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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Sunday for a previously unannounced meeting that ended by posing more questions than it answered about the Gaza Strip’s future.

President Joe Biden announced $100 million in humanitarian aid for Gaza and the West Bank during a visit to Israel on Wednesday.

Multiple reports on Tuesday night documented the eruption of massive protests attracting hundreds of people in the West Bank, under the control of the Palestinian Authority, demanding that its 87-year-old leader Mahmoud Abbas step down.

Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was amongst the first to rush to blame Israel for a deadly explosion at the Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday.

Australia’s left-wing Labor government on Tuesday declared Israel’s presence on the West Bank as “illegal settlements in the occupied territories” in a reversal of support for the Jewish state.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired back at Sky News, stating that Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) are part of the Jewish “ancestral homeland” to which Jews have been attached for 3,000 years and the notion of banning Jews from settling in those areas is the true “obstacle to peace,” after the British news outlet attempted to depict the territories as “occupied” lands.

A communist motion condemning “Israel’s institutionalisation of an apartheid regime” while demanding an economic boycott of the country was overwhelmingly rejected by the French National Assembly last Thursday.

Palestinian schools run by the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees — to which President Joe Biden has given almost a billion dollars since entering office — still teach inciting content against Israel, including “regularly calling for the murder of Jews,” a new

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has strongly denied agreeing to freeze West Bank settlement construction on Sunday, after the U.S. published a joint statement saying Israel had agreed “to stop discussion of any new settlement units for 4 months and to stop authorization of any outposts for 6 months.”

Two Israeli brothers, including a teenage boy, were shot dead in a terror attack in the northern West Bank, the Israeli military said.

Videos of Palestinian kindergarten-aged children dressed up as jihadi terrorists and killing Israelis are making the rounds on TikTok, with scenes also showing the children carrying the “dead bodies” of “martyrs”.

An Israeli officer was killed in a stabbing attack by a 13-year-old Palestinian in Jerusalem on Monday, the second terror attack in the space of two hours in the capital, and the fifth in two weeks.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a meeting in Ramallah on Tuesday he mourned the “innocent Palestinian civilians” killed over the past year in the West Bank. Of the Palestinians killed, the overwhelming majority were terrorists – most of them while they were carrying out attacks.

A top aide to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was heard cursing the Palestinian leader as “the son of 66 whores” in leaked recordings published by a news site affiliated with the rival Hamas faction.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday said Jerusalem must be a city for Israelis and Palestinians, and anything else will harm Israel’s identity and security.

The body of an Israeli teenager who was kidnapped by Palestinian gunmen from a hospital in the northern West Bank city of Jenin after his car crashed was returned to his family Thursday. He was finally laid to rest later that day.

An Israeli teenager who died after a car crash in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday morning was kidnapped by Palestinian gunmen from a hospital, the Israeli military said.

A Palestinian terrorist carried out a shooting attack in the West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday night, killing one Israeli man and injuring four others.

The Biden administration expressed “deep concern” Wednesday over an uptick in violence in the West Bank, after four Palestinian terrorists were killed during an Israeli counterrorism raid earlier in the day.

The woke founders of Ben & Jerry’s said this week that parent company Unilever is in violation of the merger deal signed over two decades ago, over its recent decision to allow the sale of its Israel-based operations so ice cream could continue to be sold to Jewish people living in the West Bank.

A federal court in New York on Monday ruled against Ben & Jerry’s bid to prevent its ice cream from being sold in the West Bank, Reuters reported on Monday.

Palestinian terrorists fired several rounds of bullets at an Israeli bus full of passengers in the West Bank on Saturday night, hours after a separate incident in the same area in which three female terrorists were arrested by Israeli troops.

Ben & Jerry’s took its parent company Unilever to a federal court in New York on Monday for the first hearing in its quest to stop the multinational from allowing its ice cream to be sold in Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas hailed two terrorists who were killed by Israeli troops a few days ago as “heroes,” telling their families in a phone call this week the nation of “Palestine” was in mourning for them.

The U.S. does not want to be “surprised” by any Israeli announcements about building Jewish homes in West Bank settlements, President Joe Biden told Prime Minister Yair Lapid in their first meeting together on Thursday. The meeting, which lasted about

The Palestinian Authority said on Saturday it would transfer the bullet that killed veteran Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh to American officials for forensic testing, in the hopes of identifying whether the fatal shot fired was from an Israeli soldier or a Palestinian gunman.

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to  form “a broad, strong, and stable national government” that would “restore national pride” following what he called the “fall of the worst government in Israel’s history.”

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Alternate Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Monday evening said they were dissolving the 24th Knesset, in a bombshell announcement that will send Israelis to the polls for the fifth election in three years.

Former Vice President Mike Pence’s advocacy organization has submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the State Department for documents pertaining to the Biden administration’s “strong opposition” to Jewish communities in the West Bank.

A veteran Palestinian-American journalist was killed during a raid by Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday morning, with Israel accusing Palestinian terrorists of shooting her down while Palestinians are blaming Israeli troops.

An Israeli man was sipping tea with his family on the porch of his home in the West Bank settlement of Tekoa on Sunday evening when he spotted an armed Palestinian trying to scale the security fence. The man, a father of seven, rushed his family inside and grabbed his M16 rifle and shot the terrorist.

The Israeli security guard who who was killed by two Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank town of Ariel while shielding his fiancée was laid to rest on Sunday.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett accused CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour of misleading viewers over Israel’s recent handling of Palestinian rioting on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City.

Vice President Kamala Harris caused a stir among liberal activists after she served wine made in a Jewish West Bank settlement at her Passover seder on Friday, prompting her office to clarify she was not making a political statement.

The victim of Thursday night’s Palestinian terror attack in Tel Aviv Eitam Megini, 27, became engaged three weeks ago to his girlfriend, Ayala.

The aunt of the Palestinian terrorist responsible for a shooting attack that killed five people in a Tel Aviv suburb last week spoke openly of her support for him, stating she was “happy” he became a martyr, while praising the shooter’s confidence and courageousness.