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A demonstrator waves the national flag during a protest against Israeli military raid in the West Bank city of Nablus, along the border fence with Israel, in east of Gaza City, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Gaza rockets, Israeli strikes follow deadly West Bank raid

By Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

FILE - A masked Palestinian sits during a support rally for the Palestinian prisoners, outside Ofer, an Israeli military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday, March 1, 2013. Israel's parliament on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a law to strip Arabs convicted in nationalistic attacks of their Israeli citizenship or residency and deport them if they have accepted stipends from the Palestinian Authority. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

Israel approves law to strip Arab attackers of citizenship

By Josef Federman - Associated Press

Members of Zaka Rescue and Recovery team and Israeli police forensics pick up a doll at the site of a car-ramming attack at a bus stop in Ramot, a Jewish settlement in east Jerusalem, Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. A driver plowed a car into a crowded bus stop in east Jerusalem on Friday, killing two people, including a six-year-old, and injuring five others before being shot and killed, Israeli police and medics said, the latest escalation as violence grips the contested capital. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Israeli police: 2 killed, 5 wounded in Jerusalem car-ramming

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Girls from the Matar family sit near the rubble of their home that housed 11 people before it was demolished by Israeli authorities in the Jabal Mukaber neighborhood of east Jerusalem, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2023. For many Palestinians, the accelerating pace of home demolitions is part of Israel's new ultranationalist government's broader battle for control of east Jerusalem, claimed by the Palestinians as the capital of their future state. Israel says it is simply enforcing building regulations. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Israel steps up Jerusalem home demolitions as violence rises

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center, meets representatives of the Palestinian civil society in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. Blinken is wrapping up a two-day visit to Israel and the West Bank with renewed appeals for Israeli-Palestinian calm amid an alarming spike of violence. (Ronaldo Schemidt/Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken in Mideast renews appeal for Israel-Palestinian calm

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry hold a press conference in Cairo, Egypt, Monday Jan. 30, 2023. (Khaled Desouki/Pool via AP)

Blinken urges Israel-Palestinian calm as violence soars

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, meets with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. Blinken is wrapping up a two-day visit to Israel and the West Bank with renewed appeals for Israeli-Palestinian calm amid an alarming spike of violence. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, Pool)

Blinken in Mideast renews appeal for Israel-Palestinian calm

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaks at the State Department, Jan. 4, 2023, in Washington. Blinken will travel to Egypt, Israel and the West Bank this weekend in his first trip to the Middle East this year. It comes amid an escalation in Israeli-Palestinian violence, U.S. concerns over the direction of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government and ongoing issues with Egypt's human rights record. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Blinken trip still on despite latest Israeli-Palestinian violence, State Department says

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Israeli police secure the site of a shooting attack near a synagogue in Jerusalem, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. A Palestinian gunman opened fire outside an east Jerusalem synagogue Friday night, killing seven people, including a 70-year-old woman, and wounding three others before police shot and killed him, officials said. It was the deadliest attack on Israelis in years and raised the likelihood of further bloodshed. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Israel to ‘strengthen’ settlements after shooting attacks

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Palestinian rescuers inspect the site of a damaged building following an Israeli forces raid in the West Bank city of Jenin, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. Israeli forces killed at least nine Palestinians, including a 60-year-old woman, and wounded several others during a raid in the flashpoint area of the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials said, in one of the deadliest days of fighting in years. The Israeli military said it was conducting an operation to arrest militants when a gun battle erupted. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Jerusalem, West Bank on edge after outbreak of violence

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Victims of a shooting attack are covered near a synagogue in Jerusalem, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. A Palestinian gunman opened fire outside an east Jerusalem synagogue Friday night, killing five people and wounding five others in one of the deadliest attacks on Israelis in years, medical officials said. The attack was halted when the gunman was shot by police. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Palestinian gunman kills 7 near Jerusalem synagogue

By Josef Federman and Isbel Debre - Associated Press

Palestinian demonstrators burn tires in a protest against a deadly Israeli army raid at Aida Refugee camp, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. During the raid in the West Bank town of Jenin, Israeli forces killed at least nine Palestinians, including a 60-year-old woman, and wounded several others, Palestinian health officials said, in one of the deadliest days of fighting in years. The Israeli military said it was conducting an operation to arrest militants when a gun battle erupted. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Blinken headed to Mideast as U.S. alarm over violence grows

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a hearing at the Magistrate's Court in Rishon LeZion, Israel, Monday, Jan. 23, 2023. Netanyahu has made a surprise trip to Jordan to meet with King Abdullah II. Tuesday, Jan 24. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

Netanyahu flies to Jordan for surprise meeting with king

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Mourners carry the body of Palestinian Samir Aslan, 41, during his funeral in the West Bank refugee camp of Qalandia, north of Ramallah, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. The Israeli army killed Samir Aslan during an arrest raid in the Qalandia refugee camp. The army says they shot at Palestinians who were throwing stones. Aslan's family says the military killed him as he was watching his son's arrest from his rooftop. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Israeli army kills 2 Palestinians during West Bank raids

Associated Press

Illustration on the Israeli /Palestinian conflict by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Why a Jew’s visit to the holiest Jewish site provokes outrage

By Clifford D. May

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convenes a weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool Photo via AP)

Israel revokes Palestinian FM’s travel permit over UN move

By Josef Federman - Associated Press

Mourners carry the body of Palestinian Amer Abu Zeitoun, 16 during his funeral in the West Bank refugee camp of Balata, Nablus, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. Abu Zeitoun was killed Thursday by Israeli fire during an arrest raid in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Iran closes French institute over Charlie Hebdo cartoons

Associated Press

Palestinian French lawyer and activist Salah Hammouri talks to reporters as he arrives at the Charles de Gaulle Airport after his extradition from Israel to France, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022, in Paris. Salah Hammouri vowed to keep advocating relentlessly for the rights of the Palestinian people from Paris after he was deported to France last month over Israel's claim he has ties to a banned militant group. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly, File)

Palestinian rights lawyer says deportation won’t stop him

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

(AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)

Police seize on COVID-19 tech to expand global surveillance

By Garance Burke, Josef Federman, Huizhong Wu, Krutika Pathi and Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

Palestinian mourners carry the body of Mufid Khalil during his funeral in the West Bank village of Beit Ummar, near Hebron, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022. Khalil was killed by Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said Tuesday. The Israeli military said soldiers shot at Palestinians who hurled rocks and improvised explosive devices and shot at the troops. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

4 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in occupied West Bank

By Ilan Ben Zion - Associated Press