Category: West Bank

Jerusalem — Archbishop Atallah Hanna, Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Sebastia, December 8, 2025: Jerusalem has in recent days witnessed a deeply provocative incident that struck at the heart of Christian…

On Monday, a Palestinian young man succumbed to serious injuries he sustained on Sunday near the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilia in the northwestern part of the occupied West…

Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has unveiled a government plan to allocate 2.7 billion shekels over the next five years to establish 17 new illegal colonies in the occupied…

On Sunday evening, Israeli occupation forces opened fire on a Palestinian vehicle in ‘Ezbet at-Tayyeb, near the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilia in the northwestern West Bank, killing one…

On Saturday evening, Israeli occupation soldiers shot and wounded a Palestinian man near Jerusalem, assaulted and injured two children near Nablus, in the occupied West Bank. Media sources reported that…

Israeli occupation forces continued their campaign of invasions and abductions across the occupied West Bank on Sunday, targeting communities from Hebron in the south, Qalqilia and Tulkarem in the northwest,…

On Sunday, Israeli occupation authorities delivered demolition and evacuation notices targeting more than ten Palestinian residential and agricultural structures near the Arab al-Jahhalin community, south-east of the occupied Palestinian capital,…

Published In Arabic On WAFA, By Rami Samara: In the early hours of dawn, 58-year-old Fidda Mohammad Na’san awoke to the piercing cries of an international solidarity activist staying in the…

On Saturday evening, Israeli occupation soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians in Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank. Update: The two slain Palestinians have been officially identified as Ziad…

Israeli occupation forces abducted six Palestinian civilians, on Saturday evening, during simultaneous invasions across the occupied West Bank. In Qalqilia, in northern West Bank, soldiers stormed the town of ‘Azzun…

Israeli occupation forces shot and wounded four Palestinian civilians on Saturday evening in the town of ar‑Ram, northeast of the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. The Palestinian…

Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary colonizers carried out a series of assaults across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, leaving multiple Palestinians injured, abducted, and harassed in incidents spanning…

Israeli occupation forces issued orders on Friday to uproot hundreds of olive trees in the town of Tuqu’, southeast of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, in what local officials…

Israeli occupation forces invaded the town of Biddu, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, late Thursday night, unleashing live fire and toxic gas before abducting several Palestinian youths in a sweeping military…

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man on Friday, in the town of Odala, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that…

United Nations — The UN General Assembly on Friday adopted five resolutions in support of Palestine, reflecting broad international consensus on refugee rights, accountability for Israeli practices, and the illegality…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers and occupation forces carried out a series of coordinated assaults on Palestinian communities across the West Bank on Friday, cutting vital water supplies, abducting residents, and…

Israeli occupation forces assaulted a Palestinian worker on Thursday evening in the village of al‑Minya, southeast of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in…

Israeli forces tore down a two‑story building under construction on Thursday in Wadi al‑Hummus, southeast of the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank. Witnesses said troops moved in…

Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers attacked international solidarity activists and Palestinian residents at dawn on Thursday in the Bedouin village of Shalal al‑Auja, north of Jericho, in the occupied West Bank’s…

Israeli forces shot two Palestinians, on Thursday, including a child who was seriously injured during a new large-scale invasion into the city of Qalqilia, in the northwestern part of the…

On Thursday, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers injured a Palestinian teenager from Beitillu village, northwest of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part, and assaulted a father and his daughter…

Seven Palestinians were injured on Thursday after illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers attacked farmers between the towns of Halhul and Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank’s southern…

Israeli occupation forces invaded the village of Misliya, south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank’s northern part, at dawn on Thursday, assaulting a 53‑year‑old Palestinian man with severe beatings.…

On Wednesday evening, Jihad Nawaj’a, head of the village council of Susiya in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank’s southern part, was violently assaulted by illegal…

As the world marked the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Israeli occupation forces abducted a young Palestinian man with disabilities during a military incursion into the town of Kafr…

On Tuesday evening, occupation forces shot two Palestinian workers in the towns of Ar-Ram and Beit Hanina, north of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society…

On Tuesday, Israeli forces detonated a Palestinian detainee’s home in the town of Zawata, west of Nablus in the northern West Bank and demolished a detainee’s home in the town…

Israeli forces carried out pre-dawn invasions throughout the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, as they have done every morning since the second intifada began in September 2000. In addition to…

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian youth on Tuesday, after an alleged stabbing attack near the illegal “Ateret” colony, north of Ramallah in the central West Bank. The Palestinian Health Ministry…

The United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly adopted a resolution demanding Israel’s withdrawal from all Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, and reaffirming the inalienable rights of the…

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian child late Monday night, after an alleged car-ramming attack which injured one Israeli soldier north of Hebron city in the southern West Bank. The Palestinian…

Israeli forces shot a Palestinian woman with live rounds after midnight Monday/Tuesday at the “Mazmuriyeh” military roadblock, northeast of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank. Media sources reported that…

On Monday, illegal Israeli colonizers uprooted 850 olive trees and grape vines in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the southern West Bank. Osama Makhamra, a local anti-settlement activist, told…

