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Israel launches ‘large-scale operation’ to find last Gaza hostage
ByAssociated Press January 25, 2026

Netanyahu says it will open Rafah crossing and begin second phase of ceasefire after search endsIsrael said on Sunday its military was conducting a “large-scale operation” to locate the last hostage in Gaza, as Washington and other mediators pressure I…

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Israel bulldozes Unrwa headquarters in East Jerusalem
ByLorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem January 20, 2026

Palestinian refugee agency compound is demolished, while teargas is fired at UN vocational school in West BankIsraeli crews have started bulldozing the Jerusalem headquarters of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in Jerusalem and fired teargas at a…

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‘The settlers brought the violence’: the ethnic cleansing of a West Bank village
ByEmma Graham-Harrison and Quique Kierszenbaum in Ras 'Ein al 'Auja, West Bank January 14, 2026

Ras ‘Ein al ‘Auja is a small community of about 135 families – and the only one remaining in this part of the Jordan valleyFive decades in the south Jordan valley were ending in a day, and Mahmoud Eshaq struggled to hold back his tears. The 55-year-old…

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Israel poised to start construction of bypass through heart of West Bank
ByEmma Graham-Harrison January 13, 2026

Road project, part of blueprint for new illegal settlement in E1 area east of Jerusalem, is considered a tool of annexation Israel plans to start work next month on a bypass road that will close off the heart of the occupied West Bank to Palestinians a…

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Israel pushes ahead with vast illegal settlement in heart of West Bank
ByEmma Graham-Harrison and Quique Kierszenbaum in Jerusalem January 6, 2026

Exclusive: Tender posted for construction of 3,401 homes in settlement designed to ‘bury idea of a Palestinian state’Israel is moving to start construction on a vast illegal settlement in the heart of the West Bank, designed to “bury the idea of a Pale…

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Mohammad Bakri, Palestinian Whose Film Was Banned in Israel, Dies at 72
ByAdam Nossiter December 31, 2025January 2, 2026

His 2002 documentary “Jenin, Jenin” exposed the often harsh realities of life experienced by his fellow Arabs in Israel.

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‘He will not be accepted, dead or alive’: the fate of Palestinians suspected of helping Israel
ByLorenzo Tondo in Jericho and Sufian Taha in Jerusalem December 30, 2025

Khalil Dawas was thought to have been recruited from Israeli jail but large parts of his story remain shrouded in mysteryOn Tuesday 14 October, Hamas handed over four bodies to Israel as part of an exchange of the dead under the US-brokered Gaza ceasef…

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‘Pressure and threats’: How Israel allegedly recruits Palestinians to help its occupation – video
ByAcacia Redding, Lorenzo Tondo and Boglarka Kosztolanyi December 30, 2025

On 14 October, Hamas handed over four bodies to Israel as part of the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire. Israeli forensic experts confirmed the identities of three of the bodies, but said that one did not belong to them. Hamas insistedthe fourth man was an Is…

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Israel Strips U.N. Agency for Palestinian Refugees of Diplomatic Immunity
ByAaron Boxerman and Johnatan Reiss December 29, 2025December 29, 2025

The legislation was the latest blow to the agency, known as UNRWA. Israel has accused it of being extensively infiltrated by Hamas.

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‘A gift that cannot be sold’: the Palestinian family fighting to save their West Bank farm
ByLorenzo Tondo and Sufian Taha in Wadi Salem December 29, 2025

For more than three decades, the Nassars have battled Israeli efforts to reclassify their property as ‘state land’In 1916, Daher Nassar, a Christian Palestinian farmer living south of Bethlehem, made a move considered more than unusual at the time. He …

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