Israeli officials threatened to turn the occupied West Bank into another Gaza as the first week of 2025 marked an escalation in resistance operations in retaliation for the non-stop Israeli crimes against Palestinians.

Shatha al-Sabbagh was shot in the head by a sniper a day after interviewing victims of the Palestinian Authority’s security campaign in the Jenin refugee camp.

Former Palestinian prisoner Mr. Omar Assaf told Peoples Dispatch that by cracking down on resistance in the West Bank, the PA is believed to be entreating Israel and the US to appoint it to rule post-war Gaza.

Pressure has been exerted by different actors to subjugate Hamas and push it towards accepting a compromising deal which would undermine resistance in the Gaza Strip.

Though 140 out of 193 UN members already recognize Palestinian statehood, it will depend on the UNSC to finally decide the fate of Palestinian membership bid

Israel ha violado flagrantemente el derecho internacional humanitario en las últimas tres semanas de bombardeos incesantes sobre Gaza, todo ello con el respaldo político y financiero de Estados Unidos.

Israel has grossly violated international humanitarian law in the last 3 weeks of incessant bombing of Gaza, all with the political and financial backing of the US

The UN’s Middle East envoy, Tor Wennesland, said over 200 Palestinians have been killed in the Occupied West Bank this year. He blamed “unilateral acts” by Israel, including increased settlement expansion, demolition of Palestinian homes and other structures, and settler violence

The proposed law will allow illegal settlers to rebuild and re-occupy settlements in the occupied West Bank dismantled in 2005 as a part of Israel’s so-called unilateral Disengagement plan

The bill mandates the death penalty in cases where an Israeli citizen is killed in a ‘terrorist act’ by a Palestinian, but will not apply to an Israeli citizen committing the same crime against a Palestinian. Israel classifies resistance acts against its occupation as terrorism

Former Human Rights Watch head Kenneth Roth was initially was offered a position at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. The offer was the withdrawn, reportedly due to the HRW’s “anti-Israel bias” and his social media posts critical of Israel

Ben-Gvir, who has stormed the mosque compound several times in the past, ignored warnings from both his colleagues in the Israeli parliament and Palestinians who called it an act of provocation