Investigations were only opened on a third of Jewish nationalist crime cases in the West Bank. The responsible police unit has not had a commander for almost a year, since the last commander was suspected of deliberately ignoring intelligence on Jewish terrorism
While Trump gives his word to Arab countries that Israeli annexation 'won't happen,' he turns his back on destruction, dispossession, poverty, settler violence and military abuse in the West Bank, allowing the torment to continue: there is no cease-fire
Israeli control of the West Bank is the darkest curse hanging over the nation. Without efforts to establish a Palestinian state, Israel won't recover from the calamities that have befallen it under the current government
Before leaving Israel, U.S. Vice President JD Vance said Trump's policy remains that the occupied West Bank won't be annexed by Israel. Vance added that he took 'some insult' at the situation and, if it were true that it was merely a political stunt – as he said he had been told – then 'it was a very stupid political stunt'
The bill, proposed by a far-right opposition lawmaker, was supported by many coalition MKs, including a Likud lawmaker who defied party lines. A separate bill to expand the West Bank's Ma'aleh Adumim settlement also passed with support from Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid
Dozens of attacks on Palestinians by Israeli settlers have been documented in the West Bank since the olive harvest season began earlier this month – despite an order from the head of the Civil Administration obliging soldiers to protect Palestinian farmers. On the ground, settlers act freely
The same equation Israel has adopted in Gaza – where Palestinian society is consumed by internal strife, fighting over the crumbs of what little they have – is also applied to the West Bank, where repression and trampling of rights are the order of the day under a brutal Israeli military regime
As the Knesset opens its final session before elections, Netanyahu's coalition is preparing a legislative blitz – from renewed efforts to weaken the legal system and enshrine Haredi draft exemptions to advancing West Bank sovereignty – while a weakened opposition braces for battle
Ahmed Barahmeh's killing marks the second Palestinian fatality in the West Bank in 12 hours. Separately, the IDF announced it was conducting searches in the Tulkarm area after a rocket was discovered and disabled by a bomb squad
The Palestinian Authority's tax revenue is collected by Israel as part of the Oslo Accords, but Israel has been refusing to hand over the money for several months, leading to a financial crisis in the West Bank
The Israeli military is bracing for possible unrest in the West Bank this month. The IDF found dozens of explosives and rockets on a site that was used to launch rockets into Israel
Bulldozers arrived in the village of Khalet al-Daba in the southern West Bank, demolishing the remaining buildings and infrastructure, as well as the house of a Palestinian resident who was stabbed in a violent settler raid
Two Palestinians, including one man the IDF described as a 'key militant involved in arms trafficking', were killed by Israeli forces in Qalqilyah during a security operation. Israeli forces also arrested two others and seized a Carlo-type firearm, amid ongoing efforts to crack down on weapons trafficking in the West Bank
School visits to West Bank sites under the 'Tours on the Bible Trails' program will be fully funded for security costs, including armored buses, though some principals remain unwilling despite ministry efforts to encourage fully-subsidized visits to the region
The event has drawn criticism from employees over its extravagance during wartime and its West Bank location. 'We are the country's public face, and this leaves a bad impression,' one source said
Amid reports of rising rates of racially-motivated violence against drivers since October 7, some Arab drivers either skipped work or couldn't reach their lines due to a lockdown imposed on certain West Bank villages implicated in Monday's Jerusalem shooting attack
Though careful not to explicitly endorse Israel's settlement project in the West Bank, the U.S. State Department's recent visa bans on Palestinian officials and groups, as well as U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's upcoming visit to a Jewish settler site, point to a tacit green light for annexation