Israel’s security cabinet has signed off on plans to formalise 19 illegal settlements across the occupied West Bank—a move that Palestinian officials say deepens a decades-long project of land theft and demographic engineering.
Tel Aviv will not allow the creation of a Palestinian state, since its true purpose is the destruction of “the one and only Jewish state”, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated.
Israel has “a de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture”, according to a United Nations report covering the past two years, which also raised concerns about the impunity of Israeli security forces for war crimes.
Entire Palestinian communities have been forced into lockdown in parts of the occupied West Bank, a human rights group warned, as the Israeli military continues to carry out wide-scale, deadly attacks in the territory.
Israel's army on Wednesday conducted a new military operation in the occupied West Bank. A local governor told AFP that Israeli soldiers had raided several towns.
The economy of the occupied Palestinian territory is facing its most severe collapse on record, driven by the scale of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and continued restrictions on movement and trade, according to a new report by the United Nations.
The United Nations has warned about worsening conditions in the occupied West Bank, reporting a surge in violence that has left Palestinian civilians facing mounting casualties, displacement and insecurity.
Israeli data show at least 98 Palestinians have died in custody since October 2023, and the real toll is likely substantially higher because hundreds of people detained in the Gaza Strip are missing, an Israel-based human rights group has reported.
Israel is operating “an organised and systematic practice of sexual torture” against Palestinian prisoners from the Gaza Strip in its custody, according to a new report by a leading rights organisation.
The United Nations has warned of a sharp rise in illegal Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, marking the highest monthly toll in October in nearly 20 years.
Fifty-five Israeli ministers and members of parliament have urged President Isaac Herzog to pardon Jewish Israeli prisoners convicted of murdering Palestinians.
Most Americans - including 80% of Democrats and 41% of Republicans - think the U.S. should recognize Palestinian statehood, a sign that President Donald Trump's opposition to doing so is out of step with public opinion, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows.
Forty-four of the 45 Democrats in the US Senate have sent a letter to US President Donald Trump urging him to reaffirm his opposition to Israel's annexation of the occupied West Bank, Axios has reported.
A circulated video shows Israeli security officers abusing Palestinian prisoners assembled at the Negev prison in southern Israel, ahead of their release as part of a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas.
The United Nations has released a report, revealing that more than 150 companies are profiting from Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise in the occupied West Bank.
A Palestinian state will never be established west of the Jordan River, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated in response to nations that have recently recognized Palestine.
The United States has vetoed a crucial United Nations Security Council resolution demanding a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, as Israel expanded its scorched-earth offensive on Gaza City.
The Donald Trump administration has failed to make any "forward movement" on the investigations into the killing of several US citizens in Israel, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal stated on Tuesday on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
The question of Palestine is one of the oldest and most complex political conflicts of the modern era—shaping not only the Middle East but also the broader international order for more than seventy years. This conflict emerged from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, British colonial rule, the Balfour Declaration of 1917, and ultimately the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 through occupation and the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. Since then, despite broad resistance, the Palestinian people remain deprived of their most fundamental right: the right to self-determination.
The United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly backed a resolution reviving a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. It came less than 24 hours after Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that there would never be a Palestinian state.
