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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 366

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Tamar Ahituv, one of the founding members of the illegal West Bank outpost of Sde Ephraim, stands outside her home with her baby, July 8, 2024. (Jeremy Sharon/Times of Israel)
August 28, 2024, 12:07 pm
‘Inheriting the land’ – an outpost settler explains her drive to seize the hilltops
A resident in the recently legalized West Bank outpost of Sde Ephraim describes her passion for the land, her desire to thwart ‘Arab takeover,’ and her determination to do it all again
By Jeremy Sharon
A man checks the damage a day after an attack by Jewish settlers on the village of Jit near Nablus in the West Bank, on August 16, 2024. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
August 16, 2024, 11:31 pm
‘We’ll come back and kill you’: Palestinians recall horror of deadly settler riot
Residents of Jit say attackers ransacked homes, chasing people and threatening to return later; uncle says slain man was shot in back as some locals attempted to defend village
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Israeli tanks stand near the Israel-Gaza border as seen from southern Israel, July 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
August 12, 2024, 2:18 pm
Army broadens closed zone around Gaza ahead of prayer event by pro-settlement activists
Security sources tell media move is a precaution against possible attack on gathering, intended to mark Tisha B’av fast and raise awareness of desire to rebuild Gaza settlements
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Israeli settlers hurl stones at Palestinians near the Israeli settlement of Yitzhar in the West Bank on October 7, 2020. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90/File)
August 7, 2024, 8:13 pm
Right-wing NGOs, dual citizens sue Biden administration for sanctioning settlers
Plaintiffs allege executive order to target settler violence impinges on first-amendment rights of speech, religion; case will be heard by Trump-appointed judge in Texas
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a Religious Zionism faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 15, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
July 22, 2024, 7:42 pm
As Netanyahu flies to DC, Israeli politicians seek to sway his agenda from afar
Right-wing MKs call on PM to emphasize fight against Iran, push back on sanctions against settlers in meeting with Biden; Lapid demands he announce support for hostage deal
By Sam Sokol
Foreign pro-Palestinian volunteers receive treatment at Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, after they were attacked by Jewish Israeli settlers in the village of Qusra, in the West Bank, July 21, 2024. (Nasser Ishtayeh/ Flash90)
July 21, 2024, 11:46 pm
Israeli settlers attack foreign pro-Palestinian activists in northern West Bank
In video, group of masked men is seen approaching volunteers planting olive trees, then laying into them with clubs; two American women, Dutch man injured
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
Radical settler activist Neriya Ben Pazi pictured with his family at his illegal farming outpost HaMahoch in the West Bank. Another of Ben Pazi's farms, the Rimonim Farm, has received state funds through the Agriculture Ministry (Courtesy: Honenu legal aid organization)
June 17, 2024, 4:16 pm
Agriculture Ministry funding illegal farming outposts, US-sanctioned settlers – report
Anti-settlement group says unauthorized West Bank farms got NIS 1.66 million in 2017-2023; some of them were founded by Israelis the US accuses of undermining West Bank stability
By Jeremy Sharon
Yinon Levi works on his farm in the South Hebron Hills, West Bank, May 12, 2024. (Maya Alleruzzo/AP)
June 6, 2024, 12:28 pm
Shrugging off international sanctions, extremist settlers appear emboldened
Frozen accounts seen as little more than a minor setback, overcome with a little help from friends, fundraisers, and workarounds offered by banks
By AP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Israeli soldiers scuffle with Jewish settlers from the Einav settlement, trying to storm the West Bank town of Deir Sharaf, near Nablus, November 2, 2023. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)
May 3, 2024, 6:48 pm
UK joins European Union in sanctioning supremacist Lehava group and extremist settlers
UK’s Cameron says individuals ‘are undermining security and stability and threatening prospects for peace,’ as four far-right activists sanctioned
By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
File: Armed settlers gather on a hill overlooking the village of al-Mughayyir near Ramallah in the West Bank on April 13, 2024 (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)
April 15, 2024, 11:47 pm
Two Palestinians shot dead by settlers in clashes near West Bank village
IDF and police probing the violence that reportedly broke out after a settler was attacked; 3 Palestinians also reported injured in scuffles
By ToI Staff, Agencies and Emanuel Fabian
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell speaks to the media ahead of a Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) meeting at the EU headquarters in Brussels, on March 18, 2024. (Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP)
March 18, 2024, 11:32 pm
EU agrees in principle to impose sanctions on violent West Bank settlers
Union’s 27 members also agree to add further sanctions against Hamas — and will act against Palestinian terror group first to avoid equating sides
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Chairman of the West Bank sub-committee of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee MK Tzvi Succot gestures to Labor MK Gilad Kariv to leave a hearing on alleged unlawful activity of civil rights and pro-Palestinian activists in the West Bank, March 12, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)
March 12, 2024, 4:18 pm
Tempers flare in controversial Knesset hearing on West Bank civil rights activists
Subcommittee chair MK Succot accuses pro-Palestinian activists of ‘severe violence,’ while Labor MK Kariv alleges hearing is a ‘smokescreen’ for settler violence
By Jeremy Sharon
Settler activists erect makeshift structures within the Erez border crossing complex leading from Israel to northern Gaza but within Israeli territory, February 29, 2024. (Courtesy: Nachala Settlement Movement)
February 29, 2024, 11:10 pm
Far-right activists break into Gaza, try to reestablish Israeli settlement
Some make it 500 meters into Strip before being turned back; army says makeshift structures near Erez Crossing erected within Israeli territory
By Jeremy Sharon
New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon reacts as he speaks during a press conference in Sydney on December 20, 2023. (David Gray/AFP)
February 29, 2024, 10:17 am
New Zealand designates all of Hamas as terror group, sanctions extremist settlers
Wellington says Oct. 7 massacre makes Hamas’s military wing, political organization indistinguishable; PM says surge in attacks by Israeli settlers ‘destabilizing’ ongoing crisis
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki addresses the International Court of Justice (ICJ during public hearings on the request for an advisory opinion in respect of the "Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem," from February 19 to 26 at the Peace Palace in The Hague. (International Court of Justice)
February 21, 2024, 4:05 pm
Israel a no-show at the ICJ, but its advocates argue the ‘occupation’ isn’t illegal
Scholars contend Palestinian failure to accept several peace proposals and address Israeli security concerns are cause of long-term Israeli rule in the territories
By Jeremy Sharon
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