"The number of incidents involving armed settlers assaulting Palestinian villages has increased dramatically." ...

Palestinian activist who helped film the No Other Land documentary highlighting Israel’s violent occupation of the West Bank, ...

Palestinians living in Ramallah, the West Bank's largest city, say they are trapped, unable to travel because of settler violence and checkpoints. Many Palestinians in Ramallah say they're ...

The leaders of Christian churches in Jerusalem condemned a recent attack on a Christian village in the West Bank by Israeli settlers, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa ...

Today, upwards of 700,000 Israelis live in settlements which the U.N. calls illegal. "Sunday Morning" talks with two settlers and with Palestinians in the West Bank living on opposite sides of an ...

October 7 levels, laborers once dependent on Israel for decent wages are drowning, even as robust trade ties keep the ...

Father Bashar Basiel moved freely in and out of his parish in the occupied West Bank until Israeli troops installed gates at the entrance of his village Taybeh overnight, just hours after a ceasefire ...

The West Bank, a territory that lies west of the Jordan River between Israel and Jordan, has been occupied by the Israeli military since 1967. It is home to more than 3.3 million Palestinians.

While Israeli soldiers withdrew from Gaza in 2005, the army retained a wide presence across the West Bank, partly to protect roughly 500,000 Israelis living in settlements that are considered ...

A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 6, 2025, Section A, Page 7 of the New York edition with the headline: Bill Relabels West Bank As ‘Judea and Samaria’.

It also recorded 1,860 incidents of violence (resulting in 20 deaths) by settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank from 7 October 2023 to the end of 2024, as part of a campaign to drive ...