West Bank

Israel advancing large settlement construction plan

2013-06-12 07:33:00

JERUSALEM -- As U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry is poised to return to the region, Israel is advancing a plan for a large-scale expansion of a West Bank settlement, according to Israeli media reports. Plans for more than 600 housing units in the...

Palestinian Authority picks Rami Hamdallah as prime minister

2013-06-02 21:09:00

RAMALLAH, West Bank — The new Palestinian Authority prime minister is a British-educated academic with no political experience who will be charged with forming the fifth Palestinian government since 2006. But the tenure of Rami Hamdallah, 54,...

Palestinians name academic as new prime minister

2013-06-02 12:20:00

JERUSALEM — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appointed university dean Rami Hamdulla as the Palestinian Authority’s new prime minister Sunday night, replacing Salam Fayyad, who resigned in April, officials said. Hamdullah, who is dean...

Sheldon Adelson discusses Palestinians, peace efforts

2013-05-28 11:42:00

JERUSALEM -- Casino billionaire and Israel supporter Sheldon Adelson said Tuesday that U.S. efforts to restart Mideast peace talks are doomed until Palestinians accept Israel as a Jewish state. Speaking during a break at the Jerusalem International...

New Palestinian Authority government sworn in

2013-06-06 13:41:00

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas swore in a new government Thursday headed by a British-educated academic with no political experience. New Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, who has served since 1998 as president of An Najah...

U.S. effort for Mideast talks elicits praise, reservations

2013-05-23 15:39:00

JERUSALEM — Wrapping up his fourth Holy Land trip in three months, Secretary of State John F. Kerry voiced optimism Thursday that his low-profile campaign to relaunch U.S.-brokered peace talks is making headway. But although the top American...

Kerry pursues Mideast peace a bite at a time

2013-05-23 12:15:00

RAMALLAH, West Bank –- Secretary of State John Kerry nibbled away at a Mideast peace plan Thursday, taking time off from a busy political schedule to drop in to a West Bank restaurant for some regional specialties. After meeting with Palestinian...

Palestinians in West Bank's Area C suffer in limbo

2013-05-18 18:45:00

MALEH, West Bank — In remote Palestinian villages of the northern Jordan Valley, children read by gas lamp, and water must be purchased from miles away, even when electricity lines and water pipes to Israeli settlements run directly past their...

Obama says U.S. won't act alone on chemical weapons in Syria

2013-05-16 12:12:00

WASHINGTON--President Obama on Thursday ruled out any unilateral U.S action in response to the alleged Syrian use of chemical weapons, further reducing the chance of any forceful response to the crossing of what Obama had described as a “red line.&...

Palestinians mark 'nakba,' losses sustained in 1948 war

2013-05-15 12:13:00

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinians held rallies and protests Wednesday to commemorate 65 years of what has come to be known as the “nakba,” or catastrophe, a reference to their displacement in the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948. Thousands...

Kerry calls for private investment in West Bank, Gaza

2013-05-26 11:55:00

JERUSALEM – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday proposed a $4 billion private-sector economic initiative for the West Bank and Gaza Strip, predicting it would transform the lives of Palestinians but warning it should not be seen as a...

Palestinian inmate ends hunger strike

2013-04-23 12:46:00

RAMALLAH, West Bank – A Palestinian inmate ended a prolonged hunger strike Tuesday after reaching a deal with Israeli military prosecutors for early release, his lawyer and family said. Samer Issawi, whose fast helped fuel weeks of protests in the...

Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, right, takes the oath of office in front of President Mahmoud Abbas, left, and other officials in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

2013-06-06 00:00:00

Three-day-old Iman and Amani, Palestinian Siamese twin girls from the Breiwesh family, lie on a bed in the newborns unit at the Alia Hospital in the West Bank city of Hebron on June 03, 2013.

2013-06-03 00:00:00

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry eats sweets inside a shop after his meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday.

2013-05-23 11:24:14