RAMALLAH/JERUSALEM, Dec 15 (Reuters) - The Israeli military shot dead a 16-year-old Palestinian during a raid on the town of Tuqu' on Monday, the Palestinian health ministry said, the latest deadly incident in a recent surge of violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Government redirects 220 million shekels from social programmes aimed at tackling high crime, sparking criticism from leaders of Palestinian community and rights groups

Bassem Khandaqji entered prison 21 years ago for plotting a deadly bombing in Israel. He left prison as an award-winning novelist.

Gaza's Health Ministry says the Palestinian death toll has surpassed 70,000 since the Israel-Hamas war began. Two children were killed in Gaza in an Israeli attack, officials said.

Sakhr Zaoul is among at least 100 prisoners known to have died in Israeli jails since October 2023, though the actual number is believed to be higher

Hamas says it is willing to lay down its weapons after two years of war in Gaza, but Israel may not agree to its main condition.

Israeli police have forcibly entered the United Nations agency compound for Palestinian refugees in East Jerusalem.

The Palestinian death toll has surpassed 70,000 since the Israel-Hamas war began, Gaza’s Health Ministry said Saturday, while a hospital said that Israeli fire killed two Palestinian children in the territory's south.

Palestinian filmmaker Maha Haj’s "Playhouse" was the major winner at the Project Market Awards of the Red Sea Souk, the industry arm of Saudi Arabia's Red Sea Film Festival. The Red Sea Fund backed 10 jury-granted awards – two for works-in-progress,

Israel has returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians, following Hamas's return of the remains of an Israeli hostage. This exchange is part of a U.S.

Footage published by left-wing Israeli activists who accompany Palestinians in Masafer Yatta, a hamlet of communities in the southern West Bank, shows four soldiers carrying away a Palestinian amputee who the activists say was assaulted by settlers.