US Senate blocks resolution seeking report on Americans killed in West Bank
The resolution cites a 'lack of accountability' by Israel's government and an 'inability to secure justice' by the US.
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The resolution cites a 'lack of accountability' by Israel's government and an 'inability to secure justice' by the US.
Palestinians face delayed medical care and long journeys as Israel tightens movement restrictions across the West Bank.
British foreign minister vows to 'match word with action' when it comes to defending Palestinian rights.
Israel has shut occupied West Bank crossings for a week, further restricting Palestinian movement and holy site access.
Israel will revoke the diplomatic accreditation of Dutch officials based in the occupied West Bank after the Netherlands began enforcing a ban on goods from Israeli settlements, Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Sunday. The officials have seven days to surrender their Israeli-issued diplomatic papers, he said.
Little-known Israeli map team is redrawing land boundaries as Palestinians face growing illegal settlement expansion.
Project would effectively cleave Palestinian territory in half and has prompted widespread international condemnation.
Israeli rights group B'Tselem said Monday that Israeli actions in the occupied West Bank form part of a greater project designed to make it impossible for Palestinians to exist together as a people. In a report titled "The Elimination Project", the group alleged five connected Israeli tactics and policies in the West Bank: "violence, ethnic cleansing, movement restrictions, economic strangulation, social and political destruction". FRANCE 24's Selina Sykes reports.
Israeli rights group B'Tselem said Monday that Israeli actions in the occupied West Bank form part of a greater project designed to make it impossible for Palestinians to exist together as a people. In a report titled "The Elimination Project", the group alleged five connected Israeli tactics and policies in the West Bank: "violence, ethnic cleansing, movement restrictions, economic strangulation, social and political destruction". FRANCE 24's Selina Sykes reports.
B'Tselem says settlement expansion, displacement and curbs are not isolated abuses, but decades-old, coordinated system.
Palestinian Prisonerโs Society says detained include children, journalists and ex-prisoner freed in recent exchange deal
BBC's Middle East Correspondent Lucy Williamson visits the Palestinian community of Khan al Ahmar in the so-called E1 area, and the neighbouring Israeli settlement of Maale Admumim.
Israel said on Tuesday it was closing Britain's consulate in East Jerusalem in response to plans by the UK, France and Canada to block imports from Israeli settlements in the West Bank. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks with Julie Norman, Associate Fellow with the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House and Director of UCLโs Israel-Palestine Initiative.
BBC's Middle East correspondent Lucy Williamson reports from an area close to Israel's proposed site in the occupied West Bank.
The UKโs foreign secretary has announced a ban on trade with goods from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband accused the Israeli government on Tuesday of turning a "blind eye" to what he called "ethnic cleansing" by settlers in the West Bank as the UK joined France and ten other countries in banning imports from Israeli settlements in the occupied territory. The decisionย comes amid rising violence over settlement expansion. Follow our liveblog for the latest.
The UK has announced a trade ban on goods made in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
France will join the UK and other countries in launching a process to ban products from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, Foreign Minister Jean-Noรซl โBarrot said on Tuesday, amid rising settler violence that has further undermined prospects for a two-state solution with the Palestinians. France 24's Marc Perelman has the details.
UK to announce trade ban on goods from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnhamโs government is expected to ban trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank on Tuesday as he seeks to adopt a stronger policy on an issue that is important to his governing Labour Party but may anger US President Donald Trump. A new sanctions regime targeting Israel but limited to Jewish settlements in the West Bank will be announced by Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, according to people familiar with the matter. Burnham and Trump spoke by phone on Monday,...
Israel's E1 plan risks splitting the West Bank in two.
The Israeli government's forced displacement of the entire populations of three West Bank refugee camps in January 2025 could amount to crimes against humanity, a UN report warned Friday. More than 33,000 Palestinians forced out of the Jenin, Nur Shams and Tulkarm camps have not been permitted to return home. Israel slammed the report for "spreading misinformation".
Israeli protesters gathered in Jerusalem on Wednesday to condemn violence by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank.