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September 23, 2026

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and French President Emmanuel Macron arrive to hold a joint press conference in Jerusalem, Oct. 24, 2023.

Analysis

After France's settlement ban, Israel sees no warming of ties with Macron government

Israeli diplomats say France’s decision to ban imports from West Bank settlements has brought bilateral relations to an unprecedented low point.

Rina Bassist

By Rina Bassist

In Paris, reporting on Israeli politics and European affairs

Jewish settlement of Kedumim, in the West Bank

Analysis

Europe’s West Bank trade ban fires warning shot at Israel’s economy

Weeks before key Israeli elections, a dozen nations announced new trade restrictions targeting settlements in the West Bank, delivering a sharp rebuke to Israel's government that could presage additional international pressure.

Samuel Wendel

By Samuel Wendel

In Washington, DC, reporting on regional business and tech

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Netanyahu threatens to sue Haaretz for reporting UAE warned Israel of Oct. 7 attack

The Emirati president reportedly warned that a planned attack could cause bloodshed, destabilize the region and threaten the Abraham Accords.

Palestinians hold up the green Hamas flag during a protest by supporters of both the Fatah and Hamas movements, as they rally in support of the Palestinian people following Friday noon prayers in Hebron, occupied West Bank, Nov. 3, 2023.

Majority of Palestinians lose trust in Hamas and Fatah, new poll finds

A recent poll by a Palestinian survey center found that trust in Palestinian factions has declined, amid stalled efforts to implement the Gaza peace plan and escalating settler violence in the West Bank.

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12 countries including France, UK, Canada end trade with West Bank settlements

West Bank settlements

Katz warns PA against 'Oct. 7-style' attack as West Bank violence rises

Israeli soldiers take positions during a military operation in the town of Qalqiya, in the occupied West Bank, Dec. 4, 2025.

Analysis

LORA missile test reveals limits of Germany’s Gaza criticism of Israel

A woman walks past a model of a Lora missile, Israel's long range artillery missile at the Israel defence stall at the international DefExpo 2008 defence fair, in New Delhi on February 16, 2008. India kicked off South Asia's largest defence fair, with hundreds of global weapons firms offering their latest hardware to the country's technology-hungry military. About 450 weapons companies from 30 countries are present at the four-day "DefExpo" in New Delhi, with several big-ticket announcements expected. AFP P

Rina Bassist

By Rina Bassist

In Paris, reporting on Israeli politics and European affairs

Analysis

As Israeli settler attacks mount, Trump avoids public pressure on Netanyahu

Israeli soldiers arrive in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, which has faced escalating Israeli settler violence over the past month, on Aug. 29, 2026.

Elizabeth Hagedorn

By Elizabeth Hagedorn

In Washington, DC, reporting on diplomacy, regional politics, human rights

Beatrice Farhat

Associate Editor (Lebanon)

In Beirut, reporting on regional news, culture, conflict

Daoud Kuttab

Palestine Columnist

In Amman, reporting on Palestinian politics

Rasha Abou Jalal

In Gaza City, reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Abeer Ayyoub

In Istanbul, reporting on Palestine

Naima Morelli

In Rome, reporting on Middle East culture

Fatima AbdulKarim

In Ramallah, reporting on the West Bank

A displaced Palestinian girl, who fled her family's house, stands outside a classroom as she stays at a United Nations-run school in Gaza City November 20, 2012. From the sandy expanses of the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian families are fleeing their homes destroyed by airstrikes, but refuse to blame the Hamas rocket crews who draw Israeli fire. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah (GAZA - Tags: MILITARY POLITICS CONFLICT SOCIETY) - RTR3AN2J

War Takes Psychological Toll On Gaza's Children

Rates of serious mental-health disorders among children and others in Gaza have risen dramatically as years of fighting have taken their toll, observes Asmaa al-Ghoul.

Palestinians look at water in an overflowing stream in the West Bank village of Al-Nassariyeh near Nablus January 8, 2013. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini (WEST BANK - Tags: ENVIRONMENT) - RTR3C7WK

Ancient Palestinian Village Threatened by Israeli Settlement

The ancient village of Sebastia is losing tourism and agricultural income due to a neighboring Israeli settlement leaking raw sewage onto its fields and failing to protect historical sites, reports Dalia Hatuqa.

