Tag: West Bank

RAMALLAH, West Bank (news agencies) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has appointed his longtime economic adviser to be the next prime minister in the face of U.S. pressure to reform ...

OFER PRISON, West Bank (news agencies) — A U.S. citizen who was dragged out of her home and detained by Israeli authorities for over three weeks was released on bail ...

The Palestinian Authority’s prime minister announced his government’s resignation on Monday, seen as the first step in a reform process urged by the United States as part of its latest ...

JERUSALEM (news agencies) — When the Biden administration imposed sanctions this month against Israeli settler Yinon Levi for allegedly assaulting Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, his supporters quickly ...

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (news agencies) — Israeli strikes killed at least 48 people in southern and central Gaza overnight, half of them women and children, health officials said Thursday, as ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (news agencies) — Historic hearings opened on Monday at the United Nations’ top court into the legality of Israel’s 57-year occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian ...

JERUSALEM (news agencies) — The families of two Palestinian-American teenagers killed in separate but eerily similar incidents in the West Bank say investigators from the American Embassy have visited their ...

NILIN, West Bank (news agencies) — Count the rings of the gnarled olive trees dotting Mohammed Mousa’s land in the West Bank village of Nilin: They’ve been here centuries, far ...

The death toll in the Gaza Strip has increased following the latest airstrikes on the Palestinian territory, where the Israeli military is working to root out the leaders of Hamas ...

JERUSALEM (news agencies) — He’s viewed by some Palestinians as their Nelson Mandela, and he’s a prime candidate to become their president in the future. He’s also the highest-profile prisoner ...