Palestinian population in West Bank

Palestinian family says settlers annexed unfinished West Bank home

A UN inquiry reported last month that settler attacks on Palestinian villages and agricultural land had surged since 2023, rising by 130%.

 MAN walks in the Jewish outpost of Yahish Zion, near the Jewish settlement of Psagot, in the West Bank.
IDF soldiers participate in an operation to locate missing Israelis in the West Bank, July 2, 2026.

IDF rescues Israeli Breslov hassidim after they flee police into West Bank village

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the 8th General Conference of Fatah in Ramallah in the West Bank, May 14, 2026.

Palestinian Authority to hold presidential elections in 2027, Mahmoud Abbas says

Armed Israeli soldiers, settlers, Palestinians, and reporters watch smoke rise during West Bank clashes in November 2025.

Jewish settlers burn farms, buildings in West Bank as retaliation for Palestinian stone attack


Knesset candidate Marzel indicted for allegedly assaulting Palestinian

Number 4 on Yahad list says "it's strange that a week before the election the police charge me for an event that happened several years ago."

Baruch Marzel

UN, Palestinians condemn price tag attack on West Bank mosque

The mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Mohamed Hussein, also condemned the mosque arson and blamed the Israeli authorities.

  PA President Mahmoud Abbas (R) meets UN Middle East envoy Robert Serry in Ramallah July 6, 2014.

Power cut to major Palestinian cities for 45 minutes over unpaid debt

The Israel Electric Corporation cut off power supplies to the Palestinian cities of Jenin and Nablus for about 45 minutes, as a warning regarding the Palestinian debt to the company.

Electric poles

Palestinians to ban sale of products from 6 major Israeli companies

The sellers are to be given a two week window in order to get rid of existing products from the banned Israeli companies.

Abbas in Ramallah supermarket

Abbas mulls another UN Security Council bid for Palestinian state

Palestinian chief undaunted by failed bid to win a United Nations Security Council resolution mandating an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the UN Headquarters in New York [File]

UN blasts West Bank house demolitions

“Punitive demolitions are a form of collective penalty that punishes people for acts they did not commit,” says a UN representative.

A PALESTINIAN removes a wall to allow a bulldozer access to clear the rubble at the home of Amer Abu Aysha in Hebron in August. The IDF earlier destroyed the home of Abu Aysha, one of the two main suspects in the June kidnapping and murder of three teenagers.

Palestinian with improvised weapon reportedly killed by IDF at Al-Arroub riot

200 Palestinians riot in West Bank, southwest of Bethlehem.

The riots centered on Kalandiya, with smaller clashes in Isawiya.

Defense Minister: A bus with 20 Arabs and only a few Jews is a guaranteed terror attack

Currently, Palestinian workers are checked only when going into Israel, but not when coming back, which security sources said increases the chances for terrorist attacks.

Israeli soldiers check cars at a checkpoint near the West Bank City of Jericho

From Hillary to Shimon: Two states is no solution

Remarks made by Clinton, Peres, Netanyahu and others indicate that Israel’s need to retain control of Judea and Samaria has become, at last, a mainstream position.

Former president Shimon Peres.

Two Palestinians killed in separate West Bank clashes

One killed at violent 300-person protest; 50 Palestinians throw stones at the Psagot community.

Stone-throwing Palestinian protesters take cover behind a garbage bin amidst tear gas fired by Israeli troops during clashes at a checkpoint near Ramallah last month.