Category: West Bank

UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory Francesca Albanese announced Monday that she is withdrawing from the Hay Festival in protest of the event’s partnership with…

Israeli occupation forces demolished, Monday, two Palestinian commercial structures east of Qalqilia, in the northwestern West Bank, continuing a pattern of targeted destruction across Area C of the occupied West…

On Monday, Israeli forces abducted seven Palestinian citizens, including the mother of a detainee, in the West Bank governorates of Nablus, Tubas, Tulkarem, and Hebron. Occupation forces also confiscated dozens…

A video recorded days earlier near the Armenian Monastery in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem shows an Israeli colonizer desecrating the site, an act condemned by the Jerusalem Governorate…

News roundup for Sunday, May 24, 2026, Day 961 since Israel began its 2023 genocide on the Palestinian people. Compilation of news reports – IAK staff NEWS & HEADLINES FROM…

On Monday, Israeli forces demolished two houses and a number of facilities belonging to Palestinians in the governorates of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Qalqilia, in the occupied West Bank. The Jerusalem…

Israeli forces shot a Palestinian child on Sunday night, after storming the town of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem, in the southern occupied West Bank. Media sources reported that occupation…

Israeli occupation forces demolished a Palestinian home on Sunday in the town of Shuqba, west of Ramallah in the central part of the occupied West Bank. Local sources reported that…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank on Sunday, destroying olive trees, vandalizing cemeteries, targeting isolated Palestinian communities, and damaging vehicles and…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions, home break‑ins, abductions, and movement restrictions across the occupied West Bank on Sunday, targeting communities from Hebron in the south to…

On Saturday evening, Israeli forces shot a Palestinian young man in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, and two citizens in the town of Beit Fajjar, south of…

Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers, backed by the Israeli occupation army, carried out a series of coordinated attacks on Palestinians and their property across several areas of the occupied West Bank…

Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread dawn invasions across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, breaking into homes, injuring and abducting residents, installing military roadblocks, and deploying large numbers of…

Two Palestinian children suffered tear‑gas inhalation after Israeli occupation forces invaded, late Friday night, the town of Al‑Khader and the Deheishe refugee camp south of Bethlehem, in the occupied West…

The World Health Assembly, meeting in Geneva from 18–23 May, adopted two resolutions addressing the health situation in the occupied Palestinian territory and the occupied Syrian Golan, with broad international…

Nine Western states issued a joint statement on Friday urging the Israeli government to immediately halt its colonial expansion across the occupied West Bank, warning in particular against advancing the…

Illegal Israeli colonizers invaded a citizen’s home on Friday evening, and stormed the area near the town of Sa’ir, northeast of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. According to…

Israeli occupation forces intensified their invasions, home break-ins, and abductions across the occupied West Bank on Friday, targeting multiple communities in Ramallah and Salfit, in the central West Bank, Hebron…

Israeli violations escalated across the occupied West Bank on Friday, with illegal paramilitary colonizers carrying out a series of coordinated attacks, home takeovers, and property destruction in multiple areas, particularly…

On Thursday night, Israeli soldiers invaded the town of Anabta, east of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank’s northwestern region and shot a young Palestinian man. Media sources said several…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank on Thursday, targeting Palestinian schoolchildren, vehicles, livestock, homes, and agricultural areas, while Israeli forces simultaneously…

Israeli occupation forces carried out extensive invasions across the occupied West Bank at dawn and throughout Thursday, breaking into homes, closing roads, and abducting Palestinians in Nablus, Jenin, Qalqilia, Salfit,…

Israeli occupation authorities issued demolition orders on Wednesday targeting 11 Palestinian homes and structures in the town of Hizma, northeast of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, as part of…

Israeli soldiers carried out multiple violations in the Jerusalem area on Wednesday, including the abduction of a young man from Qalandia refugee camp, the renewal of an administrative detention order…

Israeli paramilitary colonizer groups carried out multiple coordinated attacks across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, targeting Palestinian homes, infrastructure, agricultural areas, and religious sites in a continued escalation of…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, breaking into homes, closing roads, and abducting dozens of Palestinians, including children, former detainees,…

Israeli occupation forces abducted three Palestinians, including a 12‑year‑old child, on Tuesday evening during a military deployment in the Old City of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank’s southern part.…

Israeli occupation forces bulldozed hundreds of dunams of Palestinian agricultural land on Tuesday in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank’s southern part. Local…

The head of the Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission, Minister Muayyad Sha’ban, warned Tuesday that the decision signed by fanatic Israeli Minister Bezalel Smotrich to advance the eviction and displacement…

Israeli occupation forces invaded multiple areas across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, breaking into homes, abducting Palestinians, shooting two young men with live ammunition, and setting fire to a…

A Palestinian man died on Monday evening from serious wounds he sustained a day earlier when Israeli forces opened fire near the town of Beit Ulla, northwest of Hebron in…

