Accessibility helpSkip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footer
  • Sign In
  • Subscribe
Open side navigation menuOpen search bar
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In
  • Home
  • World
    Sections
    • World Home
    • Israel-Hamas war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
    Most Read
    • Labour has the UK’s wealthier over-65s in its sights
    • UK universities regulator plans for looming insolvencies
    • Fresh violence flares after dozens of rioters arrested across England
    • Asset managers fret over lost gains as investor cash piles up on sidelines
    • The power of choosing your words wisely
  • UK
    Sections
    • UK Home
    • UK Economy
    • UK Politics
    • UK Companies
    • Personal Finance
    Most Read
    • Labour has the UK’s wealthier over-65s in its sights
    • UK universities regulator plans for looming insolvencies
    • Fresh violence flares after dozens of rioters arrested across England
    • Why are the far right rioting in England?
    • Why pension funds should not be patriots
  • Companies
    Sections
    • Companies Home
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
    Most Read
    • Blessed are the bean counters — except when it comes to growth
    • Widespread boycotts in Muslim countries hammer western brands
    • Novo Nordisk boosts research as rivals challenge weight-loss leader
    • The battle over who makes the rules for US companies
    • Why pension funds should not be patriots
  • Tech
    Sections
    • Tech Home
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Semiconductors
    • Cyber Security
    • Social Media
    Most Read
    • Lloyds hires Amazon Web Services executive as its new AI chief
    • A rollercoaster earnings season for tech stocks
    • Brain implant made from graphene is set to begin UK clinical trial
    • Elliott says Nvidia is in a ‘bubble’ and AI is ‘overhyped’
    • Bolt promises benefits to gig workers ahead of court battle with union
  • Markets
    Sections
    • Markets Home
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Cryptofinance
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Wealth Management
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
    Most Read
    • Global shares tumble as US recession fears rattle markets
    • Asset managers fret over lost gains as investor cash piles up on sidelines
    • Everyone calm down
    • Rio Tinto-backed start-up seeks funds for lithium breakthrough to cut reliance on China
    • Global stock sell-off deepens after disappointing US jobs data
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    Sections
    • Opinion Home
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
    Most Read
    • The power of choosing your words wisely
    • Blessed are the bean counters — except when it comes to growth
    • The volatile far right on UK streets is becoming more difficult to label
    • Why pension funds should not be patriots
    • What might a Harris foreign policy look like?
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
    Sections
    • Work & Careers Home
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    • Working It
    Most Read
    • Tesla attempt to save Elon Musk’s $56bn pay package gets sceptical reception
    • Cities on screen: Choose Edinburgh
    • Bolt promises benefits to gig workers ahead of court battle with union
    • ‘Gone are the days of taking a phone call in the open’: why office pods are everywhere
    • How Roger Federer rode the ‘beautiful wave’ of tennis for 24 years
  • Life & Arts
    Sections
    • Life & Arts Home
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
    Most Read
    • What and how to read
    • One of Scandinavia’s buzziest fashion brands is ready to scale
    • Photobombing de Gaulle: how a forgotten picture rewrites the history of WWII
    • Could music win it for Kamala Harris?
    • The True Story of the Fake Zombies podcast review — how a band came back to life, twice over
  • HTSI
MenuSearch
  • Home
  • World
  • UK
  • Companies
  • Tech
  • Markets
  • Climate
  • Opinion
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
  • Life & Arts
  • HTSI
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In

West Bank

  • Monday, 29 July, 2024
    News in-depth
    The West Bank has so much cash its lenders are worried

    Bank earnings in Palestinian territory have been hit and theft is rising as Israeli curbs and war fallout leave over $1bn idling in vaults

  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    Israeli military seizes plot in ancient West Bank ruin

    Government plans to raise national flag at Sebastia as it widens grip on cultural heritage sites

    A horse belonging to Israeli settler Yinon Levi iat his farm in the West Bank outpost of Meitarim
  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    Israel
    Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal, UN court rules

