West Bank
Friday 9 October
At least 19 settler attacks target Palestinians in West Bank
Violence includes arson, theft and assaults on farmers as commission warns of coercion tactics.
Tuesday 6 October
Israeli forces demolish five-story building in East Jerusalem
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir attended the demolition of a residential structure housing seventy Palestinians in Al-Tur neighborhood.
Israeli forces kill Palestinian and injure five in West Bank attacks
Soldiers shot a driver near Hebron while settlers assaulted olive harvesters near Jenin, injuring three others in separate violent incidents across the occupied territory on Monday.
Monday 28 September
Smotrich Urges Gaza-Style Escalation in West Bank
Finance minister calls for dismantling Palestinian Authority amid rising settler violence and movement restrictions across occupied territories.
Ben-Gvir Leads Hundreds in Al-Aqsa Incursion During Sukkot
National Security Minister declares ownership of site as Israeli forces close Old City streets and restrict Palestinian movement near the holy mosque.
Al-Aqsa Intifada Anniversary Marked Amid Rising Tensions
Hamas calls for global support as settler incursions and West Bank violence reach record levels during the commemoration.
Raids and Settler Attacks Disrupt West Bank Olive Harvest
Military incursions and settler attacks disrupt olive picking across multiple districts, involving arrests, property damage, and forced harvest theft.
Sunday 27 September
West Bank Olive Harvest Marred by Violence and Access Restrictions
Farmers face settler attacks, uprooted trees, and military barriers as the annual harvest season begins under escalating pressure.
Smotrich urges Gaza-style war in West Bank amid closures
Israeli finance minister calls for dismantling Palestinian Authority as military imposes week-long closure and shoots a girl.
Army Takes Al-Mughayr House as Base Again
Troops occupy Ahmed Nael Haj Mohammad home north of Ramallah for second time recently.
Friday 25 September
Settlers Cut Water Lines in Masafer Yatta Amid Escalating Demolitions
Israeli settlers and army forces repeatedly damage infrastructure, forcing 1,600 families to rely on expensive tanks while demolitions displace hundreds.
Thursday 24 September
Settlers Torch Vehicles and Block Roads in West Bank
Attacks in Ramallah and Hebron areas include arson, racist graffiti, and road closures that restrict Palestinian movement.
Wednesday 23 September
Israeli Forces Raid West Bank, Abduct Dozens and Demolish Homes
Soldiers and settlers invaded multiple towns, destroying property and detaining residents across the occupied territories on Wednesday.
Israeli Forces Raid West Bank Villages, Arrest Palestinians
Troops searched homes and damaged property in multiple areas while detaining residents during early morning operations across the occupied territory.
Tuesday 22 September
Israeli Raid Paralyzes Life in Biddu Northwest of Jerusalem
Mass detentions and house searches follow a shooting incident, leaving residents confined and local institutions closed amid heightened military pressure.
Israel Orders Vegetation Removal from West Bank Land
Military directives target agricultural areas in Jenin and Ramallah with short deadlines for compliance and objections by landowners.
Monday 21 September
West Bank Sees Surge in Raids and Colonizer Violence
Israeli forces and colonizers intensified attacks across occupied territories, abducting residents and injuring Palestinians during widespread military invasions.
Sunday 20 September
Netanyahu Visits Western Wall as Forces Detain Palestinians
Israeli troops raid a West Bank village and hold twenty-seven people while thousands gather in Jerusalem for religious observances.
Settlers 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.
Herzog Erases Record of Soldier Who Killed Wounded Palestinian
The Israeli president cleared Elor Azaria’s record despite military opposition and lack of remorse, ending a decade-long controversy over the Hebron shooting.
Settlers Detain Palestinians in West Bank and Storm Jerusalem Plaza
Israeli settlers cut water lines and attacked activists while thousands performed rituals near Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem.
