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An Israeli settler records as security forces clash with Palestinians during a protest in Khirbet Humsa, west of Hebron in the West Bank, June 9, 2026. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
June 13, 2026, 6:29 pm
Settler shoots Palestinian in West Bank; reports say victim was mentally disabled
Man with reported intellectual disability wounded after allegedly threatening settler with rock, Palestinian mayor claims Israeli forces withheld medical treatment for over an hour
By ToI Staff
Bedouin families near Jericho in the West Bank dismantle their homes as they prepare to leave the area due to rising attacks by Israeli settlers, on January 16, 2026. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)
June 10, 2026, 3:14 pm
Amnesty accuses Israel of ‘state-led’ ethnic cleansing in West Bank; IDF rejects charge
Rights group claims routine violence against Bedouin and Palestinian herding communities isn’t perpetrated by ‘bad apples,’ but is ‘a core component of a state-sanctioned campaign’
By Jeremy Sharon, ToI Staff and AFP
A home damaged by a missile fragment in Tel Arad, March 24, 2026 (Jihad Amor)
March 24, 2026, 7:03 pm
3 injured as fragments of Iranian missile fall in unrecognized Bedouin village
Soroka Hospital doctor said seriously wounded, his wife and 2-month-old baby lightly hurt; most community members lack bomb shelters
By Emanuel Fabian and Ariela Karmel
Palestinian residents of Ras Ein al-Auja village in the West Bank pack up their belongings and prepare to leave their homes after deciding to flee mounting settler violence, January 11, 2026. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)
January 11, 2026, 7:40 pm
Fleeing settler violence, Palestinians leave one of few remaining Jordan Valley hamlets
Dozens of families from the Bedouin town of Ras Ein el-Auja have already left their homes, and the remaining residents are desperate. ‘Where will we go? There’s nowhere.’
By Julia Frankel
Palestinian residents of Maghar al-Deir pack up belongings as they flee the West Bank village on May 22, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
May 29, 2025, 8:29 am
In the West Bank, settler harassment swiftly uproots a Bedouin hamlet
Entire community of Maghar al-Deir flees within days after Israelis set up shepherding outpost 100 meters from homes and begin intimidating residents, amid ongoing campaign
By Nurit Yohanan
Illustrative: Israeli security forces demolish buildings in Khalet Al-Dab, in the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron, in the West Bank, May 5, 2025. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
May 6, 2025, 12:46 am
Military demolishes most of West Bank Bedouin hamlet, displacing dozens
COGAT says buildings were illegally built in closed firing zone; Palestinian ‘No Other Land’ director accuses Israel of ‘erasing village to create more and more illegal settlements’
By AP and ToI Staff
Israeli security forces at the scene of a terror attack in the Beersheba central bus station, October 6, 2024, in which Sgt. Shira Suslik (inset) was killed. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90; Israel Police)
October 6, 2024, 5:30 pm
Border cop killed, 10 wounded in terror shooting attack at Beersheba central bus station
Female officer, 19, shot dead by terrorist who opened fire at people at a McDonald’s; gunman was Israeli citizen and relative of perpetrator of 2015 attack inside same bus station
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Relatives and friends of rescued hostage Farhan al-Qadi welcome him as he returns to the southern village of Khirbet Karkour, near the Bedouin city of Rahat, August 28, 2024. (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP)
August 30, 2024, 1:52 pm
Land Authority says it won’t serve demolition notice for rescued hostage’s home
Some 70% of residents in Farhan al-Qadi’s village of Khirbet Karkour have received notices amid action against the unrecognized communities where about a third of Bedouins live
By AP and ToI Staff
Police accompany Real Estate Enforcement Division tractors as they bulldoze the Wadi al-Khalil neighborhood in the southern Bedouin village of Umm Batin, May 8, 2024. (Israel Police)
May 9, 2024, 10:27 am
Authorities level 47 illegal homes in Bedouin village, leaving hundreds homeless
Government yet to start construction on alternative housing, and residents object to moving to new neighborhood due to threats from rival families
By Michael Horovitz
Mohamad Hassouna, who resides in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Al-Fura, stands in a building near where his 7-year-old daughter Amina was injured by an Iranian missile shard in the southern Negev desert on April 14, 2024. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
May 2, 2024, 10:30 pm
Demolition order issued for home of Bedouin girl hurt in Iran attack, later scrapped
News outlet reveals measure targeting home of seriously injured 7-year-old Amina Hassouna of Al-Fura, sparking backlash on social media and reported rescinding of order
By ToI Staff
Families of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza have formed a tent city outside Tel Aviv's Hakirya Base, December 18, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
December 19, 2023, 1:41 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 19: Day 74 – Hostage families split as new release deal may loom
Reporter Canaan Lidor on emergence of 2 camps of hostage relatives, rehoming of internally displaced; Arab affairs reporter Gianluca Pacchiani on freed prisoners returning to school
By ToI Staff
Mai Zuhair Abu Sabeeh (left) and Faizah Abu Sabeeh (Courtesy)
November 1, 2023, 5:19 pm
Mai Zuhair, 13 & Faizah Abu Sabeeh, 57: Bedouin matriarch, grandchild
Killed by a rocket impact in Kukhleh, where there are no bomb shelters or reinforced rooms, on October 7
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Police at the scene where five family members were shot to death in the Northern Israeli Bedouin town of Basmat Tab’un, September 27, 2023. (Shir Torem/Flash90)
September 30, 2023, 9:24 pm
Arab man shot and killed in north, community’s 11th murder this week
Rambam Medical Center declares man in his 40s dead, raising yearly tally to 191
By ToI Staff
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
Shas leader Aryeh Deri during a Shas party meeting at the Knesset on January 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 25, 2023, 1:36 pm
Daily Briefing Jan. 25: ‘He said, she said’ in Shas leader’s legal brouhaha
Legal affairs correspondent Jeremy Sharon on the Deri ruling and illegal settlements, Diaspora and religion writer Judah Ari Gross on left-wing religious Israelis and ulpan
By ToI Staff
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