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The article discusses the policies of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Israeli settlements in the West Bank, highlighting the potential of a push for permanent settlements to be an obstacle to peace negotiations to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Topics addressed include American and European criticisms of the growth of settlements under Netanyahu, as well as considerations of the Modiin Illit, Bruchin, and Efrat settlements.

The article discusses the European Union's (E.U.'s) mandate that goods produced in Israeli-occupied regions of Palestine have product labels to reflect their status of being produced in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, within the context of the international boycott of commercial products made in Israeli settlements.The impact that the E.U.'s mandate has on Israeli businesses in the West Bank is discussed.

The article profiles Israeli right-wing extremist Yehudah Etzion who reconsidered the firebombing in the West Bank village of Duma in July 2015 that killed a months-old boy and his father. He has spent decades in writing and editing books since he was released from prison in 1989. It notes that Etzion has condemned Israeli attacks on Palestinians and blamed Israel's own actions, especially the evacuation of Gaza Strip settlements.

The article discusses the escalation of Israeli-Palestinian conflicts following the murder of Palestinian teenager Muhammad Hussein Abu Khdeir days after the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers as of July 2, 2014. Topics addressed include Israelis' and Arabs' reactions to racism in Israel and the West Bank, as well as efforts to prevent the further escalation of violence.

The article discusses the role of a kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers from the West Bank in increasing tensions between Israelis and Palestinians as of June 23, 2014. Topics addressed include allegations that the militant Islamic movement Hamas was behind the kidnapping, the response of Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, and violence amongst Israelis and Palestinians.

The article discusses Pope Francis I's planned visit to the Middle East as of May 21, 2014, highlighting his plans to express support for a sovereign Palestinian state and to travel directly into the West Bank without passing through Israel. Topics addressed include the Vatican's denial of any political reasoning behind the pope's itinerary; his plans to visit Jordan; and his plans to meet with refugees and deliver a Mass in Manger Square, Bethlehem.

The article discusses the conflicting attitudes of Palestinians who work for Israeli companies in settlements in the West Bank as of February 10, 2014. Topics addressed include a tension between the economic benefits of salaries paid to Palestinians by Israeli companies and the companies' occupation of land that is contested as part of a possible Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, as well boycotts of companies that operate out of industrial zones in the West Bank.

The article reports on the proposal of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas towards the U.S. State Secretary John Kerry to patrol an American-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) force at the future Palestinian state. He urges the troops to position throughout the territory, at all crossings and within Jerusalem. Abbas's statement was expressed in early February 2014 and emphasized that Israeli soldiers could remain in the West Bank for up to five years.

The article discusses Palestinian youths' efforts to throw stones at Israeli soldiers and settlers in the West Bank as of August 4, 2013. Topics addressed include the arrest of young Palestinians on charges of throwing stones in the town of Beit Ommar, West Bank, and soldiers reactions to the stone-throwing.

The article reports on the campaign statement of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that they will not withdraw from the West Bank and will not offer concessions to the Palestinian, which raised questions over his commitment to the two-state solution.

The article reports on the plan of the Israeli manufacturer of home carbonation systems, SodaStream, to close its unit in West Bank.

The article reports that a Palestinian youth was killed by Israeli troops and several adults were wounded in West Bank after their arrest campaign on the disappearance of three Israeli teenagers in 2014.

The article reports on the edited video circulated by human rights group Defense for Children International-Palestine Section on May 20, 2014 that renews questions over the killings of two Palestinian teenagers Nadeem Siam Nawara and Mohammad Mahmoud Odeh Salameh by Israeli forces in West Bank.

The article reports on rising attacks made by Palestinians against Israelis after a series of violent events occurred in West Bank which was occupied by Israelis.

The article reports that the peace talks led by Palestinian Saeb Erekat on November 12, 2013 is threatened over what the government of Israel described as a bureaucratic move by the housing ministry for starting the 20,000 new apartments in the settlements of West Bank.

The article reports that the shooting of a 9-year-old girl in the chest while playing outside her home in West Bank settlement on October 5, 2013 was considered by the Israeli authorities as an attack by a Palestinian.

The article reports that the Palestinian Majd Mohammad Anis Lahlouh was killed in a raid by Israeli soldiers in the Jenin refugee camp in West Bank.

