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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 425

Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The olive harvest outside the Palestinian village of Battir in the West Bank in November 2024. Khaled Muammer (center) oversees the harvest of his olives, November 7, 2024. (Jeremy Sharon/The Times of Israel)
November 25, 2024, 1:05 pm
Tranquil day of olive harvesting belies mounting difficulties for Palestinian growers
Severe restrictions on movement and intense settler violence are curtailing the ability of farmers to cultivate their land and reap a major source of income
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)
November 18, 2024, 10:54 pm
US sanctions key settlement organization Amana for dispossessing Palestinians
Trump expected to reverse move, but it still sends signal to other Western countries that have already followed US in imposing sanctions against Israeli extremists in West Bank
By Jeremy Sharon and Jacob Magid
Yesha Council chairman Israel Ganz celebrates Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election by launching a new Trump wine label at the Psagot West Bank winery, November 6, 2024. (Courtesy: Psagot)
November 6, 2024, 11:35 pm
Two settlement leaders, Ben Gvir call to annex West Bank after Trump victory
Yesha Council head, Beit El mayor say now is the time to apply Israeli sovereignty to disputed territory, expand settlements, push to end Biden’s sanctions on extremist settlers
By Jeremy Sharon
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, left, and Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez arrive for a joint statement at the Moncloa palace in Madrid, Spain, September 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul White)
October 16, 2024, 1:37 am
In long-shot wartime proposal, Spain and PA push for reprise of 1991 Madrid peace summit
Pledging to meet by end of year, both players seek relevance as the Gaza conflict rages on; but experts say that with neither Israeli nor US participation, prospects are poor
By Batya Levinthal
Settlers allegedly carrying off stolen olives from Palestinian-owned olive trees from the land of the West Bank village of Bayt Lid close to the Einav settlement, October 2024. (Screenshot, courtesy Yesh Din)
October 14, 2024, 10:27 pm
Multiple attacks on Palestinian olive growers reported as harvest season begins
NGO says harvesters facing violent assaults, theft of their crops in last two weeks, including incidents in which security forces failed to intervene
By Jeremy Sharon
Author Michael Horowitz's new book is 'Hope and Despair.' (Courtesy)
October 11, 2024, 4:43 pm
A Middle East expert envisioned two paths for Israel. Then October 7 happened
French-Israeli geopolitical scholar Michael Horowitz had nearly finished his book, ‘Hope and Despair,’ when Hamas massacred 1,200 people in Israel. He’s still cautiously optimistic
By Rich Tenorio
Layla Alsheikh, left, Yonatan Zeigen, second left, Robi Damelin, second right and Arab Aramin outside The Africa Center on September 18, 2024. (Cathryn J. Prince/ Times of Israel)
September 29, 2024, 5:00 am
On US tour, Israelis and Palestinians united by violence hold fast to hopes for peace
With conflict seeming more inexorable than ever, victims from both sides tell US audiences understanding and willpower can keep future generations from paying the price they’ve borne
By Cathryn J. Prince
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
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
Settlers attack a school in the Palestinian village of Mu'arrajat East in the Jordan Valley of the West Bank on September 16, 2024. (Sceen capture/X)
September 16, 2024, 8:56 pm
Settlers assault Palestinian villagers and Israeli activists in Jordan Valley
Israeli human rights activists say 9 people were injured in an incident that followed an earlier attack on a settler shepherd; two Palestinians arrested, no Israelis detained
By Jeremy Sharon
Residents of the Palestinian village of Khirbet Zanuta tend to their sheep with their homes in the background, following their return to the dwelling after they fled settler violence last year, August 21, 2024. (Hamdan Ballal / Haqel)
September 9, 2024, 2:02 pm
Israel warns Palestinian village will be demolished if residents refuse to relocate
State revives 2007 demolition orders against Khirbet Zanuta, after High Court ruling last month allowed Palestinian residents who fled settler violence to return
By Jeremy Sharon
Participants in the annual summit of regional cooperation NGO ROPES during a tour of Baku, Azerbaijan, August 2024 (Ben Birnbaum, courtesy)
September 6, 2024, 8:07 pm
In Baku, emerging Israeli and Arab leaders prepare for a post-conflict Middle East
Amid war, ROPES summit gathers people from across the region to discuss Israel’s integration, but some insist that without tackling the Palestinian issue, true peace remains elusive
By Gianluca Pacchiani
The home of the Palestinian Awawdeh family south-east of the town of Deir Dibwan in the central West Bank. The Awawdeh family faced harassment and violence after an illegal farming outpost was established in June 2024 by settlers just a few hundred meters away. (Courtesy)
September 5, 2024, 3:18 am
Court orders sanctioned settler to stop vandalizing Palestinian family’s property
Awawdeh family says it suffered violence and repeated harassment since Hanina’s Farm outpost was set up in June; settlers seized livestock pen for own use, then dismantled it
By Jeremy Sharon
Adam Kirsch, an editor at the Wall Street Journal’s Weekend Review section, is the author of 'On Settler Colonialism.' (W.W. Norton & Company/ via JTA)
September 1, 2024, 1:42 am
A literary critic on why the ‘settler colonial’ framing is bad for Israel and Palestine
Struck by the number of activists and thinkers who cheered the Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities, Adam Kirsch has written a book on the misguided idealism that’s fostered Jew-hatred
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Jewish worshipers prostrate themselves on the Temple Mount during a prayer service at the holy site, August 28, 2024. (Jeremy Sharon/Times of Israel)
August 29, 2024, 8:04 pm
Open Jewish prayer, prostration on Temple Mount now ‘routine,’ activists say
In recent weeks police are no longer preventing or penalizing acts at holy site as Ben Gvir pushes practice, and are allowing them on a daily basis
By Jeremy Sharon
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