Nablus

This Monday, June 29, 2015 photo provided by Palestinian artist Khaled Jarrar shows his painting of a rainbow flag on six slabs of the West Bank security barrier in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Khaled Jarrar via AP)

August 19, 2019, 1:52 am

PA police ban Palestinian LGBT group from holding activities in West Bank

Police threaten to arrest members of al-Qaws and calls on public to inform on them; human rights watchdog accuses PA of inciting violence against community

By Adam Rasgon

Israeli soldiers secure Jewish pilgrims at Joseph's Tomb near the West Bank city of Nablus, July 29, 2019 (IDF)

July 30, 2019, 10:01 am

12 Palestinians said injured in riots as Jewish worshipers visit Joseph’s Tomb

Around 1,200 people enter the shrine near Nablus in West Bank under heavy military security, as protesters pelt soldiers with rocks

By TOI staff

Former Nablus mayor Bassam Shakaa (Screenshot: YouTube)

July 23, 2019, 2:01 pm

Ex-Nablus mayor Bassam Shakaa, who was injured by Jewish terrorists, dies at 89

A fierce critic of Israel and the Palestinian Authority, he said there was ‘nothing to discuss’ in two-state idea; he lost both legs in bombing by Israeli extremists in 1980

By Adam Rasgon

Illustrative -- Palestinian protesters throw back a tear gas canister fired by Israeli troops during a protest near the West Bank city of Nablus, June 28, 2019 (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

July 12, 2019, 5:01 pm

10-year-old Palestinian said seriously wounded in West Bank clash with IDF

Boy reportedly hit in head by rubber bullet during demonstration in Kafr Qaddum; IDF says riot control methods used against protesters who threw stones, burned tires

By TOI staff

A Palestinian vendor displays food, including pickled vegetables and olives, in preparation for Ramadan at a market in the West Bank city of Hebron, Saturday, June 28, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Majdi Mohammed)

July 8, 2019, 8:53 am

PA tax dispute with Israel leaves its employees struggling with slashed salaries

Palestinian finance minister says Ramallah has found itself in ‘a dangerous financial position,’ but partial solution may be on the horizon

By Adam Rasgon

Bullet holes at the Palestinian Authority security apparatus headquarters in Nablus, a result of an accidental firefight between IDF troops and PA security personnel, June 11, 2019. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

June 11, 2019, 6:43 am

Accidental firefight breaks out between IDF and PA security personnel in Nablus

Israeli troops open fire at Palestinian security forces in overnight operation, apparently mistaking them for suspects, injuring one

By Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff

A fire apparently started by an Israeli settler outside the Palestinian village of Burin in the northern West Bank on May 17, 2019. (B'tselem)

May 23, 2019, 12:27 am

B’Tselem: Settlers set fire to Palestinians’ fields, threw rocks at them

Rights group accuses military of standing to the side while Israelis attack Palestinian village in northern West Bank

By Judah Ari Gross

A view of Nablus in the northern West Bank. (Adam Rasgon/The Times of Israel)

April 30, 2019, 7:10 pm

PA court sentences Palestinian to prison for trying to sell land to Israeli Jews

While death is among the possible punishments in PA penal code for such offenses, Abbas has not signed off on any executions since 2006

By Adam Rasgon

Incoming Knesset members pray at Joseph's Tomb near Nablus, West Bank Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan (C) Likud's Eti Atia (3rd R) Likud's Uzi Dayan (R) Likud's Ariel Kallner (5th L), Union of Right-Wing Parties incoming MK Idit Silman, on April 24, 2019 (Screen grab via Twitter)

April 24, 2019, 11:46 am

Five incoming MKs join worshipers at Joseph’s Tomb near Nablus in West Bank

Samaria regional council head says visit is ‘statement of unreserved support for the settlements’; IDF secures passage of visitors to flashpoint site

By TOI staff

Police and volunteer rescue workers during searches for a missing hiker from the West Bank city of Nablus, March 30, 2019. (Israel Police)

March 31, 2019, 9:04 pm

Hiker from Palestinian city found dead in West Bank

Nablus resident’s remains discovered in Qana River; human bones also found in a cave in Darga River during search

By Stuart Winer

A Palestinian protester prepares to throw a firebomb during clashes with Israeli security forces in the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem, on October 9, 2015. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

March 21, 2019, 10:10 pm

Two Israelis lightly injured in West Bank firebomb attack

Troops launch search for suspects after Molotov cocktail thrown at car near Nablus; two injured treated by army medics, taken to hospital

By TOI staff

Over a thousand Palestinians participate in a funeral procession in Nablus on March 20, 2019. (Wafa)

March 20, 2019, 7:21 pm

Hundreds attend funerals of two Palestinians killed in Nablus

Faction members calls for clashes with Israeli troops; Fatah official who says he was briefed by PA security forces denies army’s assertion the two attacked soldiers with bombs

By Adam Rasgon

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers escort hundreds of Jewish worshippers to the Joseph's Tomb holy site in Nablus in the northern West Bank on December 10, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

March 20, 2019, 2:07 am

Two Palestinians killed in clash near Nablus biblical tomb

Palestinians in a vehicle throw explosive devices at IDF forces guarding a group of Jewish pilgrims praying at Joseph’s Tomb, soldiers return fire, army says

By TOI staff

Soldiers at the scene of an attempted stabbing attack near the West Bank city of Nablus on January 21, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

January 21, 2019, 9:24 pm

IDF: Palestinian tries to stab soldier in northern West Bank, is shot dead

Army says no Israeli casualties in attempted attack on security forces near Nablus

By TOI staff

Palestinians protest against a government tax hike in Ramallah, West Bank, December 12, 2018. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

January 9, 2019, 9:58 am

Wary of PA ‘corruption,’ Palestinians launch protest of new social security law

‘Blue gloves’ demonstrators, inspired by yellow vests protests, say they do not trust a PA-created institution to handle their money and cannot afford to pay more taxes

By Adam Rasgon and Photos by Luke Tress