West Bank

Cult

First exhibition in the Palestinian Museum

A brand new Museum dedicated to Palestinian art, culture and history

31/08/2017

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Trump wall images lighten the mood in Bethlehem

04/08/2017

West Bank

Netanyahu rewards evicted Jewish settlers with new West Bank home

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has laid the foundation stone for a new Jewish settlement in the West Bank, angering the Palestinians and their international supporters.

03/08/2017

West Bank

West Bank: 'Two Palestinians killed' during IDF opearation

Palestinian medical officials say Israeli forces killed two Palestinian youths on Wednesday.

12/07/2017

West Bank

West Bank walk out supports hunger-striking Palestinians in Israeli prisons

Palestinians in the West Bank and in East Jerusalem have closed all shops in a general strike in support of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails whose mass hunger strike has entered its 36th…

22/05/2017

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West Bank clashes

Palestinians clashed with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank on Friday (May 19) during demonstrations in support of Palestinian inmates on hunger strike in Israeli…

20/05/2017

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Palestinians mark 69th Nakba anniversary

Palestinians across the West Bank and Gaza have marked the anniversary of Nakba, the day Israel was created 69 years ago.

15/05/2017

West Bank

Hamas again leads Gaza boycott of Palestinian local elections

Palestinians go to the polls for the first time since 2012 today in the West Bank, again without the participation of Hamas, which is not allowing any vote in the Gaza Strip.

13/05/2017

West Bank

Giving peace a chance: Abbas is ready to meet Netanyahu

The Palestinian President is prepared to hold talks with Israel's PM, under the sponsorship of US leader Donald Trump.

09/05/2017

West Bank

Palestine shuts up shop to support hunger-striking prisoners

Protests across the West Bank and Gaza are designed to show solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails.

27/04/2017

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Palestinian activists clash with Israeli security forces on Land Day

Residents of the West Bank village of Madama, south of the city of Nablus, on Thursday marked ‘Land Day’ along with Palestinian activists.

31/03/2017

West Bank

Police evacuate Israeli houses judged to be on Palestinian land

Nine houses in a Jewish town in the West Bank are evacuated after Israel's Supreme Court rules they were illegally built on Palestinian land.

28/02/2017

West Bank

Palestinian protest calls for reopening of Hebron's Shuhada street

Palestinians have marked the 23rd anniversary of the Hebron mosque massacre by calling for the reopening of the street on which it stands in the city.

24/02/2017

West Bank

The West Bank reacts to Israel's settlement legislation

Israel’s move to retroactively legalise thousands of settler homes in the West Bank has proved contentious.

07/02/2017

West Bank

West Bank: last home cleared in illegal Amona settlement

Authorities reported at least 32 police officers have been injured during the planned evacuation which lasted two days.

02/02/2017

West Bank

Israel plans 2,500 new West Bank settlement homes

Israel has announced plans for 2,500 more settlement homes in the occupied West Bank.

24/01/2017

West Bank

Palestinian woman shot by Israeli police 'was attempting knife attack'

Israeli police say a Palestinian woman, shot and injured by security forces on Friday, had been trying to carry out a stabbing attack.

31/12/2016

West Bank

Palestinian president: peace talks will resume if construction of settlements is halted

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said that Israel must halt the construction of settlements in the West Bank before peace talks can begin.

28/12/2016

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Palestinian president hails historic UN condemnation of Israel

UN resolution was possible when the US broke with past practice and abstained during voting in the Security Council

27/12/2016

West Bank

Fatah re-elects Mahmoud Abbas

The Palestinian President has opened the first congress of his Fatah party for seven years. An estimated 1,300 delegates gathered to elect new leaders and discuss longer-term policy.

29/11/2016

West Bank

[360° video] The Last Keffiyeh, how Facebook saved a Palestinian symbol

Founded in 1961, Hirbawi Textiles almost shut its doors until Kuwaiti activists launched a Facebook page and saved the business.

20/11/2016

West Bank

Armed Israeli security forces confiscate eight-year-old girl's bike

02/08/2016

West Bank

Israel kills Hamas fighter it holds responsible for rabbi's murder

Israel says it has killed the Hamas fighter responsible for an ambush earlier this month in which a rabbi was shot dead.

27/07/2016

World

Reinventing education: when unusual methods make the only sense

Teaching's one-size-fits-all approach is inadapted for many, especially pupils in critical situations or failing. This edition of Learning World looks at some remarkable teachers and their remarkable

13/07/2016

West Bank

Israeli authorities discuss a halt on returning attackers' bodies

Israeli authorities are discussing whether or not to continue handing back the bodies of people killed while carrying out attacks on soldiers

04/05/2016

West Bank

West Bank: two charged over Dawabsha family arson attack

Charges come five months after deaths of a young couple and their baby son

03/01/2016