Students and staff members were assaulted by crowbar-wielding settlers at a school northwest of Jericho

The family of a Turkish-American woman shot dead while demonstrating against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank have demanded an independent investigation into her death.

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Wednesday that the military has been “mowing the lawn” during an ongoing major operation against terror groups in the West Bank, but will eventually need to “pull out the roots.”

Israeli forces continued their deadly assault on occupied West Bank cities on Monday, with the violent raids entering the sixth day and focused on Jenin.

The Israeli military has called in reinforcements as it escalated its assault on the occupied West Bank for a second day.

The Israeli military conducted a massive military operation in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, killing at least nine people in a string of fierce gunbattles across Jenin and other major cities as tensions heightened in the war that already has laid to waste most of Gaza.

Palestinian prisoner rights groups warned in a joint brief that 10,000 arrests have been made by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem since the start of the war

Masked Israeli settlers attacked a group of Palestinian farmers and foreign activists accompanying them for protection in the West Bank town of Qusra on Sunday, according to victims of the attack and videos obtained by CNN.

In a bid to undermine resistance groups in the occupied West Bank, Israel is strategically targeting key individuals to incite discord between armed factions and the Palestinian Authority, intensifying an already volatile situation marked by unprecedented violence and political maneuvering.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced on Wednesday the broadening of a law that will allow Israelis to return to three settlements in the occupied West Bank that were dismantled in 2005.

Campaigners warn new declarations could pave the way for increasing settlement construction

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Friday declared 800 hectares in the occupied West Bank as state land, in a move that will facilitate the use of the ground for settlement building.

Settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank has surged significantly since the start of the Gaza-Israel war on 7 October

JIFTLIK, West Bank (AP) — Across the dusty villages of the occupied West Bank, where Israeli water pipes don’t reach, date palms have been left to die. Greenhouses are empty and deserted. Palestinians say they can barely get enough water to bathe their children and wash their clothes — let alone sustain livestock and grow fruit trees.

JERUSALEM — Israel’s far-right government on Monday approved plans to build thousands of new homes in the occupied West Bank — a move that threatened to worsen increasingly strained relations with the United States.

Olive trees, a major component of the Palestinian agrarian economy in the West Bank, have figured prominently in Israel’s perennial conflict with the Palestinians.