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West BankSettlers Storm Al-Aqsa Compound Amid Rising Tensions
Israeli forces protect settlers performing rituals as warnings grow over attempts to change the holy site status quo.
West BankProtests erupt in Galilee town against new settler outpost
Residents of Majd al-Krum mobilize daily to remove tents erected by West Bank settlers on state land leased for livestock herding.
West BankSettler Hikes in Qira Signal Looming Land Grab Threat
Armed groups tour West Bank village, marking sites as precursor to expansion and violence.
PoliticsIran warns of retaliation if Israel attacks Lebanon ridge
Tehran sent message via Oman as settlers escalate West Bank incursions.
Two Palestinian teens killed in West Bank raid
Israeli forces and settlers shot two youths in al-Mughayyir village north of Ramallah on Wednesday evening.
West BankBen-Gvir Storms Al-Aqsa Compound With Settlers
The Israeli minister performed rituals and called for a temple, violating the historical status quo arrangement at Islam's third-holiest site.
West BankBen-Gvir Prays at Al-Aqsa Compound Under Police Guard
The Israeli minister entered the holy site with settlers, declaring plans for a temple and violating the long-standing status quo arrangement.
West BankSettlers seize a British activist; Israel orders him deported
Finn Joughin was locked in a shed at Umm al-Khair before being handed to police, his lawyer said, and the men who took him were not questioned.
Four shot at al-Mughayyir, then forces seal the village entrance
Settlers came at houses on the western side under army cover, it was reported, and by late evening accounts put the wounded at seven.
West Bank450 guava trees cut down near Jenin in a day of attacks
Fences were severed at Masafer Yatta, farmland was burned north of Hebron and farmers were shot at in Burqa, in incidents reported from five governorates on Saturday.
Rights235 Palestinian children killed in the West Bank since 2023
An Israeli rights group's figures put the rate at about seven a month, against roughly one a month in the seventeen years before the Gaza war.
Israel says it removed settlers who took over a Qusra home
Dozens of them went into a house at Ras al-Ain and sealed themselves in; the village council says soldiers then tried to arrest the Palestinians inside, and medics say an ambulance sent to the house was attacked.
Settlers wound three at al-Mughayyir, beat a father and son
Residents drove off an attempt to take their sheep northeast of Ramallah, and the settlers shot at the animals instead, according to the Red Crescent and other reports.
Settlers in army uniforms block Friday prayers near Nablus
Worshippers walking out to al-Wali and al-Hajj Hussein at Khirbet Tana were turned back by men in Israeli military dress, on a day of settler raids elsewhere in the West Bank.
West BankIsrael approves 18 new settlement zones in the West Bank
The orders set the ground over which four newly approved settlements and four outposts will hold municipal powers, and push Efrat's boundary toward Khirbet al-Nahla.
Settlers attack an AFP team near Bethlehem; five are treated
The three journalists had gone to the village of Jannatah to cover solidarity visits by Israeli activists, and the army ordered them out as a closed military zone before a second group of settlers arrived and threw stones.
West BankSettler attacks rise 63 percent over seven months of 2026
The Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission counted 4,113 attacks between January and July against 2,524 in the same months last year, and said not one month came in below its counterpart.
RightsUN rapporteur urges a protection presence in the West Bank and Gaza
Francesca Albanese made the call after footage circulated of settlers attacking farmers at Masafer Yatta, and pointed states towards the General Assembly as a way around the Security Council.
West BankUS citizen detained in a Tuqu' raid is freed; relatives stay held
Hussein Jabarin was taken from his family's home near Bethlehem on 12 August and held without charge for four days. He is preparing to fly back to Pennsylvania; the relatives arrested alongside and before him are still in Israeli prisons.
West BankFamilies hold out on Ras al-Ain, the last hilltop Qusra has left
Settlers pitched a tent metres from three homes on 9 August, the sharpest point in a campaign that has run seven months against a hill holding four springs and most of the farmland the village can still reach.
West BankSettlements and outposts in the West Bank reach 592 by end of July
The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission counts 192 settlements against 400 outposts, and puts the settler population at close to 780,000. Israeli control reaches 91 percent of the Jordan Valley.
West BankSettlers have killed 25 Palestinians in 2026, a record year
Two governorates, Ramallah and Nablus, account for 71 percent of the deaths counted since 2019, and three in five of those killed were under 30.
West BankSettler attacks have displaced 107 West Bank communities since 2023
Human Rights Watch says the violence is backed by the state rather than merely tolerated by it, and that the pattern may amount to forcible transfer. UN figures put settler attacks at an average of 6.6 a day.
Settler gunfire near Hebron kills one and wounds a man in his 70s
The Palestinian Red Crescent says its crews attempted resuscitation on both men where they lay before carrying them to hospital. Reports say a building was set alight nearby during the same raid.
West BankTwo Palestinians wounded by Israeli fire in a Qusra house raid
The Palestinian Red Crescent reported the injuries in a town that has spent the past week under settler attack, and part of this month under a military order that confined three families to their homes.
HealthSettler shooting near Hebron paralyses a nurse from Dura
Ambulances could not reach the neighbourhood, and the wounded man was driven out in a private car.
West BankUN data puts West Bank settler attacks near 3,000 since 2025
The tally counts assaults on villages and farmland, and the report places them under the protection of Israeli forces.
PoliticsIsrael shifts settlement law enforcement from army to police
The change decides which authority answers when a settler attacks a Palestinian, and no start date has been given.
West BankUN rapporteur says Israel is outsourcing coercion to settlers
Two villages northwest of Ramallah have lost almost all their farmland as new outposts go up around them.
West BankPalestinian teenager injured in settler attack southeast of Tubas
The Red Crescent treated a 16-year-old near the Ein Shibli checkpoint.
PoliticsQatar condemns escalating settler attacks in the occupied West Bank
Doha calls the systematic violence a flagrant violation of international law.
West BankPalestinians ask foreign governments to act on settler attacks
Officials and residents in Bethlehem call for concrete measures.
West BankSettler herds graze in Palestinian wheat fields across the West Bank
Farmers say the harvest calendar is no longer theirs to set.