Palestinian population in West Bank

UN says more than 36,000 Palestinians displaced by Israeli settlement drive

Israel's permanent mission in Geneva, where the UN office is based, said it was working on a response to the report.

|ByREUTERS
An Israeli settler rides a donkey near an Israeli vehicle, during olive harvesting in Silwad, near Ramallah, in the West Bank, October 29, 2025.
People examine cars damaged and vandalized by attackers in the Arab village of Ein Rafa, near Jerusalem, January 8, 2026

West Bank settlers attack Palestinian cars with firebombs, detained by IDF

The three detainees were among a larger mob of masked settlers. Two Palestinians were wounded as a result of the incident and were evacuated for medical treatment.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (not pictured) meet at Chigi Palace, in Rome, Italy, November 7, 2025.

‘Time to end the Oslo illusion’: Minister Strock says Israel must scrap PA security apparatus

Strock reserved some of her sharpest criticism for the PA security forces, which Western governments – including the US – have long supported as a stabilizing partner.

|ByAMICHAI STEIN
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Beirut, Lebanon, May 22, 2025.

'Israel wants to destroy all of Palestine,' Mahmoud Abbas tells Arab media

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told Al-Arabiya and Al-Hadath that "Netanyahu does not want a fully-fledged Palestinian state."

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Bennett: ‘We’ll annex Area C and offer the Palestinians autonomy on steroids’

Bayit Yehudi leader says Israel "will be gradually attempting to apply Israeli law on Israeli controlled areas of Judea and Samaria."

APRIL 29, 2014ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Economy Minister Naftali Bennett in the Gush Etzion settlement of Neveh Daniel

Crossing the point of no return

It could be that we have already missed the two-state option.

APRIL 1, 2014ByMENACHEM KLEIN
How many settlers in the West Bank create an irreversible new reality?

The C-section solution

With Kerry’s peace initiative clinically dead, it’s time to take up Bayit Yehudi leader Naftali Bennett’s approach, under which Israel would annex Area C of the West Bank.

APRIL 1, 2014ByAMIEL UNGAR
Demonstrators rally in favor of construction in E-1, between Jerusalem and Ma'aleh Adumim

Model city

Bashar al-Masri is the driving force behind Rawabi, the largest private-sector project ever carried out in the Palestinian areas.

MARCH 19, 2014ByANDREW FRIEDMAN
Entrepreneur Basher al-Masri shows off his Rawabi project, February 23