Truce comes after rupture in talks said to have been caused by IDF's resumption of airstrikes in area; battalion members to surrender arms to Ramallah following 6-week operation The post PA makes deal with Jenin Battalion,

Israel’s security Cabinet has recommended approval of a ceasefire deal after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed an agreement had been reached that would pause the 15-month war with Hamas in Gaza and release dozens of hostages held by militants there.

This initial phase, set to commence on Sunday and span 42 days, will see Israel gradually release the prisoners as well as 1,167 residents detained from Gaza. In return, Hamas is expected to release 33 Israeli hostages currently held in Gaza.

On Wednesday evening, the Israeli army launched a missile strike at the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, killing six Palestinians

Many of the militants live in the camp, often with their families. Militant groups have grown in strength in Jenin, where Israel estimates almost half the population is affiliated to Islamic Jihad ...

Israeli forces assassinated six Palestinians, including a child, on Tuesday, after a drone strike targeted a group of citizens in the Jenin refugee camp, in

side by side with what Israel is doing in Gaza, but not getting as much attention,” Salhut said. The deadly drone attack also comes amid a military operation launched in the Jenin camp by the ...

Palestinian Authority security forces are struggling to win the trust of residents of Jenin as they try to assert control over the city, a historic centre of Islamist militancy in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Authority has been waging a rare crackdown on militants in Jenin in recent weeks, angering many Palestinians. Last week, the Palestinian Authority ordered the Al Jazeera news network to suspend its operations in the West Bank. Israel has ...

Israel on Tuesday carried out a drone strike in Jenin, amid a campaign by the Palestinian Authority to clamp down on terror factions in the northern West Bank city ...

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WARNING: sensitive content] In less than 24 hours Israel bombed for the second time the Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank, killing at least six Palestinians and leaving two seriously injured,