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2025-10-28 17:54
By Wesam Bahrani
Israel resorting to airstrikes in occupied West Bank
TEHRAN – The Israeli regime’s escalating West Bank assault, driven by annexation aims, fuels Palestinian resistance and a consequent rise in civilian casualties.
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2025-10-28 14:08
Israeli forces kill three Palestinians in Jenin raid
Israeli forces killed three Palestinians on Tuesday during a raid on an occupied West Bank village that involved air strikes, Middle East Eye reported.
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2025/10/24
By Shahab Sarmadi
West Bank annexation theater: How Israel’s Knesset plays good cop, bad cop
TEHRAN – The recent votes in Israel’s Knesset on bills to annex parts of the West Bank have drawn worldwide attention. At first glance, they appear to be a major political confrontation. Far-right politicians like Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, who live in illegal settlements, pushed strongly for the bills. Avi Maoz of the Noam party declared that “the time has come to apply sovereignty,” invoking biblical claims to the Palestinian land.
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2025-09-28 19:27
Israeli soldier critically injured in disputed West Bank clash
An Israeli soldier was critically injured on Sunday in an operation near the Kedumim settlement in the occupied West Bank, Israeli media said.
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2025-09-27 10:05
Intl. scholars urge action as Gaza, West Bank archaeological collections face unprecedented loss
TEHRAN - A group of prominent Israeli and international archaeologists, researchers, and museum curators has issued a stark open letter condemning the widespread destruction of cultural heritage in Gaza and the West Bank, accusing the Israeli government and military of violating international law and engaging in a policy of “annihilation.”
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2025-09-26 16:10
Trump: Israeli annexation of the West Bank ‘not going to happen’
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he will not allow Israel to annex the occupied West Bank, AFP news agency reported.
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2025-09-22 21:15
By Garsha Vazirian
Wave of Palestine recognition: A symbolic rupture wrapped in political interest
TEHRAN – Paris formally recognized the State of Palestine on Monday, a move unveiled in the context of the Franco-Saudi summit on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly, and immediately folded into a wave of declarations from the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Portugal.
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2025-09-21 21:04
By Wesam Bahrani
Mass kidnap campaign in West Bank
TEHRAN – Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launch a mass kidnap campaign across the occupied West Bank, abducting many, including a mayor. The large-scale kidnap campaign started early Sunday with an unknown number of Palestinians kidnapped, including a former Arab Knesset member and former prisoners.
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2025-09-12 16:37
‘Show of humiliation’ as Israeli army lays siege to West Bank’s Tulkarem
Israeli forces have sealed off entrances to Tulkarem in the northern occupied West Bank, further escalating a campaign of raids, arrests and collective punishment that has displaced thousands of Palestinians as the military relentlessly destroys Gaza, Al Jazeera reported.
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2025-09-08 14:20
Ramot junction shooting in al-Quds leaves multiple casualties
A deadly shooting at the Ramot settlement junction in occupied East Jerusalem (al-Quds) left at least six Israeli settlers dead and more than a dozen injured after two gunmen reportedly boarded a bus and opened fire during the morning rush hour.
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2025-09-05 15:05
Illegal Israeli settlers injure 20 Palestinians in West Bank village attack
Around 20 Palestinians were injured early Friday when illegal Israeli settlers attacked the village of Khillet al-Daba in the southern occupied West Bank, Anadolu reported, citing local sources.
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2025-08-29 15:10
Israel arrests three Palestinians in West Bank raids
Israeli forces arrested three Palestinians near Hebron in the occupied West Bank, Wafa reported Friday. One man was detained during a raid on al‑Fawwar refugee camp, while two others were seized at a checkpoint near as‑Samu.
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2025-08-27 13:52
UN: Nearly 1,000 Palestinians killed in occupied West Bank since October 7, 2023
At least 982 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers since the war on Gaza began, according to the United Nations Human Rights Office.
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2025/08/18
By Muhammad Akmal Khan
Islamabad confronts the blueprint of ‘Greater Israel’
ISLAMABAD - They live under skies without safety, beneath roofs that can vanish in a single airstrike. They hold papers that carry their names but grant no freedom. They exist without a homeland to anchor them. For Palestinians, the idea of permanence feels like an illusion. Every sunrise brings the fear that what little they have could vanish, and every night is shadowed by the uncertainty of displacement.
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2025-08-18 15:06
Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemns Netanyahu’s ‘provocative’ West Bank visit
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned what it describes as a “provocative colonial incursion” by Netanyahu into the illegal Ofra settlement in the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera reported.
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2025-08-15 12:20
UN chief: Israeli settlement plan in the West Bank violates international law
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday strongly opposed Israel's plans to construct thousands of new settler units that would effectively split the occupied West Bank into two disconnected parts.
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2025-08-06 20:55
By Matin Jamshidi
House speaker’s West Bank visit highlights plan to erase Palestine
Mike Johnson’s visit incites more crimes against West Bankers
TEHRAN - Mike Johnson, the Republican U.S. House speaker, visited an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank on Monday. His visit came just weeks after the Israeli Knesset passed a resolution supporting the annexation of the West Bank and amid an escalation of violence against the Palestinians by Israeli forces and settlers.
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2025-07-25 22:23
By Wesam Bahrani
West Bank annexation push intensifies
TEHRAN – In a another yet troubling move and amid the ongoing Gaza genocide, the Israeli regime’s Knesset has overwhelmingly approved a motion of declaration to annex the occupied West Bank, signaling a renewed commitment to a colonialist and expansionist agenda.
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2025-07-25 20:23
Uruguay condemns worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank
Uruguay has issued a strong statement expressing deep concern over the escalating humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip and growing human rights violations in both Gaza and the West Bank.
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2025-07-15 21:56
Attacks on Palestinians intensifying in occupied West Bank: UN
Israeli settlers and security forces have intensified their killings, attacks and harassment of Palestinians in recent weeks in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, the United Nations human rights office warns.
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2025-07-07 15:54
Israeli forces arrest Al Mayadeen bureau chief in West Bank
Israeli occupation forces arrested Nasser al-Lahham, director of Al Mayadeen’s office in occupied Palestine, on Monday, during a pre-dawn raid on his home in Beit Lahm, southern West Bank.
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2025-07-02 22:21
Israeli minister calls for seizing ‘historic opportunity’ to annex West Bank
Justice Minister Yariv Levin says the current times offer a “historic opportunity” to seize the occupied West Bank, Israeli media reported.
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2025-07-01 23:14
Israel has killed 1,000 Palestinians in occupied West Bank since October 2023
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has escalated its violence in the occupied West Bank, killing at least 1,000 Palestinians.
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2025-06-27 21:40
By Wesam Bahrani
Settler violence flows with impunity
TEHRAN – The Israeli-backed settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank continues as part of efforts to Judaize the territory.
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2025-06-08 20:22
Forces assault 63-year-old farmer in West Bank
Israeli forces have stormed the town of al-Khader, south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, and assaulted an elderly farmer, according to the Wafa news agency.
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2025-05-31 23:00
By our staff writer
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.
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2025-05-30 20:46
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.
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2025-05-24 20:35
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.
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2025-05-21 22:44
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.
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2025-05-11 22:43
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.