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Israel Katz mocks France and Europe at large

TEHRAN - Israel Katz said on Friday that Israel will build a “Jewish Israeli state” in the occupied West Bank. He made the declaration a day after the occupation regime announced the creation of 22 new settlements in the Palestinian territory.

Israel announces expansion of West Bank settlements

Israel announced on Thursday that it would establish 22 settlements in the occupied West Bank, including legalizing outposts built without authorization, DW reported.

Israeli settlers attack water supply of West Bank communities

Israeli settlers damaged water pipes supplying Palestinian families in the al-Auja waterfall area, located north of Jericho in the occupied West Bank, according to a local rights organisation.

Israel fires at diplomats in Jenin, EU condemns the move

Israeli forces opened fire near a convoy of foreign diplomats at the entrance of Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, drawing widespread condemnation and calls for accountability.

Netanyahu’s messianic government’s priority is to annex West Bank, expel Gazans: Thomas Friedman

NY Times columnist says Netanyahu is not a US friend

TEHRAN - The famous New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman says Benjamin Netanyahu’s “ultranationalist” and “messianic” government is not America’s ally.

Attacks against Christians on the rise in West Bank: pastor

Israeli restrictions this year have been perhaps the toughest, says Mitri Raheb, Palestinian pastor and theologian, and founder and president of Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem.

Vast majority of West Bank residents killed by Israel die in north: UN

OCHA has found that as of Thursday, more than 90 percent of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank this year were in the six northern governorates of Jenin, Tubas, Nablus, Tulkarem, Qalqilya, and Salfit.

‘Longest and most destructive’ operation in West Bank since second Intifada: UNRWA chief

Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has condemned Israel’s military operation in the occupied West Bank, which has significantly intensified since the Gaza ceasefire in January.

Armed shepherds: Israel’s most dangerous project in the West Bank

TEHRAN - The Israeli occupation regime misuses the silence of the international community, the Arab and Islamic world, and the absolute support of the US to take over more Palestinian lands in the West Bank, says Osman Abu Sobhe, an expert in Israeli affairs.

Over 600 Palestinian prisoners freed as first phase of Gaza deal concludes

Palestinian man described his detention as akin to the horrors of Nazism and hell

More than 600 Palestinian detainees were freed on Thursday from Israeli jails in the final batch of the first phase of the Israel-Hamas captive exchange and ceasefire deal.

UN chief voices 'grave' concern over rising violence in occupied West Bank

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Sunday he is “gravely concerned” over the rising violence in the occupied West Bank and the human rights violations in Gaza.

NGO: Israel plans 1,000-unit expansion for West Bank settlement

Israel has issued a tender for the construction of nearly 1,000 additional settler homes in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli NGO has reported.

Israel says troops will remain in Jenin after ongoing raid 

Israel ramped up a deadly assault on the occupied West Bank shortly after launching war on Gaza in October 2023.

Israeli forces set fire to homes in besieged Jenin

Israeli troops raiding Jenin in the occupied West Bank have set homes in the area ablaze, the Wafa news agency reports.

West Bank assault: Israel attempts to mask domestic divisions

TEHRAN - Israel has launched a large-scale military operation in the West Bank amid growing pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his failed military strategy in the Gaza Strip. 

Belgium condemns Israel for trying to annex occupied West Bank

Belgium’s foreign ministry strongly condemned a statement by Israel’s far-right economy minister, Bezalel Smotrich, calling for “exercising sovereignty” over the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera reported.

Israel’s West Bank annexation call shows racist, expansionist agenda: Iran Foreign Ministry

TEHRAN – Esmaeil Baqaei, spokesperson for Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, condemned the comments made by a cabinet minister of Israeli regime advocating the annexation of the West Bank on Wednesday.

Israeli settlers torch Palestinian homes, cars and olive trees across the West Bank

Armed Israeli settlers launched a wave of attacks on Palestinian properties in several areas of the occupied West Bank overnight, torching homes, vehicles and olive trees.

Israel’s Gaza war emboldens settler attacks in West Bank

There has been a massive increase in settler attacks in the occupied West Bank since last October, when Israel’s war on Gaza started, according to Yara Hawari of Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network.