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


UNSC members condemn IDF raids on Palestinian NGO offices

A majority of the United Nations Security Council members condemned the IDF raid last week.

Members of the United Nations Security Council observe a moment of silence at the beginning of a meeting about Afghanistan at United Nations Headquarters in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., March 10, 2020

IDF Netzah Yehuda soldiers suspended after filmed beating Palestinians

Netzah Yehuda, a specialized IDF enlistment track for haredi soldiers, has a history of some abusing their positions and mistreating Palestinians.

IDF soldiers at West Bank checkpoint 370

PA security forces raid Bir Zeit University dorms, threaten students

A representative of the Hamas-affiliated Islamic Bloc at Birzeit University said that two of his colleagues were severely beaten by the officers during the raid.

 PALESTINIAN STUDENTS wave Hamas flags during a rally at Birzeit University, near Ramallah, last week.

Israel delays plan to allow Wֿest Bank Palestinians to fly out of Ramon Airport

Israel, for security reasons, does not allow most West Bank Palestinians to travel out of Ben Gurion Airport. 

 A plane is reflected in the facade of the Ramon International Airport after an inauguration ceremony for the new airport, just outside the southern Red Sea resort city of Eilat, Israel January 21, 2019.

Nine European nations condemn IDF’s closure of Palestinian NGO offices

These European nations have been at odds with Israel over its designation in October of six NGOs as terror organizations, explaining that Israel has not shown them compelling evidence.

  IDF arresting suspects in the West Bank.

Israeli security forces arrest eight terror suspects overnight

Israeli forces continued arrest raids of terror suspects as tensions remain high after the brokered ceasefire with Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

 IDF operating in the West Bank to arrest terror suspects, August 11, 2022.

Palestinian bookstores, publishers are under threat of extinction

"A nation that doesn't read doesn't exist:" Online sales, e-books and Israeli restrictions on imports all threaten book culture in Palestinian cities.

Dar Al-Shourouk Publishing House, Ramallah, West Bank, July 27, 2022

Hamas urges PA police officers to carry out terrorist attacks

Hamas praises terrorist, urges PA security forces to “clash with occupation forces and settlers to defend our people and our land.”

 Palestinian police officers stand guard during a protest over the death of Nizar Banat, a critic of the Palestinian Authority, in Ramallah in the West Bank, June 26, 2021

Polish delegation to Palestinian territories pays tribute to Arafat

Multiple members of the delegation referred to Israel as an apartheid state.

 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Polish President Andrzej Duda review the honour guard in the West Bank town of Bethlehem January 18, 2017.

Nine EU states reject Israeli ban on 6 Palestinian NGOs for terror ties

"In the absence of such evidence, we will continue our cooperation and strong support for the civil society in the [occupied Palestinian territories]."

 EUROPEAN UNION flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels.