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PA drafts constitution, omits Jewish ties to Jerusalem, calls for Sharia legal system

The draft constitution also called for the "right of return" for refugees, caring for families of "martyrs, prisoners, and exiles," and reaffirming the PLO's position as representing Palestinians.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the general Conference of Fatah Youth in Ramallah, with a backdrop including a portrait of Abbas and Yasser Arafat, November 27, 2025; illustrative.
IDF soldiers operate during a raid in Ramallah, in the West Bank, August 26, 2025

IDF fires, criminally probes two soldiers for allegedly beating Palestinian near Ramallah

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends a meeting with Russian President at the Kremlin in Moscow on January 22, 2026.

Despite pledge to end ‘pay-for-slay,’ Ramallah hides millions in terror stipends

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas waves as he arrives for the opening the Fatah youth conference in Ramallah on November 27, 2025.

Abbas announces Palestinian Parliament will hold election on November 1


IDF to reinforce Judea and Samaria Division with six companies over holiday period

Over the past week, the IDF apprehended nearly 100 terror suspects, confiscated weapons, and demolished homes of terrorists in the West Bank.

 IDF troops operate in Balata, April 11, 2025.

How Israel caps Palestinian economic growth - analysis

Had Israel's control over the West Bank not occurred in 1967, the Palestinian economy could have been twice its current size – probably even more.

 Israeli security forces guard while Palestinians make their way through the Israeli Qalandia checkpoint to attend Friday prayers of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque, near the West Bank city of Ramallah on March 21, 2025.

IDF West Bank operations: Over 90 terrorists apprehended over the last week

Border Police officers from Jerusalem operated in Ramallah to arrest a wanted terrorist. And the Egoz Unit located a rigged vehicle and dismantled it.

 Israeli security forces seen in the West Bank city of Nablus, February 11, 2025

IDF attempts to curb public disorder, prevent celebrations amid prisoner release in West Bank

Despite these actions, Palestinians in Ramallah held celebrations upon the release of the Palestinian detainees.

The reinforcement of IDF soldiers in the West Bank, February 8, 2025.

Shin Bet foils bomb attack on Jerusalem bus planned by Ramallah terror cell

The terrorist cell, made up of Fatah and Hamas operatives from the Ramallah area, was arrested in November-December 2024.

 The members of the cell.

'I deny the killings, I deny the rape,' Palestinian ex-prisoner tells Zach Sage Fox

"In Islam, they can't kill babies, they can't kill women, they don't kill innocent Israelis," Daoud claimed. "Hamas is an Islamic movement, Hamas not like Daesh, like Isis."

 Zach Sage Fox in Ramallah

Palestinian Authority freezes Al Jazeera operations in West Bank

The freeze in operations follows Fatah's December 23 announcement that they will ban the media giant after inciting during clashes in Jenin.

 AL JAZEERA headquarters in Doha, Qatar.

Aziz Salha, photographed preparator of Ramallah lynching, killed in IAF strike in Gaza - report

Salha became famous for waving his hands out the window that were covered in the blood of two IDF reserve soldiers that he and other perpetrators of the lynching had murdered.

 Aziz Salha with bloody hands during lynching in Ramallah in 2000.

Israeli forces storm Al Jazeera bureau in West Bank with closure order

IDF accuses Al Jazeera of "incitement to and support of terrorism" in court order.

 Equipment seized in Al Jazeera office in Nazareth

IDF maps for destruction West Bank home of terrorist who killed Gideon Peri

The forces also found the vehicle that the terrorist used to flee the scene.

 IDF troops map out the West Bank home of the terrorist who carried out the attack near Kedumim on August 19, 2024.