Israeli forces kill four teenage Palestinian boys in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said, the latest bloodshed amid relentless ground and air strikes against the Gaza Strip.

Hezbollah strikes an Israeli settlement near Lebanon's border with the occupied territories in response to an Israeli attack on a funeral procession.

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has called for efforts to confront the Israeli regime’s plans to expand the construction of illegal settlements across the West Bank.

Here are Press TV's latest top stories at 2:00 GMT on August 17, 2023.

Australia has decided to officially reinstate the term “Occupied Palestinian Territories” to refer to the illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

Israeli military forces have reportedly killed a Palestinian teenager at point-blank during an incursion into a refugee camp in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank.

An Israeli court has ordered Palestinian residents of a village in the Negev desert to destroy their homes and leave the area by next March to make way for the expansion of a nearby Israeli city.

The shooting was carried out close to Kedumim settlement, near the city of Qalqilya.

Hamas lashes out at an Israeli plan to build over 5,000 new settler units in the West Bank as “open aggression” on Palestinians.

The Persian Gulf Cooperation Council's foreign ministers condemns Israel's settlement construction plans, urge international action to stop them.