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Border Police officer throws stun grenade into Palestinian car, blocks driver’s exit
Screengrab of a CCTV video showing a Border Police officer throwing a stun grenade into a car full of passengers and forcing the door shut as it explodes, July 5, 2026. (X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
By ToI Staff and Nurit Yohanan
Police says officer suspended, incident under investigation; video shows flashbang going off while occupants inside, driver apparently unharmed; 6 said injured in settler attack
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
Shin Bet chief David Zini gives a speech on July 7, 2026 (Screengrab)
July 8, 2026, 10:04 am
Shin Bet chief says he took the job out of ‘loyalty to the elected leadership’
‘I have an agenda, I want to advance it,’ says Zini, who is reportedly considering removing department head over harsh treatment of Jewish terror suspects
By ToI Staff
Friends and relatives mourn over the body of Omran Abu Jarad, 48, who was killed in an Israeli military strike, during his funeral at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, July 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
July 7, 2026, 11:57 pm
IDF fire said to kill 7 in Gaza, including terror operative, aid worker and child
6 reportedly hurt in settler attack in South Hebron Hills, as Netanyahu blames ‘very lenient courts’ for unchecked violence by Israeli extremists in West Bank
By Agencies, ToI Staff, Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan
Palestinian men inspect the aftermath inside a restaurant after it was burned down by settlers during an attack in the western area of the Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya village, south of Nablus, in the West Bank on on July 5, 2026. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)
July 5, 2026, 12:08 pm
Settlers reportedly rob Palestinian restaurant near Nablus, set it ablaze
Assailants said to steal cash, video shows charred interior of eatery; settlers also reportedly run over and pepper-spray residents of West Bank Bedouin community, ATV driver nabbed
By Nurit Yohanan
Soldiers and settlers are seen at an under-construction Palestinian home that the settlers seized in the northern West Bank village of Jalud, in a video published by Palestinian media in late June 2026. (Screen capture: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 4, 2026, 2:26 pm
Palestinian says settlers took over West Bank home he was building for newlywed son
‘If they succeed in taking one, then the rest will follow,’ Mohammad Salameh says; IDF says it dispersed a gathering at the Jalud house, doesn’t comment on settler squatters
By Reuters and ToI Staff
June 29, 2026, 1:47 pm
Daily Briefing June 29: Can anyone build a coalition without the Haredi and Arab parties?
Political correspondent Ariela Karmel discusses the Knesset’s packed agenda and how Israel’s political parties are positioning themselves ahead of the October election
By Gabriella Jacobs and Ariela Karmel
Illustrative: Israeli soldiers take up positions during an army raid in the West Bank city of Hebron on January 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
June 27, 2026, 1:51 pm
Settler and masked soldier allegedly break into Hebron mosque, disrupt call to prayer
PA says pre-dawn incident, in which attackers reportedly played Hebrew songs through mosque loudspeakers, is part of an attempt to stamp out ancient city’s Arab and Muslim identity
By Noam Lehmann
Fires blaze around the Palestinian town of Deir Dibwan following an arson attack by settlers targeting farmland and vehicles in the Ramallah area, on June 14, 2026. (Screenshots/X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 26, 2026, 9:08 pm
6 settlers indicted on terror charges for arson attack on West Bank mosque with people inside
5 minors and an 18-year-old accused of arriving in Deir Dibwan earlier this month wearing face coverings and carrying knives, tear gas, gloves and combustible material
By Charlie Summers
IDF soldiers stand behind a masked settler swinging a slingshot while hurling stones at Palestinians who had gathered for the annual olive harvest season, during an attack by Israeli settlers on the West Bank village of Beita, south of Nablus, on October 10, 2025. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)
June 26, 2026, 11:12 am
As settlers rampage, IDF soldiers accused of aiding violence, theft against Palestinians
Israeli activists describe a pattern of troops standing by or actively taking part as settlers from illegal outposts assault, harass and loot from Palestinians in the West Bank
By Jeremy Sharon
Chairman of the “Together” party and former prime minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv, June 15, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
June 23, 2026, 12:17 pm
Bennett calls to dismantle illegal settlement outposts, draws right-wing leaders’ ire
Head of Together party stresses he’s ‘in favor of legal settlement in Area C,’ but not on Palestinians’ private land or areas A and B, which are to be part of ‘Palestinian autonomy’
By ToI Staff
Reda Awad, 15, left, and Issa Awad, 19, are seen in undated photos. (Screen capture: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 22, 2026, 12:41 pm
IDF says soldiers shot dead two Palestinians hurling Molotov cocktails at settlement
Palestinian Authority identifies dead as 15- and 19-year-old, says their bodies were detained; settlers reportedly set fire to Ramallah-area car lot, none arrested
By Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan
A settler watches as his sheep graze on Palestinian land in the village of Sinjil, in the West Bank, on June 20, 2026. (Screenshots: X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 21, 2026, 1:19 am
Settlers filmed grazing livestock inside Palestinian village in central West Bank
Sheep seen damaging crop of local farmer in Sinjil, as Palestinian shepherds elsewhere in the territory report coming under attack during settlers’ attempt to steal their herd
By Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff
Graffiti daubed by Jewish settlers that reads, "A good Arab is a dead Arab" stains the walls of the Palestinian Huwara Secondary School, where an Israeli flag reportedly placed on the school's roof by Israeli settlers was removed and the Palestinian flag restored by the school in Huwara, south of the city of Nablus in the West Bank on March 23, 2026.(Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
June 18, 2026, 4:43 am
UN chief warns settlers could be blacklisted over alleged harm to Palestinian children
Weeks after adding Israel to a separate blacklist, Guterres alleges ‘staggering rise in attacks carried out by settlers resulting in grave violations against Palestinian children’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A man clears the rubble as writing in Hebrew on the wall reads "revenge, regards to the arrested, people, wake up," at one of the West Bank mosques that were vandalized and partly set on fire by Israeli settlers overnight, in the village of Jiljilya, north of Ramallah, June 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
June 17, 2026, 7:44 pm
Settlers set fire to two West Bank mosques overnight
Graffiti reading ‘Revenge’ and ‘Hi from the Hilltop Youth’ scrawled on mosque damaged by fire in village north of Ramallah; IDF says forces searched for suspects but they fled
By AFP
People survey damage caused to Palestinian vehicles by violent settlers who attacked a group of Palestinians and Jewish activists near Halhul, in the Hebron area of the West Bank, on June 15, 2026. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
June 15, 2026, 8:23 pm
Settlers attack Palestinians and activists near Hebron, vandalize vehicles
IDF troops declare area a closed military zone, forcing Palestinians to leave their farmland; elsewhere, Palestinian say settlers destroy olive trees near Bethlehem
By Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff
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