A teenage boy was among at least four Palestinians killed in clashes between Israeli troops and militants in the occupied West Bank on Monday. Fighting erupted when the army raided the city of Jenin to carry out arrests. Photo: Jaafar Ashtiyeh/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images TEL AVIV–Israeli military helicopters fired in the direction of Palestinian militants engaged in a fierce gunbattle with Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank early Monday, fighting in which at least four...

TEL AVIV—A U.S.-Israeli dual national was killed Monday in what Israeli authorities said was a terrorist attack by Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank, the latest incident in an extended wave of deadly violence. Israel’s military said that Palestinian gunmen arrived in a vehicle at a junction near the city of Jericho, fired at an Israeli vehicle and fatally injured the victim, whose name hasn’t been released. They then drove on and fired at two more Israeli vehicles without injuring anyone...

JENIN, West Bank—A recent spiral of violence between Israel and the Palestinians is worsening after two gun attacks in Jerusalem and a wave of Israeli raids in the West Bank. The deteriorating situation has raised concern among world leaders and poses the first major security test for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s new right-wing and religiously conservative government, which came to power last year amid an aggressive military campaign to weed out militants in the occupied West...

JERUSALEM—Israel’s new finance minister, the leader of the country’s far-right Religious Zionism party and an advocate of outright annexation of at least parts of the West Bank, said he plans to spend billions of dollars building infrastructure and investing in Jewish settlements in the territory. “We will lead the development, formalization and strengthening of our grip in these areas of our homeland, Judea and Samaria,” said Bezalel Smotrich as the new government was sworn in last week,...