The Latest Breaking News from the West Bank

Scale of death and destruction in Gaza, and the violence of settlers in the West Bank, has shifted public opinion in the EU

Violence against children caught in multiple and escalating conflicts reached “unprecedented levels” last year, with the highest number of violations in Gaza and the West Bank, Congo, Somalia, Nigeria and Haiti, according to a new United Nations report

As the world focuses on Israel’s war with Iran, violence against Palestinians has scaled up in the occupied territories.

The UK’s decision to impose sanctions on two far-right Netanyahu government ministers has put it at loggerheads with the Trump administration over Israel. Announcing on June 10 that Britain would join Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Norway in sanctioning Israel’s minister for national security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and minister of finance,…

Israeli forces seal entrances of several cities and villages in occupied Palestinian territory amid conflict with Iran.

Brent Council voted to twin with the West Bank city of Nablus at a meeting in May

Nidal Umairah tried to talk to Israeli soldiers before he was attacked, and then killed, along with his brother Khaled.

Australia, together with the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Norway, has imposed sanctions on two ministers in the Israeli government for “inciting violence against Palestinians in the West Bank”.

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New Zealand and Norway also impose measures on Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich

IN DEPTH: Masafer Yatta, a collection of villages in the West Bank, has long been a target of forced evictions and settler attacks. After the month of May saw a village almost entirely wiped out and the announcement of 22 new Israeli settlements, Palestinians are losing hope, Alex Croft reports