Israel blocks Palestinians from attending Ramadan Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa
Israel says it will allow only 10,000 Palestinians from the West Bank to enter mosque for holy month tradition.

Israel says it will allow only 10,000 Palestinians from the West Bank to enter mosque for holy month tradition.










More than 80 UN nation ambassadors have condemned Israeli measures to tighten its control of the occupied West Bank.
UN warns that Israel’s plan will lead to widespread dispossession of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.

Israel’s plans to claim parts of the occupied West Bank as ‘state property’ is raising concerns in neighbouring Jordan.

Israeli settler attacks are driving Palestinian Bedouins from their homes in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli settlers forced the families to dismantle homes in the Jordan Valley, a village leader tells Wafa news agency.
Jordan warns of war as Israel’s ‘silent transfer’ in the occupied West Bank becomes an operational reality.
Israeli military incursions and settler attacks forced more than 37,000 Palestinians to leave their homes in 2025.
Oscar-winning director Hamdan Ballal says his family was attacked despite an Israeli court ruling in their favour.
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Awdah Hathaleen’s brother says Israeli prosecutors’ plan to indict settler Yinon Levi is welcome, but not enough.