HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — The Israeli military has demolished the family home of a Palestinian charged with the killing of a 19-year-old Israeli woman.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Two Palestinian men were killed by Israeli fire on Tuesday in separate incidents in the West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — Following Israel's expulsion of an international observer force from the volatile West Bank city of Hebron, Palestinian activists are trying to fill the void by launching their own patrols to document alleged Israeli settler violence.

Armed with video cameras and donning blue vests, the activists say they will replace the Temporary International Presence in Hebron. The group has enlisted 18 volunteers and began its work this week.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's internal security agency said Sunday that the slaying of a 19-year-old Israeli woman allegedly by a Palestinian near Jerusalem last week was politically motivated.

Shin Bet issued a statement saying that after questioning Palestinian suspect Arafat Erfaiyeh, the agency believes the killing of Ori Ansbacher was "nationalistic."

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 Palestinians, but diplomats said the United States objected.

JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.N. says Secretary-General Antonio Guterres hopes an agreement can be reached to protect Palestinians in the West Bank after Israel said it would suspend the mandate of an international observation mission.

U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement Saturday that Guterres was "grateful" to the five countries that contributed to conflict prevention and the protection of Palestinians under the Temporary International Presence in Hebron for the past 22 years.

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 than 20 years.

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 Hebron, saying "we will not allow the continuation of an international force that acts against us." It did not give a timeframe for the observers' exit.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Latest on the violence in the West Bank (all times local):

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Palestinian police have cracked down on a Hamas protest in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, beating demonstrators with batons and throwing stun grenades.

Some 50 Hamas activists confronted Palestinian forces after Muslim prayers on Friday, as the militant group marked the 31st anniversary of their establishment.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man in the West Bank after he attempted to ram his car into them, Israeli police said Tuesday.

Police said the driver struck a police vehicle and then attempted to hit forces securing an area near the West Bank city of Hebron. Police say officers opened fire at the car and that no Israeli forces were harmed.

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, outside the Cave of the Patriarchs, or the Ibrahimi Mosque, a site holy to Jews and Muslims.

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 Israeli military base. It would be the first expansion of the area in 16 years.

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 relive the March 2016 incident in the West Bank city of Hebron, "I would act exactly the same, because that's how I needed to act."

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 Heritage Committee agreed at its meeting in Bahrain to put off for a year controversial resolutions on the Old City of Jerusalem and the West Bank town of Hebron.

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 during a protest. It said forces shot an "instigator" holding a firebomb as he threw it at them.

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 pronounced dead at the scene.

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 relative in South Africa and working as an Iranian operative.

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 2002.

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 find out in 2013 that local authorities changed its name to "Dalal Mughrabi Elementary School."

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 units in Jewish settlements across the West Bank during next week's meetings.

HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian activist who has run afoul of both the Palestinian and Israeli authorities was released from a Palestinian jail Sunday, a week after he was arrested for writing a Facebook post critical of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — The Israeli military has created a new authority to provide municipal services for settlers in Hebron, drawing accusations that Israel is moving closer to annexing parts of the volatile West Bank city.

The military order, signed last week, alters a 20-year-old agreement in Hebron's Old City, where several hundred ultranationalist settlers live in heavily guarded enclaves surrounded by tens of thousands of Palestinians.

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 on Facebook.

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.

JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.N. cultural agency on Friday declared the old city in the West Bank town of Hebron as a Palestinian world heritage site, a decision that outraged Israeli officials who say the move negated the deep Jewish ties to the biblical town and its ancient shrine.

The move was the latest chapter in Israel's contentious relationship with UNESCO, an agency it accuses of being an anti-Israeli tool that makes decisions out of political considerations.

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 street name "Carlo" which has emerged as the gun of choice for Palestinian assailants.

HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — For Palestinians, the new mayor of Hebron is a hero who they hope will improve their city. But to Israelis, the new leader of the divided West Bank city is an unrepentant murderer.