Palestinian fishermen gather around a fishing boat after it was hit by Israeli army naval fire at Gaza's seaport August 31, 2009. An Israeli army spokesperson said on Monday, fishermen on the boat violated security boundaries of the coast of Gaza Strip crossing into an area out of permitted fishing zone. REUTERS/Ismail Zaydah (GAZA POLITICS CONFLICT IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR27AGR

Gaza Fishermen Protest Israeli Violations

Gaza's fishermen and foreign activists protested on Sunday against Israel's continued harassment of fishermen, Abeer Ayyoub reports.

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to the media alongside Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, March 5, 2012. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR2YVOP

The Myth of the Missed Opportunity In Israeli-Arab Peace

Akiva Eldar examines the question of whether every diplomatic process that does not result in an agreement between the Arabs and Israelis should be considered a “missed opportunity.”

Palestinians arrange gas cylinders at a gas filling station in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip March 22, 2012. Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are suffering a crisis of dry petrol pumps and frequent blackouts triggered by a fuel supply dispute between Egypt and the enclave's Hamas Islamist rulers. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS ENERGY) - RTR2ZPM8

Gaza Gas Can't Help Palestinians

Despite extensive gas reserves off the coast of Gaza, the strip's residents are unable to benefit from their own resources, writes Omar Shaban.

A Palestinian youth tries to kick a tear gas canister back to Israeli troops during clashes with stone-throwers that broke out after a rally in the West Bank city of Hebron to show solidarity with prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails February 18, 2013. Palestinians in the West Bank held demonstrations to show solidarity with prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails on Monday, some of which sparked clashes with Israeli forces. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGE

Palestinian Youth Suffer High Unemployment, Frustration

A new report by the Sharek Youth Forum highlights the challenges faced by Palestinian youth, including high unemployment, obesity and frustration in the political process, writes Hazem Balousha.

Palestinian protesters throw stones towards Israeli forces during clashes at Hawara checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus March 2, 2013. The death of a Palestinian prisoner in disputed circumstances in an Israeli jail last week, together with a hunger strike by four other Palestinian inmates, two of whom ended their protest on Wednesday after an agreement on their release was reached with Israel, have touched off violent protests over the past several weeks in the West Bank. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini

Despair Fuels West Bank Protests

The Palestinian protests in the West Bank reflect the desperate social and economic conditions there, writes Ahmad Azem.

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Palestinian Finance Minister Resigns Amid Cash Crisis

Minister of Finance Nabil Qassis found himself cornered and unable to deliver proposed reforms to address the Palestinian Authority’s financial crisis, writes Daoud Kuttab.

Palestinians wait to receive food supplies from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) at Shati refugee camp in Gaza January 13, 2009. Israeli forces tightened their hold around the city of Gaza on Tuesday and Israel's top general said "there is still work" ahead against Hamas in an 18-day-old offensive that has killed more than 900 Palestinians. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA) - RTR23CE4

Self-Immolation Un-Islamic, Scolds Hamas

Another Palestinian recently set himself on fire in Gaza in protest of rising poverty, but Hamas officials have dismissed the protest on religious grounds, Mohammed Suliman writes.

Israeli border police officers detain a Palestinian suspected of throwing stones during clashes outside Israel's Ofer military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah February 28, 2013. The death of a Palestinian prisoner in disputed circumstances in an Israeli jail on Saturday, together with a hunger strike by four other Palestinian inmates, have touched off violent protests over the past several weeks outside the prison and in West Bank towns. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL

UN Security Council Should Seek End to Israeli Occupation

Nassif Hitti argues that a third Palestinian intifada is imminent, and says the UN Security Council should make a serious commitment to ending the Israeli occupation.

Masked Palestinian gunmen hold weapons atop a roof during the funeral of Arafat Jaradat in the West Bank village of Se'eer, near Hebron February 25, 2013. Jaradat's death in an Israeli jail on Saturday and a hunger strike by four other Palestinian inmates have raised tension in the occupied territory after repeated clashes between stone-throwers and Israeli soldiers in recent days. Israeli troops, on high alert, took up positions outside Jaradat's home village of Se'eer, in likely earshot of the bursts of a

Palestinian Reconciliation Not Close

Despite recent meetings in Cairo between Fatah and Hamas aimed at reconciliation, in light of current conditions the two sides are still far from reaching a lasting agreement, writes Naela Khalil.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends a Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) executive committee meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah February 26, 2013. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3EAX8

Shin Bet Ex-Deputy: Israel Shouldn't Humiliate Abu Mazen

In an interview with Mazal Mualem, former Shin Bet Deputy Director Israel Hasson accuses Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of treating the Palestinian Authority chairman disgracefully, while acknowledging that Abu Mazen also made mistakes.