Israel's swift eviction of Jewish zealots from one of the most volatile West Bank flashpoints offers encouragement to people both inside and outside Israel who hope it is still possible to uproot settlers to make room for a Palestinian state. Visit this link to read more: West Bank settler eviction offers warning, hope

Qalqilya has been an encircled town since the Israeli West Bank barrier was built around it in 2003. Only one narrow gate guarded by Israeli soldiers allows access. The anger, disbelief and protests over this situation have become muted. The people of Qalqilya are waking up to the reality of near imprisonment. Visit this link to read more: Israel has turned West Bank town into prison

Austrian President Heinz Fischer has lambasted the expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and urged Israel to halt the move. Visit this link to read more: 'Halt settlement construction in WB'

Iran has called for an immediate resolution to the humanitarian crisis caused by Israel in Gaza, the West Bank and Al-Khalil regions. Visit this link to read more: Iran urges end to Gaza crisis

Palestinian resistance fighters in Gaza responded to the killing of one of their members by Israeli forces in the Occupied West Bank by firing rockets into Israel on Tuesday. The retaliation by Gaza-based fighters was met with an Israeli air strike on the impoverished territory later in the day. Visit this link to read more: Rockets hit Israel after killing of Islamic Jihad man

JERUSALEM: Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian militant during a pre-dawn operation in the northern West Bank on Tuesday, the army said.

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A Palestinian militant, suspected of plotting an attack, was killed as he fled Israeli forces trying to arrest him in the occupied West Bank. Visit this link to read more: Israel kills Palestinian

Israeli troops have killed a wanted Palestinian militant in the West Bank. The army says it attempted to arrest Islamic Jihad militant Jihad Nwada early Tuesday. He tried to escape and troops shot at him. The army says he was planning to carry out an imminent attack. Visit this link to read more: Israeli troops kill wanted Palestinian militant

Israeli troops have shot dead a 20-year-old Palestinian man in a village near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, reports say. Visit this link to read more: Israeli forces kill Palestinian man in WB

Hundreds of people gave a heroes' welcome on Monday to more than 200 Palestinian prisoners freed by Israel in what was billed as a goodwill gesture toward Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The released inmates got off five buses in the center of the Occupied West Bank. Visit this link to read more: Freed Palestinians receive warm welcome in Ramallah

Hundreds of people in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip await the arrival of some 224 Palestinians, who were released from Israeli prisons. Visit this link to read more: 224 Palestinian prisoners head home

Jubilant crowds in the West Bank welcome home busloads of Palestinian prisoners set free by the Israelis. Visit this link to read more: Crowds greet freed Palestinians

Gordon Brown says he hopes Israel and the Palestinians will "overcome" the issue of settlements in the West Bank in the near future. Visit this link to read more: Brown meets Palestinian PM Fayyad

Former US president Jimmy Carter called on the illegal Zionist entity to withdraw from only the West Bank and the Gaza Strip that it occupied in 1967, and not from the whole of Palestine that was usurped by the illegal Zionist migrants from Europe in 1948. Visit this link to read more: Carter: Israel must withdraw from 1967 occupied lands

The lack of any proposals on Jerusalem and Israel's stance on the West Bank strike a blow to the Bush administration's hope for a deal. Visit this link to read more: Palestinian signals the ‘end of Annapolis’

The chief Palestinian negotiator says Israel has asked to annex 6.8 per cent of the West Bank in a peace deal with the Palestinians. Visit this link to read more: Israel wants 6.8 per cent of West Bank: Palestinian negotiator

The Israeli military has raided the West Bank cities of Nablus and Jenin, detaining a number of residents, Palestinian sources say. Visit this link to read more: Israeli troops raid West Bank cities

An Occupied Jerusalem court Wednesday freed a Jewish settler who shot at Palestinians from point-blank range in the Occupied West Bank city of Hebron. Zeev Braudeh from the settlement of Kiryat Arba on the city's outskirts turned himself in to police on Saturday after video footage released by a human-rights group. Visit this link to read more: Israeli court frees Jewish settler filmed shooting Palestinians

Jewish settlers in the West Bank have issued a pamphlet instructing comrades on how to evade the tactics of Israel's Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency. Visit this link to read more: Jewish settlers issue pamphlet on how to dodge Israeli intelligence

Israel's acting Premier Ehud Olmert on Sunday slammed what he called "pogroms" carried out by Jewish settlers against Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank city of Hebron. "As a Jew, I was ashamed at the scenes of Jews opening fire at innocent Arabs in Hebron. Visit this link to read more: 'Ashamed' Olmert condemns 'pogrom' against Palestinians

Israel's discrimination between Jewish settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank is increasingly reminiscent of white South Africa's apartheid system, a human-rights group said Sunday. Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territory "have created a situation of institutionalized discrimination and segregation," the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) said in a new report. Visit this link to read more: Israeli rights group compares government's treatment of Palestinians to apartheid

A rights group says discrimination between illegal Israeli settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank is similar to what was apartheid South Africa. Visit this link to read more: Israel practicing apartheid

Palestinian motorists drove freely out of this bustling West Bank city for the first time in six years Saturday after Israel eased long-standing travel restrictions in an apparent goodwill gesture ahead of a Muslim holiday. Visit this link to read more: Israel eases traffic restriction in West Bank city

The Jordanian government has condemned 'aggression' against Palestinian civilians by illegal Zionist settlers in the West Bank city of al-Khalil. Visit this link to read more: Jordan slams Israelis, Abbas

An Israeli journalist has been assaulted by troops after taking photos from a Palestinian family in the West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron). Visit this link to read more: Israeli troops attack photographer

<strong> By Jonathan Cook </strong><br>Extremist settler groups currently involved in violent confrontations with Palestinians in the centre of Hebron have chosen their next battleground, this time outside the West Bank Visit this link to read more: Hebron Settlers Take Their Fight Into Israel

A rights group says Israel's bias in favor of Jewish settlers in the West Bank is a reminiscent of South Africa's apartheid system. Visit this link to read more: Israel's apartheid system slammed

Palestinian Caretaker Prime Minister Salam Fayyad urges the EU to put pressure on Israel to halt settlement activities in the West Bank. Visit this link to read more: Fayyad calls for EU practical action

Security forces braced on Friday for more violence after Israeli hard-liners again went on a rampage against Palestinians in retaliation for the eviction of settlers from an illegally occupied Hebron house. The entire southern Occupied West Bank was declared a closed military zone to prevent Israelis from converging again on the flashpoint city. Visit this link to read more: Israeli security forces waiting for Hebron colonists to exact 'price tag'

When the United Nations talks of "Israeli-occupied territories," the conventional definition is that these disputed lands include the West Bank, Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights - all of them conquered during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. But to most Lebanese, there are border villages inside Southern Lebanon. Visit this link to read more: Cluster-bomb-riddled areas in South 'virtually occupied'