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Young cadets carry briefcases as they rush to computer labs, Hebrew classes and conflict resolution drills. They are the vanguard of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' campaign to prevent the West Bank from falling to Hamas.
The Palestinian president has chosen the West Bank's most chaotic city to show he's in control, winning U.S. praise Thursday for beefing up his security forces here as part of an attempt to reassure Israel that he can implement a future peace deal.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Thursday played down expectations for an upcoming U.S.-sponsored peace summit, saying the gathering would not produce a binding peace agreement with the Palestinians and might not even take place.
Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinian militants early Tuesday in an arrest raid in the northern West Bank town of Jenin, the army said.
About 1,000 Palestinian prisoners rioted at an Israeli desert prison early Monday, attacking guards, torching the tents where they are housed and leaving 30 people injured, a prison spokesman said.
Palestinian gunmen planned to assassinate Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert when he went to the West Bank in August to meet with the Palestinian president, a security chief told Israel's Cabinet on Sunday, a meeting participant said.
Palestinian surveyors fanned out across Gaza and the West Bank on Thursday, counting homes and people in the first census in a decade, a rare joint endeavor of bitter rivals Hamas and Fatah.
The commander of Israeli forces in the West Bank was reprimanded Thursday following an investigation into allegations that troops used a Palestinian man as a human shield during an operation in the West Bank city of Nablus.
Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian gunman and an elderly civilian in a pre-dawn raid in the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday, Palestinian witnesses and doctors said.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's vehicle was briefly diverted into an Israeli fire station on Monday due to security concerns as she traveled to the West Bank for talks with Palestinian officials, authorities said.
First a sprawling police headquarters went up, now bulldozers are leveling ground for a highway, and by year's end Israel will have laid claim to another strategic West Bank hill, taking one more chunk out of a future Palestine even as Israel says it wants to negotiate its borders.
Israel will grant residency permits to 5,000 Palestinians who have been living in the West Bank on expired visitors' visas, officials said Wednesday, in a new gesture to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
The Palestinians are ready to yield parts of the West Bank to Israel if compensated with an equal amount of Israeli territory, the lead Palestinian negotiator told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday.
Israel confirmed Tuesday it is building a new road for Palestinians in the West Bank, prompting charges an increasingly separate road system is meant to seal Israeli control over a swath of land near Jerusalem as the sides try to revive peace talks.
Bryan Adams will headline concerts for peace in the West Bank and Israel next week, with his performances relayed by satellite to London, Ottawa and Washington.
In an embarrassing blow to Israel, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the state to redraw the route of its West Bank separation barrier near a Palestinian village that has come to symbolize opposition to the enclosure.
Japan's foreign minister launched plans Wednesday for a joint Israeli-Palestinian industrial park in the West Bank that he said would promote peace in the region through prosperity.
In their first meeting on Palestinian soil, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday he hopes to launch negotiations "soon" on establishing a Palestinian state, his clearest promise yet to tackle a final peace deal.
Two dozen gunmen shooting in the air disrupted high school final exams in this West Bank city on Saturday after education officials rejected their demand to be allowed to take the tests in a separate room.
Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday killed eight Palestinians, including a 12-year-old boy, Palestinians said, the bloodiest fighting in the area since the Hamas militant group violently seized control two weeks ago.
Former President Jimmy Carter accused the U.S., Israel and the European Union on Tuesday of seeking to divide the Palestinian people by reopening aid to President Mahmoud Abbas' new government in the West Bank while denying the same to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
Trapped by Israeli tanks and Hamas gunmen, hundreds of terrified Palestinians holed up in a stench-filled concrete tunnel at a border crossing Tuesday, desperate to flee the Islamic militants now ruling the Gaza Strip.
Hamas' bloody takeover of the Gaza Strip will dominate talks in Washington between President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, with the two leaders coordinating a strategy to freeze out Hamas in Gaza and strengthen Fatah in the West Bank.
Arab countries are eyeing the chaos in Gaza with alarm, fearing that the Palestinian fighting could spread to the West Bank and further destabilize the region. The Arab League chief on Thursday called for a cease-fire, warning of disaster otherwise.
A Palestinian mayor called Monday for the end of pilgrimages by Jewish groups to a holy site in his West Bank village after Muslim graves were desecrated there last week.
