West Bank

According to sources, the interim Finance Ministry has unofficially decided to provide an extension to citizens for the the filing of a specific tax document, the (E1) pertaining to property ownership until Sunday night.

A delegation of Turkish economic officials is set to hold talks this week with their Israeli counterparts to discuss establishing a new industrial zone for Palestinians in the West Bank, in the first visit after the deadly Mavi Marmara incident in 2010 which caused serious tension between Turkey and Israel. 

The Arab League?s assistant secretary-general for Palestinian affairs, Mohamed Sobeih, has branded Israel as an ?abnormal? state, saying the pan-Arab body was seeking to issue a resolution from the U.N. Security Council to end the decades-long Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.

The United States expressed concern on August 18 regarding Israel's treatment of US citizens travelling to the country following recent reports of Palestinian-Americans being denied entry.  

Jewish settlers clashed with Israeli police on July 28 as authorities took control of homes being built in the occupied West Bank, after a court ruled that the illegal structures must be demolished.

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian during an arrest operation in the occupied West Bank on July 23, a hospital official said, the second killing within 24 hours.

Falah Abu Maria, 50, was shot in the chest in the village of Beit Omar near the southern city of Hebron, neighbours said.    

Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian teenager in the West Bank on July 3 after he threw stones at their patrol, Palestinian medical and security sources said.

Palestinians in the West Bank who commute to Israel to work will from May 20 be banned from riding the same buses as Israelis to return home, a defence ministry official said.

Israel will stop cutting power to Palestinian cities over unpaid bills and will deduct funds from tax money to prevent the debt increasing, a government official said on Feb. 26.
      
The official also said Israel would connect water to a Palestinian city so that it can be inhabited, after a minister's objection had been overruled.        

The Israeli government on Jan. 30 published tenders to build 430 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, the head of an NGO that monitors settlement activity told AFP.