DOTAN CHECKPOINT, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - A Palestinian was shot dead on Thursday in an exchange of fire with Israeli troops at an army post in the northern West Bank, security sources on both sides said.
The Israeli military said the man had approached the post near the settlement of Mevo Dotan and opened fire with a Kalashnikov after shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest).
"The te [...]
HEBRON, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Israeli forces on Wednesday destroyed 17 structures near the West Bank city of Hebron that provided shelter to some 300 Bedouins, officials said.
The shed-like structures had been set up in the village of Dakeka and 16 of them were used as homes, while the 17th was a classroom, said Oudah al-Najadah, the head of the local council.
Israel's military said [...]
BILIN, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Around 700 people, many of them women, attended a memorial march in the West Bank on Friday to honour a woman who died after being tear-gassed by Israeli troops, organisers said.
The march took place in the West Bank village of Bilin, exactly a week after the collapse and subsequent death of Jawaher Abu Rahma, a 36-year-old villager who had been at t [...]
HEBRON, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Israeli troops killed a Palestinian Friday during a raid in the West Bank to arrest suspected militants, witnesses and security officials in the territory said.
The shooting happened early Friday morning as soldiers raided several homes in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, said Palestinian security officials.
The Israeli troops were rounding u [...]
HEBRON, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Israeli troops arrested a Hamas MP in the West Bank on Wednesday, just months after he was freed after serving a four-year jail term, Palestinian security sources and witnesses said.
Naif al-Rajub was detained overnight when troops entered Dura village south of the flashpoint city of Hebron in the south of the occupied Palestinian territory, the sources s [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - The number of Israeli troops operating in the occupied West Bank is at its lowest level in more than 20 years, a military source said on Sunday.
"There has been a reduction in troop levels which are now at their lowest levels since the start of the first intafada," the source said on condition of anonymity, referring to the first Palestinian uprising that erupted in 1987.
Sin [...]
NABLUS, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - The Fatah party of Western-backed Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas accused its Islamist rival Hamas on Wednesday of plotting to kill one of its governors in the West Bank.
Hamas, which has effectively limited Abbas's authority to the Israeli-occupied territory since it seized control of Gaza in 2007, denied it had made any attempt to assassinate [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli forces overnight raided the home of a jailed Hamas moneyman in the West Bank town of Tulkarem and seized cash and property, the Israeli military said on Monday.
"Security forces confiscated the money and possessions of a senior Hamas operative who was recently convicted of transferring Hamas finances" into the West Bank, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said in [...]
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Israeli forces arrested senior Hamas MP Mahmud al-Ramahi at his home in the West Bank city of Ramallah overnight, his Islamist movement and Israeli forces said on Wednesday.
Ramahi, who is secretary of the Palestinian Legislative Council and the body's third most senior member, was detained at around 3 am (0100 GMT), Hamas sources in Ramallah told A [...]
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KAFR QADDUM, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Several Muslim graves at a cemetery in the West Bank were vandalised by Jewish settlers early on Friday, a witness said as Israel opened a probe into the case.
"They painted anti-Palestinian slogans and Stars of David," Ayman Joma, whose house adjoins the cemetery in Kafr Qaddum near Nablus in the northern West Bank, told AFP.
The walls of h [...]
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