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A Civil Administration soldier and Border Police officers evacuate the illegal West Bank outpost of Or Meir, May 1, 2024. (Courtesy of settler activists)
December 24, 2025, 2:02 pm
How extremist settlers coordinate organized violence to expel Palestinians
Settlers from West Bank outpost Or Meir publicize and celebrate ousting of Bedouin residents in West Bank; Musabah family describes losing everything after property torched in June
By Pesha Magid
Chairman of the Knesset Aliyah, Absorption, and Diaspora Committee MK Gilad Kariv holds a hearing, December 2, 2025. (Noam Moskowitz, Knesset Spokesperson's Office)
December 9, 2025, 12:50 am
Lawmaker raises alarm over deportations of US Jews who help West Bank harvest
Chair of Knesset Diaspora Affairs Committee blasts police minister for ‘illegally’ boycotting hearing, alleges ‘selective enforcement’ of closed military zones in West Bank
By Jeremy Sharon
A Jewish extremist assaults Palestinian olive pickers and civil rights activists close to the West Bank town of Turmus Ayya, October 19, 2025. (Courtesy Jasper Nathaniel)
November 27, 2025, 4:17 pm
Settler charged with terrorism for beating Palestinian woman unconscious with club
Ariel Dahari indicted for committing two terror-related assaults and damaging a vehicle with racist motive in incidents caught on camera during a West Bank olive harvest
By Charlie Summers
Activists from the Peace Now movement hold a sign reading, 'Stop Jewish terrorism,' at a checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ariel after police stopped buses that were on their way to a mass olive harvest in support of Palestinians facing attacks by extremist settlers, November 14, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
November 14, 2025, 1:09 pm
Amid settler attacks, police block left-wing activists from West Bank olive harvest
After area around the Palestinian village of Burin declared a closed military zone, hundreds of activists stage impromptu protest in the road against unchecked settler violence
By Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff
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 10, 2025, 8:23 pm
Foreign Press Association demands action from Israel over settler attacks on journalists
Criticism comes after Reuters employees assaulted near West Bank village of Beita last week while covering Palestinian olive harvest
By AFP and ToI Staff
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
Musaab Toufan at his home on the outskirts of the village of Burin near Nablus in the West Bank, October 30, 2025. (Nurit Yohanan/Times of Israel).
November 8, 2025, 2:15 pm
Already squeezed by settlers, Palestinians say IDF increasingly blocking olive harvests
The army is using closed military zone orders — meant to avert friction — to keep many West Bank residents from picking their fruit, while failing to halt settler violence, locals and activists charge
By Nurit Yohanan
Footage appears to show settlers cutting down olive trees in the South Hebron Hills, on November 7, 2025. (Screen capture via X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 7, 2025, 7:44 pm
Settlers filmed felling Palestinian olive trees amid string of West Bank attacks
At height of olive harvest season, settlers said to set fire to farmland, destroy livestock feed and assault pickers as IDF troops look on; no arrests reported
By 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
Footage shows a drone hovering over a group of volunteers at a Palestinian West Bank olive harvest on November 4, 2025. After the drone fell on a volunteer, men in IDF fatigues were seen pointing their guns at the volunteers, and one fired into the air. (Social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 4, 2025, 10:24 pm
IDF investigating as video shows man firing in air near West Bank olive harvest volunteers
Man in IDF fatigues opens fire after a drone hits and injures a volunteer helping with Palestinian harvest; non-Orthodox US rabbinic groups, some of whose members were volunteering, denounce ‘radical settlers’
By Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff
Activists with Rabbis for Human Rights help Palestinian olive growers harvest their olives in the West Bank, October 2025. (Courtesy Rabbis for Human Rights)
November 2, 2025, 11:46 pm
2 Jewish-American women banned from Israel for 10 years over olive harvest help incident
Women, along with other activists, were trying to assist Palestinian olive growers with harvest, but were told they were violating a closed military zone order imposed that morning
By Jeremy Sharon
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
Illustrative: Israeli soldiers and settlers gather in the village of Edna, north of the West Bank city of Hebron, during the olive harvesting season, on October 12, 2025. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)
October 30, 2025, 11:28 pm
Israel deporting two US Jews who entered closed IDF zone to aid Palestinian farmers
‘Deporting an 18-year old who chose to spend part of her gap year in Israel, contribute to society in a non-violent way is outrageous and sad to me’ says mother of activist
By Jeremy Sharon
A burning home, allegedly torched by settlers, at the Bedouin community of al-Ara'ara, near Mukhmas, west of Ramallah, in the West Bank, October 25, 2025. (Courtesy/Torat Tzedek)
October 25, 2025, 12:40 pm
Several injured, homes and cars set ablaze in several settler attacks in West Bank
Amid repeated assaults on harvesters and farmland, 3 Palestinians, 2 Israeli activists accompanying them, and 2 settlers hurt in stone-throwing clash near Mukhmas; suspect arrested
By Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff
Italian volunteers collect olives they just harvested at the Franciscan hermitage on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, October 3, 2025. (Oded Balilty/AP)
October 23, 2025, 11:23 am
On Mount of Olives, monks and nuns harvest olives as a form of prayer
At place where Jesus was said to have spent his last night before crucifixion, devout Christians and volunteers keep alive a millennia-old tradition
By AP and ToI Staff
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