Israeli forces shot a Palestinian worker on Monday, near the Apartheid Wall in Ar-Ram town, north of occupied Jerusalem. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that its ambulance crews…

Israeli occupation forces claimed on Monday that a speeding car attempted to carry out a ramming attack near Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, wounding a…

Less than a day after withdrawing from Tubas, the Israeli occupation army on Monday re‑isolated the city, closing all its main and secondary entrances and imposing a comprehensive curfew, in…

On Monday at dawn, Israeli occupation forces launched wide‑ranging invasions across multiple districts in the occupied West Bank, abducting and detaining dozens of Palestinians after storming and ransacking homes, and…

Israeli forces shot two Palestinian young men with live rounds, on Sunday night, in the town of Ar-Ram, north of occupied Jerusalem. Occupation soldiers assaulted three Palestinians near Tubas in…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions across the occupied West Bank, including  Jerusalem on Sunday, abducting numerous Palestinian civilians and assaulting others, while also deploying toxic tear…

Israeli forces launched a wide-scale invasion of various parts of the West Bank on Sunday morning, abducting 54 Palestinians and setting up additional checkpoints and roadblocks in several different areas.…

Israeli occupation forces pulled out Saturday evening from Tubas Governorate in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank, ending a four-day assault that left hundreds injured and several residents…

A report by the National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Colonies indicates that both Jerusalem and the northern Jordan Valley, located in the occupied West Bank, are experiencing a…

Ten Palestinians were injured, including a woman struck by live ammunition, when illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers launched an attack on residents in the agricultural area of Khalayel al-Louz, south of…

Israeli occupation forces continue their military assault on Tubas Governorate, in the occupied West Bank’s northeastern part for the fourth consecutive day. Reports indicate that the army is still invading…

Israeli occupation forces invaded the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia at dawn on Saturday, abducting five Palestinians, among them two children and a woman, during widespread home invasions. Local…

On Friday, the Israeli army injured 15 Palestinian young men and detained 30 in the Al-Far’a refugee camp, south of Tubas, and abducted four others, including former prisoners, in the…

On Friday, Israeli forces began a demolition campaign targeting 24 residential buildings in the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern West Bank. WAFA correspondent reported that the military bulldozers embarked…

The number of injured due to the Israeli occupation forces’ attack since the beginning of the aggression on Tubas Governorate has risen to 130 injured. Director of Ambulance and Emergency…

United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights | November 28, 2025 The UN human rights office, OHCHR said on Friday that it was “appalled” by the “brazen…

On Thursday afternoon, Israeli forces shot two Palestinian children in Jenin city, amid escalating military aggression against the northern West Bank. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that its…

The foreign ministers of Germany, Italy, France, and the United Kingdom issued a joint statement on Thursday calling on Israel to respect international law and safeguard Palestinian civilians in the…

The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem released video evidence on Thursday showing Israeli soldiers executing two Palestinian men during a military invasion in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank’s northern…

Israeli forces executed two unarmed Palestinian young men, on Thursday afternoon, in the northern West Bank city of Jenin. The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced the deaths of two young…

Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary colonizers carried out a series of coordinated assaults across the occupied West Bank, targeting civilians, agricultural lands, and livestock. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society…

Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers burnt the Al-Falah Mosque in Biddya, west of Salfit, in the occupied West Bank’s central part, at dawn Thursday. The attackers infiltrated the mosque’s perimeter, ignited…

Israeli forces continued, on Wednesday night, its large-scale aggression against the citizens in the Tubas governorate, assaulting at least 16 Palestinians and detaining 70 others, amid the imposition of a…

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian youth and assaulted two paramedics, on Wednesday night, after invading the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin in the northern West Bank. The Palestinian Health…

On Wednesday morning, a young man was hospitalized with severe injuries after he was beaten by Israeli occupation soldiers in the town of Tammoun, south of Tubas. Medical sources reported…

Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday uprooted dozens of olive trees in the village of Beit Ur al‑Fauqa, west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part, as bulldozers carried…

Israeli occupation forces assassinated a Palestinian youth Tuesday afternoon after surrounding a house in the village of Merka, south of Jenin, in the northern occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Ministry…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said Tuesday that Israeli occupation forces abducted at least 50 Palestinians overnight until Tuesday morning in widespread campaigns across the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem.…

Israeli occupation forces demolished a large under‑construction home Tuesday in the town of al‑Khader, south of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. Media sources said troops stormed the Ard ad‑Deir…

Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread invasions at dawn Tuesday across several areas of the occupied West Bank, storming homes, schools, and refugee camps, and abducting dozens of Palestinians. In…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers stormed a Palestinian home in the town of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part, at dawn on Tuesday, vandalizing its contents.…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers, accompanied by occupation forces, carried out several assaults,  Monday, attacking Palestinian farmers in Mikhmas northeast of occupied Jerusalem and torching agricultural lands between Atara and Birzeit…

Israeli forces executed a Palestinian young man on Monday evening, after besieging and bombing a home in the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The Times of Israel reported that…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers on Monday carried out a series of assaults across the occupied West Bank, including livestock theft in Hebron, physical attacks on a driver near Jericho, the…