    Landmark opinion by International Court of Justice adds to Israel’s diplomatic isolation

    Israeli police and soldiers on patrol in the West Bank
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    The Big Read
    The Palestinian Authority’s shrinking influence in the West Bank

    Surging settler violence, military raids and economic pressure have further undermined the credibility of the PA leadership

    A Palestinian man stands in a house gutted by fire
  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Israel approves legalisation of five West Bank outposts, says Smotrich

    Measures announced by ultranationalist minister draw fierce criticism from Palestinians and Israeli leftwing

    Israeli settlers march to the Evyatar outpost
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    Western officials warn of ‘catastrophe’ if Israel cuts off Palestinian banks

    Threat to block waiver would lead to ‘serious crisis and bring Palestinian economy in West Bank to a halt’

    People outside a Bank of Palestine branch
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    ExplainerIsrael-Hamas war
    Why is the ICC seeking arrest warrants against the leaders of Israel and Hamas?

    ‘Reasonable grounds’ to believe that five individuals including Benjamin Netanyahu committed war crimes, prosecutor Karim Khan says

    Karim Khan centre, surrounded by Netanyahu, Gallant, Deif, Haniyeh, Sinwar
  • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    West Bank violence flares after killing of Israeli teenager

    Israeli settlers torch cars and buildings in Palestinian villages

    The village can be seen from a high viewpoint. Black smoke rises from flames at the back of the image
  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    The Israeli settlers shrugging off sanctions to menace the West Bank

    Measures against extremists do little to temper a movement emboldened by the Gaza war

    The Israeli settlement of Efrata built on the land of the Palestinian town of Al-Khader in the Bethlehem governorate in the occupied West Bank
  • Wednesday, 13 March, 2024
    Special ReportThriving Cities
    Charities give youths from conflict zones the chance of an education

    Safe spaces and sponsorship programmes are providing vital schooling to displaced children and those in war-affected cities

    Child in Gaza Strip
  • Thursday, 29 February, 2024
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Rival Palestinian factions hold talks in Moscow

    Relatively secular Fatah and Islamist Hamas remain at odds despite push for unity ahead of Gaza reconstruction

    Fatah and Hamas officials waiting to meet Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and representatives from Palestinian groups in Moscow in February 2019
  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Palestinian Authority runs low on funds as Israel withholds cash

    Finance minister Shoukry Bishara warns stability of West Bank is being undermined

    Shoukry Bishara, finance minister of the Palestinian Authority
  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Dutch court bans export of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel

    Netherlands government ordered to stop sales amid mounting international pressure over conduct of Gaza war

    An Israeli F-35 fighter jet
  • Thursday, 1 February, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    US to impose sanctions on Israeli settlers responsible for West Bank violence

    Order comes amid White House frustration with Netanyahu government’s hostility to two-state peace deal

    Palestinians are seen through the broken window of a home after it was attacked by Israeli settlers
  • Thursday, 4 January, 2024
    InterviewIsrael-Hamas war
    Israel is pushing Palestinian governance to ‘edge of the edge’, PM warns

    Mohammad Shtayyeh hits out at sweeping restrictions in the occupied West Bank since war with Hamas began

    Mohammad Shtayyeh
  • Sunday, 31 December, 2023
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    Israel’s wartime curbs ravage West Bank economy

    From stores to start-ups, restrictions on movement and cuts to Palestinian Authority cash put businesses at risk

    A market in central Ramallah
  • Saturday, 23 December, 2023
    Israel-Hamas war
    ‘We’re not celebrating’: Christmas called off in Bethlehem as Gaza war rages

    Festivities cancelled in town central to Christianity as residents grieve and tourists stay away

  • Tuesday, 5 December, 2023
    Israel-Hamas war
    US to impose visa bans on violent Israeli settlers in West Bank

    Sanctions come amid surge in attacks in occupied territory since start of the war in Gaza

