Tag Archives: West Bank

Israel announced plans on Sunday to expropriate 400 hectares (988 acres) of Palestinian land in the Bethlehem area in the south of the occupied West Bank, the military said. “On the instructions of the political echelon… 4,000 dunams at (the settlement of) Gevaot is declared as state land,” the army ...

Israeli occupation forces killed a Palestinian youth in the West Bank on Monday during a raid on his house near the city of Nablus, local medical officials said. Local witnesses said Zakaria al-Aqra, 23, was “wanted” by Israel and had been shot dead. Six other people were wounded in the ...

Abigail Disney – filmmaker, philanthropist and great-niece of the legendary animator Walt Disney – has publicly renounced her share of the family profits from an Israeli firm she claims is exploiting “occupied natural resources”. Her decision to donate the profits, as well as funds equal to the value of her ...

On Friday, July 25, an Israeli settler murdered a Palestinian teenager in the village of Huwwara, which lies approximately 10 km south of Nablus in the northern half of the West Bank. Two hours later, an Israeli sniper killed another Palestinian teenager in the same village. After Friday prayers at the mosque ...

The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has concluded that footage capturing the moment two Palestinian teenagers were shot dead by Israeli soldiers despite posing no risk to them is “genuine and consistent”, contradicting Israeli army claims that the footage is likely to have been forged. A short section of edited CCTV footage ...