Ramallah

Two Italian policemen in West Bank held up by settler, forced to kneel at gunpoint

The two military policemen were stopped on Sunday by an armed Israeli while they were carrying out a site inspection ahead of a planned visit by EU ambassadors to a village near Ramallah.

A Jewish settler shepherd looks at Palestinians that are loading trucks as they are dismantling their houses after they were forced to evacuate their homes due to settlers harassment from a nearby outpost on January 12, 2026 in Ras Ein el-Auja, in the Jordan Vally West Bank.
IDF Armor Brigade 7 soldiers operate in Gaza on Wednesday, January 14, 2026.

IDF kills terrorists crossing Gaza's yellow line, planting explosives, despite BoP, NCAG launch

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas waves as he arrives for the opening the Fatah youth conference in Ramallah on November 27, 2025.

PA President Mahmoud Abbas undergoes 'routine medical tests' in Ramallah hospital

IDF officers planning an operation in Kafr Aqab, December 2025.

WATCH: Israel Police arrest Palestinian suspect in $950,000 online marketplace scam


Saudi Arabia's foreign minister says Israel blocking Ramallah meeting proof of 'extremism'

On Saturday, Israel said it would not allow a planned meeting on Sunday that would have included ministers from Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

 Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud seen in Tehran, Iran, June 17, 2023

Israel to block Arab ministers' weekend visit to West Bank, political officials say

The minister's trip to Ramallah would have been the highest-level Saudi visit to the West Bank since 1967.

Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal Bin Farhan al-Saud attends the Conference on Disarmament at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, February 24, 2020.

Palestinians outraged over celebrations for new Ramallah mall

Despite soaring unemployment in the West Bank, Palestinians reportedly opposed the grandiose celebrations of the new mall.

 A Palestinian walks in front of closed shops during a general strike condemning Israeli bombardment on Gaza, in Ramallah in the West Bank April 7, 2025.

Palestinian stone-throwing terrorists wound two US citizens

Earlier on Wednesday, Border Police officers arrested a 21-year-old Palestinian who hurled stones at security forces in the area.

 IDF soldier from the Shahar Battalion during counter-terror raids in the West Bank village of Burka, January 12, 2025.

IDF to reinforce Judea and Samaria Division with six companies over holiday period

Over the past week, the IDF apprehended nearly 100 terror suspects, confiscated weapons, and demolished homes of terrorists in the West Bank.

 IDF troops operate in Balata, April 11, 2025.

How Israel caps Palestinian economic growth - analysis

Had Israel's control over the West Bank not occurred in 1967, the Palestinian economy could have been twice its current size – probably even more.

 Israeli security forces guard while Palestinians make their way through the Israeli Qalandia checkpoint to attend Friday prayers of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque, near the West Bank city of Ramallah on March 21, 2025.

IDF West Bank operations: Over 90 terrorists apprehended over the last week

Border Police officers from Jerusalem operated in Ramallah to arrest a wanted terrorist. And the Egoz Unit located a rigged vehicle and dismantled it.

 Israeli security forces seen in the West Bank city of Nablus, February 11, 2025

IDF attempts to curb public disorder, prevent celebrations amid prisoner release in West Bank

Despite these actions, Palestinians in Ramallah held celebrations upon the release of the Palestinian detainees.

The reinforcement of IDF soldiers in the West Bank, February 8, 2025.

Shin Bet foils bomb attack on Jerusalem bus planned by Ramallah terror cell

The terrorist cell, made up of Fatah and Hamas operatives from the Ramallah area, was arrested in November-December 2024.

 The members of the cell.

'I deny the killings, I deny the rape,' Palestinian ex-prisoner tells Zach Sage Fox

"In Islam, they can't kill babies, they can't kill women, they don't kill innocent Israelis," Daoud claimed. "Hamas is an Islamic movement, Hamas not like Daesh, like Isis."

 Zach Sage Fox in Ramallah