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Suspected terrorist infiltration in West Bank settlement Kohav HaShahar

Home Front Command instructed residents to remain in their homes and lock all doors until further notice as the investigation took place, though the event has since ended.

A drone view of Al-Arroub refugee camp alongside a new road, part of the expansion of Israeli bypass roads connecting Israeli settlers in the West Bank with Jerusalem, in the West Bank, September 29, 2025.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich interacts with a man, on the day of a press conference regarding settlements expansion for the long-frozen E1 settlement, that would split east Jerusalem from the West Bank, near the Israeli settlement of Ma'aleh Adumim, August 14, 2025.

EU foreign ministers condemn Israel's new West Bank E1 settlement plan

Israeli security forces seen during an operation in the Tulkarm refugee camp, in the West Bank, July 6, 2025

Extremist settlers torch Palestinian vehicles in West Bank, claim act of 'vengeance' - report

 SETTLERS HURL stones at Palestinians during the annual harvest season, near the settlement of Yitzhar in 2020.

What makes someone a settler? The loaded politics of a single word - explainer


Majority of Israeli Arabs and Jews against resettling the Gaza Strip, survey finds

Supporters of resettlement said that the main reason would be "to correct the mistake of the unilateral disengagement from Gaza in 2005."

 A visit to the Gush Katif Museum in Jerusalem.

Biden's sanctions will damage the economy of West Bank settlements - opinion

The damage to the settlement enterprise will not be abated by the signing of a nullification order in Washington.

 Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich cries as he recounts the sacrifices of the Religious Zionist community during the war, October 28, 2024.

Jewish extremism is threatening Israel's legitimacy - opinion

Unchecked violence by extremist settlers threatens to undermine Israel’s international legitimacy and could lead to increased global isolation

 Screenshot of the incident of settler violence in Qusra from 21 June 2024.

Masked Israelis settlers club Palestinians in Mount Hebron region

KAN wrote that two Palestinians, a 38-year-old man and a 58-year-old woman, were wounded, and the woman remains in hospital.

 Screenshot of the incident involving Palestinians and Israelis on Friday 19 June.

Stop the tit-for-tat: Settlements cannot be used as a punishment for terrorism - editorial

Using the threat of settlements as a “punishment” feeds directly into the narrative that an Israeli presence on the West Bank is an obstacle to a peace agreement and is inherently counterproductive.

 Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a Finance committee meeting at the Knesset, on June 10, 2024

France to impose travel bans on violent Israeli settlers

Paris has backed that initiative and diplomats have said they hoped that once its measures were in place it could speed up the European process.

 Elisha Yered, an Israeli settler suspected of being involved in the death of a Palestinian teenager, is seen at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, on August 5, 2023.

UK sanctions four Israelis over aggression against Palestinians in West Bank

The UK Foreign Secretary's office says these four Israelis threatened human rights in the West Bank.

 Israeli border police officers guard after clashes between Palestinians and Jewish settlers near the Palestinian village of Jalud, in the West Bank, June 22, 2023.

Canada to sanction West Bank settlers and Hamas leaders - minister

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday said he was considering imposing sanctions on "extremist" settlers in the West Bank.

 Israeli settlers hurl stones at Palestinians during the annual harvest season near the Israeli settlement of Yitzhar in the West Bank on October 7, 2020.

'Campaign of lies': Smotrich blasts Biden order against Jewish settler violence

The order was set to be released later Thursday, according to the documents and the US official, and is expected to include sanctions against the settlers, the news outlet reported.

 People overlook the Jewish settlement of Kokhav Hashahar, in the West Bank during a scouting mission to find new hilltops to settle, November 6, 2022.

Extremist violence in West Bank settlements must stop - EU's von der Leyen

"The Palestinian people and the Arab neighbors need the reassurance that there will be no forced displacement but a viable perspective, with an independent Palestinian state," she added.

 ‘YOU HAVE literally made the desert bloom,’ declared European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

Post-trauma response: The growing trend of wanting to return to Gaza

There have been many initiatives in the past 19 years to reestablish Jewish communities in the Gaza Strip, but until the October 7 massacre by Hamas, it didn't look likely.

 OPPONENTS OF Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan face IDF troops as they secure the fence of Kfar Maimon in July 2005 after police blocked them from marching to the Gush Katif communities to protest against their demolition.