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This image made from video provided by Al Jazeera English shows Israeli troops raiding their bureau in Ramallah, West Bank, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. (Al Jazeera via AP)

Israel raids and shuts down Al Jazeera’s bureau in Ramallah in the West Bank

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Israeli forces remove the body of a man killed during a military operation in the West Bank town of Qabatiya, Thursday, June 13, 2024. An Israeli national was found shot dead in a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank Saturday morning, Israel's army said, as violence surges in the occupied territory. Violence has flared in the West Bank since the Israel-Hamas war erupted last October. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

Israeli national found dead after being shot in West Bank Palestinian town

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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

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

In this Tuesday, April 28, 2020 photo, a Palestinian vendor displays his vegetables in the street as the main vegetable market remains closed, part of lockdown and quarantine measures to protect residents from the coronavirus, in the West Bank village of Kufr Aqab. As the coronavirus pandemic gathered strength in April, community leaders in Kufr Aqab, a Palestinian neighborhood on the outskirts of Jerusalem, tried to impose lockdown and quarantine measures to protect residents. The problem: There are no police. Kufr Aqab is within city boundaries drawn up by Israel, but it's on the opposite side of Israel's separation barrier. That means neither the Israeli police nor Palestinian security forces are able to operate there. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Palestinians fear outbreak in Jerusalem’s ‘no man’s land’

By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH and JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

A protester covers his face as another waves a Palestinian flag during a protest is held against the proposed peace deal for the Middle East by President Donald Trump, near the U.S. embassy in Aukar, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020. Hundreds of Lebanese and Palestinians demonstrated Sunday near the U.S. embassy in Lebanon in rejection to a White House plan for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Hamas, Fatah united against Trump Israel peace plan

By Asma' Jawabreh - Special to The Washington Times

President Donald Trump departs after an event with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020, to announce the Trump administration's much-anticipated plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Palestinians angrily reject Trump Mideast peace plan

By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH and FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

US scraps West Bank conference over Palestinian protests

By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH and JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

Car rams into Israeli troops; 2 Palestinians shot and killed

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019 file photo, Israeli forces deploy during a raid in the West Bank City of Ramallah. Israel has been launching raids into the heart of Ramallah, and the U.S. is cutting off aid and taking actions that many fear will obliterate any remaining hope for a two-state solution. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

Palestinian forces soldier on amid Israeli raids, US neglect

By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH and JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

Israeli soldiers stand at the scene of an attack near the settlement of Givat Assaf in the West Bank, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018. A Palestinian gunman opened fire at a bus stop outside a West Bank settlement on Thursday, shooting at soldiers and civilians and killing at least two Israelis before fleeing, the military and Israel's rescue service said. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Israeli army kills Palestinian in West Bank clashes

By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH and ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press

A Palestinian woman walks through black smoke from burning tires during a protest on the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, Monday, May 14, 2018. Thousands of Palestinians are protesting near Gaza's border with Israel, as Israel prepared for the festive inauguration of a new U.S. Embassy in contested Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

The Latest: Israeli military sends aid to Gaza

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Palestinian protesters hurl stones at Israeli troops during a protest on the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, Monday, May 14, 2018. Thousands of Palestinians are protesting near Gaza's border with Israel, as Israel prepared for the festive inauguration of a new U.S. Embassy in contested Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Mass protests in Gaza ahead of U.S. Embassy event in Jerusalem

By Fares Akram and Ilan Ben Zion - Associated Press

Israeli border policemen stand in Jerusalem's Old City in Jerusalem, Friday, Dec. 8, 2017. Israeli police deployed reinforcements in and around Jerusalem's Old City on Friday, in anticipation of Palestinian protests over the Trump administration's recognition of the contested city as the Israeli capital. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Clashes erupt across West Bank over U.S. Jerusalem pivot

By Ilan Ben Zion and Mohammed Daraghmeh - Associated Press

Protesters in Ramallah support the hunger strike launched by Palestinian prisoners and their jailed leader Marwan Barghouti. (Reham Abdelrahman)

Marwan Barghouti snack video heats up Israel prison debate

By Asma' Jawabreh and Jacob Wirtschafter - Special to The Washington Times

This undated personal photo provided on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017 shows Palestinian author Abbad Yahya. He is stranded in Qatar after Palestinian authorities in the West Bank confiscated all copies of his latest novel and issued an arrest warrant, accusing him of including “sexual terms” in a provocative work that takes aim at taboo issues such as fanaticism, religious extremism and homosexuality. The crackdown on 29 year-old Yahya has set off a wide public debate between the Palestinian society’s conservative old guard and small, young and liberal minority. (Abbad Yahyia via AP)

Palestinian writer afraid to go home amid uproar over novel

By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, March 29, 2016, photo, Palestinian divorce lawyer Reema Shamasneh poses for a photo in the office of her legal aid center in Ramallah, West Bank. One divorce at a time, the Palestinian lawyer fights for female clients in an Islamic family court where a man’s testimony is worth twice a woman’s. Shamasneh, a devout Muslim, believes the laws are the way they are because they were passed by men. She shuns traditional marriage for herself, saying she can take care of herself. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Palestinian lawyer fights for women, one divorce at a time

By Karin Laub and Mohammed Daraghmeh - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo taken Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting at his compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Abbas said Wednesday, Dec. 31, that he is still weighing his options after a resounding defeat in the U.N. Security Council. But the Palestinian leader is hinting that he could join the International Criminal Court in the very near future - a move that would put him on a collision course with Israel. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

Palestinians to press war-crimes case against Israel

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH - Associated Press

Palestinians seek FIFA sanctions against Israel

By KARIN LAUB - Associated Press

In this photo taken Saturday, May 10, 2014, a woman carrying her child, stands in front of an oil on canvas painting named The Bitter and the Bitterness, by Palestinian artist Raouf al-Ajouri, during an art exhibition &quot;Traces, a testimony to memory,&quot; displaying over forty Palestinian artists work from Gaza, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Fifty-three paintings and two sculptures by 45 artists have gone on display in the West Bank city of Ramallah, said Haneen Qatamesh, a spokeswoman for one of the sponsors, the Palestinian company PADICO. Since Saturday's opening, 12 works have been sold for prices ranging from $850 to $9,000, she said. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

West Bank exhibit gives Gaza artists rare showcase

By KARIN LAUB - Associated Press