Popular support for the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank has been in steady decline. Now, to burnish its credentials, the authority is taking on a militant stronghold in Jenin. The high-risk move is further dividing Palestinian society.

The Palestinian Authority has suspended Al Jazeera from broadcasting and operating in the occupied West Bank. It accused the network of broadcasting “inciting materials” and “misleading reports” that “provoke strife and interfere in Palestinian internal affairs,” Wafa, the official Palestinian news agency, said Wednesday.

Amid an offensive against Palestinian armed groups in Jenin, in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian Authority suspended the broadcasting and activities of the Al-Jazeera channel January 1, accusing it of “incitement to sedition.

Two children were among three Palestinians from the same extended family killed in an Israeli drone strike in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, Palestinian officials say. The governor of Tubas said the strike in the town of Tammun killed Adam Besharat,

Hamas condemned the Palestinian Authority for attempting to "assassinate" members of the terror group, Hamas posted on Telegram Saturday. Hamas leader Abdul Rahman Shadid claimed, "What happened in Tulkarm Governorate,

Israeli forces have intensified military operations across the occupied West Bank, resulting in the deaths of at least three Palestinians. These actions follow a recent attack near a Jewish settlement that left three Israelis dead.