The Israeli military has opened an internal investigation into a soldier accused of fabricating the kidnapping of a Palestinian detainee in an attempt to extort money from the man’s family in the occupied West Bank.

UNRWA has warned that the occupied West Bank is facing its most severe humanitarian crisis since 1967, citing extensive displacement and destruction in refugee camps amid ongoing Israeli military operations.

Israeli troops have shot dead a middle-aged Palestinian man during an incursion into the central part of the occupied West Bank.

Far-right Israeli security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir authorizes residents of 18 additional illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank to obtain personal gun permits.

It has been one year since Israel's 'Iron Walls' military operation in Palestine began.

An Arab human rights group has urged the UK government to impose targeted sanctions on Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel over Gaza genocide.

Here are Press TV's latest top stories at 09:00 GMT, on January 20, 2026.