Palestinian American Says Home Attacked, Vehicles Torched in West Bank Raid
Mustafa Zaatar said his US citizenship provided no protection during an overnight incident east of Ramallah.
Mustafa Zaatar said his US citizenship provided no protection during an overnight incident east of Ramallah.

The UK foreign secretary says Labour opposes threats to Israel's existence but calls the suffering in Gaza and the West Bank unjustifiable.
Israel has shut occupied West Bank crossings for a week, further restricting Palestinian movement and access to holy sites, according to Al Jazeera, which mapped roughly 300 checkpoints across the territory.
Attacks reported in Ras Karkar and Deir Abu Mashal near Ramallah, according to local sources cited by Anadolu Agency.
Israel's national security minister reportedly told a Palestinian prisoner he wanted to 'execute' him during a prison visit.
The government's legal adviser had postponed bids for over 2,100 housing units until after the October 27 vote.

Israel's foreign minister said Dutch officials in the occupied West Bank must surrender their diplomatic papers after the Netherlands began enforcing a ban on settlement goods.
The move follows the Netherlands' enforcement of a ban on goods from Israeli settlements, Israel's foreign minister said.
Israeli Foreign Minister Sa'ar says diplomatic privileges will expire if the deadline passes without compliance.
Israel's Channel 12 links the searches to a Dutch ban on importing, purchasing and selling settlement-linked products.

The move escalates retaliatory measures as Western sanctions target West Bank settlements Israel considers illegal under international law.
Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot criticizes what he called a 'guilty and scandalous' level of tolerance from the Israeli government.

Road closures imposed by Israeli forces remain a routine feature of life for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to Al Jazeera.
Bezalel Smotrich said Israeli forces should replicate the scale of the Gaza campaign in the West Bank, according to Anadolu Agency.
Human rights experts and analysts say Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's call for military escalation in the West Bank should be taken seriously rather than dismissed as campaign rhetoric, Al Jazeera reports.

In Tulkarem and other West Bank cities, displaced Palestinians describe being pushed deeper into debt and poverty as they struggle to rebuild their lives.
The comments from Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich come as Israeli authorities announced a military closure across the occupied West Bank during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.
Bezalel Smotrich says Israel should replicate its Gaza campaign in the West Bank as restrictions on Palestinians there tighten.
Israeli authorities are set to close off the occupied West Bank for a week, according to the official Palestinian news agency.
Anadolu Agency reports a Palestinian girl was injured amid tightened Israeli restrictions on movement in the occupied West Bank.