Settlers

'People will live in the streets': Israel steps up evictions of Palestinians from east Jerusalem

Palestinians seek east Jerusalem, which Israel captured in the 1967 Six-Day War, for a future state and say that leaving their homes there could put an end to their hopes forever.

A Palestinian woman walks past a mural in the Silwan neighborhood of east Jerusalem on January 21, 2026.
A Jewish settler shepherd looks at Palestinians that are loading trucks as they are dismantling their houses after they were forced to evacuate their homes due to settlers harassment from a nearby outpost on January 12, 2026 in Ras Ein el-Auja, in the Jordan Vally West Bank.

Two Italian policemen in West Bank held up by settler, forced to kneel at gunpoint

An attorney has urged the Shin Bet to act after three Jewish hilltop youth allegedly attacked a pregnant Arab woman in Jaffa, warning that settler violence is being shifted from the West Bank into Israel’s cities.

IDF admits failure to sufficiently reduce Jewish violence against West Bank Palestinians

 A Palestinian man stands next to a burnt car after an attack by Israeli settlers in Kafr Malik, in the West Bank, June 26, 2025.

Israelis set fire to West Bank tents, vehicles, attack residents with clubs


Settler mob attack IDF soldiers with stones, hospitalizing one with head injuries

About 50 settlers gathered to attack the IDF soldiers, injuring one soldier who was taken to hospital with head injuries.

 Israeli forces seen entering an illegal West Bank outpost on the early morning of September 4, 2023

Smotrich: The time has come to apply Israeli sovereignty over West Bank

The United States has for decades backed a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians and has urged Israel not to expand settlements.

 Jewish settlers at the illegal West Bank settlement outpost of Ramat Migron, on September 8, 2023.

Mainstreaming the Judea & Samaria settlement movement - opinion

When we reconvene for next year’s Middle East Summit, God willing, we’ll have made real progress toward Jewish sovereignty in our biblical heartland.

 THE WRITER addresses the Middle East Summit, as former US ambassador to Israel David Friedman (left) and MK Ohad Tal sit nearby.

Hilltop Youth, Hardal: The anti-Zionist Jews threatening Israel - opinion

These fundamentalist Jewish groups twist Jewish tradition into an abominable chimera, mixing biblical literalism, ethno-nationalism, and theological obsessions similar Evangelical Christians.

  A Palestinian woman inspects the damage to a house on April 13 after settlers attacked the village of al-Mughayyer.

Dozens of Sukkot built near border at festival calling to resettle Gaza

Peace Now calls on the IDF to prevent attempts by settlers to infiltrate Gaza.

 A man builds a sukkah, this past week. Secular and religious Jews need to dialogue and learn from each other. Each group will be able to contribute its own richness, the writer stresses.

No, Jewish settlers aren’t messianic radicals - opinion

Although there is a popular train of thought among many Israelis that settling the Land of Israel will hasten the messianic era, it is not a consensus.

 THE JEWISH settlement of Eli, in Samaria, as photographed in 2021: The cheaper housing, larger properties, and suburban sprawl make living in Judea and Samaria attractive to hundreds of thousands of Israelis.

US announces sanctions on Israel’s Hilltop Youth movement over West Bank violence

The US imposed sanctions on Israel's Hilltop Youth movement and two individuals for violence against Palestinians, aiming to curb escalating West Bank tensions.

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

IAF strikes terror cell in West Bank counter-terrorism operation

The larger counterterrorism operation was conducted by IDF, Israel Security Authority, and Israel Prison Service forces.

 The damage caused from an Israeli military raid in the Tubas, in the northern West Bank, August 14, 2024

Israeli settlers kill one Palestinian, wound three in West Bank, Palestinian health ministry says

The reported attack was said to have been carried out on Palestinian civilians in Bethlehem.

 SOUVENIR SHOPS around Manger Square in Bethlehem are shuttered, earlier this month.

A literary critic on why the ‘settler colonial’ framing is bad for Israel and Palestine - opinion

Adam Kirsch, who has written books on the Talmud, Jewish-American literature, and contemporary poetry, Kirsch explores these ideas in a concise new book.

 One of several hundred demonstrators protesting against Israel's retaliation in Gaza following the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas, London, Oct. 23, 2023.