Ronnie Kasrils, outstanding Jewish South African hero in the fight against racist Apartheid slams "Israeli conquest ... occupation ... land grab ... monstrous Apartheid Wall ... illegal settlements... repression."
"The illusion, yet again, is a Middle Eastern peace conference in November or December that would produce the final outlines and contents of an independent state of Palestine.
Senior Hamas leader Nizar Rayyan said Monday that the Islamist group would soon take control over the West Bank.
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — For more than 25 years, Ghazi Hamad has been a reliable champion for Hamas and its hard-line Islamist ideology, first as a leader of Palestinian street protests, then as an editor of a pro-Hamas newspaper and most recently as the chief spokesman for deposed …
Muhammad Deif, the commander of Hamas' military wing, has said that the movement will strike in the heart of Israel in the near future, a senior Hamas member said Tuesday.
Having sent up numerous trial balloons over the past several weeks, Israel now will work on shutting down the Gaza Strip.
Jean Ziegler, the UN special rapporteur on right to food, castigated the Israeli occupation and described it as the only "colonial regime" which refuses to abide by any international law, calling on the UN to adopt an effective policy forcing Israel to respect human rights and th …
Those who worry that a Hillary Clinton presidency would just be the Return of Bill may yet be proved optimists.
Last Wednesday, when I returned to Jerusalem after working in the Tel Aviv studio of IsraelSeen.com preparing a new audio program I was struck by a sign carried on the side of a local Jerusalem Egged bus.
Unprecedented levels of political violence between Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip during the past year, which culminated in June 2007 when Hamas seized control of Palestinian Authority (PA) security institutions in the territory, took a heavy toll on the civilian populati …
JERUSALEM, Oct. 23 — Three Palestinian militants were killed Tuesday by Israeli Army fire and a Palestinian security prisoner died of wounds sustained Monday during the quelling of a riot in an Israeli prison, Israeli officials said.
A study by an Israeli psychologist into the violent behaviour of the country's soldiers is provoking bitter controversy and has awakened urgent questions about the way the army conducts itself in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
At least three people have been killed and 10 injured in heavy fighting in Gaza as rival Palestinian factions challenge the authority of Hamas. The dead included a 13-year-old boy caught in the crossfire, medics said.
This is an open admission that Islamic charities are in the business of funding terrorism, but don't expect the mainstream media to notice: Who would know better where Hamas gets its money than Abbas' Palestinian Authority?
The video clip, which aired as a filler between programs on October 11, showed a map of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip colored red at the top -- with green, white and black stripes down the middle of the state.
Across the Green Line, the West Bank, captured in 1967, [...] a lawless place, where the Jewish settler, rifle in one hand and prayer book in the other, is undisputed king. [...]
About a month ago, we were driving on highway 60 in Jerusalem towards Pisgat Ze'ev, and we saw in the other direction that there were absolutely no cars coming from the other direction.
A top UN expert has said he will urge the world body to withdraw from the Quartet of Middle East mediators unless it addresses Palestinian human rights.
Palestinian Authority security forces shot dead two Palestinians on Saturday, including a five-year-old boy, in the West Bank city of Qalqilyah.
A West Bank peace concert for supporters of a two-state solution to the conflict with Israel has been called off because of security concerns, the organizer said late Thursday.
Joseph's Tomb in Nablus in the West Bank, a Jewish holy site where some believe the biblical Joseph is buried, was in the news early in the Second Intifada when a Palestinian mob ransacked it after an Israeli troop withdrawal.
The conflicts in Iraq, Lebanon, and Afghanistan and the global Islamist insurgency have revealed that Western democracies and their political and military leaders do not fully comprehend the multifaceted threats represented by radical Muslim nonstate actors.
Many times, media outlets and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) rely upon unsourced and uncorroborated Palestinian "eyewitnesses" to back up their stories, despite the unprofessionalism that lies behind this sloppy form of investigation. But what if journalists conveniently …
Today the term Oslo is mud. Everybody agrees that there was no new or better epoch. There's disagreement as to why it went wrong. My thesis is we misunderstood what took place that day and circumstances since then.
While Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas was immersed this week in dead-end dialogue with Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, in obedience to the United States and European powers, the Hamas applied the finishing touches to a single integrated armed force by merging its …
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