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An Israeli settler attacks a journalist during the olive-picking season in the village of Beita, south of Nablus in the West Bank, November 8, 2025. (Nasser Ishtayeh/ Flash90)
November 8, 2025, 9:56 pm
15 hurt in W. Bank settler attacks, including Palestinian farmer recently interviewed by ToI
Palestinian medic, school principal and IDF reservist aiding farmers also said hurt; incidents come amid major wave of violence against olive harvesters
By Nurit Yohanan, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Leila Stillman-Utterback gathers olives during a harvest in the West Bank in the fall of 2025. (Courtesy Stillman-Utterback)
November 7, 2025, 4:57 pm
Banned from Israel for 10 years, US Jewish peace activist feels ‘sense of betrayal’
Leila Stillman-Utterback, 18, says her deportation for entering closed military zone to help Palestinians facing settler violence sends message that, for Israeli authorites, she’s not ‘right kind of Jew’
By Steven Davidson
View of an illegal Jewish outpost in Wadi Ajheish near the Palestinian village of Samou in the West Bank, November 1, 2025. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
November 1, 2025, 10:56 pm
Palestinian property torched, olive harvesters assaulted in separate settler attacks
Assaults near villages of Far’ata, Jaba and Burin come amid surge in West Bank settler violence during olive harvest season, with near-daily reports of attacks on residents
By ToI Staff and Nurit Yohanan
Bashar Eid, a Palestinian olive farmer and resident of the West Bank village of Burin, stands amid his olive trees next to his home with the illegal settlement outpost of Givat Ronen in the background. Olive groves belonging to Eid went up in flames on September 11. Eid and other villagers allege Israeli extremists who came from the nearby settlement of Yitzhar set the olive groves on fire, September 12, 2024. (Jeremy Sharon/Times of Israel)
September 21, 2024, 2:06 pm
Smoke point: A Palestinian olive farmer despairs after hundreds of trees set ablaze
After over a year of access to his lands blocked, this year’s coming harvest offered hope, now shattered; though video of apparent arsonists exists, authorities not investigating
By Jeremy Sharon
The scene of a vehicle-ramming attack near the West Bank settlement of Givat Assaf on September 11, 2024. Inset: Staff Sgt. Geri Gideon Hanghal, who was killed in the attack. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90; Israel Defense Forces)
September 11, 2024, 1:42 pm
IDF soldier killed as Palestinian tanker rams West Bank bus stop
Footage shows truck careening full speed into guard post near recently legalized Givat Assaf settlement; 7 Palestinians said killed in separate airstrikes on Tubas and Tulkarem
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
This handout image from the IDF shows the knife used in a stabbing attack at Yitzhar Junction in the West Bank on March 5, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
March 5, 2024, 5:53 pm
Soldier seriously hurt in West Bank stabbing attack; assailant shot dead
Troops kill teenage stabber at Yitzhar Junction; overnight, soldiers nab prominent terror operative planning ‘imminent’ attack; IDF probing death of Palestinian boy
By Emanuel Fabian
Settlers from Yitzhar walk away from a fire started on fields belonging to the Palestinian village of Burin on July 29, 2023. (Screen capture/Yesh Din)
July 29, 2023, 6:51 pm
Settlers from flashpoint West Bank settlement said to torch Palestinian field
COGAT changes enforcement policy against illegally dug Palestinians wells, after Israel panned over video showing one serving hamlets not connected to grid being filled with cement
By ToI Staff
Masked settlers hurl stones at Palestinian homes in the northern West Bank village of Burin, March 3, 2023. (Yesh Din)
March 3, 2023, 8:37 pm
Settlers seen hurling stones, damaging trees in northern West Bank village
Footage published by Yesh Din shows soldiers standing by amid latest incident of violence, hours after troops clashed with activists in Huwara
By Emanuel Fabian
Israeli settlers hurl stones and set fire to cars in the village of Burin, in the northern West Bank on February 25, 2023. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
February 25, 2023, 5:49 pm
Palestinians say settlers hurled stones, torched cars in northern West Bank town
IDF says troops break up ‘friction’ in Burin, near Nablus; no arrests immediately made; one Palestinian reportedly hurt
By Emanuel Fabian
A firefighter douses the flames in an Israeli car after it was allegedly set on fire by Jewish extremists in the West Bank near the outpost of Givat Ronen on January 21, 2022. (Courtesy: Yesh Din)
February 7, 2022, 11:13 am
Police detain 3 suspects over Jewish extremist attack in West Bank
1 suspect arrested, 2 others held over recent violent incident, reportedly attack on left-wing Israeli activists; rights group: ‘Clear deterrence needed toward Jewish terrorists’
By ToI Staff
Hundreds of left-wing Israeli activists arrive to help Palestinians plant trees near the village of Burin in the West Bank, February 4, 2022. (Hamutal Sadot, Rabbis for Human Rights/Courtesy)
February 4, 2022, 3:50 pm
400 Israeli activists plant olive trees near Palestinian West Bank village
Planting event in Burin comes 2 weeks after settler attack against activists; army keeps Jewish extremists away; Palestinian cars, homes vandalized near Nablus in separate incident
By Emanuel Fabian
A firefighter douses the flames in an Israeli car after it was allegedly set on fire by Jewish extremists in the West Bank near the outpost of Givat Ronen on January 21, 2022. (Courtesy: Yesh Din)
January 22, 2022, 1:38 am
Coalition members condemn latest settler attack, with some calling to raze outposts
Criticism of masked attackers mostly comes from left-wing, centrist lawmakers, but Yamina minister also slams assault on activists, Palestinians: ‘This behavior must be rooted out’
By ToI Staff
An Israeli activist, bloodied from a beating allegedly by Jewish extremists in the West Bank near the outpost of Givat Ronen, on January 21, 2022. (Courtesy: Yesh Din)
January 21, 2022, 2:27 pm
Masked settler extremists assault Palestinians and left-wing activists in West Bank
Group descending from illegal outpost hurls stones, beats people planting trees, sets car alight; multiple people wounded, no arrests; settler leaders say they’re ‘horrified’
By Aaron Boxerman
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
An Israeli soldier stands by as Israeli settlers enter a Palestinian playground in Susiya, a Palestinian hamlet in the West Bank, on Saturday, November 6, 2021 (Credit: Guy Butuvia)
November 7, 2021, 12:23 am
Settlers filmed throwing stones at Palestinian house, as IDF soldiers stand by
2 Palestinians said injured; in separate incident, settlers enter Palestinian playground in West Bank hamlet of Susiya before being expelled by Israeli forces
By Aaron Boxerman
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