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Israeli settlers, some masked, run along a road to block access for local Palestinians in the West Bank village of Burqa, September 17, 2026, following an attack by settlers who, according to residents, set fire to the area. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Israel adds tender for 2,167 housing units to E1 settlement plan, rights group says
By Agencies, Nurit Yohanan and Emanuel Fabian
Tender to open two days before election; settlers seen setting fire to olive trees; Palestinians in Jordan Valley say work on new security barrier is blocking them from their homes
Sharon Wrobel
Inside story
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Aimed at settlements, UK sanctions could put entire Israeli economy at risk
Sharon Wrobel
Israeli settlers gather to celebrate the inauguration of a newly built synagogue at the West Bank outpost of Homesh, September 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
September 17, 2026, 4:00 am
Court freezes key step in government’s controversial West Bank land registration process
Critics who said process was ‘de facto annexation’ welcome freeze; reservist removed from duty after being spotted confronting Palestinian youth; commandos nab ‘senior’ Islamic Jihad member
By Jeremy Sharon, Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan
Israeli soldiers stop Palestinian farmers from Salem village at a checkpoint before entering through a closed gate onto their land to pick olives, east of Nablus in the West Bank, on November 22, 2025. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH/AFP)
September 14, 2026, 8:36 pm
B’Tselem: Israeli policies ‘eliminating Palestinian collective existence’ in West Bank
Rights group says violence, movement restrictions, economic policies harm social, political life, and ‘ethnic cleansing’ makes life impossible for Palestinians
By Jeremy Sharon
Norway Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide speaks on the sidelines of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay, Metro Manila, July 22, 2026. (Rolex Dela Pena/Pool via AP)
September 14, 2026, 4:50 pm
Norway weighing bill imposing up to 3 years in prison for trade with settlements
Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide says situation in West Bank ‘has become even worse,’ and the world is no longer swayed by accusations from Jerusalem that ‘they were antisemites’
By Nava Freiberg
A Palestinian man is treated by medics after allegedly being beaten by settlers in the central West Bank village of Beitillu, September 13, 2026. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 13, 2026, 6:27 pm
Reports of settler assaults and arson across West Bank on Rosh Hashanah
3 Palestinians reported beaten in separate incidents, as extremists set farmland alight, smash vehicle; foreign TV crew assaulted outside illegal outpost
By ToI Staff and Nurit Yohanan
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert testifies during a hearing of the civil investigative committee on the October 7 massacre, in Tel Aviv, August 8, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
September 10, 2026, 10:44 pm
Signaling support for UK sanctions, Olmert decries ‘ethnic cleansing’ in West Bank
After being quoted by British FM in sanctions announcement, ex-PM denounces extremist settlers as a ‘group of murderous criminal terrorists’ seeking ‘to harm, steal, destroy, burn and kill Palestinians’
By ToI Staff
A man works on a fence at a Palestinian-Bedouin family’s house to try to prevent attacks from Israeli settlers on the outskirts of the West Bank town of Taybeh, September 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
September 10, 2026, 2:44 pm
Progressive UK rabbis say West Bank sanctions necessary to combat settler violence
Welcoming measures, several religious leaders denounce ‘repugnant’ violence as counter to Jewish values, in contrast to UK’s chief rabbi, who called announcement a ‘dark day’
By Michael Horovitz
Finance Minister Bezalel Smortrich, left, and Settlements Minister Orit Strock announce a government plan for dozens of new settlements in the West Bank, July 14, 2026. (Courtesy Religious Zionism)
September 10, 2026, 3:47 am
US lawmakers issue rare bipartisan critique of Israeli policy toward Palestinian Authority
Six House members urge Trump administration to press Israel over its withholding of Palestinian tax revenues, which they warn ‘risks accelerating the West Bank’s fiscal collapse’
By Jacob Magid
A view of the entrance to the British Consulate in East Jerusalem, September 9, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 9, 2026, 10:57 pm
UK official says behavior of next Israeli government could affect scope of West Bank sanctions
Source says ‘undecided’ if Jewish areas in East Jerusalem will be included in trade ban; settler business owners warn sanctions could force closures, harm Palestinian workers
By Nava Freiberg, Reuters and ToI Staff
From left, Qatar’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sultan bin Saad Al Muraikhi, Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar, Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Sugiono and United Arab Emirates’ Foreign Minister Khalifa Shaheen Al Marar pose for a group photo prior their meeting to discuss the ceasefire and next steps for Gaza, in Istanbul, Turkey, November 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
September 9, 2026, 8:53 pm
8 Muslim states, including UAE, call for countries to follow UK in sanctioning settlements
Joint statement also calls to implement Trump’s plan for Gaza and reiterates demand for Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as capital, saying it’s only ‘viable path’ to peace
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Aisha Rabi, a 47-year old Palestinian woman, who was killed after a stone smashed through the windshield of the car she was traveling in with her husband and nine-year-old daughter on October 12, 2018. (Photo by FAMILY HANDOUT / AFP)
September 9, 2026, 8:40 pm
Killer of Palestinian mother of nine Aisha Rabi sentenced to 13 years in prison
‘Defendant cut short the life of a woman before the eyes of her husband and nine-year old daughter,’ court says, orders convicted man to pay NIS 258,000 in compensation
By Jeremy Sharon
In this video grab taken from footage broadcast by the UK Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU) via the Parliament TV website in the House of Commons on September 8, 2026, Britain’s Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband delivers a speech on an import ban of goods from West Bank settlements. (PRU/AFP)
September 9, 2026, 5:14 pm
Failing to act in the West Bank or in the West, Israel brought UK’s sanctions upon itself
Netanyahu’s government could have done more to head off the move announced by the UK’s foreign secretary. Instead it let London go the way of Dublin and Madrid
By Lazar Berman
US President Donald Trump speaks during a Steel Across America event with the Tunnel to Towers Foundation on the Ellipse, September 8, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
September 9, 2026, 11:19 am
Trump, briefed in advance, didn’t ask UK to wait with settlement sanctions — official
Fuming over West Bank trade ban, Israel tells UK to close Jerusalem consulate in 30 days, gives diplomats seven days to leave Gaza coordination center and Ramallah
By Jacob Magid
In this video grab taken from footage broadcast by the UK Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU) via the Parliament TV website in the House of Commons on September 8, 2026, Britain’s Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband delivers a speech on an import ban of goods from West Bank settlements. (PRU/AFP)
September 8, 2026, 9:19 pm
Denouncing ‘ethnic cleansing’ in West Bank, UK announces ban on all dealings with settlements
Sa’ar, responding to ‘outrageous’ move echoed by 11 countries, says Israel won’t bow to ‘jihadists, Islamists, antisemites, far-leftists and wokes,’ shutters UK consulate in Jerusalem
By Nava Freiberg, Jeremy Sharon, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
People attend cornerstone-laying ceremony for a new settlement named Doran in the Mount Hebron region of the West Bank, June 16, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 8, 2026, 2:43 am
Britain set to declare trade ban with West Bank settlements on Tuesday amid E1 dispute
Measures could also target companies involved in settlement construction; Smotrich calls to expel UK ambassador, Ben Gvir urges recognition of Falkland Islands as Argentinian
By ToI Staff
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar speaks during a ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, July 1, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 1, 2026, 10:02 pm
Sa’ar threatens retaliation if UK imposes sanctions on West Bank settlements
Foreign minister says Jerusalem ‘will act,’ London will regret actions after British counterpart reiterates ‘comprehensive measures’ over E1 project to be unveiled soon
By Nava Freiberg and Agencies
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