West Bank

An Israeli undercover operation on a hospital in the occupied West Bank last month may amount to a war crime, five United Nations special rapporteurs have stated.

Washington has put sanctions on several Israeli settlers for attacking Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, accusing them of undermining stability and security in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

Israeli soldiers disguised themselves as doctors and nurses raided early Tuesday a hospital in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, killing three Palestinians with gun silencers, Palestinian officials say.

More than 12,000 attacks were carried out by Israeli authorities and illegal settlers in 2023 against Palestinians, a Palestinian official has stated.

At least nine Palestinians and two Israelis have been killed in the fresh violence across the occupied West Bank.

At least eight Palestinians were killed by Israeli army fire in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, the health ministry has announced.

The United Nations has announced that 315 Palestinians, including 81 children, have been killed in the occupied West Bank since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip on October 7.

The World Health Organization has announced that since the war in Gaza began, hospitals and other vital medical infrastructures have been attacked more than 600 times in the besieged strip and the West Bank.

A general strike was observed across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday to mark the assassination of the senior Hamas official, Saleh al-Arouri, who was killed in a targeted Israeli drone attack in Lebanon on Tuesday.

The Palestinian death toll in the year of 2023 was the largest Palestine had witnessed since the 1948 Nakba, according to a report.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has announced that 307 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank since the start of the Gaza war on 7 October.

More than 80 children have been killed in the past 12 weeks in the occupied West Bank, amid intensified military activities, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has reported.

The United Nations has urged Israel to “end unlawful killings” of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, warning that the human rights situation in the territory is rapidly deteriorating.

At least 505 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank this year, the Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed.

At least five Palestinians were killed in a drone attack by the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, Palestinian media has reported.

2023 was the deadliest year for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since 2005, when the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) began keeping records, according to a report by the organization on Saturday.

Israeli soldiers have killed at least 11 Palestinians during an incursion on the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, the ministry of health confirmed. Over 290 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire and more than 4,000 others detained since early October, according to Palestinian sources.

An Israeli drone attack on Jenin north of the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, killed four Palestinians and wounded several others, the local health ministry has confirmed.

The European Union’s top diplomat has stressed he will propose sanctions on Jewish settlers who are violent against Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

General strikes were declared Monday in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Lebanon in a display of solidarity with Gaza, as Israel's war on Gaza continues in the besieged enclave.

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has confirmed nearly 450 attacks on health services in Gaza and the West Bank since Oct. 7. He cautioned "now the work of the health workers is impossible".