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 A plenum session and a vote on reviving the Ultra Orthodox enlistment bill at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on June 11, 2024.

'No Palestinian state west of the Jordan River,' 63 Knesset members say

 FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich speaks at a meeting of his Religious Zionist Party parliamentary faction, last week, in the Knesset. Will the war bring an economic boom like the Six Day War, or a bust like Yom Kippur? There are arguments supporting both sides, says the writer.

Smotrich: cabinet authorized 5 West Bank outposts, sanctions against PA

Brigade Commander Colonel Avi Bluth 370

New right-wing central commander likely to be harder on Palestinian terrorism

 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gestures, as he attends a swearing-in ceremony for the newly formed cabinet, in Ramallah, in the West Bank, March 31, 2024.

IDF alarmed by standoff over West Bank funds, report says

By REUTERS
 Amiram Ben Uliel, accused of the Duma arson murder in July 2015 where three members of the Dawabshe family were killed, arrives to a court hearing on his appeal, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on March 7, 2022.

How years of impunity for violent Jewish extremists in the West Bank led to current gov't

European Union flags flutter outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, March 24, 2021

EU condemns expansion of 'illegal settlements across the occupied West Bank'

A general view of houses in the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in the West Bank

Israeli settlements expand by record amount, UN rights chief says

By REUTERS
 Autoridad Palestina - El presidente Mahmud Abbas habla durante una reunión de la dirección de la Autoridad Palestina, en Ramala. Ningún presidente debería estar en el cargo tanto tiempo y menos sin un mandato del pueblo, afirma el escritor.

Abbas: PA will take charge of Gaza to prevent 'second Nakba' for Palestinians

 IDF 'Chariot of Fire' drill.

IDF practiced a scenario of a Palestinian being kidnapped by a settler

By SHLOMI HELLER
 Mourners react during the funeral of American-Palestinian Tawfiq Ajjaq, 17, who according to Palestinian officials was killed by the Israeli security forces, near Ramallah in the West Bank, January 20, 2024.

US 'devastated' by death of citizen in West Bank, seeks probe

By REUTERS
 IDF troops demolish the Hebron homes of two terrorists who carried out a terror attack in November. January 21, 2024.

IDF demolishes homes of Hamas terrorists in Hebron, arrests seven in West Bank

 Palestinian laborers, who were in Israel during the Hamas October 7 attack, arrive at the Rafah border after being sent back by Israel to the strip, in the southern Gaza Strip, November 3, 2023.

Do not allow Palestinian workers into Israel, Likud MKs and ministers demand

Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike on a car in Nablus, in the West Bank January 17, 2024

IDF, Shin Bet kill head of terror cell in Nablus during overnight operation

 PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG shakes hands with Jordan’s King Abdullah II during his visit to Amman on Wednesday.

Jordan's PM says peace with Israel remains strategic choice despite Gaza war

By REUTERS
  Palestinians protest against US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit and his meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Ramallah in the West Bank, January 10, 2024.

Crowds protest in Ramallah as Secretary of State Blinken meets with PA President Abbas

By MOHAMMED AL-KASSIM/The Media Line
 Kochav Yair, as seen from southeast

‘A fence is not enough’: West Bank border residents fear October 7 repeat

By EREZ HAREL
Israeli soldiers guard in a bus station at the entrance to the Israeli settlement of Ofra, where a Palestinian man tried to ram Israeli security forces who stopped him for inspection, October 4, 2022.

Israel approves NIS 75 million for West Bank settlement security

 IDF soldiers find explosive devices during operation in in the Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarm in the northern West Bank early Sunday morning

IDF disarms explosives used for terror in West Bank raid