Updated: Israeli occupation forced invaded and violently searched, earlier Monday, dozens of Palestinian homes, interrogated many Palestinians and abducted at many Palestinians, including siblings, a father, and his son, in…

On Monday, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked agricultural lands and burnt trees, in the town of Atara, north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part. Local sources reported…

Israeli forces shot two Palestinian young men on Sunday, near the Annexation wall in the town of Ar-Ram, north of occupied Jerusalem. On Sunday night, the army shot a Palestinian…

A 9‑year‑old child was injured on Sunday after Israeli occupation soldiers directly fired a sound bomb at her head near Nur Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem in the northwestern…

On Sunday, a Palestinian young man died of previous wounds inflicted on him by Israeli forces in Dura town, southwest of Hebron in the southern West Bank. The Shireen Observatory…

Israeli forces shot and killed a Birzeit University student on Sunday, during a settler attack in the village of Deir Jarir, east of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank.…

Israeli occupation forces abducted three Palestinians on Sunday after illegal paramilitary colonizers rammed their vehicle near the village of al-Zuwaidin, south of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank. Activist…

Israeli occupation forces demolished a barn in the al-Ras al-Ahmar area, southeast of Tubas, in the occupied West Bank’s northeastern part, on Sunday, destroying fodder supplies and property belonging to…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions across the occupied West Bank, abducting at least eleven Palestinians, while illegal paramilitary colonizers escalated daily assaults on property and livelihoods.…

On Saturday, Israeli forces shot six Palestinians with live rounds in the governorates of Qalqilia, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Hebron, in the occupied West Bank. Media sources reported that Israeli forces…

Israeli occupation forces imposed a strict curfew early Saturday morning on the neighborhoods of Jaber, Salayma, and Wadi al‑Haseen in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank’s southern part. Human rights…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers invaded the al-Khalayel area of al-Mughayyir village, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part, on Saturday, poisoning a flock of sheep, killing three.…

Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Za’atara, east of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, earlier Saturday, before assaulting siblings and a woman in their homes. Media sources said…

Israeli occupation forces invaded the city of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank’s northern part, at dawn on Saturday, abducting nine Palestinians, including legislator Jamal at-Tirawi and his sons Mohammad…

At dawn on Saturday, Israeli occupation forces launched a wide‑scale military assault in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank’s southern part, and detained…

On Friday, Israeli forces abducted several Palestinians, including a journalist, in the governorates of Tulkarem, Jenin, Tubas, Jordan Valley, and Nablus, in the occupied West Bank. Media sources reported that…

Israeli forces shot two Palestinians near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, on Friday, while soldiers caused several citizens to suffer inhalation injuries in Bethlehem, in the southern West…

(Human Rights Watch) November 20, 2025 – The Israeli government’s forced displacement of the populations of three West Bank refugee camps in January and February 2025 amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch…

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian young man on Friday, and abducted another after storming the town of Tel, southwest of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank. The General Authority…

At dawn on Friday, illegal Israeli colonizers carried out a surge of assaults against Palestinians and their belongings in multiple parts of the occupied West Bank. A video circulated early…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers set fire at dawn Friday to six tourist villas under construction on Mount Tarouja, between the villages of al-Lubban al-Sharqiya and Ammuriya, south of Nablus in…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked a plant nursery at dawn today in the village of Deir Sharaf, west of Nablus in the occupied West Bank’s northern part. Local sources reported…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers set fire at dawn today to an agricultural room in the village of Abu Falah, north of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank’s central part. Local…

Earlier Friday, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers have established a new outpost near the Bedouin community of al-Hathroura in Khan al-Ahmar, east of occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. The outpost…

At dawn on Friday, Israeli forces fatally shot two Palestinian teenagers during a military invasion in the town of Kafr Aqab, located north of occupied Jerusalem in the occupied West…

On Thursday evening, illegal Israeli colonizers carried out a number of attacks against Palestinian citizens in the governorates of Qalqilia, Nablus, and Ramallah. Media sources said that dozens of Israeli…

Israeli occupation forces demolished five residential and agricultural structures east of occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank, on Thursday. According to the Jerusalem Governorate, the demolitions targeted two residential units…

On World Children’s Day, three leading Palestinian prisoner advocacy organizations—The Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, and Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association—issued a joint…

Earlier Thursday, Israeli soldiers abducted  seven Palestinians from their homes in Jenin and Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank’s northern and northwestern parts. Media sources said many Israeli military vehicles…

Israeli occupation forces launched a large-scale invasion of Nablus and surrounding areas in the occupied West Bank’s northern part at dawn Thursday, deploying armored vehicles across multiple neighborhoods, and breaking…

Israeli occupation forces abducted 56 Palestinians, including two women, from Hebron governorate, in the occupied West Bank’s southern part, on Thursday, in a wide-scale campaign of raids and abuse. Media…

The UN General Assembly’s Fourth Committee overwhelmingly adopted seven resolutions in support of Palestine, reinforcing international opposition to Israeli occupation policies and affirming Palestinian rights. Palestine’s Permanent Representative to the…