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IDF troops catch of West Bank car ramming attack suspect

No injuries were reported in the reported car ramming, the IDF said in a statement. 

Israeli soldiers inspect the Shavei Shomron checkpoint after a Palestinian was killed near Deir Sharaf, west of the West Bank city of Nablus, November 12, 2024 (Illustrative).
Protest against the rise in West Bank settler violence at Habima square in Tel Aviv, April 16, 2026.

Yitzhar resident indicted after armed sheep search erupts into violence in Huwara, West Bank

FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich holds a press conference ahead of the vote on the state budget at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, March 29, 2026.

Smotrich: US supports Israeli West Bank settlement expansion - interview

Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu plants a flag at the archaeological site Sartaba in Judea and Samaria.

Israel's Heritage Minister: Palestinians destroying archaeological sites like ISIS did in Syria


Bodies of hostages recovered by IDF, IDF responds to Hezbollah drone footage showing IDF base

Houthis vow battle with US, Israel • Israel reportedly accepts terms for Philadelphi Corridor • Pro-Palestinian protests greet Netanyahu in Washington

 IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip. July 24, 2024.

State Comptroller report unveils alarming increase in West Bank road attacks

The comptroller found that three-quarters of these investigation files were closed due to "unknown perpetrator," suggesting a gap in apprehending suspects in arson cases.

 Matanyahu Englman - The State Comptroller of Israel, Local Government Conference 2024

Masked Israelis attack foreign activists, Palestinian farmers in West Bank

According to videos and witness testimonies obtained by CNN, Israelis attacked the foreign and Palestinian individuals with “thick wooden sticks almost like baseball bats.”

 One of the injured activists, a German-American citizen

'No Palestinian state west of the Jordan River,' 63 Knesset members say

The 63 signatories are a majority of the 120-member Knesset and include prominent opposition members. Plans advanced for 5,300 new West Bank settler homes.

 A plenum session and a vote on reviving the Ultra Orthodox enlistment bill at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on June 11, 2024.

Smotrich: cabinet authorized 5 West Bank outposts, sanctions against PA

"The Security Cabinet authorized one outpost for every country that unilaterally recognized Palestine as a state in the last month," Smotrich said.

 FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich speaks at a meeting of his Religious Zionist Party parliamentary faction, last week, in the Knesset. Will the war bring an economic boom like the Six Day War, or a bust like Yom Kippur? There are arguments supporting both sides, says the writer.

New right-wing central commander likely to be harder on Palestinian terrorism

Israeli settlers have accused the last few IDF central commanders of spending too much time cracking down on Jewish violence versus Palestinian violence.

Brigade Commander Colonel Avi Bluth 370

IDF alarmed by standoff over West Bank funds, report says

Badeea Al-Dwaik, an employee at the Labor Ministry, said public sector workers were already receiving no more than 70-80% of their pay even before the Oct. 7 attacks.

 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gestures, as he attends a swearing-in ceremony for the newly formed cabinet, in Ramallah, in the West Bank, March 31, 2024.

How years of impunity for violent Jewish extremists in the West Bank led to current gov't - Report

In a New York Times report, the writer discusses the history of violence among Jewish residents of the West Bank against Palestinians and how it led to the emersion of their supporters in government.

 Amiram Ben Uliel, accused of the Duma arson murder in July 2015 where three members of the Dawabshe family were killed, arrives to a court hearing on his appeal, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on March 7, 2022.

EU condemns expansion of 'illegal settlements across the occupied West Bank'

"The European Union firmly condemns the announcement by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich that over 800 hectares of land in the occupied Palestinian territory."

European Union flags flutter outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, March 24, 2021

Israeli settlements expand by record amount, UN rights chief says

The five-month-old Gaza war has put a renewed focus on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as foreseen by the Oslo accords from the early 1990s.

A general view of houses in the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in the West Bank