Israeli occupation forces carried out multiple invasions across the occupied West Bank on Monday, storming towns, neighborhoods, and a refugee camp in the Ramallah, Jenin, Nablus, Tulkarem, and Bethlehem districts,…

Israeli occupation forces delivered demolition and stop‑work orders on Monday targeting 15 Palestinian homes, including inhabited structures, in the town of Tuqu’, southeast of Bethlehem, in a continued effort to…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of attacks on Monday targeting Palestinian communities in several districts of the occupied West Bank, destroying agricultural land, cutting trees, burning structures,…

Israeli occupation army minister Yisrael Katz and the extremist National Security Minister Itamar Ben‑Gvir announced the beginning of procedures to implement Israel’s new death penalty law targeting Palestinian detainees in…

Israeli forces seriously injured a Palestinian on Sunday, while he was near the Apartheid Wall in the town of Beit Ula, northwest of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank.…

Israeli occupation forces shot and injured a 14‑year‑old Palestinian child on Sunday evening during a military invasion of Silwad, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central region. Raed…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions across the occupied West Bank on Sunday, deploying troops, breaking into homes, conducting field interrogations, and abducting several Palestinians in multiple…

The United Nations has renewed its call for an independent investigation into the torture and inhumane treatment of Palestinian detainees held by Israeli forces, citing a growing number of credible…

Israeli occupation forces shot and injured a Palestinian youth late Saturday during an invasion of the Al‑Mahjar neighborhood in the Nur Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem, in the occupied…

Israeli occupation forces abducted several Palestinians, including two children and an elderly man, late Saturday after illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers assaulted residents in Jerusalem’s Old City. Media sources said soldiers…

Israeli occupation forces shot and killed a Palestinian teacher early Saturday during an invasion of the Jenin refugee camp, in Jenin in the occupied West Bank’s northern part, the Palestinian…

Israeli occupation authorities forced a Palestinian resident of Jabal al‑Mukabber in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank, to demolish his own home on Saturday, after issuing him a final demolition…

Israeli occupation forces carried out multiple invasions across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, assaulting Palestinians, breaking into homes, abducting residents, and imposing movement restrictions in several towns and neighborhoods.…

Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers carried out a series of coordinated attacks across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, injuring several Palestinians, destroying agricultural property, and stealing livestock, all under the…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers assaulted Palestinian worshippers and residents near the Al‑Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem on Friday, while Israeli occupation forces abducted nine Palestinians from the Old City amid…

On Friday, Israeli occupation authorities forced a Palestinian woman to demolish her own home in occupied Jerusalem, continuing the long‑standing policy of coercing Palestinian residents to carry out self‑demolitions under…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers set a Palestinian vehicle and rooms on fire and smashed the windows of two others on Friday evening during an attack on the outskirts of the…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of violent attacks across the occupied West Bank on Friday, burning a mosque, assaulting residents, attempting to steal livestock, vandalizing property, and…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions across the occupied West Bank on Friday, opening fire on a Palestinian vehicle, breaking into homes, obstructing medical crews, and abducting…

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian child, on Thursday night, for allegedly throwing stones near the village of Al-Lubban Ash-Sharqiya, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank. Media sources…

Israeli occupation authorities on Thursday began construction on the roof of the historic Hebron Municipality building in the Ein al‑Askar area of the Old City of Hebron in the southern…

Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers carried out a series of violent, coordinated assaults on Thursday across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank, including Hebron in the southern West Bank, the…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions, abductions, and military measures across the occupied West Bank on Thursday, targeting multiple towns, villages, and refugee camps and disrupting civilian…

News roundup for Tuesday, May 12, 2026, Day 949 since Israel began its 2023 genocide on the Palestinian people. Compilation of news reports – IAK staff NEWS & HEADLINES FROM…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers injured a Palestinian man and an international peace activist on Wednesday evening after attacking residential structures in the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron. Activist Osama…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers assaulted a Palestinian mother and her young daughter on Wednesday during an attack on the village of Burin, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank’s…

Israeli occupation authorities compelled a Palestinian family to self‑demolish its home in the Shu’fat refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, after issuing a demolition order under…

Vatican News – By Joseph Tulloch: Vatican News last spoke to Ihab Hassan in July 2025, as a wave of Israeli settler violence was engulfing Taybeh, the last entirely Christian village…

Israeli occupation forces killed, on Wednesday, a Palestinian child in the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, after groups of illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers…

Israeli occupation forces carried out largescale invasions, home break-ins, and abductions across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, targeting communities in Ramallah, Salfit, Tulkarem, Jenin, Nablus, Hebron, and occupied Jerusalem,…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers invaded several areas southeast of Bethlehem on Wednesday, carrying out provocations against Palestinian residents under the protection of Israeli occupation forces. Media sources said groups of…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked the Tibna Bedouin community near Khan al‑Ahmar, east of occupied Jerusalem, on Wednesday, assaulting residents under the protection of Israeli occupation forces. The Jerusalem Governorate…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked the town of Sinjil and the nearby village of Jaljulia, north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part, on Wednesday morning, assaulting Palestinian…

