The Israeli-UAE trade is likely to get an added boost in the next few weeks as an anticipated signing of a customs agreement will enable the FTA signed last year to go into effect.

Nablus, Palestinian Territories - Three Palestinian gunmen were shot dead after they fired at Israeli soldiers in the northern West Bank near Nablus, the Israeli army said on Sunday, as violence in the region continued. The military said that "armed gunmen opened fire" on soldiers at an army position near the...

An Israeli settler killed an assailant in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military said, the latest bloodshed in a surge of violence in the Palestinian territory. The incident occurred at Dorot Illit settlement in the north of the West Bank, the army said in a statement.

A planned mass rally in Tel Aviv by Israeli protesters opposed to the government's controversial legal reform plans forced an 11th-hour change of venue for Lloyd Austin's talks, throwing an international spotlight on Israel's domestic divisions.

The Palestinian health ministry said six men had been killed, one aged 49 and the rest in their 20s, in clashes that the army said included soldiers launching shoulder-fired rockets amid ferocious gunfire. On Tuesday, Jordan foreign ministry spokesman Sinan Majali condemned what he called Israeli "aggression", warning it "will...

Two witnesses said rockets had been fired at the building housing a group of militants, and reported gunfire in the streets of the northern West Bank camp, the latest in a string of fatal military operations in the territory. The raid comes amid a surge in violence in the Israeli-Palestinian...

LONDON, UK-  Six European countries on Saturday called on Israel to stop expanding its settlements in  Palestine's West Bank. Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Poland have also jointly condemned the recent attack on Israeli citizens by Palestinian groups. In a joint statement, they said, "We urge the Israeli government...

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia--Saudi Arabia and Qatar on Friday condemned a call by an Israeli minister for a flashpoint Palestinian town to be "wiped out", with Riyadh describing it as "racist and irresponsible". Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a far-right member of Israel's coalition government, made his comments on Wednesday, days after...

Tensions are high, especially after the nearby Palestinian town of Huwara came under attack by Israeli settlers on Sunday, hours after two Israeli settlers were shot dead as they drove past.

Dozens of Israeli settlers set homes and cars ablaze in the northern town of Huwara overnight, after a day of Israeli-Palestinian talks in neighboring Jordan aimed at quelling a surge in violence in the Palestinian territory. The violence came hours after two Israeli settlers -- brothers Yagel Yaniv and Hallel...

The latest deaths came amid talks in Jordan to discuss worsening violence in the occupied territory, and days after Israeli forces launched their deadliest West Bank raid in nearly 20 years, which left 11 Palestinians dead in the northern city of Nablus. The West Bank is home to about 2.9...

Jordanian state broadcaster Al-Mamlaka said the meeting, which kicked off in the Red Sea resort of Aqaba, was "the first of its kind in years between Palestinians and Israelis with regional and international participation" and would address "the situation in the Palestinian territories". Palestinian intelligence chief Majed Faraj and the...

Jordan will host a "political-security" meeting between Israel and the Palestinians to try and restore calm to the occupied Palestinian territories after deadly violence, a Jordanian government official said. The meeting to be held in the Red Sea resort of Aqaba will also be attended by United States and Egyptian...

Nablus, Palestinian Territories--When Israel conducted its deadliest raid in the occupied West Bank in almost two decades this week, a young Palestinian nurse rushed to help. As critical case after critical case succumbed to their wounds, Elias al-Ashqar, 25, let out a blood-curdling roar. "My father! My father," he screamed, as...

Top Palestinian official Hussein Al Sheikh decried the incursion as a "massacre" and called for "international protection for our people". The Palestinian health ministry said those killed "as a result of the occupation's aggression on Nablus" were aged between 16 and 72.

Jerusalem--An Israeli military court on Tuesday sentenced Bassam al-Saadi, a senior member of Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad in the occupied West Bank, to 22 months in prison, the army said. Leader of Islamic Jihad in the north West Bank city of Jenin, Saadi was arrested on August 1 and...

