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'Legitimazes Jihad': Foreign Affairs Ministry slams UN report accusing Israel of genocide

The report focused on Palestinian casualties in the West Bank due to Israeli military action and settler violence, as well as analysis of elected MKs and senior military officials.

Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, South African judge Navanethem "Navi" Pillay (R) speaks next to member of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territor
European Union flags flutter outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium Februrary 26, 2026.

The West Bank must not hold Israel’s European security ties hostage - opinion

The tomb believed to belong to Eleazar the Priest in the West Bank after a reported act of arson against it, October 22, 2026.

IDF probes alleged arson attack on Biblical High Priest Eleazar's tomb near Nablus in West Bank

Israeli settlers next to a fire amid clashes with Palestinians during olive harvest in Abu Falah near Ramallah in the West Bank, October 16, 2026.

Settler violence threatens Israel’s rule of law, international standing, legal expert tells ‘Post'


Hamas must be banned from Palestinian Authority elections - comment

October 7 is not the only date from which Israel – and the world – needs to learn. January 25, 2006, is another.

Hamas terrorists celebrating during a rally in the northern Gaza Strip.

Netanyahu barred the Palestinian Authority from Gaza - what about the West Bank? - analysis

The lessons of October 7 demand a new approach to the growing security threat posed by the Palestinian Authority

Israeli security operations in the West Bank have intensified amid continued concerns over terrorist activity and the stability of the Palestinian Authority.
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Hamas plans to run in upcoming Palestinian elections, to prioritize status quo at al-Aqsa Mosque

Elections for the Palestinian Legislative Council are set to go ahead on November 28, the first in 20 years after Hamas won in January 2006. Hamas won 74 of the seats, with Fatah following behind.

Hamas terrorists stand guard near a stage before releasing Israeli hostage Agam Berger to a Red Cross team in Jabalia on January 30, 2025, as part of their third hostage-prisoner exchange; illustrative

The war for Israel’s home

HaBithonistim chairman Erez Winner calls for a return to decisive victory, a larger and more self-reliant IDF, and national service for all Israelis

Erez Winner, chairman of HaBithchonistim

Israel's restraint in Gaza may give Hamas the opening it needs to take its power back - analysis

Shortly after criticism emerged from within the defense establishment over the pragmatism the government showed toward Trump's peace plan, a decision was made to completely halt targeted killings.

 Palestinians walk next to a destroyed Mosque from an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 9, 2024

UNESCO joins Palestinians in rewriting Jewish history in Judea and Samaria - opinion

This year, the PA submitted a long list of obviously and undeniably Jewish historical sites to the World Heritage List at UNESCO, rebranding the sites as “Palestinian” or “Islamic” heritage locations

The dramatic mountaintop site rising 650 meters above the Jordan Valley

Former Palestinian envoy Ashraf Dabbour detained in Lebanon over corruption claims

Dabbour was previously arrested and later released in April in connection with an international arrest warrant issued through Interpol, based on financial corruption charges brought by the PA.

A sign at Interpol headquarters, where the International Criminal Police Organization, an intergovernmental body with 196 member countries, helps police worldwide work together through cooperation, intelligence-sharing and global alerts to combat cross-border crime, in Lyon, France, June 9, 2026.

US Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor refuses to pause $655m. judgment against Palestinian Authority

The decision allows efforts to collect the money to continue while the PA and PLO prepare another appeal, but it does not mean the Supreme Court has ruled on that appeal itself.

A person uses an umbrella to block the sun at the Supreme Court amid a heatwave in Washington.

Prominent Palestinian activist arrested by PA for protesting high fuel prices, corruption

His arrest is seen by many Palestinians as a continuation of the PA leadership's campaign to silence and intimidate critics and political opponents. 

Palestinian security forces deploy at the Jenin camp for Palestinian refugees in the north of the West Bank on December 18, 2024.

Over 8,000 plaintiffs seek to hold PA liable for October 7 massacre, war damages

The Jerusalem District Court set Sunday as the deadline for arguments as a new study links the PA prisoner-payment system to senior Hamas figures involved in the massacre.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the general Conference of Fatah Youth in Ramallah, with a backdrop including a portrait of Abbas and Yasser Arafat, November 27, 2025; illustrative.