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West Bank

Israel-Hamas war
Palestinian arrests in the West Bank have skyrocketed
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Palestinians inspect their house which was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on Aug. 8, 2022. 
As Israel-Palestinian truce holds, Gaza power plant restarts
A photo of the West Bank.
Borders
Former US ambassador: Israel would be ‘making itself an international outlaw’ with West Bank annexation
After her third daughter was born, Faten decided to make sure that her fourth child would be a boy. She says she has a career and a family to take care of. She can't keep getting pregnant over and over again.
Medicine
An Israeli woman traveled to the West Bank so she could be sure she’d have a boy
Muna Assaf has been asking her reporters to talk with people on the street about catcalling. She men do it because they think they have the authority to do it.
Lifestyle
A Palestinian radio station in the West Bank tackles catcalling, divorce and sex
Baha Nababta in the Shuafat refugee camp in November 2014. He devoted his life to improving the camp before he was shot to death this year.
Conflict
Baha Nababta wanted to live in a place where the roads were paved and the trash picked up. Then he was murdered.
Novelist Ayelet Waldman and a Palestinian man in Hebron. “For most of my life, I loved Israel, I longed for Israel, I planned to live in Israel,” she says.
Books
Novelist Ayelet Waldman is sending writers to the West Bank to document what they see, 50 years into occupation
A mosque attendant lowers a candelabra into a narrow shaft on the Muslim side of the shrine to an underground cave. It's revered as the place where Muslims and Jews believe Ibrahim, or Abraham, is buried.
Belief
In Hebron, Israelis and Palestinians share a holy site … begrudgingly