The Biden administration has reportedly reversed the U.S. policy of funding research in Israeli neighborhoods in the West Bank. Israel confirmed the news as its foreign minister, Eli Cohen, decried this development. “I object to the decision and think it is wrong,” he said during a press conference. “In similar cases in the past, the…

The White House is “extremely troubled” by the Israeli Knesset’s vote to repeal parts of a 2005 law that had banned Israelis from entering and residing in four communities in the northern West Bank. Israeli lawmakers approved the private bill—sponsored by Yuli Edelstein, a lawmaker from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s National Liberal Movement/Likud party—in a 31-18 vote in the…

An American citizen was shot and killed in the West Bank on Monday during the continued unrest between Israelis and Palestinians in the area, the U.S. State Department confirmed. The Israeli-American man was killed when gunmen opened fire near the West Bank city of Jericho, according to Reuters, which reported that the killing was one of…

Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was fatally shot while reporting in the West Bank, according to the Qatar-based network. Abu Akleh, 51, a Palestinian-American reporter for the network’s Arabic language channel, was wearing a press vest when she was hit by a bullet to the head Wednesday morning local time. She was rushed to the hospital…

RAMALLAH, West Bank—Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, medics and a terrorist group said, in clashes that erupted after an arrest raid. It was the second time in two days that Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian during a late-night incursion. The Israeli military said its forces had…

JERUSALEM—A truck and a van collided on a narrow two-lane highway in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, killing eight Palestinians and injuring another two, according to Israeli medics. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared Friday a day of mourning for the victims. Thousands of Palestinian laborers work in Jewish settlements along Highway 90, which runs…

JERUSALEM—Israeli troops conducted a series of raids against Hamas terrorists across the occupied West Bank early Sunday, sparking a pair of gun battles in which five members of Hamas were killed and two Israeli soldiers were seriously wounded. It was the deadliest violence between Israeli forces and Hamas terrorist operations in the West Bank in…

RAMALLAH, West Bank—Undercover Israeli forces on a raid to arrest a Hamas suspect from a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank exchanged fire with terrorists on Monday, Israeli police said, while a Palestinian local official said at least four Palestinians were killed. The incident occurred at a camp in the city of Jenin, where,…

Commentary Ben & Jerry’s, noted for its ice cream made from “contented cows,” has produced not such contented consumers in many circles following its announcement to stop selling its ice cream in Israel’s West Bank and in East Jerusalem. Although the announcement calls these areas “occupied territories,” more accurate would be to describe their status…

The Israeli military announced on Wednesday it has arrested a senior leader of the Hamas terrorist group in the occupied West Bank. Sheikh Jamal al Tawil, a senior Hamas leader, was arrested late Tuesday in the city of Ramallah by the Israel Defense Forces’ elite Duvdevan Unit in cooperation with the Israel Security Agency, the IDF announced. The IDF alleges…