To spend a rush hour these days at any of the traffic-snarled checkpoints outside Palestinian cities in the West Bank is to hear of the endless problems they have brought — families divided, money lost,

Dozens of Palestinian families fled on Monday from the Nur Shams refugee camp in the north of the occupied West Bank, as Israel pushed on with a sweeping military operation."We hear explosions and bombings as well as bulldozers.

Israeli forces in Nur Shams shot a 23-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant and whose unborn child did not survive, the Palestinian health ministry said.

Israeli farming outposts are mushrooming across the West Bank, enabling settlers to displace Palestinians and grab large swaths of land

As the truce between Israel and Hamas took hold on Jan. 19, radical Israeli settlers rampaged through West Bank towns, torching cars and homes.

A pregnant 23-year-old Palestinian was killed by Israeli security forces on Sunday in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said. Sundos Jamal Mohammed Shalabi,