After the Palestinian Authority (PA), which governs small pockets of the West Bank, decided to seek a legal opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Israel’s conduct in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), Tel Aviv has retaliated by sanctioning them. PA Prime Minister, Mohammad Shtayyeh, warns these sanctions could lead to the PA’s Read More…
Tag: West Bank
The Deadliest Year Since 2005 In The West Bank As The US Gives The License To Murder
This year has seen the highest death toll for Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank since the UN’s humanitarian office began keeping record in 2005. Tel Aviv’s strategy for combating newly formed armed groups in the territory is only encouraging their growth in size and expanding the scope of violent escalation. On Read More…
Israel Kills Palestinian Teen, Hit By Bomb Attack Retaliation
Israel’s escalating presence inside the occupied West Bank is leading to even greater violence. Within one day the body of an Israeli soldier was taken hostage, as bomb attacks struck Jerusalem. Tel Aviv now weighs a tough response, but at what cost? On Tuesday night Israeli occupation forces accompanied a small group of extremist Israeli Read More…
The West Bank Is On The Verge Of All Out War
Despite the attempts of the Israeli military to put down Palestinian armed resistance by force, armed attacks against Israeli settlers and soldiers are rapidly increasing. A trend of new armed groups announcing themselves throughout the West Bank has led to policies of collective punishment (a flagrant war crime) against entire Palestinian populations inside cities and Read More…
A New Israel-Gaza War Possible – Is May 2021 Repeating Itself?
Jerusalem has again become a battleground in the past week, with Israeli extremist settlers and police forces attacking Palestinian demonstrators throughout occupied East Jerusalem. With armed attacks against Israeli forces on the rise and protesters taking to the streets across all territories in occupied Palestine, will this drag the armed movements based in the Gaza Read More…
Israel Sizes Up West Bank Operation As Palestinian Armed Groups Re-emerge
On Sunday, September 4, three Palestinians trailed an Israeli bus filled with soldiers, before pulling up in front of it and opening fire through the front window. Six Israeli soldiers were injured in the attack, one seriously, in addition to an Israeli settler. The attack sent fears throughout Israel’s military that they are not safe Read More…






