Without sirens or bomb shelters, Palestinians in the West Bank are witnessing the blowback to Israel’s war on Iran.

In Gaza, meanwhile, Israel shut the Rafah border crossing with Egypt until further notice, just one month after it had reopened following more than two years of closure. The Israeli army seized control of the crossing in May 2024 during its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli army deployed large forces across the occupied West Bank on Friday, particularly at checkpoints leading to Jerusalem, tightening restrictions on Palestinians seeking to pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque for the second Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Israeli forces have advanced into the Quneitra area of Syria’s occupied Golan Heights and set up two military checkpoints, an Al Jazeera correspondent on the ground reports. The Israeli military operation on Saturday took place in the villages of Ain ...

Israeli authorities barred thousands of Palestinian worshippers from Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem to perform the first Friday prayer of Ramadan, despite them holding previously issued permits. In Ramadan, hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Muslims typically gather for prayer at the site.

Abdullah Fauzi, a banker from the northern West Bank city of Nablus, leaves home at 4 a.m. to reach his job by 8 a.m., and he's often late. His commute used to take an hour — until Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, after which Israel launched ...

Checkpoint 300 is a military post manned by the Israel Defense Forces on the edge of the Palestinian town of Bethlehem, where the New Testament tells us Jesus was born. Nearby, there are concrete blast walls plastered with layer upon layer of graffiti that ...