An Israeli man was in critical condition and another moderately injured in a shooting attack in the West Bank Friday afternoon.

“Every day that the U.S. allows the continuation of the occupation, it is inadvertently compromising Israel’s national security, even though the U.S. is committed to safeguard that very thing,” writes Alon Ben-Meir. “Israel is digging itself deeper while the U.S. remains its protector and the prospect for a two-state solution becomes dimmer, threatening Israel’s very existence as a Jewish and democratic state.”

“The former ambassador didn’t shy from pouring fuel on the fire that is the U.S.-Israeli relations crisis, and we can expect even more when his book is launched next week in Washington,” writes Barak Ravid.

“The job of a diplomat — or of a politician, which is Oren’s role today — are both quite different from that of an historian,” writes Larry Cohler-Esses. “In relying on Oren’s good faith in rendering these eyewitness accounts, are readers relying on Oren the historian or Oren the diplomat?”

“At this highly sensitive diplomatic period, when Israel needs US support in the international arena, former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren saw fit to promote his new book by lashing out at President Barack Obama,” writes Akiva Eldar.

Israeli soldiers ambushed three Palestinian teenagers with live ammunition, killing one, despite the fact that they posed no immediate threat. Neither the soldiers nor their commanders will face any charges.

Israeli soldiers push, throw stun grenades and point their guns at Palestinian journalists reporting on clashes in Jalazone refugee camp.

Israel has accused a senior U.N. official of misconduct in preparing a report that harshly criticized the Israeli army over the 2014 Gaza war. According to an Israeli official, the report disproportionately focused on Israel, even though Iraq, where Islamic State militants control significant territory, had the highest number of child casualties. The report includes 32 paragraphs on Israel, compared with eight on Iraq, 15 on Afghanistan, 18 on Syria and 11 on Darfur.

“There are two sides to the IDF’s conduct during the Gaza war, but only Breaking the Silence’s soldiers are revealing the dark one,” writes Anshel Pfeffer.

Israeli police detained and released 16 young Jewish settlers Thursday after an overnight arson attack damaged a revered shrine in northern Israel.

“The US and the rest of the world should know that it is not the BDS but the occupation which is ‘damaging the cause of peace, justice, equality, democracy and human rights’ in the West Bank,” writes J. Zel Lurie.

The Palestinians will next week submit their first file to the International Criminal Court in their bid to open criminal proceedings against Israel, an official said on Thursday.

The Palestine ’48 TV channel started broadcasting Thursday from Nazareth, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed the Communications Ministry to examine the channel’s legality and see if possible criminal and bureaucratic measures can prevent it from airing.

The PLO’s chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, on Thursday issued a 56-page report on Palestinian-Israeli relations, calling for a comprehensive review of the current status quo.