Dozens of Palestinian women and teenagers were released from Israeli prisons this week as part of a deal between Israel and Hamas to pause the war in Gaza.

Palestinian freedom of movement has been even more severely restricted since the Gaza ceasefire took effect as Israel erects new checkpoints.

Father Bashar Basiel moved freely in and out of his parish in the occupied West Bank until Israeli troops installed gates at the entrance of his village Taybeh overnight, just hours after a ceasefire began in Gaza.

The names of the four female Israeli soldiers who will be exchanged on Saturday for Palestinian prisoners have been released by Hamas. This is the second of such exchanges that are to run the course of the first two phases of a three-stage ceasefire agreed this month.

Dozens of people were killed or wounded after an outbreak of violence in the West Bank that Israeli military officials called a counterterrorism operation.

RAMALLAH, January, 23, 2024 (WAFA) – For the fifth consecutive day, the Israeli occupation forces continue to impose arbitrary measures at their military checkpoints near most of the entrances and exits of the governorates in the West Bank.

Israel’s military is using lessons from the Gaza war in its new West Bank operation to ensure “terrorism does not return,” according to Defense Minister Israel Katz.

Truce comes after rupture said caused by IDF's resumption of airstrikes in area; members of battalion, affiliated with terror groups, to surrender arms to Ramallah after 6-week op

By James Mackenzie and Ali Sawafta JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH (Reuters) -Israeli security forces backed by helicopters raided the volatile West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday, killing at least eight Palestinians in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a "large-scale and significant military operation".

The Israeli military killed at least seven Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday as the prime minister announced the start of a “large-scale military operation” in the restive city of Jenin.

After 15 months of collective grief and anxiety, three Israeli hostages left Hamas captivity and returned to Israel.