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Contaminated water flows in the Hebron Stream below Palestinian village of ad-Dahariya, between banks coated in stone dust, July 14, 2026. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
Reporter's notebook
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'In an area so divided, nobody takes responsibility'
As toxic sewage and factory sludge choke Hebron stream, locals refuse to go with the flow
By Sue Surkes
Inadequate infrastructure and coordination result in dumping by Palestinian residents and industry, causing soil and groundwater pollution. Israel's response has been frustratingly partisan
Stav Levaton
Inside story
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Dismissing warnings, Israelis increasingly venturing into forbidden West Bank cities
Stav Levaton
Palestinian motorists queue at a gas station while the city is experiencing a severe fuel shortage following the Israel Iran conflict, in Ramallah June 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
West Bank fuel shortage strands Palestinians at pump with economy running on empty
By Nurit Yohanan
Illustrative: A Palestinian man inspects his burnt-out car after it was set alight by Israeli settlers, near Bethlehem, West Bank, on July 29, 2026. (Wisam Hashlamoun/FLASH90)
August 1, 2026, 4:31 pm
Settlers assault Palestinians, burn cars in overnight West Bank raid; no arrests
Police say they are probing settler attack that left 3 wounded in Hebron-area town of Surif; settlers reportedly assault Palestinian couple tending farm near Ramallah
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Israeli settlers carry cardboard boxes from a building under construction in the Palestinian village of Tell, in the West Bank, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
July 31, 2026, 8:30 pm
Palestinian shot by troops amid clash with settlers near Tell, week after deadly gunfight
IDF says it opened fire on stone thrower, as settlers hold march through West Bank’s Area A in memory of two Israelis killed last week; some vandalize cemetery in Nablus area
By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and AFP
A Palestinian stands next to a fire after brush was set ablaze on the roadside to prevent an Israeli settler attack in the West Bank village of Sinjil, July 17, 2026. (AP/Leo Correa)
July 30, 2026, 8:53 pm
Deadly West Bank gunfight underscores peril as Palestinians organize against settler attacks
With friction points moving inside Palestinian cities as settlers carry out violent raids in Areas A and B, residents are getting together to confront assailants, raising fears of armed clashes
By Jeremy Sharon, Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan
An IDF soldier, alongside settlers, beats two Palestinians in the West Bank town of Huwara, June 6, 2026. (X)
July 29, 2026, 3:17 pm
Police arrest man seen attacking a Palestinian last month while in IDF uniform
Suspect is member of security squad for nearby West Bank settlement, police say, stressing he is not an active-duty soldier despite carrying army-issued assault rifle and handgun
By Emanuel Fabian and Charlie Summers
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and US President Donald Trump meet in the Oval Office on July 28, 2026. (GPO)
July 28, 2026, 11:07 pm
Netanyahu: Meeting with Trump was one of our best ever; White House: Productive, positive
Reporters kept out; PM’s aide claims Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain nuclear facility not discussed, president didn’t press Israel to advance reconstruction of Gaza, or to withdraw IDF from Syria, Lebanon
By Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies
Left: Defense Minister Israel Katz (L) in Jerusalem, May 31, 2026. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90); right: Tal Yinon Dardik (Courtesy)
July 28, 2026, 4:13 pm
Katz orders end to administrative restraining order on detained settler extremist
In separate incidents, IDF said to demolish Palestinian family’s Jordan Valley home despite court order against it, Palestinian-American says troops kicked his family out of home to use as lookout position
By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and Jacob Magid
Palestinians pray inside a mosque that was burned during an attack by Israeli settlers in the West Bank village of Qusra, early in the morning of July 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
July 27, 2026, 1:32 pm
Ex-IDF generals appeal to Trump, warn of ‘calamity’ if PM doesn’t curb settler violence
Hundreds of retired security officials urge US president to force Netanyahu’s hand in West Bank, say politics leave army ‘severely constrained when it comes to Jewish terrorists’
By ToI Staff
A Palestinian man bends down to cross a closed gate after the Israeli army imposed a closure on the entrances of the West Bank village of Sinjil, July 1, 2026. (AP/Leo Correa)
July 27, 2026, 10:44 am
Restrictions on Palestinian movement in West Bank allegedly at levels not seen in decades
Petition seeks full accounting of roadblocks, checkpoints, and other barriers put in place across territory, many in aftermath of October 7, but IDF indicates that even it does not know full scope
By Nurit Yohanan
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the start of a cabinet meeting, July 26, 2026. (Screenshot via GPO)
July 26, 2026, 6:15 pm
Netanyahu vows expanded operations against West Bank ‘terrorist strongholds’
Katz accuses Democrats chief Golan of ‘blood libel’ for blaming deadly Friday shootout on settlers, government; cabinet meeting moved underground for unspecified security reasons
By Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
July 26, 2026, 2:53 pm
Daily Briefing July 26: West Bank clashes turn deadly
Settlements correspondent Jeremy Sharon examines Friday’s fatal gunfight near Nablus and how Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is fueling the rising tensions across the West Bank
By Gabriella Jacobs and Jeremy Sharon
Left: Defense Minister Israel Katz (L) in Jerusalem, May 31, 2026. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90); right: Tal Yinon Dardik (Courtesy)
July 26, 2026, 2:37 am
Katz said to meet suspect detained over brutal settler attack on West Bank village
Defense minister reportedly visits Tal Yinon Dardik, who is on hunger strike after being detained for March attack in which Palestinian victim accuses him of zip-tying his genitals
By Michael Horovitz
Yair Golan, chairman of The Democrats party, speaks during a party rally at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, July 25, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
July 26, 2026, 12:20 am
Launching election campaign, Democrats’ Golan says blood spilled in West Bank is on PM’s hands
At event ahead of weekly anti-government protests, left-wing party says it eyes education and justice ministries, vows to keep criminal defendants out of office, nix judicial overhaul laws
By Noam Lehmann
Members of Israeli security forces stand guard during a raid in the village of Sarra, near the West Bank city of Nablus, July 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
July 25, 2026, 11:34 pm
Israeli, 25, wounded by stone during clash with Palestinians near Susya settlement
IDF says Palestinian man stole off-duty soldier’s gun during confrontation in West Bank, then dropped it and fled; forces searching for suspect
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies
Israeli soldiers arrest a Palestinian man during an army operation in the West Bank village of Tell, near Nablus, July 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
July 25, 2026, 5:18 pm
IDF arrests dozens of Palestinians in sweeping raids across West Bank after deadly clash
Settlers said to establish 4 new illegal outposts near the scene of gunfight in which 2 Israelis and 4 Palestinians were killed; IDF allows early morning Palestinian funerals under heavy restrictions
By ToI Staff, Agencies and Emanuel Fabian
Palestinian residents put out a fire after vehicles were torched along with homes in an attack reportedly by Israeli settlers in the Palestinian village of Sarra, west of the city of Nablus in the West Bank on July 24, 2026. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP)
July 24, 2026, 11:19 pm
Settlers rampage across West Bank amid burial of civil security officer shot by Palestinian
Father of Israeli killed amid settler foray into Palestinian village calls on gov’t to build settlements in Gaza and Lebanon, as settlers ransack over a dozen villages, set fire to buildings and farmland
By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian
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