Thousands of illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers, accompanied by large numbers of occupation soldiers and government officials, invaded the Joseph’s Tomb area east of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank’s northern…

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday that at least one Palestinian child has been killed every week in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, since January 2025,…

Marking the 78th anniversary of the Nakba, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported that the global Palestinian population has reached 15.5 million, including 7.4 million living in Palestine and…

Israeli occupation authorities forced a Palestinian resident of Silwan, south of the Al‑Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, to demolish his own residential room on Tuesday, continuing a long‑standing policy that…

A report by Israel’s Channel 14 stating that land‑ownership claims have been “regularized” for the colonial council of Beit El, near Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, has raised…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, breaking into homes, abducting Palestinians, uprooting agricultural land, and imposing movement restrictions in several…

Palestinians marked the 78th anniversary of the Nakba on Tuesday with a central march and public gathering in Ramallah at 11:30 a.m., as part of nationwide events held under the…

The Israeli occupation army has issued a new military order extending the closure of Al‑Jazeera’s office in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank’s southern part, for an additional three months,…

On Monday evening, a group of illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked several Palestinian cars east of Ramallah, in the central part of the occupied West Bank. Media sources said the…

On Monday evening, Israeli occupation forces invaded the towns of Abu Dis and Anata, southeast and east of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, and abducted one Palestinian. Media sources…

European Union foreign ministers reached a political agreement on Monday to impose a new round of sanctions targeting Israeli colonizers involved in attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank,…

Israeli occupation forces demolished dozens of industrial and commercial structures in the al‑Mashtal area of al‑‘Ezariya, southeast of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, on Monday evening, despite an active…

Israeli occupation forces fired tear‑gas canisters toward residents of Tulkarem Refugee Camp, in Tulkarem in the northwestern West Bank on Monday evening, targeting civilians who were attempting to enter the…

A Palestinian detainee died in an Israeli hospital on Monday, one month after he was shot by an illegal colonizer and abducted by Israeli forces in Deir Istiya, northwest of…

Decision Sparks Outrage Among Palestinian Christian Communities: In an emotional farewell scene, Catholic priest Father Louis Salman presided on Sunday over what became his final Mass in the city of…

Israeli Border Police officers shot and killed a Palestinian man, Ayman Al-Hashlamoun, during what it called an armed confrontation that erupted as the forces invaded the Qalandia refugee camp, north…

Israeli forces carried out widespread invasions across multiple districts of the occupied West Bank on Monday, seriously injuring a Palestinian child in Bethlehem, abducting numerous residents during home invasions in…

Israeli soldiers seriously injured a Palestinian child, at dawn Monday, after opening live fire toward residential homes in ‘Aida refugee camp, north of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, local…

Israeli occupation authorities have intensified abusive measures against Palestinian women held in the Damon Prison, where female detainees—including two minors and three pregnant women—have reported a sharp rise in systematic…

Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out multiple violation across the occupied West Bank on Sunday, including invasions of Palestinian towns, the abduction of residents, the seizure…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out coordinated attacks across several areas of the occupied West Bank on Sunday, destroying agricultural structures, uprooting trees, and stealing equipment, while Israeli occupation forces…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions across the occupied West Bank on Sunday, including occupied Jerusalem, Hebron in the southern West Bank, and Jenin in the northern…

Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers stole approximately 80 sheep at dawn on Sunday from the village of Kafr Malik, east of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, during an armed…

Israeli occupation forces carried out multiple invasions across the occupied West Bank on Saturday evening , storming a wedding hall in the town of Doha west of Bethlehem, invading two…

Palestinian officials condemned the exhumation of a recently buried deceased man in the village of Al-Asa’sa, south of Jenin, after Israeli occupation soldiers and illegal paramilitary colonizers dug up his…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, injuring two Palestinian women and expanding their presence on privately owned Palestinian and…

Israeli occupation forces conducted several invasions across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, including multiple areas in the central Ramallah district, the northwestern Qalqilia district, Tulkarem in northwestern West Bank,…

Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread invasions across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, breaking into homes, deploying large numbers of military vehicles, and abducting several Palestinians during operations that…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of assaults across the occupied West Bank on Friday and Saturday, invading Palestinian communities, destroying property, vandalizing Christian symbols, and seriously injuring…

Israeli occupation forces carried out multiple invasions across the occupied West Bank on Friday, attacking worshippers, firing gas at civilians in public areas, breaking into homes, and abducting Palestinians in…

Israeli occupation forces forced residents of the village of al‑Asa’sa in Jenin in the northern West Bank on Friday evening to exhume the body of a man who had been…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers injured a man and his child and carried out a series of additional attacks across the occupied West Bank on Friday, burning property, invading Palestinian communities,…

“Combatants for Peace” movement organized a joint protest at the entrance to Jericho, near the Almog junction, to denounce settler terrorism and reaffirm a commitment to non-violence, justice, and human…