposal for 19 new Jewish settlements in West Bank

The decision is a harsh blow to the Palestinian state and brings the total number of new settlements over the past few years to 69.

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