Palestinian-Israeli relations

Israel’s government on Sunday vowed to prevent an aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists from reaching the Gaza Strip.

Paris Saint-Germain supporters have displayed a banner saying “Stop genocide in Gaza” during the Champions League final in Munich.

Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour struggled to hold back tears Wednesday while addressing the Security Council. “The images of mothers embracing their motionless bodies, caressing their hair, talking to them, apologizing to them. This is unbearable.”

In his first comments to the media since his April 14 detainment, Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi said he had faith that he won’t be deported.

The academy on Wednesday released a statement condemning “harming or suppressing artists for their work or their viewpoints.”

Hamdan Ballal and two others have been released by Israel, a day after he was badly beaten by Jewish settlers and detained by Israeli forces.

A Palestinian filmmaker who was part of a team that won an Oscar for “No Other Land,” a documentary depicting life under Israeli occupation, was beaten by West Bank settlers and then arrested by Israeli forces, his co-director said Monday, NBC News reported.

A federal judge said Khalil will remain in the U.S. as the court weighs a challenge to his planned deportation, as President Donald Trump says his arrest will be the first of many.

“No Other Land,” the story of Palestinian activists fighting to protect their communities from demolition by the Israeli military, won the Oscar for best documentary on Sunday.

Israeli tanks have moved into the occupied West Bank for the first time in decades in what Palestinian authorities call a “dangerous escalation.”

Tens of thousands of Palestinians have fled their homes following recent Israeli military operations across the northern West Bank.

Hamas-led militants have released three male Israeli hostages, and Israeli forces began releasing hundreds of prisoners in return, indicating that the fragile ceasefire deal is holding.

Palestinians say the fatal shooting of a pregnant 23-year-old in a refugee camp in the northern West Bank signals a worrying trend toward more lethal, warlike tactics by Israel in the occupied territory.

To spend a rush hour these days at any of the traffic-snarled checkpoints outside Palestinian cities in the West Bank is to hear of the endless problems they have brought — families divided, money lost, trade disrupted, sick people kept from doctors.

In a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday, President Donald Trump said that Palestinians in Gaza should be relocated to a new homeland.

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians streamed into Gaza’s most heavily destroyed area on Monday after Israel opened the north.

A ceasefire agreement was reached on Wednesday to end 15 months of fighting in the Gaza Strip, according to President Joe Biden, Qatar’s Prime Minister, and Hamas officials. This hard-won agreement will also lead to the release of dozens of hostages held in Gaza, as well as Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli jails. Jocelyn Moran reports.

A ceasefire deal was reached Wednesday to end 15 months of fighting in the Gaza Strip, according to President Joe Biden, Qatar’s prime minister and Hamas officials. The hard-won agreement will also free dozens of hostages held in Gaza, as well as Palestinians in Israeli jails. NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai spoke with Leon Panetta, former United States Secretary of...

According to the deal, fighting will pause in Gaza for six weeks, and dozens of Israeli hostages, as well as hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, will be freed.

Palestinians in Gaza were cautiously optimistic after President Joe Biden said negotiators were “on the brink” of securing a truce between Israel and Hamas.