UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Kuwait and Indonesia urged the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to call for protection of Palestinians following Israel’s decision to suspend an international observer mission in Hebron, where hundreds of hard-line Jewish settlers live alongside more than 200,000 ...

HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian Authority on Tuesday asked the United Nations to deploy a permanent international force in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem, after Israel announced it was suspending operations of an observer force that had been in the city of Hebron for more ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel says it is suspending operations of an international observer force in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron after over 20 years.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Monday it would not extend the mandate of the Temporary International Presence in ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says forces shot and killed a Palestinian who attempted to stab a soldier in the West Bank.

The military says troops opened fire on the Palestinian after he tried stabbing the soldier, who was lightly wounded. The incident occurred on Monday in Hebron, ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government has approved plans to expand a Jewish settlement in the volatile West Bank city of Hebron.

Sunday’s decision approved $6.1 million to finance the construction of new housing, day care facilities and parks for the Hezekiya quarter in part of a former ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — A former Israeli soldier who fatally shot a wounded Palestinian attacker who was lying on the ground says he “has no regrets” in his first interview since leaving prison three months ago.

Elor Azaria told the Hebrew-language daily Israel Hayom on Wednesday that if he could ...

PARIS (AP) — Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations’ cultural agency said Tuesday he will recommend that his government reconsider leaving UNESCO or at least postpone the departure set for the end of the year.

Ambassador Carmel Shama Hacohen’s remarks came hours after UNESCO’s World ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry says a 24-year-old man has been killed in clashes with Israeli forces in the West Bank.

It said he was shot in the chest Friday and declared dead at a Hebron hospital.

Israel’s military said Palestinians hurled fire bombs at troops ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says a security guard has shot dead a Palestinian attacker after he stabbed another guard at a West Bank settlement.

Israeli paramedics say a security guard was lightly wounded in Wednesday’s incident near Hebron, and the Palestinian assailant was ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s internal security agency says it has busted an Iranian espionage ring operating in the West Bank and arrested its Palestinian leader.

The Shin Bet said in a statement on Wednesday that 29-year-old Mohammed Maharmeh of Hebron is suspected of being enlisted by a ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli anti-settlement group says dozens of new housing units have been approved in the West Bank city of Hebron for the first time in over a decade.

Hagit Ofran of Peace Now said 31 housing units were approved Monday for the first Israeli construction there since ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The Belgian government is suspending funding for two school construction projects in the Palestinian territories after it emerged that a school it backed was later renamed after a woman it considers a terrorist.

Belgium said it backed a school in the south of Hebron only to ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is set to advance plans for nearly 2,000 housing units in West Bank settlements next week, including 30 homes in the flashpoint Palestinian-majority city of Hebron.

The Civil Administration’s planning committee announced Tuesday that it will review plans for 1,844 ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian security forces have detained a prominent activist after he called for President Mahmoud Abbas to resign.

A lawyer representing Issa Amro, a human rights activist from the West Bank city of Hebron, says his client was arrested Monday after posting his comments ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says it has shot and killed a Palestinian attacker who rammed his vehicle into a group of soldiers, injuring two.

The military says the attacker veered into soldiers securing a junction north the West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesday.

In the past ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military says its forces have shot and killed a Palestinian who opened fire on them in the West Bank.

It said forces were on a mission to find weapons in Hebron Wednesday when the incident occurred.

It released a picture of the makeshift weapon known by its ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli rights group has released an amateur video of Israeli soldiers surrounding and questioning a terrified 8-year-old Palestinian boy in the tense West Bank city of Hebron.

The group B’Tselem, which posted the video, said ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Actor Richard Gere has compared life for Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron to segregation in the United States.

The “Pretty Woman” star toured Hebron this week with Breaking the Silence, a group of Israeli ex-soldiers who criticize Israeli policies in the West ...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian health ministry says a teenager was shot and killed in clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank.

It said the16-year-old was killed Friday evening at the entrance to Al-Aroub near the volatile city of Hebron.

The Israeli military said ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military says a Palestinian broke into a home in a West Bank settlement and stabbed an Israeli, who then shot and killed the intruder.

It said the Israeli sustained light wounds in the attack Wednesday near the volatile city of Hebron.

Palestinians have ...

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CLASS 6A DIVISION I

Region I

Area

Midland (9-2) vs. Arlington Bowie (9-2), 2 p.m. Saturday, Abilene’s Shotwell Stadium

Lewisville Hebron (8-3) vs. Duncanville (9-2), 7:30 p.m. Friday, Bedford’s Pennington Field

San Angelo Central (11-0) vs. Keller Timber Creek ...

CLASS 6A DIVISION I

Region I

Bidistrict

Midland 73, EP El Dorado 52

Arlington Bowie 20, Keller Central 17

Lewisville Hebron 40, Plano East 35

Duncanville 24, Killeen Harker Heights 7

San Angelo Central 72, EP Franklin 7

Keller Timber Creek 54, ...

CLASS 6A DIVISION I

Region I

Bidistrict

Midland 73, EP El Dorado 52

Arlington Bowie 20, Keller Central 17

Lewisville Hebron 40, Plano East 35

Duncanville 24, Killeen Harker Heights 7

San Angelo Central 72, EP Franklin 7

Keller Timber Creek 54, ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military sent troop reinforcements to a flashpoint West Bank area on Saturday following a weekend surge in Palestinian attacks that shattered weeks of relative calm.

The military said a Palestinian pulled out a knife during a security check in the West Bank ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military says its forces demolished the home of a Palestinian involved in the ambush of a family car in the West Bank that killed an Israeli and wounded his wife and two of their children.

It said the residence in Dura near the West Bank city of Hebron Bank was ...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian teen died Tuesday during clashes with Israeli troops near the West Bank city of Hebron, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

The ministry identified the deceased as refugee camp resident Mohammed Abu Hashhash, 17.

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says troops have demolished the home of the family of a Palestinian who stabbed an Israeli teenage girl to death.

It says the home of 17-year-old Mohammed Tarayreh’s family in the West Bank town of Bani Naim near Hebron was demolished early ...