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Israel’s Smotrich calls for ‘war’ in West Bank: Rhetoric or real threat?
Smotrich’s words should not be dismissed as mere election rhetoric, human rights experts and analysts warn.
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Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich calls for war in occupied West Bank
Comments come as Israeli authorities announce military closure across occupied West Bank, citing Jewish holiday Sukkot.
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‘My hands are empty’: Displaced Palestinians struggle to survive
In Tulkarem and other West Bank cities, displaced Palestinians are being forced deeper into debt and poverty.
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Middle East: An art centre for children in occupied West Bank
To help children process their experiences of war, an art center has been established in the West Bank.
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Netanyahu blames ‘juvenile delinquents’ for violence in occupied West Bank
As spoke at the UN, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu downplayed settler violence in the occupied West Bank.
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Residents in West Bank's Masafer Yatta face Israeli demolitions
On September 2, the Israeli army demolished the village of Khirbet a-Taban in the occupied West Bank. The village is located in Masafer Yatta, an area Israel declared a restricted military zone. Residents of the area have been reporting an increase in demolitions by the Israeli army and harassment by Israeli settlers since the October 7 Hamas attack.
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‘They uprooted it all’: Israel bulldozes Palestinian-owned olive groves
Israeli bulldozers uprooted olive groves near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank weeks before the annual harvest.
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US lawmakers seek sanctions for Israel’s ‘E1’ West Bank settlement plan
Project would effectively cleave Palestinian territory in half and has prompted widespread international condemnation.
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Israel’s ambassador to the US says son injured in West Bank car-ramming
Palestinian shot dead as Israel's ambassador to the US identifies injured soldier as his son.
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Jerusalem Daily: World leaders condemn Israel at UN
Palestinians protest Israel’s prison visit bans as settler pogroms continue across the occupied West Bank.
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Priests Against Genocide hold shroud with names of children killed in Gaza
Priests Against Genocide hold shroud with names of 300 children killed in 'ceasefires' in Gaza, the occupied West Bank
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Israel denounces Macron's UN remarks
Israeli officials have hit back at French President Emmanuel Macron after he criticised Israel’s conduct in the occupied West Bank during his address to the UN General Assembly. But while Macron used strong words against Israel, France allowed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plane to fly through French airspace on its way to New York, despite an ICC arrest warrant against him. Delano D’Souza reports.
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‘War crime’: Jordan’s king slams Israeli West Bank expansion
Jordan's King Abdullah II decried Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank as a strategy of ‘forced displacement.'
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UN Chief condemns Gaza destruction, West Bank settlements
In his final UN General Assembly address as secretary-general, Antonio Guterres condemned the killing in Gaza.
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West Bank: Israeli settler, Palestinian killed in latest violence
Violence flared in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Sunday, as Israeli forces arrested a suspected Palestinian gunman accused of killing an Israeli man. In a separate incident, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian driver who the military said had attempted to run them over. Nicholas Rushworth reports.
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Israeli forces arrest dozens of Palestinians in occupied West Bank raid
At least 53 young men are being held in Biddu after raids left the town in lockdown, with schools and businesses shut.
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Israeli settler and Palestinian driver killed in West Bank shootings
A suspected Palestinian gunman on Sunday shot dead an Israeli man near a West Bank settlement, according to Israeli officials. The gunman was located at a Ramallah hospital and arrested, police said. Elsewhere in the West Bank, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian motorist who the military said was attempting to run them over. The flare up in violence came on the eve of the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur.
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An Israeli settler and a Palestinian driver killed in West Bank shootings
An Israeli settler has been fatally shot in the occupied West Bank, while Israel's military said it killed a man who attempted to ram his vehicle into troops elsewhere in the Palestinian territory. The news came as violence in the West Bank is escalating at a very rapid pace. “All Israeli military authorities involved with the West Bank have been warning the Israeli government that the situation is basically out of control”, explains FRANCE 24 correspondent Noga Tarnopolsky.
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Chris Mason: Burnham looks to show he will go further than Starmer with West Bank sanctions
It is hoped that coordinated action minimises the blowback to any one country from Israel or America, our political editor writes.