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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Aaron Boxerman |Fatima Karim
The trip had been planned for Sunday ahead of a June conference, backed by France and Saudi Arabia, to urge the creation of a Palestinian state. The Israeli government has barred foreign ministers from a number of Arab states, including Jordan and Saudi Arabia, from visiting the Israeli-occupied West Bank to meet with Palestinian leaders, the Jordanian government said on Saturday.
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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Isabel Kershner |Fatima Karim
The death of Amer Rabee, a Palestinian American in the West Bank, has spurred anger over soldiers' use of force and an apparent lack of accountability. The clothes were strewn on a ridge dotted with olive and almond trees, perched above a highway in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. On rust-colored earth sprinkled with wildflowers were a torn black T-shirt, black Converse socks and a pair of Nike Air white sneakers.
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3 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Fatima Karim |Ephrat Livni
The authority offered scant information about why it issued the ban in January, and it maintained that stance in announcing that it was rescinding it. The Palestinian Authority said late Monday that it would lift a ban on the broadcaster Al Jazeera in the West Bank that it put into effect after accusing the outlet of "inciting sedition" and "interfering in internal Palestinian affairs."The ban, which the Palestinian Authority's attorney general, Akram Khatib, instituted on Jan.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Adam Rasgon |Fatima Karim
5 hours agoThe Trump administration has been cracking down on the university after what the White House has called a failure to protect its Jewish students. What we know about the protest Protesters chanting pro-Palestinian slogans took over a room of a Columbia University library this evening. • The …
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Vivian Yee |Fatima Karim
The Palestine Red Crescent released a video made by a paramedic before he was killed, and called the deaths of 15 rescue workers "a full-fledged war crime." Israel has said it is investigating.
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Mar 1, 2025 | 
businessandamerica.com | Adam Rasgon |Fatima Karim
The Palestinian Authority was carrying out one of the most extensive security operations in its history, pursuing armed militants in the West Bank city of Jenin. For weeks, the authority’s forces slowly advanced on the militants’ densely populated stronghold, Palestinian officials said. When the Israeli military launched its own wide-scale raid there in January, the authority was expected to abandon its operation. But it did not.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
flipboard.com | Adam Rasgon |Fatima Karim
15 hours ago“We are ready today, if not yesterday, to step back from governance,” Basem Naim, a senior political official for Hamas, told NBC News. TEL AVIV — Hamas is willing to cede political power and administrative governance of the Gaza Strip to a Palestinian unity government, but would not disarm unless …
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Adam Rasgon |Fatima Karim
The Palestinian Authority was carrying out one of the most extensive security operations in its history, pursuing armed militants in the West Bank city of Jenin. For weeks, the authority's forces slowly advanced on the militants' densely populated stronghold, Palestinian officials said. When the Israeli military launched its own wide-scale raid there in January, the authority was expected to abandon its operation.
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Feb 24, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Fatima Karim |Erika Solomon
Israeli operations against militants in the West Bank have escalated to a level not seen since the Second Intifada of the early 2000s. Tens of thousands have been forced to flee their homes, with Israel's defense minister saying they will not be allowed to return. And for the first time in two decades, Israeli forces have sent tanks into the city of Jenin and established a military post in another, Tulkarm.
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Feb 22, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Isabel Kershner |Aaron Boxerman |Adam Rasgon |Fatima Karim
Hamas released six Israeli hostages from Gaza on Saturday, delivering the last living captives set to be freed in the first phase of a fragile cease-fire. That truce was already jolted this week when the militant group initially returned remains purportedly of an Israeli hostage that testing revealed to be someone else.
