Israeli Border Police officers stand guard as Palestinian farmers use tractors to work the land in the village of Qusra in the West Bank, with the Esh Kodesh outpost in the background, on November 19, 2013. A group of Israeli settlers, including three off-duty soldiers, were rescued from a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank on Friday after they entered the area for as-yet-unknown reasons and were quickly set upon by local residents, the army said.

Elor Azaria, an Israeli soldier who shot a Palestinian terrorist in Hebron, sits in the courtroom before the announcement of his verdict at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, January 4, 2017 Military prosecutors are likely to ask that an IDF soldier convicted on manslaughter for shooting a mortally wounded, unarmed Palestinian attacker be sentenced to between 3-5 years in prison in case that has deeply divided the nation, a television report said Thursday. On January 4 the Jaffa Military Court convicted IDF Sgt.

A Palestinian man who attempted to stab an Israeli soldier at a West Bank checkpoint was shot and killed during the attack, according to the Israel Defense Forces. The attacker drew a knife and began running at soldiers manning the checkpoint, who called for him to stop.

Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activity in the Territories signed an agreement with the Palestinian Authority’s Minister of Civil Affairs on Sunday to renew the activity of the Joint Water Committee. The Israeli, Maj.

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement is a pro-Palestinian undertaking that took root following the second Palestinian Intifada in 2000 and the Durban Conference of 2001. The BDS campaign calls on the international community “to impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era.”

Using photos of young women and Hebrew slang, the Palestinian militant group Hamas chatted up dozens of Israeli soldiers online, gaining control of their phone cameras and microphones, the military said on Wednesday. An officer, who briefed reporters on the alleged scam, said the Islamist group that runs the Gaza Strip uncovered no major military secrets in the intelligence-gathering operation.

The Israeli military says troops have shot dead a Palestinian attacker who tried to stab soldiers in the West Bank. It says Israeli forces were on an arrest raid in the Fara Refugee Camp Tuesday when the Palestinian charged toward them with a knife.

Israel’s parliament speaker has ordered security beefed up for a Knesset member who came under threats after he said a soldier who killed a wounded Palestinian assailant shouldn’t be pardoned. Yuli Edelstein said Friday he made the decision after “escalated threats” against Erel Margalit, an opposition lawmaker of the Zionist Union party.