Settlers

Whose violence is it? How Israel enables settler attacks in the West Bank - opinion

Violence against Palestinians has long been a part of Israeli dominance in the West Bank.

An Israeli settler rides a donkey near an Israeli vehicle, during olive harvesting in Silwad, near Ramallah, in the West Bank, October 29, 2025.
Israeli soldiers disperse Palestinian farmers and left-wing activists preventing them from picking olives during the annual harvest season, in the village of Qusra, in the West Bank, October 29, 2024.

Left-wing activists hospitalized following settler attack in West Bank village

Israeli soldiers guard during a protest of Jewish settlers at the Beit Furik checkpoint, east of Nablus, in the West Bank, May 9, 2025

IDF responds to alleged settler arson in Palestinian West Bank village, no injuries reported

Israeli security forces near the scene where two Israelis were killed in a terror shooting attack at Allenby bridge, a crossing between West Bank and Jordan, September 18, 2025.

Various foreign ministers condemn Israel’s West Bank measures as unlawful expansion


Israel is ramping up annexation of West Bank, UN rights chief says

The transfer by Israel of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies amounts to a war crime," UN High Commissioner Volker Turk said.

 Muslim women walk, as Israeli settlers carry Israeli flags next to a checkpoint near the Ibrahimi mosque, also known as the Cave of Patriarchs, on the day of the first Friday prayers of Ramadan, in Hebron's Old City, in the West Bank March 15, 2024.

West Bank Bedouin community says Israeli settlers stole hundreds of sheep

"The police don't do anything. They have never helped us with anything. If you tell them the settler is taking your sheep, they'll ask 'Are you sure it's yours?'"

 A Palestinian shepard holds a goat that was left behind with a broken leg, few days after Bedouins said that Israeli settlers took livestock from the village of Ein al-Auja, in the Jordan Valley, March 9, 2025.

Annexation: While the IDF fights in Gaza, Smotrich is seizing control of the West Bank - opinion

The process of stripping the military of its powers in the West Bank and shifting control over to civilian bodies under Bezalel Smotrich’s leadership is almost complete.

 Frozen construction in the Shilo settlement beside the Palestinian village Tumus Ayya.

Israel is the solution: The Jewish state must have sovereignty in Gaza - opinion

Only Israel can be the sovereign rebuilding Gaza with Jewish resettlement, acting as the most powerful deterrent against our enemies, ensuring that Trump’s “peace through strength” is implemented.

 An Israeli settler prays during a rally marking the third year of Israel's disengagement from Gaza.

Back to the future in Gaza: Time to end the experiment of expelling Jews for peace - opinion

Once the Palestinians are resettled elsewhere, Gaza should be annexed to Israel, to which it rightfully belongs.

 OPPONENTS OF Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan face IDF troops as they secure the fence of Kfar Maimon in July 2005 after police blocked them from marching to the Gush Katif communities to protest against their demolition.

Louis Theroux to record new BBC documentary on ‘extreme’ West Bank settlers

The documentary will look at the "fundamentalists" fueling "settler expansionism up close, and the human cost it entails."

Documentarian Louis Theroux attends the 25th MOBO Awards in London, Britain November 30, 2022.

Israel Katz, security forces squabble over Jewish detentions amid West Bank settler violence

Jewish extremists resisted the removal, including throwing rocks at soldiers and wounding two IDF troops.

View of a burnt Palestinian car after it was set on fire by settlers in the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus in the West Bank, December 4, 2024

Biden spotted with book that accuses Israel of settler-colonialism, apartheid

The spotting has drawn mixed reactions from both pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli groups that are unclear as to what message is being sent.

 US President Joe Biden seen leaving a bookstore in Massachusetts with "The hundred Years War on Palestine," November 29, 2024.

How has Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth handled extremism, terrorism in the West Bank? - analysis

The bottom line is that 2024 is a stark failure in restoring security and order as compared to almost every other year in the last decade.

IDF Central Command Chief Maj.-Gen. Avi Bluth.

Katz’s populist move threatens Israel’s stability in the West Bank - editorial

Katz halts settler detention orders, sparking backlash amid rising West Bank tensions.

 Israeli soldiers guard during a protest of Jewish settlers outside the West Bank city of Nablus, May 30, 2024