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FILE: Israeli defence minister and alternate premier Benny Gantz. Picture: AFP

Occupied west bank territory

Israel's Benny Gantz says no annexation until after COVID-19

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government had set 1 July as the date from which it could initiate action on US President Donald Trump's Mideast...

  • FILE: United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet. Picture: United Nations.

    Israel's annexation plans 'illegal', says UN rights chief

    Just days before Israel intends to kick-start plans to annex its West Bank settlements and the Jordan Valley, Michelle Bachelet added her voice to the chorus urging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to drop the proposal.

    696 days ago
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Picture: @IsraeliPM/Twitter

    Turkey says 'irresponsible' Netanyahu cannot change West Bank status

    Palestinian leaders reacted angrily, blaming what they said was a failure by world powers to stand up for international law.

    1145 days ago
  • Picture: SAPS.

    Palestinian gunman kills two, wounds two in West Bank - Israeli medics

    The shooting took place near the Jewish settlement of Ofra, where another gunman wounded seven people in a separate attack on Sunday.

    1260 days ago
  • FILE: Members of the Israeli security forces fire a tear gas canister from the top of Isreals controversial separation barrier during clashes with Palestinians demonstrators in the village of Bilin, near the West Bank city of Ramallah following a march in support of the resistance in the Gaza Strip. Picture: AFP.

    Israel's settlement drive becoming irreversible, diplomats fear

    Diplomats are increasingly concerned that the drive may be reaching the point of irreversibility.

    2185 days ago
  • The United Nations (UN) headquarters stands above the neighbourhood on the east side of Manhattan in September 2015 in New York City. Picture: AFP.

    Israel slams UNHRC's call for 'blacklist' of settlement companies

    The UNHRC voted in favour of having a database of Israeli companies 'involved' in the occupied West Bank.

    2253 days ago
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech during the 15th Herzliya Conference titled Israel in a turbulent Middle East at the Lauder School of Government Diplomacy and Strategy in the Israeli coastal city of Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv, on 9 June, 2015. Picture: AFP.

    Netanyahu: Israel & EU need to reset ties

    The Israeli president says ties needed to be reset, an acknowledgment that things were bad.

    2323 days ago
  • An Israeli soldier hurls a smoke grenade during clashes with Palestinian youth close to the Jewish settlement of Bet El, in the West Bank city of Ramallah on 4 October 2015 after Israel barred Palestinians from Jerusalem’s Old City as tensions mounted following attacks on Israelis. Picture: AFP.

    5 dead in Palestinian attacks in Tel Aviv

    Police said a US citizen was one of 3 people killed, others were a Palestinian & an Israeli.

    2379 days ago
  • An Israeli soldier hurls a smoke grenade during clashes with Palestinian youth close to the Jewish settlement of Bet El, in the West Bank city of Ramallah on 4 October 2015 after Israel barred Palestinians from Jerusalem’s Old City as tensions mounted following attacks on Israelis. Picture: AFP.

    Israeli troops kill two Palestinian gunmen in raid to raze West Bank home

    The bloodshed is being fuelled by a dispute over access to Jerusalem's holy sites to both Muslims & Jews.

    2382 days ago
  • Onlookers gather after a stabbing incident near a bus station in the occupied West Bank. Picture: @IDFSpokesperson/Twitter

    Palestinian driver shot dead after injuring 4 at bus stop

    The driver was shot dead after ramming his car into a bus stop in the occupied West Bank injuring four people.

    2390 days ago
  • FILE: Members of the Israeli security forces fire a tear gas canister from the top of Isreals controversial separation barrier during clashes with Palestinians demonstrators in the village of Bilin, near the West Bank city of Ramallah following a march in support of the resistance in the Gaza Strip. Picture: AFP.

    Israel to build 300 homes in occupied West Bank

    Most countries around the world consider the settlements that Israel build in occupied land as illegal.

    2492 days ago
  • FILE: Palestinian children demonstrate near an Israeli check point in the centre of the West Bank city of Hebron after they couldn’t pass the checkpoint to get to school as it was closed off by Israeli security forces on 26 August, 2014. Picture: AFP.

    4 Israelis wounded in shooting

    The shooting happened in the Jewish settlement of Shilo and Shvut Rachel near the West Bank.

    2522 days ago
  • FILE: A file picture shows Israeli army during one of their raids in the southern West Bank on 12 June 2014. Picture: AFP.

    Israeli troops on West Bank raid kill Hamas man

    Jenin residents and hospital officials said the 23-year-old Palestinian was shot in the back.

    2542 days ago
  • FILE:Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Picture: AFP.

    Tony Blair: Better Palestinian living standards vital for peace

    Blair said Hamas had to declare whether it wanted a peace deal with Israel.

    2656 days ago
  • FILE: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Picture: Benjamin Netanyahu Facebook page.

    Palestinian UN draft calls for Israel occupation end by 2017

    The draft resolution states that a negotiated solution should be based on several parameters.

    2716 days ago
  • FILE: Israeli riot police on security detail in the Bet Hanina neighborhood in East Jerusalem, 20 November 2014. Picture: EPA.

    Israeli troops kill Palestinian during West Bank clash

    The man was killed during an arrest raid in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.

    2718 days ago
  • A man holding a Palestinian flag and a woman carrying an olive tree, walk through rows of greenhouses on "Land Day" during which people notably plant olive trees on 29 March, 2014 near the Israeli border in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip. Picture: AFP.

    Chief Palestinian negotiator issues statehood ultimatum

    Saeb Erekat said there was no option other than to make a unilateral push for statehood.

    2771 days ago
  • FILE: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Picture: AFP.

    Israel expands hunt for missing teens

    Israel says members of Hamas kidnapped the three seminary students last Thursday.

    2900 days ago
  • The multi-million dollar sponsorship deal caused a backlash among activists and groups. Picture: AFP.

    Johansson, Oxfam rift and the West Bank

    The multi-million dollar sponsorship deal caused a backlash among activists and groups.

    3037 days ago
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