Netanyahu said earlier Sunday during a meeting of his government he wanted to "strengthen settlements", which are illegal under international law. The measures apply to Israeli Arabs as well as to Palestinians with resident status in east Jerusalem, part of the city annexed by Israel. The measures apply to Israeli...

Cairo, Egypt - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Sunday accused Israel of having "crossed all red lines" in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem and urged world leaders to put an end to its actions. The international community must "protect" the Palestinian people and "put a stop to Israeli aggression......

Jerusalem--Cracks have emerged within Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hardline government, with a row over the demolition of a settlement outpost in the occupied West Bank testing the fledgling coalition. Netanyahu vowed in December to expand settlements across the West Bank, as he returned to power at the helm of...

Nablus, Palestinian Territories---Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus Tuesday, the Palestinian health ministry said, with the Israeli army saying he had fired on soldiers. The ministry said Hamza Amjad al-Ashqar, 17, was "killed by a bullet in the face fired by the occupation...

Hamas confirmed its fighters were among the dead, saying in a statement the Gaza-based group was mourning members of its military wing killed "in an armed clash with the Zionist occupation". The early morning Israeli raid came amid a spike in Israeli-Palestinian violence and after days of what Jericho authorities...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Israeli and Palestinian leaders on his Middle East tour aimed at curbing the outbreak of violence in the region. Blinken met Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and said that the US is committed for the Jewish state's security. Gallant called the US official...

Israeli troops killed a Palestinian driver in West Bank, officials on both sides said, with the army saying the car had hit a soldier's leg before speeding off. Nassim Naif Salman Abu Fouda, 26, died from "a bullet wound to the head fired by the occupation (Israeli) soldiers in Hebron,"...

Francis, 86, cited 10 Palestinians, including a woman, killed in an Israeli army raid on a refugee camp in the West Bank, and an attack Friday by a Palestinian gunman that killed seven Israelis.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Egypt at the start of a Middle East trip on which he will look to notch down Israeli-Palestinian tensions after an eruption of violence. Blinken, who will travel Monday and Tuesday to Jerusalem and Ramallah after his stop in Cairo, had planned...

An assailant shot and wounded two people in east Jerusalem, Israeli medics said, hours after a Palestinian gunman killed seven outside a synagogue in one of the deadliest such attacks in years. Police said the suspect was "neutralized" following the latest gun attack in the Silwan neighborhood, just outside Jerusalem's...

The operation, which Israel said targeted Palestinian fighters planning an attack, killed nine people and for Palestinians recalled the bloodshed of the second intifada or uprising between 2000 and 2005, when Jenin was plagued by fighting.

The bloodiest violence in months in the Palestinian territories erupted during a raid on the crowded refugee camp in the northern city of Jenin, where gunshots rang through the streets and smoke billowed from burning street barricades.

Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian in the West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, in what the army described as a "stabbing attack". The ministry said that Arref Abdel Nasser Arref Lahlouh, 22, was killed "by Israeli gunfire," near the city of Qalqilya. Lahlou is the 19th Palestinian killed...

"By making it harder for people to spend time in the West Bank, Israel is taking yet another step toward turning the West Bank into another Gaza, where two million Palestinians have lived virtually sealed off from the outside world for over 15 years," HRW's Eric Goldstein said.

An Israeli civilian shot dead a Palestinian at a settler farm in the occupied West Bank after an attempted stabbing, the army said, the latest incident as violence surges in the territory. A "terrorist was neutralized" during the "attempted stabbing attack" at Sde Efraim farm northwest of Ramallah, the Israeli...

The ministry announced the "martyrdom of Jawad Farid Bawaqna, 57, killed by a bullet in the chest, and Adham Mohammed Bassem Jabareen 28, after he was shot in the upper abdomen by the Israeli occupation army during its aggression on Jenin".

The law gives settlers in the occupied West Bank access to civilian law, while their Palestinian neighbours face military courts. The session marks the first legislative move since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took office last month.

