Friday's planned participation of Jewish left-wing activists in the Palestinian olive harvest in the West Bank was derailed by the IDF and Israel police, who only appear to stop those suspected of nonviolence
According to the Wafa news agency, settlers set fire to the entrance of the mosque and sprayed threatening graffiti on its outer walls. The arson comes a day after the IDF acknowledged a sharp rise in cases of Jewish terrorism in the West Bank, but said it stemmed from 'fringe' groups unrepresentative of the majority of settlers
As Israeli settler violence against Palestinians reaches unprecedented levels in the West Bank, the U.S. president refuses to speak out, despite it being a clear obstacle to his grand plans for the region. Instead, he pursuing a pardon for Netanyahu
The attacks in two West Bank villages come amid a record wave in Israeli settler violence against Palestinians, with last month recording the highest number of settler attacks in two decades
The drone, flown by members of a security squad from a nearby Israeli settlement in the northern West Bank, lightly wounded an activist and then fell to the ground. Executive director of Rabbis for Human Rights, Avi Dabush, said the incident could have 'easily ended' with people being killed
The videos from the southern West Bank show masked Israeli settlers entering the sheep pen, abusing and injuring lambs on the ground. Human rights activists say that settler violence against Palestinian flocks in the West Bank has worsened recently
The two are part of a four-month program run by the Achvat Amim educational group, which organizes Jewish-Palestinian solidarity programs. After joining Palestinians for the West Bank olive harvest, Israeli authorities said they 'violated IDF orders' and declined to give details on their deportation or current location
Efforts by Israeli right-wing pundits like Amit Segal and Gadi Taub to obscure the truth about settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank reveal that the settlers are on the cusp of a legitimacy crisis. They have no one to blame but themselves
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