Palestinian Authority security forces arrested several members of Hamas’s armed wing, Izzadin Kassam, who were planning to carry out a suicide bombing in Jerusalem, the Palestinian Ma’an news agency reported on Wednesday. The operatives had planned...

The Israeli military said early Thursday it shot and killed a Palestinian trying to infiltrate the Barqan settlement in the northern West Bank. According to the Israel Defense Forces, its soldiers opened fire after they identified a number of...

Egyptian forces pumped gas into a cross-border tunnel used to smuggle goods into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing four Palestinians, Hamas officials said. Egypt has been under pressure to seal off the hundreds of tunnels that are a key economic...

Gaza’s Hamas rulers have ordered residents to shut smuggling tunnels along the border with Egypt indefinitely, cutting off the economic lifeline for 1.5 million Palestinians in the impoverished territory, residents and tunnel operators said...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asserted Israel’s “right to build” in Jerusalem, following a row with the US over plans for new homes in the city. “Jerusalem is not a settlement, it’s our capital,” he said in...

Four Israeli policemen were wounded by Palestinian stone hurlers on Sunday, as clashes continued after Muslim worshippers barricaded themselves in a mosque on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount compound.

What future for the “Greater Land of Israel”? Six decades after its founding, Israel has grown into one of the world’s top 20 industrial states, and one of its leading five arms exporters. IN DEPTH Settlements in pictures:...

Palestinian security agents who have been detaining and allegedly torturing supporters of the Islamist organisation Hamas in the West Bank have been working closely with the CIA, the Guardian has learned. Less than a year after Barack Obama signed an...

Within minutes of our arrival in Tuwani, in the south Hebron hills of the West Bank, an army Jeep rolled into the village and shattered the mid-morning tranquillity. “We’re turning this place into a closed military zone,” announced the...

The population of Jewish settlements in the West Bank could grow by 10,000 in the coming year despite a declared “freeze” on Israeli building in the occupied territory, an Israeli Cabinet minister has said. Benny Begin, a rightist minister...