Tactics in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine are often evolving to incorporate new types of protest. For some years now activists around the world have been urging a boycott of Israeli and foreign companies (and any of their products) which profit from the occupation of the West Bank. But recently - as the UN considers a bid for full membership against stiff Israeli and US opposition - the movement, known as Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS, has begun to gather pace.

Jewish settler Wednesday ran over a Palestinian man from Frush Beit Dajan, a village east of Nablus in the northern West Bank, said local sources.

Israeli police, accompanying an extremist Jewish group, Monday arrested four Palestinian worshippers for protesting against the entrance of the extremists to Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

WASHINGTON, September 28, 2011 (WAFA) - The US is “surprised and deeply disappointed” in the Israeli government's decision to build 1100 new settlement units in East Jerusalem, said US Department of State spokesperson Victoria Nuland on Tuesday.