Hours after Ben-Gvir's appearance at the sensitive site, Hamas and other militant groups held emergency meetings to discuss a "proportionate" response, sources within the movement told AFP. Overnight a single rocket was fired from Gaza, though it failed to cross into Israeli territory and the launch went unclaimed by any...

Jerusalem-- Israel's newly sworn-in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has granted major concessions to far-right and ultra-Orthodox allies to cement a coalition following last month's election, the country's fifth in less than four years. The agreements, published by the Knesset, or parliament, on Wednesday, have already prompted an outcry among Israel's...

Jerusalem, Undefined - Israel's parliament on Tuesday passed controversial legislation paving the way for the return of veteran hawk Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister. Following his November 1 election win, Netanyahu secured a mandate to form a government backed by ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties and an extreme-right bloc. Netanyahu will present what analysts...

Rabbi Haim Druckman was a student of Zvi Yehuda Kook, whose movement founded settlements after Israel occupied the West Bank in the 1967 Six-Day War. Druckman was considered one of Kook's successors from the 1990s.

With a giant evergreen tree, colorful balloons in the streets and selfies in the Church of the Nativity, Christmas tourism has returned to Bethlehem after two years of Covid-linked curbs.

Nablus has seen frequent clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants in recent months, as the army has stepped up operations in Palestinian towns and cities in response to a wave of deadly attacks on Israeli targets earlier this year.

The Palestinian govt has no money to support would-be entrepreneurs, environment for foreign investors is too risky and the Israeli occupation makes condition worse, say experts.

Washington, United States— US Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed Sunday to oppose Israeli settlements or annexation in the West Bank, but promised to judge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's incoming government by actions and not personalities. Netanyahu is expected to return to power after sealing a coalition deal with the extreme-right...

With 32 members of Netanyahu's Likud party and seven Religious Zionism lawmakers in Israel's 120-seat parliament, the former premier still needs to bring two ultra-Orthodox parties into his future government to secure a majority. The deal with Religious Zionism will see the faction receiving the finance ministry in a rotation...

Israeli troops shot dead four Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said, and a suspected car-ramming attacker was killed after wounding an Israeli soldier, Israeli medics and the army said. The army confirmed its troops had fired on "rioters" who attacked soldiers in two separate clashes in the...

Jerusalem— At least one person was killed and 14 wounded in two separate explosions targeting bus stops in Jerusalem Wednesday, security and medical officials said, with Israel's public security minister calling them "attacks." An explosion at a bus stop at the western exit from Jerusalem killed a man and wounded...

Outgoing Prime Minister Yair Lapid said Israeli soldiers "will not be interrogated" by the US' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) over the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. The veteran Al Jazeera reporter was shot and killed while covering an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank on...

Ramallah, Palestinian Territories— Israeli forces shot dead an 18-year-old Palestinian on Saturday near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said. Musaab Nafal died "from severe wounds sustained by occupation (Israeli) bullets near the village of Sinjil", the ministry said in a statement. The Israeli army said soldiers...

Such a scenario has led to despondency among many Arab-Israelis -- who make up around 20 percent of the population -- potentially denting their turnout. "We need to work harder, first of all, to convince people to go out and vote," Aida Touma-Suleiman, from the Hadash-Taal alliance, told AFP.

The Palestinian health ministry said five people were killed in Nablus in the northern West Bank, where Israel confirmed an overnight operation targeted the group, which it blames for multiple recent attacks. Another Palestinian died from a gunshot wound to the chest during overnight clashes with Israeli forces in Nabi...

Hours after two Palestinian teenagers were shot dead in an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank, Israeli troops were looking for an assailant who killed a soldier at an east Jerusalem checkpoint. The soldier had been "killed as a result of being critically injured by a shooting attack" in...

A rare operation by the Palestinian Authority security forces to arrest a Hamas member sparked clashes in the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday, killing one. A statement from the security forces confirmed the death of Firas Yaish and said they were "waiting for a medical report," on the...