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Left: Defense Minister Israel Katz (L) in Jerusalem, May 31, 2026. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90); right: Tal Yinon Dardik (Courtesy)
July 28, 2026, 4:13 pm
Katz orders end to administrative restraining order on detained settler extremist
In separate incidents, IDF said to demolish Palestinian family’s Jordan Valley home despite court order against it, Palestinian-American says troops kicked his family out of home to use as lookout position
By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and Jacob Magid
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a cornerstone-laying ceremony for the new settlement of Doran in the Mount Hebron region of the West Bank, June 16, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
July 22, 2026, 6:49 pm
Smotrich takes steps to make his major settlement policy shift harder to reverse
Minister strengthens powerful Settlements Administration inside Defense Ministry, claims step will entrench expansion he oversaw, though new government would still be able to overturn it
By Jeremy Sharon
An off-duty IDF servicewoman speaks with Israeli security forces after being extracted from the West Bank city of Jericho, July 10, 2026. (Civil Administration)
July 11, 2026, 2:19 pm
Off-duty IDF soldier, two Israeli women extracted from West Bank’s Jericho
Three women brought out in two separate incidents after entering Palestinian Authority-controlled city that is off limits to Israelis
By Emanuel Fabian
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
Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu speaks at a conference on archaeology in the West Bank in Jerusalem on June 17, 2026. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)
June 18, 2026, 10:05 am
West Bank archaeology conference unearths controversy as politics takes center stage
Jerusalem event attracts hundreds, including dozens of scholars, but many in the field stay away and international participation is down; attendee calls event ‘highly politicized’
By Rossella Tercatin
Illustrative: Israeli security forces guard while bulldozers demolish a home in the town of Nahalin, West Bank, May 25, 2026. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
June 14, 2026, 4:11 pm
Israeli authorities demolish buildings in Palestinian hamlet targeted by settlers
Resident tells ToI that four of his buildings in Khallet a-Sidra, a largely abandoned West Bank Bedouin community, were razed; Civil Administration says structures were illegal
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
A Civil Administration excavator uproots a Palestinian olive tree in the northern West Bank, May 7, 2026. (Courtesy)
May 8, 2026, 1:27 am
Smotrich announces uprooting of 3,000 trees planted by Palestinians in northern West Bank
Civil Administration says trees’ removal, latest in a series of such actions, will enable the creation of a new settlement; 3 Palestinians reportedly injured in settler attack
By Jeremy Sharon, Nurit Yohanan, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
A view of the Palestinian hamlet of Umm al-Khair in the West Bank with the Israeli settlement of Carmel visible in the background, August 4, 2025. (AP/ Julia Frankel)
April 27, 2026, 10:32 pm
Residents of Palestinian hamlet to argue for zoning plan, despite dubious chance of success
Civil Administration denying residents of West Bank village access to committee hearing. ‘We are afraid that bulldozers are coming any time’ says resident
By Jeremy Sharon
Illustrative: Israeli security forces near the city of Tulkarem in the West Bank, on September 11, 2025. (Tal Gal/Flash90)
March 18, 2026, 1:26 pm
Cop, IDF troops enter West Bank village under PA control to seize ancient artifact
Police officer was friends with Ze’ev Erlich, who died in 2024 while examining an archaeological site in Lebanon; police were reportedly unaware of operation
By Rossella Tercatin
A settler looks on as Israeli forces dismantled structures in the illegal outpost of Nof HaMishkan, in the northern West Bank, overnight between March 4 and March 5, 2026. (Screen capture: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 5, 2026, 10:39 pm
Israeli forces dismantle West Bank outpost near where 2 Palestinians said shot dead
Civil Administration says Nof HaMishkan structures were built on private Palestinian land, dismantled by order of IDF Central Command after ‘violent incidents’ originating in area
By Noam Lehmann
Palestinians burn electronic waste illegally near Azzoun, in the Qalqilya Governorate, northern West Bank, November 24, 2025. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
December 18, 2025, 6:43 pm
Katz, Smotrich declare West Bank waste fires a security issue, unveil emergency plan
Plan allows for seizure of Palestinian waste trucks, large-scale waste removal, the establishment of a new waste disposal site in the central West Bank; costs to be imposed on PA
By Stav Levaton
Jewish settlers seen at an illegal outpost in the Binyamin area of the central West Bank, December 7, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
December 8, 2025, 7:34 am
Settler activists removed from at least 4 illegal outposts after reported order by PM
Structures said to remain intact at illegal West Bank sites in closed military zones; far-right MK shows up to protest enforcement action, taken amid spike in settler violence
By Jeremy Sharon
Palestinians burn electronic waste illegally near Azzoun, in the Qalqilya Governorate, northern West Bank, November 24, 2025. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
December 4, 2025, 12:45 am
Environment minister requests $41 million to tackle polluting West Bank waste fires
Describing fires as Palestinian ‘terror,’ and calling for ‘environmental sovereignty,’ Idit Silman says Israel will deduct costs from Palestinian taxes
By Sue Surkes
View of the ancient archaeological site of Sebastia, near the West Bank city of Nablus, May 12, 2025. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
November 20, 2025, 4:04 pm
Israel begins seizing 1,800 dunams of West Bank land to develop archaeological site
Civil Administration says development legal, taking place amid ‘neglect’ of site by Palestinians; Peace Now: ‘Government’s lust for dispossession and annexation is insatiable’
By Emanuel Fabian
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at a press conference announcing his plans to approve more than 3,000 housing units in the E1 settlement project between Jerusalem and Ma'ale Adumim on August 14, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
August 20, 2025, 4:58 pm
Smotrich rejoices as settlement plan that ‘erases 2-state delusion’ gets final greenlight
Minister fetes ‘historic’ approval of controversial construction scheme in West Bank’s E1 area, upending a decades-long freeze; PA says move divides West Bank into ‘prisons’
By Jeremy Sharon and Agencies
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