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More than 60 Palestinians detained or questioned during nearly two-day military operation

Palestinians in Gaza held funeral prayers on Tuesday for 112 people recovered from under the rubble of homes destroyed during Israel’s war on the enclave. The funeral is considered one of the largest in Palestinian history due to the high number of victims. Thousands of Palestinians took part in the funeral in Gaza City’s Sabra neighbourhood, where the bodies were draped in Palestinian flags and placed near the ruins of the destroyed homes, according to an Anadolu reporter. The victims were members of the Al-Hasayneh and Abu Sharia families, who were killed when the Israeli army bombed their homes while they were inside on November 23, 2023. They are set to be buried at the Baptist Cemetery in the Zeitoun neighbourhood, south of Gaza City, after the funeral procession. The bodies were retrieved from the rubble by civil defence teams on Saturday. “The victims included 40 children, 38 women and seven people with disabilities,” it said in a statement. “The teams were unable to find 157 bodies still missing under...

Palestinians, who see the new Board of Peace roadmap as merely a mechanism to implement previously discussed ideas, warn that while the latest plan may prevent another military escalation with Israel, it doesn't resolve key disputes on Hamas' future, Gaza's governance and the enclave's reconstruction

Israel cut the hours at the only crossing Palestinians living in the West Bank can use to travel abroad, and a 'VIP' extortion trade rushed in. 'This is a violation of a constitutional right,' the petitioners' lawyer told the court – which ordered the Airports Authority to extend the hours

Across the West Bank, Palestinians describe how a fatal settler attack can trigger a chain of restrictions and retaliation that affects all aspects of daily life. 'I have never in my life seen conditions like those we are living under today,' says a man from Nablus

Defense Minister Katz's statements followed Friday's clashes in the village of Tell that left two Israelis and four Palestinians dead. Earlier on Tuesday, Palestinian media reported that the IDF carried out raids in several West Bank communities, including Nablus, Hebron and Bethlehem

Israeli forces arrest more than 40 Palestinians in Tell near Nablus, five in Jenin governorate, three in Bethlehem

Channel 13 reported that PM Netanyahu called Jewish rioters who attack Palestinians a 'spreading cancer' during a security cabinet meeting in March on a plan to curb West Bank violence, most of which was not made public for political reasons

Americans now favor Israelis and Palestinians almost evenly, while continuing to dislike their leaderships. About 58 percent of Democrats say the U.S. is 'too supportive' of Israel, up from 45 percent in early 2024

The indictment stems from a raid in which masked Israeli settlers stormed the West Bank town of Huwara, assaulted residents and stole dozens of sheep after falsely claiming Palestinians had stolen a flock

Under the agreement, 80 percent of the city is under Palestinian control, and 20 percent – home to a small community of 800 Jewish settlers, alongside some 40,000 Palestinians – under Israeli rule. Planning and building powers in Hebron were transferred from the Palestinian municipality to Israel

The local KKK hopes its violence will spur an angry Palestinian reaction to justify murdering more Palestinians and expelling the majority of them to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon

Palestinians in Silwan and Qalandyiah describe a holiday of razed homes and forced displacement, while the IDF sealed the West Bank town of Beit Ummar for all four days. 'They told me, either you continue [the demolition], or we will,' says a resident of Silwan

With state backing, settlers can ethnically cleanse Palestinians at the same time as tens of thousands of Haredim can evade military service and riot outside a Supreme Court justice's home. After all, Israel's government does not fight terror: it creates the terror

From the establishment of a crowded Palestinian neighborhood expected to facilitate the expulsion of communities in the area, to a new road that keeps Palestinians out of the region – the Israeli effect could erase Palestinians from the area

Both are part of the economic and psychological war of attrition Israel is waging against Palestinians and their leadership

Palestinians in the West Bank and a central area of Gaza began voting on Saturday in municipal elections in the first vote since Israel’s deadly invasion of Gaza, marked by a narrow political field and widespread disillusionment. Nearly 1.5 million people are registered to vote in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, as well as 70,000 people in Gaza’s Deir el-Balah area, according to the Ramallah-based Central Elections Commission. Polling stations opened at 7am (9am PKT). AFP footage from Al-Bireh in the West Bank and Deir el-Balah in Gaza showed election officials in polling stations as Palestinians came to cast ballots. Most electoral lists are aligned with President Mahmoud Abbas’s secular-nationalist Fatah party or feature candidates running as independents. There are no lists affiliated with Fatah’s archrival Hamas, which controls nearly half of the Gaza Strip. In most cities, Fatah-backed tickets will run against independent lists headed by candidates from factions such as the Popular Front for the Liberati...

Bereaved Israelis and Palestinians gathered at an undisclosed location in Israel for the 21st joint Memorial Day ceremony, with screenings in the West Bank and around the world, as relatives of Oct. 7 victims and survivors of the Gaza war declared: 'This reality is not an eternal fate'

The Israeli framing of the incident as a security issue overlooks the systemic restrictions that leave Palestinians with few viable options

According to security officials, David Zini has deprioritized the Shin Bet division responsible for tackling right-wing extremism - and even refers to such as incidents as 'cases of friction' between Israeli settlers and Palestinians