The Israeli army seized approximately 27,000 dunams of land in the West Bank in the first half of 2024 through military orders, according to Palestinian figures. The seizures have been carried out under various pretexts, including declaring areas as nature reserves, issuing land expropriation orders and invoking military control.

UN Palestinian relief agency says employee was first to be killed in the territory in more than a decade, but Israeli military says he was a ‘terrorist’

Israeli forces killed at least six Palestinians in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, as troops continued an extended operation against militant groups in the territory, the military said.

The Israeli military says an American activist who was shot and killed in the West Bank last week was likely shot “indirectly and unintentionally” by Israeli forces aiming at someone else.

Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad was the first Unrwa employee killed in the West Bank in more than a decade; missile hit unpopulated area, Israel military says

The UN says a sniper killed one of its employees on the roof of his home in the northern West Bank. Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad, a sanitation worker with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, was the first Unrwa employee killed in the West Bank in more than a decade.