    A Palestinian checks a car burnt in a raid by Israeli settlers near Salfit in the Israeli-occupied West Bank
  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    The Palestinian teenagers suddenly freed from jail in Hamas hostage deal

    West Bank youths are routinely taken from their beds, beaten and imprisoned. Throwing stones is the most common charge

    Palestinians released from an Israeli military prison on November 26 2023 in the West Bank
  • Monday, 20 November, 2023
    Israel-Hamas war
    EU poised to approve continued Palestinian development aid

    Brussels’ review of funding prompted by Israel-Hamas war finds bloc is not financing terror groups

    European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, left, in north Sinai in Egypt on Sunday for  the unloading of humanitarian aid destined for the Gaza Strip
  • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    Emboldened Israeli settlers seek to tighten grip on West Bank

    Occupied Palestinian territory has witnessed huge upsurge in violence since the Jewish state declared war on Hamas in Gaza

    Residents guard a checkpoint entrance to Mitzpe Yair, an Israeli settlement that sits close to the town of Susya, occupied West Bank
  • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
    Israel-Hamas war
    US calls for Palestinian Authority to run Gaza and West Bank after the war

    Antony Blinken says there must be no Israeli reoccupation of the enclave or forcible displacement

    Antony Blinken
  • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israeli cabinet clashes over payments to Palestinian Authority

    Dispute over whether to transfer funds deepens faultlines in Netanyahu coalition

  • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    West Bank Palestinians live in fear of settler attacks

    Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza has violent repercussions in the occupied territory

    Mohammed Arrah
  • Wednesday, 1 November, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    A Day in the Life of Abed Salama — a story of Palestinian pain

    Amid the fog and fury of the Israel-Hamas war, Nathan Thrall’s salutary account of a 2012 disaster shows humanity on both sides

    In a photo dated February 2012, an overturned bus lies on the side of a road in a ravine. Rescue workers in hi-vis inspect the vehicle, while high on the top of the ravine stand dozens of onlookers
Previous page You are on page 1 Next page

Useful links

Support

View Site TipsHelp CentreContact UsAbout UsAccessibilitymyFT TourCareers

Legal & Privacy

Terms & ConditionsPrivacy PolicyCookie PolicyManage CookiesCopyrightSlavery Statement & Policies

Services

Share News Tips SecurelyIndividual SubscriptionsProfessional SubscriptionsRepublishingExecutive Job SearchAdvertise with the FTFollow the FT on XFT ChannelsFT Schools

Tools

PortfolioFT AppFT Digital EditionFT EditAlerts HubBusiness School RankingsSubscription ManagerNews feedNewslettersCurrency Converter

Community & Events

FT CommunityFT Live EventsFT ForumsBoard Director Programme

More from the FT Group

Markets data delayed by at least 15 minutes. © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2024. FT and ‘Financial Times’ are trademarks of The Financial Times Ltd.
The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice.
Edition:UK
International
Subscribe for full access

Top sections

  • Home
  • World
    • Israel-Hamas war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
  • UK
    • UK Economy
    • UK Politics
    • UK Companies
    • Personal Finance
  • Companies
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
  • Tech
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Semiconductors
    • Cyber Security
    • Social Media
  • Markets
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Cryptofinance
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Wealth Management
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    • Working It
  • Life & Arts
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
  • Personal Finance
    • Property & Mortgages
    • Investments
    • Pensions
    • Tax
    • Banking & Savings
    • Advice & Comment
    • Next Act
  • HTSI
  • Special Reports

FT recommends

  • Alphaville
  • FT Edit
  • Lunch with the FT
  • FT Globetrotter
  • #techAsia
  • Moral Money
  • Visual and data journalism
  • Newsletters
  • Video
  • Podcasts
  • News feed
  • FT Live Events
  • FT Forums
  • Board Director Programme
  • myFT
  • Portfolio
  • FT Digital Edition
  • Crossword
  • Our Apps
  • Help Centre
  • Subscribe
  • Sign In