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US abstention allows Israeli defeat

The US has taken the strongest action in years against long standing ally Israel.

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UN Security Council demands end to Israeli settlements

After the US abstained from voting, the resolution was adopted with 14 votes in favour, to a round of applause.

Israel

Israeli settlers vow to fight Christmas Day eviction

Dozens of Jewish settlers and their supporters have vowed to resist the imminent eviction of an illegal outpost in the West Bank, after recently rejecting a government relocation deal to move to a nea

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360 video: tension in the heart of holy Hebron

Hebron is one of the most volatile places in the occupied West Bank.

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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.

Israel

Living with occupation, a look at everyday life for East Jerusalem's Palestinians

Five years after the Palestinian Territories applied to be considered the UN's 194th member state, conditions in East Jerusalem are getting worse.

Israel

Israel backs draft bill to legalise settlements

Israel’s parliament has approved a draft bill to legalise thousands of Jewish settlements on privately-owned Palestinian land in the West Bank.

Israel

The Palestinian Territories' 'delicious' one and only brewery faces constant adversity

Milk and honey are not the only things that flow from the olive tree-peppered hills of Ramallah. There is also beer.

Israel

Palestinian gunman kills two in Jerusalem

A Palestinian gunman who fired from a car has killed a pedestrian and a police officer in Jerusalem, Israeli police said.

Israel

Fourth death in spate of attacks on Israelis

Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian who they say stabbed and wounded a soldier in the West Bank. There has been no immediate comment from Palestinian officials about Saturday's attack.

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.

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

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

Israel

Israeli forces shoot dead 16-year-old Palestinian boy and his sister

Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have shot dead two Palestinians at the Qalandia checkpoint between Jerusalem and the West Bank. Police said the

Israel

‘Execution’ claims as video shows shooting of wounded Palestinian

Video alleged to show Palestinian youth being shot in the head while immobile on the ground

Spain

Palestinian boy meets his heroes

A five-year-old Palestinian boy who survived a firebomb that killed both his parents has met his football heroes players Cristiano Ronald, Marcello

Israel

Two Palestinians shot dead after attacking Israeli in West Bank

Israeli soldiers have shot dead two Palestinian teens after they allegedly attacked an Israeli settler at his home in the occupied West Bank

Israel

West Bank: Palestinians to go to the UN over Israel's land plan

Israel has announced plans to develop a large tract of agricultural land in the occupied West Bank.

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Tel Aviv suspect shot by police

Israeli special forces storm hideout in Arara

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