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


Netanyahu leads meeting on West Bank riots, Katz defends axing administrative detention for Jews

IDF's Central Command chief: Conventional solutions for hilltop youth insufficient • Israel Katz: Administrative detentions only increased hatred and violence

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz seen in the Knesset plenum, December 16, 2024

Netanyahu to convene session discussing West Bank settler violence this week

Topics to be discussed at the session will include attaching ankle monitors to those found to already have restraining orders.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, November 10, 2025.

Netanyahu condemns West Bank riots, vows action against Jewish extremists

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, several government officials, and opposition figures condemned the Jewish extremists who rioted in the West Bank on Monday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir at the plenum hall of the Knesset, in Jerusalem, November 10, 2025

IDF launches manhunt for Jewish settler extremists amid rampant West Bank riots

The manhunt developed as a somewhat unusual event, given that lately the IDF only arrived at the scene of Jewish violence toward Palestinians in order to end and disrupt that violence.

Israeli security forces clash with Jewish settlers during the evacuation of Illegal structures in Tzur Misgavi, an outpost in Gush Etzion, in the West Bank, November 17, 2025

WATCH: Settler extremists riot in Palestinian West Bank village, set fire to homes and cars

Israeli forces were dispatched to the scene of the riot, carried out in response to an earlier demolition of an illegal settlement outpost in the Judean hills.

Israeli settlers riot at a Palestinian village in the West Bank, setting fire to cars and homes, on November 17, 2025

Unwilling or unable? Why won't the government get a grip on Jewish extremism? - editorial

The public silence of Netanyahu, Katz, and Ben-Gvir points to the only plausible conclusion: The government is part of the problem, not the solution.

An Israeli settler argues with a Palestinian farmer, during olive harvesting in Silwad, near Ramallah, October 29, 2025.

Netanyahu vows to take action against extremist settlers, directs warning at ministers

Netanyahu addressed the recent spike in West Bank Jewish settler violence, stressing the large majority of settlers are law-abiding and loyal to the state.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir during a 40 signatures debate, at the plenum hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on November 10, 2025.

Jewish settlers set fire to Palestinian mosque as West Bank violence runs rampant

Graffiti was found on the walls of the mosque with seemingly pointed messages to the IDF Central Command chief, who referred to Jewish violence against Palestinians as terrorism.

A Palestinian man inspects burned property in a mosque near Salfit in the West Bank, November 13, 2025

IDF detains Jewish settlers in West Bank arson attack on Palestinian village, four injured

Four Palestinians were injured in the settler attack, which extended to a factory, as well as agricultural lands, metal sheds, and several tents belonging to Bedouin families.

Israeli forces disperse Palestinian in the Hebron area, West Bank, November 10, 2025

Jew-hate gets a kosher certificate: Jewish author visits the real ‘No Other Land’

Tuvia Tenenbom, author of ‘Catch the Jew,’ gives his inimitable take on Palestinian-produced documentary ‘No Other Land.’

TUVIA TENENBOM at the Khalet al-Maiyya Municipality with Mohammed al-Adra, its director.