West Bank

Niv Asraf speaks to press outside his family home in Beersheba on April 6, 2015. (Flash90)

June 24, 2018, 11:32 am

Israelis who faked West Bank kidnapping get community service

Prosecution had sought prison time for Niv Asraf and Eran Nagauker over 2015 abduction claim, has 12 weeks to appeal the sentence

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

Israeli soldiers stand near the scene of a suspected car-ramming attack at the entrance to the village of Husan, in the West Bank, on June 23, 2018. (Flash90)

June 24, 2018, 8:14 am

Driver in suspected car-ramming attack turns self in, says it was an accident

Residents of Husan in the West Bank say they have warned in the past of the dangers to IDF soldiers on the Palestinian village's treacherous roads

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

Palestinians take part in a protest calling for a lift of the sanctions on the Gaza Strip, in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, on June 23, 2018. (AFP/ ABBAS MOMANI)

June 24, 2018, 4:15 am

Palestinians protest in Ramallah against Abbas crackdown on Gaza

Unlike past rally, police do not disperse demonstration but instead hand out flags as hundreds call for Abbas to 'scrap the sanctions'

By AFP

Israeli soldiers stand near the scene of a suspected car-ramming attack at the entrance to the Palestinian village og Husan, in the West Bank, on June 23, 2018. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

June 23, 2018, 9:30 pm

3 soldiers lightly injured in suspected West Bank car-ramming attack

Army says forces looking for driver in incident at the Al Khader Junction in the Etzion bloc, near Beitar Illit settlement

By Jacob Magid

An illustrative photo of a Border Police officer checking the ID of a Palestinian woman at the security barrier next to the West Bank village of Abu Dis on February 25, 2008. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

June 23, 2018, 12:39 pm

Border cops shoot West Bank Palestinian who arouses suspicion

Police say suspect, injured in the leg, ignored officers' calls to stop at checkpoint in Abu Dis outside Jerusalem; nothing untoward found in his bag

By TOI staff

Illustative: Israel Police pull over a vehicle in the West Bank on June 20, 2018. (Israel Police)

June 21, 2018, 2:10 pm

Police probing Palestinian carjacking of settler’s car

Suspects force Israeli woman to stop on West Bank road, smash her windshield and pull her out then drive off; theft said to be 3rd in less than a week

By Jacob Magid

Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu praises security services in video clip, on June 17, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

June 17, 2018, 8:06 pm

PM: Busted Hamas cell shows Israel must control security west of Jordan

In video, Netanyahu commends security forces for thwarting 'horrific' planned terror attacks in Israel, West Bank

By Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff

An IDF soldier arrests a member of a suspected Hamas cell in Nablus, in the northern Gaza Strip in April 2018. (Shin Bet)

June 17, 2018, 5:18 pm

Shin Bet: Israel busts large Hamas cell planning Jerusalem, Tel Aviv bombings

Over 20 Nablus-area residents arrested in April suspected of plotting to carry out explosive terror attacks in Israel, West Bank; bombs, guns uncovered

By Judah Ari Gross

Far-right youths protest the court-ordered demolition of 17 buildings in the illegal outpost of Tapuah West. (Israel Police)

June 17, 2018, 11:18 am

Police, settler youth clash during clearing of illegal West Bank outpost

11 officers injured as demonstrators hurl objects at troops; far-right activists claim cops used excessive force evacuating 10 structures in Tapuah West

By Jacob Magid

A picture taken on February 8, 2017 from the Palestinian West Bank village of Yasuf shows the Israeli wildcat outpost of Kfar Tapuah West, located near the settlement of Kfar Tapuah. (AFP Photo/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)

June 17, 2018, 3:23 am

Hundreds of police deployed to West Bank outpost ahead of evacuation

Settler youth reportedly throw stones at officers ahead of planned razing of at least 13 structures in West Tapuah, south of Nablus

By TOI staff

Police remove a demonstrator from a home in Netiv Ha'avot, June 12, 2018. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

June 13, 2018, 11:24 pm

Netiv Ha’avot demolition may be a sign the settlers are winning

The public wasn't galvanized to resist the demolition of 15 homes in the Etzion bloc outpost, but that might never have been the goal

By Jacob Magid and Video by Luke Tress

Israeli troops on June 6, 2018, arrest a Palestinian man suspected of killing an IDF soldier by dropping a stone slab on his head in the al-Am'ari refugee camp in Ramallah the month before. (Screen capture: Israel Defense Forces)

June 13, 2018, 8:02 pm

IDF releases helmet cam footage of troops arresting suspected soldier killer

Israeli forces nab suspect two weeks after he allegedly dropped a stone block on Ronen Lubarsky during a raid

By Judah Ari Gross

June 13, 2018, 9:53 am

Israel arrests Palestinian suspected of killing soldier with stone slab

Alleged assailant detained last week, Shin Bet says; suspect previously jailed for Hamas terrorist activities, brothers connected to murder of Shin Bet agent in 1994

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers search the area around the West Bank city of Nablus on January 11, 2018, as part of a manhunt after the perpetrators of a lethal terror attack outside a nearby settlement. (Israel Defense Forces)

June 12, 2018, 2:06 pm

Settlers, Palestinians, soldiers clash in northern West Bank overnight

IDF oversees entrance of tens of thousands of Palestinian worshipers into Jerusalem for Laylat al-Qadr prayers on the Temple Mount

By Judah Ari Gross

People seen near a home slated for demolition in the illegal Jewish neighborhood of Netiv Ha'avot on June 11, 2018. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

June 11, 2018, 6:18 pm

As bulldozers near, outpost residents vow they’ll be back, and they may be right

15 families in Nativ Ha'avot neighborhood in settlement bloc south of Jerusalem feel imminent razing will ultimately strengthen their claim to hilltop

By Jacob Magid