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A Palestinian stands next to a fire after brush was set ablaze on the roadside to prevent an Israeli settler attack in the West Bank village of Sinjil, July 17, 2026. (AP/Leo Correa)
July 30, 2026, 8:53 pm
Deadly West Bank gunfight underscores peril as Palestinians organize against settler attacks
With friction points moving inside Palestinian cities as settlers carry out violent raids in Areas A and B, residents are getting together to confront assailants, raising fears of armed clashes
By Jeremy Sharon, Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan
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)
July 14, 2026, 11:13 pm
Government says $431 million allocated last month for 34 new West Bank settlements
Ministers Smotrich and Strock declare a ‘day of celebration’ for plan that is ‘killing’ possibility of Palestinian state
By Jeremy Sharon
A shepherd from the Palestinian herding community of Khallet Makhul in the northern Jordan Valley is detained by soldiers, February 19, 2025. (Courtesy Association of Civil Rights in Israel)
July 9, 2026, 9:17 pm
High Court petition demands protection for West Bank Palestinian herding communities
Petition from 7 northern Jordan Valley villages says extremist settler violence, inability to access water, pasture leaves them on verge of displacement, amounts to ethnic cleansing
By Jeremy Sharon
Chairman of the “Together” party and former prime minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv, June 15, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
June 23, 2026, 12:17 pm
Bennett calls to dismantle illegal settlement outposts, draws right-wing leaders’ ire
Head of Together party stresses he’s ‘in favor of legal settlement in Area C,’ but not on Palestinians’ private land or areas A and B, which are to be part of ‘Palestinian autonomy’
By ToI Staff
Jewish men build temporary housing units made from shipping containers in the Chavat Meir La’Aretz outpost in the West Bank, March 12, 2026. (Dor Pazuelo/Flash90)
June 11, 2026, 3:29 pm
Cabinet set to approve funding for establishing 61 West Bank settlements — reports
Move will allow government to bypass standard settlement planning process, fast-tracking construction in dozens of new communities in ‘strategically sensitive’ areas
By ToI Staff and Reuters
This aerial view shows a guesthouse built in the shape of an airplane in the Palestinian town of Qaffin, in the northwestern part of the West Bank, on July 2, 2025. (John WESSELS / AFP)
July 20, 2025, 11:45 am
Palestinian builds plane-shaped guesthouse in West Bank’s Area C
Minwer Harsha, 27, says his recently opened concrete hotel in Qaffin, within sight of Israel’s security barrier, brings joy to local kids
By AFP and ToI Staff
Settlers filmed torching property on the outskirts of the West Bank Palestinian village Deir Dibwan on May 31, 2025. (Screenshot/X)
June 1, 2025, 10:45 am
Several said injured in latest raid by extremist settlers on Palestinian village
Attackers reportedly torch property and throw stones at residents on outskirts of Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah; none arrested
By ToI Staff
Debris from the ruined homes of Bedouins in the Ein Samia community east of Ramallah, May 2023. (Oren Ziv/+972 Magazine).
April 25, 2025, 1:51 pm
‘No future here’: Bedouin hamlets are erased as residents flee settler harassment
Over 1,000 residents of herding communities in West Bank have been displaced in 2 years; they say they face campaign of theft and violence that authorities either ignore or abet
By Nurit Yohanan
Demolished buildings in the Palestinian village of Khirbet Zanuta, December 4, 2023. (Courtesy Southern Mount Hebron Activists group)
January 7, 2025, 6:35 am
‘Nothing has been done’: High Court judges said to pan police over settler attacks
Residents of a southern West Bank village have accused security services of ignoring court’s order to facilitate their return to their homes, following repeated harassment
By Jeremy Sharon
An Israeli, allegedly from the illegal settlement outpost of Meitarim Farm, peers into the home of Palestinians in the West Bank village of Khirbet Zanuta, August 31, 2024. (Courtesy Haqel)
September 24, 2024, 2:11 pm
Displaced Palestinians say IDF, police in contempt of court order to allow them back home
Khirbet Zanuta villagers tell High Court authorities failing to fulfill its ruling to facilitate their return home; legal scholars warn continued displacement may be war crime
By Jeremy Sharon
A demolished school in the abandoned Palestinian village of Zanuta. The school was funded in part by the EU, as well as other foreign governments. The demolition of the school comes following threats by local extremists settlers against former residents of the village not to return, December 4, 2023. (Courtesy Southern Mount Hebron Activists group)
December 4, 2023, 8:50 pm
Homes and EU-funded school in West Bank village wrecked after threats by settlers
Leveling of structures in Khirbet Zanuta comes after extremists allegedly harassed residents, causing them to leave
By Jeremy Sharon
An Israeli soldier mans a checkpoint at the closed-off southern entrance to the southern West Bank city of Hebron, on August 22, 2023, a day after a deadly terror shooting in the area. (Hazem Bader/AFP)
October 3, 2023, 5:57 pm
3 European FMs barred by Israel from visiting Palestinian towns in Area C
Foreign Ministry says decision to deny access to parts of West Bank made ‘after consulting with security officials,’ but defense bodies say they made no such recommendation
By Lazar Berman
A young settler from the Malakhei HaShalom (Angels of Peace) outpost brings his flock onto land near the Bedouin village of Ein Rashash. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)
September 14, 2023, 8:51 am
In West Bank Area C village, Bedouin locals fear settler violence will push them out
Residents of Ein Rashash say that their hamlet, like many others in Jordan Valley, is on its last legs due to harassment from a nearby outpost, soon to be legalized
By Charlie Summers
FILE: (From L-R) Amona leader Avichay Buaron, Binyamin Regional Council chairman Yisrael Gantz, Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich and Samaria Regional Council chairman Yossi Dagan stand in front of a new caravan that was installed on the hilltop where the illegal Amona outpost once stood on December 14, 2018. (Campaign to save Amona)
August 18, 2023, 11:04 pm
Smotrich reportedly advancing plan to legalize 155 wildcat outposts in West Bank
Far-right minister starting with legalization of 15 illegal communities; official laments that government helpless to stop it because Smotrich controls both relevant offices
By ToI Staff
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a discussion about the state budget, during a Finance Committee meeting at the Knesset, July 3, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 20, 2023, 1:16 pm
Smotrich said pushing for demolishing Palestinian construction in W. Bank areas A, B
Finance minister says Netanyahu backs move, which marks a sharp shift in Israeli policy and a violation of Oslo Accords
By ToI Staff
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