Settlers who attack Palestinians surely suspect as much. And the price that Palestinians in the West Bank pay for the ...

Violence has flared in the West Bank since the war in Gaza began. Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians want all three for a future state.

Its ability to contain armed groups there will reverberate far beyond the West Bank. The Palestinian Authority wants to position itself to take over governance in Gaza once the war there ends.

Violence has escalated in the occupied territory over the last year and a half, as Israel conducts raids targeting armed ...

It’s trying to prove it can manage security in the limited areas of the West Bank it controls as it seeks to also govern a postwar Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ruled ...