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IDF warns of rising West Bank tensions despite low terror levels, pushes for preventive operations

Security officials say terror activity in the West Bank is at its lowest level since 2011, but warn of growing friction, weapons concerns and potential escalation ahead of the holidays.

Israeli security forces seen during a raid in the West Bank village of Salem, near Nablus, on August 2, 2026.
IDF soldiers participate in the Arrowhead agility competition on July 8, 2026.

Only clear rules, command chain, can let IDF avoid internal conflict due to religion - editorial

IDF troops operate in the West Bank, August 17, 2026.

WATCH: IDF arrests two terrorists, raids 100 sites in Duvdevan West Bank counterterror operation

Israeli soldier Elor Azaria, who was caught on video shooting a wounded Palestinian assailant in the head as he lay on the ground, sits during a hearing at a military appeals court in Tel Aviv during which he was charged with manslaughter on April 18, 2016.

Israel Katz's populist push to pardon Elor Azaria puts Israel at serious risk - comment


Civil rights NGO urges indictment of IDF colonel who killed rock-thrower

A video of the shooting distributed at the time by B’Tselem went viral and brought about calls for Shomer’s prosecution.

Smashed windshield of IDF vehicle

IDF chief: Hamas tunnels are not a strategic or existential threat

Eisenkot addresses the Knesset Control Committee, defending the IDF against criticism of 2014's Operation Protective Edge.

A gunman from the Izz ad-Din al- Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, photographed inside an underground tunnel in Gaza, in 2014.

Middle Israel: War of the sexes haunts IDF

Nationalist rabbis’ call to revolt against women’s combat postings will crash at takeoff, as observant women are voting by the feet, enlisting in ever-increasing numbers.

Women in the IDF

Event to boost LGBT, female combat troops

The project, headed by Omer Nahmany, aims to promote and assist female and LGBT recruits toward meaningful experiences before, during and after their service.

A female soldier has mud applied to her face for camouflage in this photo from an IDF Instructors course in 2006.

Israeli ministers call for Elor Azaria to be pardoned

"The security of Israel's citizens necessitates an immediate pardon for Elor Azaria," Bennett says.

Naftali Bennett

Israeli Navy captain: ‘Hamas will never be able to surprise us’

‘Post’ tags along for joint navy and air force drill simulating medical evacuation of wounded.

A YASUR helicopter hovers over a Super Dvora patrol boat during a joint navy-air force drill on Wednesday

Lone soldiers benefit from bureaucratic one-stop shop on ‘Errands Day’

NBN and FIDF team up to cut through red tape for young volunteers.

Ron Volkmar, a lone soldier in the IDF.

IDF completes large-scale Gaza drill simulating Hamas infiltration

The exercise simulated among other things, a massive infiltration by Hamas commando units into communities in southern Israel.

IDF completes large-scale Gaza drill simulating Hamas infiltration by land, sea, and air.

Elor Azaria’s defense team says IDF broke law by urging family to drop appeal

Army denies assertion, says meeting was to inquire if family required aid.

THE FATHER of convicted Sgt. Elor Azaria (center) prays behind him in a military court during a remand hearing for his case last March

Israeli youth ‘aren’t familiar enough with the land’

Brigadier-general says IDF recruits need to spend more time outdoors

IDF elite unit training day