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Video: Israeli soldiers party in Palestinian home after forcefully evicting family in West Bank
A video circulating on social media shows Israeli soldiers celebrating a comrade’s birthday inside a Palestinian home after forcibly evicting its residents. The incident took place in Jaba, a town in the…
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Israel OKs more settlements in West Bank as Gaza strikes kill at least 13
Jerusalem: Israel announced Thursday, May 29, it will establish 22 Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, including the legalisation of outposts already built without government authorisation. Israeli strikes on the Gaza…
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Israeli soldiers fire at European diplomatic delegation visiting West Bank
Israeli soldiers fired “warning shots” near a diplomatic delegation who were on an official visit to view humanitarian conditions around the Jenin camp in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, May 21.…
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Israeli army kills Palestinian suspect in West Bank
Jerusalem: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that its forces shot and killed a Palestinian man who ran toward them carrying a suspected booby-trapped bag in the West Bank…
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Israeli forces to demolish over 100 homes in West Bank, local governor says
Jerusalem: Israeli forces were preparing on Friday to carry out home demolitions across two northern urban refugee camps in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to the governor of one of the camps…
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Israel arrest prominent Palestinian journalist in West Bank
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have arrested prominent Palestinian journalist Ali Al-Samoudi following a raid on his son’s home in the Al-Zahraa neighbourhood of Jenin, located in the northern occupied West Bank. The…
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Escalation in West Bank: Raids, settler attacks, and mass displacement
Deir Al-Balah: After the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, ignited the devastating war in Gaza, a deadly new reality also took hold for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. With the…
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12-year-old Palestinian boy killed by Israeli army in West Bank
Ramallah: A 12-year-old Palestinian boy was killed during clashes with the Israeli army in the town of Yamoun, southwest of Jenin in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. In…
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Israel rescues 10 Indian workers held in West Bank for a month
Jerusalem: Ten construction workers from India were rescued overnight from a West Bank village where they had been held for over a month after being stripped of their passports, Israeli Population and…
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Israeli army kills Hamas commander in West Bank
Ramallah: The Israeli army has killed a senior Qassam Brigades commander and another Palestinian during a large-scale military operation in the eastern neighbourhood of the northern West Bank city of Jenin. According…
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Israeli forces to remain in some West Bank camps for ‘coming year’: Defence minister
Tel Aviv: Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said Sunday he has instructed the military to prepare to remain in some of the occupied West Bank’s urban refugee camps “for the coming year”.…
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Israel deploys tanks in northern West Bank for first time since 2002
The Israeli army deployed tanks in the northern occupied West Bank on Sunday, February 23, for the first time since Operation Defensive Shield in 2002. The move is reportedly aimed at “strengthening…
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Israeli forces kill two Palestinian children in West Bank
At least two Palestinian children were shot dead by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) gunfire in two separate incidents on Friday, February 21, in the occupied West Bank. According to the Palestinian Ministry…
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Israel blocks displaced Palestinians from returning to Jenin refugee camp
Israeli forces have barred displaced Palestinians from returning to their homes in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, February 19. Thousands of Palestinians gathered at the main…
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Israel orders intensified West Bank raids after bus explosions
Jerusalem: Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has ordered the military to escalate raids in refugee camps in the occupied West Bank following a series of bus explosions, which he said were “a…