The article reports that the Israeli cabinet decision on adding Jewish settlements in the West Bank territory has received condemnation from the Palestinian leadership, arguing that the decision will impact the peace talks between the two parties.

The article reports on the plan of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to invest $4 billion to develop the economy of the West Bank in order to revive the peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.

The article reports on a tour made by several Israelis to the Palestinian city of Ramallah in the West Bank in February 2013. The trip was organized by the Israel Palestine Center for Research and Information. The Israelis visited the tomb of Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat and had lunch at a local hummuseria. It is noted that the Israelis did not get to meet Palestinians.

The article reports on the conflict over the East 1 (E1) property in West Bank. The author mentions that the dispute over the parcel of land intensifies the conflict, hostility and distrust between Israelis and Palestinians. He adds that the Israeli government might be on its way to approve construction in the land after many years of refusal.

The article reports on the rally by many boys and men supporting the signature green of Hamas in Nablus, West Bank in December 2012. It states that the rally called for Palestinian unity, but renewed Israeli city attacks. It says that the rally, which marked the 25th anniversary of the establishment of Hamas, was a step toward the group's reconciliation with Fatah, which reigns in the West Bank.

The article focuses on the decision by Israel to move ahead with zoning and planning preparations for E1 in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. According to Al Quds University national security professor Zakaria al-Qaq, the situation is a hopeless cycle of action and reaction. Moreover , the U.S. has hindered the development of E1 for many times since 1994.

The article focuses on the concern of Palestinians voters for the economic conditions and political stalemate in West Bank. An exit poll by the Arab World for Research and Development reveals that Palestinians have participated in municipal elections as they saw voting as a civic duty. Meanwhile, it indicates that the voters' democracy will increase the pressure on Palestinian leaders to schedule national parliamentary and presidential elections.

The article reports on the mixed results for the Palestinian military organization Attach in municipal elections in the West Bank on October 20, 2012. It mentions that the group won some key cities and lost others amid low turnout. It mentions that the elections were the first of any kind in the territories of Palestine in six years. It reveals that former Attach members garnered higher votes in Jenkins than the party's official ones.

JERUSALEM -- Israel on Sunday barred the delegations of five countries from attending a diplomatic conference in Ramallah, in the West Bank, upending plans by the Palestinian president to announce his intention to renew the Palestinians' bid this September for enhanced status in the United Nations. A senior Israeli official said the delegations -- from Algeria, Bangladesh, Cuba, Indonesia and Malaysia -- were denied permission to use Israeli border crossings because their governments do not recognize the state of Israel. Palestinian officials said the delegations had planned to enter on a helicopter from Jordan, and called the decision ''childish,'' ''crude,'' ''irresponsible'' and ''blackmail,'' saying it symbolized the larger problem with Israel's occupation of the West Bank territories it seized in 1967. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

JERUSALEM -- The Israeli government has asked its Supreme Court to allow the demolition of eight Palestinian hamlets in the South Hebron Hills so the area can be used for military training. The request, filed Sunday by Israel's Defense Ministry, is part of a struggle lasting decades between Israel and the tiny hamlets of cave-dwelling shepherds, who were returned to their homes by court order after an earlier forced evacuation by the state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BEIT EL, West Bank -- Moving day is any day now for both the Avodrahams and the Kitays, 2 of the 30 families expected to be the first Jewish settlers in years forcibly removed from their homes under a Supreme Court order declaring that parts of their neighborhood, Ulpana, were illegally built on private Palestinian land. So David Avodraham, who was one of the first to move to Ulpana a decade ago, spent Monday dismantling the kitchen cabinets his father built and loading boxes into a truck bound for storage, leaving little more in the apartment where he lives with his wife and six children than a portrait on the living room wall of a rabbi said to have predicted the Holocaust. ''I'm trying to separate my brain from my feelings,'' he explained. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses a lower presence of Palestinian security forces, the Palestinian Authority (PA), at protests throughout the West Bank as of October 2015 compared to their prior close coordination with Israeli agencies. Topics include the concerns of the PA that demonstrators could turn their violent uprising towards them, the Palestine Liberation Organization's decision to suspend security coordination with Israel as of March 2015, and the PA's efforts to suppress Hamas activists.