Settlers

IDF admits failure to sufficiently reduce Jewish violence against West Bank Palestinians

New electronic bracelets have been so far ineffective

An attorney has urged the Shin Bet to act after three Jewish hilltop youth allegedly attacked a pregnant Arab woman in Jaffa, warning that settler violence is being shifted from the West Bank into Israel’s cities.
 A Palestinian man stands next to a burnt car after an attack by Israeli settlers in Kafr Malik, in the West Bank, June 26, 2025.

Israelis set fire to West Bank tents, vehicles, attack residents with clubs

IDF troops operate in Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip, January 4, 2026.

IDF kills Hamas commander who played 'significant role' in planning Oct. 7 massacre

YITZHAK RABIN, Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres in the movie ‘The Oslo Diaries,’ about the attempt to bring peace to the Middle East through the Oslo Accords during the 1990s.

Israel cannot negotiate with enemies who seek its destruction - opinion


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

Netanyahu condemns settler violence on IDF in West Bank

On Saturday, dozens of settlers, some of them masked, hurled stones at Israeli troops and border police near the West Bank settlement of Itamar.

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the plenum, during a discussion on the subject of hostages kidnapped during the deadly October 7, 2023 attack, in Israel's parliament, the Knesset, in Jerusalem, November 18, 2024.

Settlers throw rocks at IDF, security forces in West Bank, five suspects arrested

IDF, Border Police, and other police forces dispersed the right-wing settlers and arrested five suspects.

 Masked Israeli settlers watch after Palestinian fields were set on fire in the village of Asira al-Qiblyia in the northern West Bank on June 2, 2010

Biden's sanctions will damage the economy of West Bank settlements - opinion

The damage to the settlement enterprise will not be abated by the signing of a nullification order in Washington.

 Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich cries as he recounts the sacrifices of the Religious Zionist community during the war, October 28, 2024.

Five right-wing settlers arrested after attempted attack on IDF Central Command chief in Hebron

Five settlers were arrested, and the IDF condemned the incident that saw the settlers block military activities and harass the Central Command chief.

 Jewish settlers seen while Palestinian farmers pick olives during the annual harvest season, in the village of Burqa, east of Ramallah, West Bank, October 20, 2024

Central Israel in danger: A look at the terror threat from the Palestinian-run West Bank

‘It’s a real danger’: Tour of the seam line barrier separating Israel from Judea and Samaria shows vulnerability to assault if preventive action isn’t taken.

 A map of Palestinian settlements along the seam line separating Israel from the West Bank.

Settler mob attack IDF soldiers with stones, hospitalizing one with head injuries

About 50 settlers gathered to attack the IDF soldiers, injuring one soldier who was taken to hospital with head injuries.

 Israeli forces seen entering an illegal West Bank outpost on the early morning of September 4, 2023

Smotrich: The time has come to apply Israeli sovereignty over West Bank

The United States has for decades backed a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians and has urged Israel not to expand settlements.

 Jewish settlers at the illegal West Bank settlement outpost of Ramat Migron, on September 8, 2023.