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The Palestinian Authority has called for international pressure on Israel after a Palestinian official said around 1,200 Palestinians in Hebron in the West Bank were forced to leave their homes following an attack on Friday which killed two Israeli soldiers. The head of Hebron's municipality said an additional 1,300 may also be forced to leave.
Palestinians in Hebron are 'living in fear' with the city closed, while Israeli forces arrest dozens across West Bank.
The Palestinian Authority called for international pressure on Israel after a Palestinian official said around 1,200 Palestinians in Hebron in the West Bank were forced to leave their homes following an attack on Friday which killed two Israeli soldiers. Israeli defence minister Israel Katz later confirmed in an interview that the displacements had reached the 2,000 mark.
Already struggling after losing homes to Israeli military operations, Palestinians face hardship as WFP halves aid.
Israeli military raid targets at least 15 towns in the northern West Bank, including Nablus and Jenin.
The olive harvest officially began in the West Bank on October 15, 2026, and it has coincided with an uptick in violence towards Palestinians carried out by both Israeli settlers and soldiers. Meanwhile, the settlers and soldiers have been using social media to promote an aesthetic, Instagram-friendly and nationalistic view of these harvests.
Clampdown comes as Israeli pogroms heighten tensions and spread violence across Palestinian territory.
Israel’s far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is using AI-generated videos to mock Palestinians and push political messages ahead of the country’s election, including videos magically transporting Gazans to Paris or calling them "donkeys" for choosing to stay. One video has sparked an online spat with France. AI is playing a growing role in the campaign, with parties using deepfakes, bots and AI-generated content, raising concerns about disinformation and the technology’s influence on voters.
A family in the South Hebron Hills has spent more than two weeks cut off by settlers camped outside.
Al Jazeera analysed how every party in the Knesset voted on the most consequential measures affecting Palestinians.
Israeli strikes kill Palestinians in Gaza as funding shortages threaten food aid for half a million people
Britain’s reopened refugee resettlement scheme offers no escape for Palestinians in Gaza.
A couple and a 17-year-old are among those killed by Israeli air attacks and gunfire in the Gaza Strip.
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are organising to protect themselves from settler attacks.
Amid funding shortages, the World Food Program has said it is being forced to reduce necessary aid. Over two-thirds of Palestinians in Gaza are facing acute hunger, according to the agency.
The UN agency says funding shortages threaten to reverse 'modest and fragile' progress on food security.
Settler pogroms have escalated, coinciding with the annual olive harvest season in the occupied West Bank.
Most of the victims were from the Daraj neighbourhood in Gaza City, the Health Ministry says.
European condemnation is mounting, but Israel’s election offers little prospect of a material change for Palestinians.
Masked Israeli settlers attacked European diplomats, a French mayor and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
