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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 478

West Bank outposts

A Palestinian man lies injured after being attacked by Israeli ultranationalist extremists in the South Hebron Hills region of the West Bank, January 22, 2025. (Courtesy, Haqel - In Defense of Human Rights)
January 22, 2025, 11:10 pm
Israeli extremists attack Palestinian laborers during IDF-approved agricultural work
Palestinian workers, villagers targeted while plowing West Bank land in work coordinated with the IDF; 5 Palestinians, 2 Israelis injured in clashes
By Jeremy Sharon
Demolished buildings in the Palestinian village of Khirbet Zanuta, December 4, 2023. (Courtesy Southern Mount Hebron Activists group)
January 7, 2025, 6:35 am
‘Nothing has been done’: High Court judges said to pan police over settler attacks
Residents of a southern West Bank village have accused security services of ignoring court’s order to facilitate their return to their homes, following repeated harassment
By Jeremy Sharon
A home burned by rioting settlers in the West Bank village of Huwara, on December 4, 2024. (Courtesy Huwara residents via Yesh Din)
December 4, 2024, 11:36 am
8 settlers briefly held for rioting, attacking Palestinians and troops in West Bank
Extremists storm towns after security forces evacuate illegal settlement outpost, where 2 Border Police officers were lightly hurt; IDF clashes with settlers trying to attack village
By Emanuel Fabian
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
Settlers rebuilding the Tzur Harel outpost in the West Bank on November 12, 2024. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 12, 2024, 6:12 pm
IDF soldier moderately hurt as settlers attack troops evacuating West Bank outpost
Tzur Harel was emptied on Monday as well, with settlers, far-right MK decrying new defense minister for the move; separately, Palestinian shot after trying to stab troops
By Emanuel Fabian
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
Israeli security forces argue with Israeli settlers at the entrance to the West Bank village of Turmus Ayya on the day that Jewish extremists set fire to homes and vehicles in the town, June 21, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 2, 2024, 5:44 am
US sanctions ‘Hilltop Youth,’ treating extreme settler activists as organized group
Israeli official slams timing of announcement as Israel braced for Iran missile attack, along with ‘shocking lack of understanding’ since no official group exists under this name
By Jacob Magid
US President Joe Biden, right, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
September 25, 2024, 10:45 pm
US officials weighing steps Biden could take to preserve two-states after election
Sanctioning Ben Gvir and Smotrich is at the top of a list that would get longer if Harris wins, US officials tell ToI; could also include leveraging US security aid to Israel
By Jacob Magid
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
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
Lamis al-Jaer, an Arab Israeli woman who was attacked after mistakenly driving into the illegal outpost of Givat Ronen in the West Bank on August 9 speaks to Channel 12, August 11, 2024. (Screen capture via N12, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 3, 2024, 8:28 pm
Settlers charged with terrorism, racially motivated assault for attack on Arab women
Four Arab-Israeli women and a two year old were severely assaulted after mistakenly entering illegal West Bank outpost Givat Ronen, left with broken bones and psychological trauma
By Jeremy Sharon
Illustrative: Volunteers with the Hashomer Yosh (Guardians of Judea and Samaria) organization which was sanctioned by the US on August 28, 2024. (Screenshot from promotional campaign video for Hashomer Yosh; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
August 28, 2024, 11:12 pm
US issues new batch of sanctions targeting West Bank settlers amid rampant violence
Biden administration blacklists security chief of radical Yitzhar settlement and a group funded by Israeli gov’t that secures illegal outposts; PM views move ‘with great severity’
By Jacob Magid and Jeremy Sharon
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
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