West Bank

The West Bank has seen a marked increase in violence since the Iranian-backed Hamas carried out its terrorist attack into southern Israel on October 7, 2023.

As President-elect Donald Trump fills his cabinet with vocal supporters of Israeli control over the West Bank, tensions within the new administration’s policy agenda are emerging. Trump says he wants...

The Israeli occupation of the West Bank and other Palestinian territories is now more than a half-century old. The fading of memories with time has led to a lack of...

As Israel finalizes its plans for a would-be ground invasion into Gaza following a massive escalation of violence in October, many experts and analysts are correctly asking important questions about...

Much early commentary about the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian fighting has followed a familiar script that appears each time a foreign state or group commits a sudden, violent act large...

The most significant development during Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s recent trip to Israel and the West Bank had nothing to do with his visit. Blinken’s low-key suggestions for diffusing...

Three major factions within the Palestinian Authority—Fatah, Hamas, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)—announced on Thursday that they had finalized a reconciliation deal in Algeria intended...

Chile made headlines for a surprising reason last week. The country’s left-wing president Gabriel Boric refused to accept the new Israeli ambassador’s credentials, citing news that Israeli forces had killed...

Virtually every other week for the last year and a half, there’s been a new book about the Trump administration. Some are authored by journalists, both sympathetic and not, while...

Back in May, Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American, was killed while covering an Israeli raid on a refugee camp in the West Bank. Since then, the circumstances...

Harvard’s prestigious Crimson student newspaper recently generated a flurry of responses by wholeheartedly endorsing the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. As the debate continues, each side...

Israeli and Palestinian security forces have continued to trade mutual recriminations after the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on Wednesday during a clash between Israeli and Palestinian forces...