Weeks after the former PLO fighter took office, Tayseer Abu Sneineh is a contentious figure in the West Bank's most volatile city, showing no remorse for his role in an attack 37 years ago but saying he is now committed to pursuing a peace agreement with Israel.

HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — Palestinians choose mayors and local councils in communities across the West Bank on Saturday, a rare chance to cast ballots after more than a decade without presidential or legislative elections.

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 the soldiers led Sufian Abu Hitah around the neighborhood to identify other boys whom they suspected of having thrown stones and a firebomb at a nearby Jewish settlement.

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 Bank.

During the visit, Gere said "it's exactly what the Old South was in America," according to a clip aired Wednesday by Israel's Channel 2 TV.

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 "firebombs were hurled at passing vehicles and in response to that immediate threat forces fired toward the suspects."

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.

HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian protesters have thrown shoes at a banner depicting U.S. President Donald Trump in protest of his Mideast policies.

Issa Amro, a Palestinian activist, said "we disrespect this president who doesn't see us as equal human beings with everyone."

Bellmont 52, Adams Central 45

HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — For over a week, Palestinian soccer fans have been enjoying a special Christmas-season present: the first visit by Chilean soccer club Deportivo Palestino to the West Bank.

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 (7-4), 7 p.m. Friday, Keller ISD Stadium

Allen (11-0) vs. Belton (8-3), 7:30 p.m. Friday, Mesquite Memorial Stadium

Regional

Midland-Arlington Bowie winner vs. Lewisville Hebron-Duncanville winner, TBD

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, Arlington Martin 51

Allen 34, Euless Trinity 25

Belton 38, South Grand Prairie 30

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

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, Arlington Martin 51

Allen 34, Euless Trinity 25

Belton 38, South Grand Prairie 30

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

HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian government in the West Bank has postponed municipal elections in the territory until next year, a day after the vote was canceled in the Gaza Strip.

Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said after a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday that it was "decided to postpone the local elections for four months."

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's military said its troops shot and killed a knife-wielding Palestinian on Tuesday who tried to stab a soldier at the entrance to a village near the West Bank city of Hebron.

The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the Palestinian as 16-year-old Issa Tarayreh of the village of Bani Naim.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Two Palestinians were killed on Monday as they tried to stab Israeli police in the West Bank city of Hebron while a third Palestinian was shot and wounded after stabbing and wounding two Israeli police officers in Jerusalem, police said.

The two attacks followed a bloody weekend in which four Palestinians were killed while attacking Israelis, according to Israeli authorities, raising fears of a return to the near-daily Palestinian attacks seen at times over the the last year.

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 city of Hebron earlier Saturday and stabbed a soldier, prompting forces to open fire and kill the attacker.

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 razed Tuesday. It said the man "assisted in the planning and execution" of the July 1 attack that killed Miki Mark, a 48-year-old father of 10 children.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities on Monday confirmed that they have begun the process of expanding an Israeli settlement in Hebron, a West Bank city that has been the focus of nearly a year of violence.

The Palestinians swiftly condemned the move, saying they would seek international pressure to halt the plan from going forward.

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 Monday.

Tarayreh stabbed 13-year-old Hallel Yaffa Ariel to death while she slept in her bed in the nearby Kiryat Arba settlement in late June. Tarayreh was killed at the scene.

HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — Notebook in hand, acclaimed Irish author Colm Toibin walks into Hebron to observe Israeli military rule in its rawest form.

In the heart of the West Bank's largest Palestinian city, several hundred combat troops guard an equal number of ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers, enforcing a separation system that lets settlers move freely at the expense of Palestinians and has turned a once vibrant market into a ghost district.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a $12.9 million plan to strengthen two Israeli settlements in the southern West Bank Sunday. The plan came days after Netanyahu approved the construction of hundreds of new homes in settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, drawing a harsh rebuke from the U.S. State Department.

In late June a Palestinian teen fatally stabbed Israeli Hallel Yaffa Ariel, 13, in her bed in the Kiryat Arba settlement...