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An Israel Police officer at the entrance to a suspected terror tunnel running from the area of A'zaim checkpoint in the West Bank toward Israel, in an image released on June 24, 2026. (Israel Police)
June 25, 2026, 4:33 pm
Police find possible terror tunnel running from West Bank toward Jerusalem, arrest 2
DNA from scene leads to arrest of 1 Palestinian, 1 East Jerusalem man; no weapons found but police probing whether plan was to use tunnel for terror attack or to smuggle in workers
By ToI Staff
The scene where vehicles and homes were set on fire following an attack by settlers on the village of Deir al-Hatab, east of Nablus in the West Bank, March 23, 2026. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
March 26, 2026, 7:03 pm
NGO counts over 10 settler attacks a day amid Iran war; 14 said hurt in latest violence
According to Yesh Din report, first 25 days of war saw 257 incidents of extremist settler violence and land seizures
By Jeremy Sharon and Nurit Yohanan
Ibrahim Shalhoub (center), who carried out a deadly terror stabbing in Herzliya, arrives to hear his sentence at the Tel Aviv District Court, January 4, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
January 4, 2026, 12:52 pm
Palestinian jailed for life for stabbing Holocaust survivor to death in terror attack
Ibrahim Shalhoub from West Bank, an ex-Shin Bet informant, also ordered to pay damages for murdering 83-year-old Holocaust survivor Ludmila Lipovsky in Herzliya in December 2024
By ToI Staff
Residents of the Nur Shams Palestinian refugee camp watch their homes being demolished on New Year's eve by an Israeli military excavator in the Nur Shams camp, east of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, amid an ongoing offensives in the West Bank on December 31, 2025. (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP)
January 1, 2026, 3:34 am
Israel begins demolishing 25 buildings in West Bank Palestinian refugee camp
IDF says buildings torn down as part of counterterrorism operation in the northern West Bank; Palestinians say thousands forced out of their homes in past year have yet to return
By Agencies
A paramedic helps a Palestinian family carry their belongings as an Israeli soldier enforces an evacuation order on a house in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank on July 8, 2025. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
November 20, 2025, 2:11 pm
Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of war crimes over West Bank displacements
Group finds military operations, demolitions in 3 towns led to expulsion of 32,000, calls for Israeli officials be held to account; Israel says ops targeted terrorist elements
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Footage posted on X shows the aftermath of an alleged settler attack near Tulkarem on November 11, 2025. (Screen capture/social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 11, 2025, 9:15 pm
Settlers launch major West Bank arson attack; IDF, police arrest four suspects
Footage shows dozens of masked settlers gathered on hillside as factory, trucks burn below; IDF says it detained several suspects, troops later attacked by group of settlers nearby
By Nurit Yohanan, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
A police officer handcuffs a West Bank resident during his arrest on suspicion of planning an attack in Ra'anana, August 13, 2025. (Screenshot/Israel Police)
August 13, 2025, 6:10 pm
Palestinian arrested after Ra’anana manhunt on suspicion of planning terror attack
Police spend hours combing city for resident of West Bank’s Tulkarem, tracking him down at building site
By ToI Staff
An Israeli army vehicle during a military operation in Askar refugee camp east of Nablus in the West Bank, July 30, 2025. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
August 10, 2025, 7:47 pm
Katz: IDF to remain in north West Bank refugee camps until year’s end at least
‘Today there is no terror in the camps,’ says defense minister; Israel nabs 3 suspects accused of planning major terror attack; Arab Israeli man said killed by troops in Jericho
By Emanuel Fabian, Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
Police officers at the scene of a suspected stabbing attempt at the entrance of Kibbutz Metzer, August 2, 2025. (Israel Police)
August 2, 2025, 5:58 pm
Palestinian ‘neutralized’ during suspected terror stabbing attempt at kibbutz
24-year-old from Tulkarem pulls out knife after blocking car exiting Kibbutz Metzer, is shot by community’s security coordinator and then arrested
By ToI Staff
Israeli soldiers walk during a counter-terror raid in the Tulkarem camp in the West Bank on February 18, 2025 (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
April 11, 2025, 3:16 pm
6 Arab Israelis charged with funneling money from Turkey to West Bank terror groups
Separately, 2 residents of the Galilee are arrested for planning attacks in coordination with the Tulkarem Brigades terror group
By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
IDF troops operate in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, February 3, 2025. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)
March 19, 2025, 11:40 am
Governor of Tulkarem: I could have tackled the armed groups here; Israel wouldn’t let me
PA’s Abdallah Kmeil claims Israel wants to keep the PA weak; he doesn’t condemn Hamas’s October 7 slaughter but says he’s become less extreme and wants peace
By Nurit Yohanan
Security forces and bomb disposal units at the scene of a bus explosion in Bat Yam on February 20, 2025. (Oren Ziv/AFP)
February 22, 2025, 3:43 am
Bus driver got passengers off minutes before bomb detonated Thursday night – report
Israeli TV says woman alerted driver to suspicious item aboard bus, after terrorist attempted to conceal bomb under seat before alighting
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a briefing with military officers in Tulkarem, February 21, 2025 (Maayan Toaf/GPO)
February 21, 2025, 10:35 pm
In visit to Tulkarem, Netanyahu calls to expand West Bank counterterror operation
Prime minister’s rare visit comes in wake of bus bombings in central Israel; Palestinian Authority condemns Netanyahu’s ‘storming’ of refugee camp
By Lazar Berman and AFP
Security forces probe a bus targeted by an explosive device, in Bat Yam, February 20, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
February 21, 2025, 3:03 pm
2 Jewish Israelis, Palestinian said arrested in connection with botched bus bombings
IDF says it’s bolstering West Bank presence with 3 battalions after apparent attempt at large-scale terror attack thought to have originated there; Katz: bombs ‘will not deter us’
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Residents of the West Bank refugee camp of al-Far'a, near Tubas, evacuate their homes as the Israeli military operation continues in the area on February 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
February 19, 2025, 6:07 pm
West Bank terror crackdown sees largest displacement of Palestinians since 1967
More than 40,100 have fled their homes amid Operation Iron Wall, according to UNRWA; many say they were told to leave by IDF, which denies issuing evacuation orders
By Agencies and ToI Staff
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