Palestinian Authority leader's office expresses astonishment at visa decision, says it violates UN 'headquarters agreement'

Move condemned as illegal, destructive to regional peace plans by Palestinian government, allies, campaign groups

GENEVA, July 15 — There has been an increase in killings of and attacks against Palestinians by settlers and security forces in the occupied West Bank in recent weeks, the United Nations human rights office said today.

NEW YORK, June 20 — The United Nations (UN) retains Israel on its annual 'blacklist' of parties responsible for committing serious violations against children in conflict zones, the Palestinian News and Information Agency (WAFA) reported.

RAMALLAH, May 29 — Israel’s government has approved 22 new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, its finance minister said today, a move that could deepen divisions with allies who have threatened sanctions over such moves.

AL-MUGHAYYIR, April 19 — Fatima Abu Naim, a mother of five, lives in a hillside cave in the occupied West Bank, under increasing pressure from Jewish settlers who, she says, try to steal her family's sheep and come by regularly to tell her and her husband to leave.

JERUSALEM, March 23 — Israel’s security cabinet approved a plan to separate 13 Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in Palestine from their neighbouring communities, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said today.

PARIS, Nov 11 — France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said today a new round of sanctions targeting violent Israeli settlers could happen soon.

RAMALLAH, Aug 14 — Israel said its forces had hit Palestinian militants in Tamoun in the occupied West Bank today while Hamas said its fighters were engaged in fierce clashes with Israeli forces in nearby Tubas city after one was killed in an Israeli raid.

WASHINGTON, Aug 7 — Pro-Israel advocacy groups and dual United States (US)-Israeli citizens have filed a lawsuit challenging President Joe Biden's order subjecting individuals involved in settler violence in the West Bank to financial and immigration sanctions.

NUR SHAMS, April 21 — Israeli forces killed 14 Palestinians during a raid in the occupied West Bank yesterday, while an ambulance driver was killed as he went to pick up wounded from a separate attack by violent Jewish settlers, said the Palestinian authorities.

NEW YORK, April 18 — The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Unocha) on Wednesday launched a flash appeal worth US$2.822 billion for the occupied Palestinian territory, reported Xinhua.

ANKARA, March 25 — The EU on Sunday condemned the Israeli seizure of 800 hectares of land in the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank.

GAZA, March 11 — Palestinians prepared for Ramadan in a sombre mood with heightened security measures by Israeli police and the spectre of war and hunger in Gaza overshadowing the normally festive Muslim holy month as talks to secure a ceasefire stalled.

BETHLEHEM (Palestine), Feb 25 — Israeli occupation forces on Sunday shut down the Container military checkpoint which straddles the only road connecting the southern regions of the occupied West Bank with the central and northern regions of the territory.

AMMAN, Feb 2 — Jordan's King Abdullah II warned of a potential explosion in the region due to an “Israeli escalation” in the West Bank and Jerusalem, emphasising the need for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

RAMALLAH, Dec 17 — The death toll in the Gaza Strip and West Bank from continuous Israeli aggression since October 7 has rose to 19,088, with over 54,450 individuals wounded.

RAMALLAH (Palestine), Dec 10 — In the aftermath of Israeli aggression in Gaza and the West Bank, the death toll has soared to 17,674, with over 49,300 individuals wounded, Palestine News Agency (WAFA) reported.

GAZA CITY, Oct 30 — The Palestinian death toll from Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip has climbed to 8,306, the Health Ministry in the blockaded enclave said on Monday.

RAMALLAH, Oct 24 — More than 5,795 Palestinians were killed, and 18,000 others wounded from the ongoing Israeli occupation forces aggression against the Gaza Strip and the West Bank since October 7.