The Latest Breaking News from West Bank

The PA reportedly withdrew a draft resolution against illegal Israeli settlements following a deal with the US.

Israeli troops killed 11 Palestinians, including at least four gunmen and four civilians, and wounded more than 100 people during a Wednesday raid on a city in the occupied West Bank, witnesses, militant groups and medical officials said.

The UN Security Council unanimously approved a watered-down statement strongly opposing Israel’s continued construction and expansion of settlements Monday. The vote came after high-stakes negotiations by the Biden administration succeeded in derailing a legally binding resolution that would have demanded a halt to Israeli settlement activity. The Palestinian-backed draft resolution…

The talks are an effort to de-escalate rising tensions in the occupied West Bank, three sources told Axios.

The U.N. Security Council issued a formal statement on Monday denouncing Israel's plan to expand settlements on occupied Palestinian territory, the first action the United States has allowed the body to take against its ally Israel in six years.

Israel has told the Biden administration it will rein in the approval of new West Bank settlement outposts

The UAE, which had drafted the resolution, has dropped the vote apparently amid US pressure, reports say.

Israel will not authorize new settlements in the occupied West Bank in the coming months, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Monday, after behind-the-scenes talks to head off a planned UN Security Council vote on the contested issue. Netanyahu's religious-nationalist coalition on Feb. 12 granted retroactive authorization to nine…

Israel will not authorise new settlements in the occupied West Bank in the coming months, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Monday, after behind-the-scenes talks to head off a planned U.N. Security Council vote on the contested issue.