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Iran, Oman negotiate framework for Hormuz transit after Trump claims all mines removed from strait

US offers $10 million reward for information on senior IRGC leaders • Hamas, Gazan NGO committee warn parents to stop children flying kites after Israel threatens strikes

 Images of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei with replicas of missiles seen during a gathering in Tehran, Iran, August 12, 2026
Palestinians use their phones as Israeli settlers and military personnel stand outside a Palestinian home in Qusra, in the West Bank, August 15, 2026, in this screen grab obtained from a video.

B'Tselem claims 47 Palestinian families at risk of expulsion, IDF says homes built illegally

Members of the clergy take part in the yearly Christmas procession led by Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem outside the Church of the Nativityon December 24, 2025 in Bethlehem, West Bank.

Christian Zionists ignore reality of West Bank living, Palestinian Christian leaders say

Israeli soldiers inspect the damage following an attack by Israeli settlers in the village of Sarra, near the West Bank city of Nablus, July 24, 2026.

UN human rights office warns of worsening settler violence in West Bank as attacks keep increasing


IDF disarms explosives used for terror in West Bank raid

Four Palestinians were killed in a drone strike by the IDF amid clashes in the Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarm.

 IDF soldiers find explosive devices during operation in in the Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarm in the northern West Bank early Sunday morning

Bill Maher says Palestinians should 'move on' in pro-Israel monologue

Maher argued that "east Jerusalem could have been the capital of a Palestinian state that today might look more like Dubai than Gaza."

Comedian Bill Maher speaks during ceremonies unveiling his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood

IDF suspends soldiers for reciting Jewish prayer inside Jenin mosque

An IDF soldier is seen holding a microphone and reciting Shema Yisrael through the mosque's loudspeaker.

 A general view of a mosque, after the Israeli army's withdrawal from the Jenin camp, July 5, 2023

Israel's indecisiveness on Palestinian workers shows shifting dynamics - analysis

What has remained unchanged? First, a tendency to put off tough decisions; an inclination to kick the can down the road.

 Palestinian workers in Israel

Settler violence in the West Bank endangers Muslims and Jews

Since Oct. 7, more than 100 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have been killed, mostly by soldiers but also by settlers.

 Palestinians inspect the damage after last night raid of Israeli security forces, in the West Bank city of Jenin, October 30, 2023.

PA President Mahmoud Abbas MIA as Hamas wages war against Israel

As Hamas launches attacks on Israel, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas keeps a low profile, leading to speculations about his political motives.

Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 78th Session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City, U.S., September 21, 2023.

West Bank's Area C 'integral to State of Palestine' - PA prime minister

PA Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh warned his cabinet that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government was working to "annex" Area C.

A Jewish settler walks past Israeli settlement construction sites around Givat Zeev and Ramat Givat Zeev in the West Bank, near Jerusalem June 30, 2020.

Eli terrorists' homes mapped in West Bank, Erez crossing remains closed - IDF

It was also decided on Tuesday morning that the Erez crossing at the Israel-Gaza Strip border would remain closed to Gazans throughout Tuesday. 

 Israeli security forces on September 18, 2023 map the homes of the three terrorists responsible for the deadly Eli gas station attack in June 2023.

Settlers aim for 1 million Israelis living in West Bank's Samaria by 2050

Should this plan come to fruition there would be at least 25 cities in Samaria by 2050, compared to Samaria’s one settler city of Ariel.

 A construction site of a new residential neighborhood at the mixed religious-secular Jewish settlement in the West Bank Kfar Adumim, March 9, 2023.

Did the IDF operation in Jenin 'cut the grass' in West Bank terror?

MILITARY AFFAIRS: Discussions with many Israeli sources with knowledge on the situation, reveal that there are still some fundamental disagreements about the impact of the operation.

 AN IDF jeep on the outskirts of Jenin earlier this month, at the beginning of one of its biggest military operations in the Palestinian territory in years.