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Screenshots of apparent extremist settler activists harassing Palestinian residents of dwellings in the Duma area of the West Bank, March 5, 2026. (Courtesy Torat Tzedek)
March 5, 2026, 7:35 pm
Extremist settlers driving Palestinians away from Duma area, locals and activists say
Two compounds in Bedouin dwellings in northern West Bank area abandoned due to settler violence and harassment, according to Israeli human rights advocates
By Jeremy Sharon
Settlers torch homes and cars during an assault on the Bedouin encampment of Khallet al-Sidra, near Mukhmas in the West Bank, January 17, 2026. (Screenshot)
January 18, 2026, 10:55 am
Settlers beat Palestinians and activists, set fire to homes in West Bank Bedouin camp
2 Palestinians, 2 foreign activists hospitalized after attack on Khallet al-Sidra, says PA; CCTV footage appears to feature sounds of gunfire
By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
Settlers attack a Palestinian shepherd's flock in the West Bank, December 23, 2025. (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 23, 2025, 11:11 am
5 settlers arrested for allegedly attacking Palestinian shepherd, killing his sheep
Elsewhere in the West Bank, Muslim ‘outlaws’ said to torch Christmas tree; 5 hurt in clash between settlers and Palestinians; settlers filmed assailing Palestinians, left-wing Israelis
By Charlie Summers, Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
US-born Israeli Reform rabbi Arik Ascherman helps Palestinians during the olive harvest at a grove outside Ramallah in the West Bank on November 9, 2023. (Photo by Aris MESSINIS / AFP)
February 8, 2024, 6:04 am
American-Israeli rabbi-activist indicted for obstructing troops in West Bank
Authorities say Arik Ascherman blocked and pushed two IDF soldiers in October but he denies wrongdoing, says he was helping Palestinian shepherd whom troops weren’t letting pass
By Eliyahu Freedman
Israelis descend a hillside during an alleged assault on Palestinians and left-wing Israeli activists near the Bat Ayin outpost in the West Bank, on November 12, 2021 (Credit: Shai Kendler)
December 15, 2021, 5:42 am
Settler attacks on Palestinians are on the rise, but justice remains elusive
Violent assaults against Palestinians in the West Bank went up by nearly 50 percent over the past year, but arrests and indictments remain scant in all but the most extreme cases
By Aaron Boxerman
Illustrative: Israeli soldiers stand by as masked Israeli settlers throw stones at Palestinian protesters (unseen) gathering during a demonstration against construction on an Israeli outpost near the Palestinian village of Turmusaya and the settlement of Shilo, north of Ramallah in the West Bank, on October 17, 2019. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/ AFP/ File)
November 14, 2021, 3:14 pm
B’Tselem accuses Israel of using settler violence as ‘tool’ to oust Palestinians
Charting alleged Israeli takeover of 11 square miles of West Bank land in 5 years, leftist rights group says IDF soldiers ignore, ‘even participate’ in attacks by Jewish extremists
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Left-wing activist Rabbi Arik Ascherman after an alleged attack by Israeli settlers near the West Bank settlement of Bat Ayin on Friday, November 12, 2021 (credit: Shai Kendler)
November 12, 2021, 7:13 pm
Settlers assault Palestinians, Israeli activists in West Bank; several hurt
Police, witnesses say masked, club-wielding settlers attacked during olive harvest; 3 settlers arrested
By Aaron Boxerman
A settler beats Arik Ascherman with a wooden bat on April 7, 2021 in the West Bank, near Ma'ale Ahuvia. (Screenshot: Gil Hammerschlag/ Twitter)
April 8, 2021, 12:47 pm
Rights activist rabbi beaten in settler attack near illegal West Bank outpost
Masked man assaults Arik Ascherman while another takes his phone in area around Ma’aleh Ahuvia, evacuated by Israeli security forces the day before; police open probe into incident
By Nurit Chinn and ToI Staff
An Israeli settler assaults rabbi-activist Arik Ascherman who was accompanying a group of Palestinian farmers to their fields near Nablus on October 23, 2015. (Screen capture/ YouTube)
December 18, 2017, 12:24 am
Community service for settler teen who attacked activist rabbi at knifepoint
Judge ignores State Attorney’s call for 6-month prison term for beating of Rabbis for Human Rights head Arik Ascherman, who asked that his assaulter not be jailed
By Jacob Magid
Clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinian protesters on February 6, 2016, after the IDF blocked off the entrance to Qabatiya outside Jenin, following a terror attack in Jerusalem that left one Border Police officer dead and two injured. (Haytham Shtayeh/Flash90)
October 4, 2016, 9:58 am
While Hebron gets the press, Jenin and Tulkarem are the sleeping giants Israel should be worried about
Maj. Hanan Shwartz of the Menashe Brigade discusses Palestinian security cooperation, olive harvests and the round-the-clock effort to keep two West Bank cities calm
By Judah Ari Gross
A window to a home in the West Bank village of Duma said to have been torched, March 20, 2016. (Facebook)
March 20, 2016, 4:50 am
Home of Duma trial witness torched in West Bank village
Ibrahim Dawabsha, who is unhurt in incident, was first at the scene of alleged Jewish terror attack last year that killed three Palestinians
By Dov Lieber
Rabbi Arik Ascherman at Susya, July 19, 2015. (Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)
November 14, 2015, 5:12 pm
West Bank settler, 17, charged with assaulting left-wing rabbi
Video shows Jew chasing and beating Arik Ascherman as he helped protect a Palestinian olive harvest
By JTA and ToI Staff
Rabbi Arik Ascherman at Susya, July 19, 2015. (Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)
November 8, 2015, 6:28 pm
West Bank settler arrested in attack on left-wing rabbi
Video shows Jew chasing and beating Arik Ascherman as he helped protect a Palestinian olive harvest
By ToI Staff
In this Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015 photo, Israeli activist Rabbi Arik Ascherman, center, rests in a Palestinian olive grove during the harvest, in the village of Burin near the West Bank city of Nablus. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
November 5, 2015, 11:13 am
Attack on rabbi seen as sign of unchecked Jewish extremist violence
Footage of assault on Rabbi Arik Ascherman raises fears over lax enforcement against radical settler attacks
By Tia Goldenberg
A masked right-wing extremist is seen attacking Arik Ascherman, head of Rabbis for Human Rights (YouTube screen grab)
October 23, 2015, 7:24 pm
WATCH: Jewish extremist attacks Israeli activist with knife
Masked Israeli assaults the head of Rabbis for Human Rights in West Bank confrontation during Palestinian olive harvest
By Itamar Sharon
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