West Bank Raids See Mass Detentions and Infrastructure Damage
Soldiers and settlers invaded towns, cut water lines, and abducted residents across multiple governorates during dawn operations on Saturday.
Saturday 19 September
Journalist Alaa al-Rimawi Detained in West Bank Raids
Israeli forces detained the reporter and conducted widespread searches across multiple governorates, arresting dozens of Palestinians.
Friday 18 September
Israel Tenders All 3,401 Units for Controversial E1 Settlement Plan
New bids open October 25 for housing in strategic corridor, raising fears of West Bank fragmentation and isolation of East Jerusalem from its surroundings.
Forces and Settlers Attack Palestinians Across Occupied West Bank
Soldiers and settlers conduct raids, abductions, and violent assaults in multiple districts, injuring residents and damaging property throughout the region.
Thursday 17 September
Israeli Forces Arrest Dozens Including Journalist in West Bank Raids
Raids across occupied territories injure two Palestinians while settlers set fire to agricultural land near Ramallah amid escalating military operations.
Israeli Forces Arrest Journalist Alaa Al-Rimawi in West Bank Raid
Troops detain dozens across occupied territories while settlers burn agricultural land near Ramallah amid escalating military operations.
Palestinian prisoner dies in Israeli custody amid West Bank raid
US extends visa sanctions on Palestinian officials while a youth is injured by live fire during an Israeli military operation in Al-Bireh city.
Wednesday 16 September
West Bank Settlement Plans Surge in 2026
Over eighteen thousand units advanced across occupied territories as planning activity intensifies significantly during recent months.
Israel Expands Settlement Near Jerusalem Amid Western Sanctions
The move confiscates Palestinian land to merge outposts, aiming to split the West Bank and isolate Jerusalem from surrounding territories.
Tuesday 15 September
Protests 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.
Jerusalem Warns of Push to Alter Al-Aqsa Religious Reality
Officials cite organized rituals at Mercy Gate as part of strategy to establish permanent Jewish prayer presence near holy site.
Monday 14 September
Violence Escalates in West Bank and Gaza Amid Rising Casualties
Israeli forces injure Palestinians in Hebron while strikes in Gaza City wound ten others near a hospital camp.
Israel Advances 153 Settlement Plans in West Bank During 2026
Palestinian commission reports over 18,000 housing units targeted in occupied territories since January.
West Bank sees surge in military raids and settler violence
Israeli forces abducted Palestinians and demolished facilities while settlers attacked farmers across multiple governorates, causing injuries and economic harm to local communities.
Sunday 13 September
Over 1,200 Settlers Storm Al-Aqsa Amid Tightened Palestinian Access
Israeli police facilitate settler rituals at the holy site while banning hundreds of Palestinians from entering during the Jewish holiday season.
Beit Ummar Farmers Face Settler Attacks Water Shortages Rising Costs
Farmers in Beit Ummar struggle to maintain livelihoods due to settler violence limited water access rising input costs and weak market protection
Saturday 12 September
Water Cutoff Isolates 47 Families in Northern Jordan Valley
Israeli forces severed pipelines and blocked roads, forcing residents to walk kilometers for basic needs while livestock face dehydration.
Israeli Forces Demolish Home in Battir Village West of Bethlehem
Soldiers also broke into a residence and occupied its rooftop during the raid.
Friday 11 September
Israeli Forces Abduct 28 Palestinians in West Bank Raids
Soldiers detained journalists and civilians across multiple governorates while settlers attacked agricultural lands near Ramallah on Thursday.
UN Warns of Sharp Rise in Demolitions in Masafer Yatta
Recent Israeli actions displaced nearly sixty Palestinians, half of them children, as international officials assess urgent humanitarian needs in the southern West Bank.
Thursday 10 September
Taybeh Plans US Civil Suits Against Settlers and Supporters
The town seeks accountability in American courts as residents face escalating violence, land seizures, and restricted access to agricultural areas in the West Bank.
Wednesday 9 September
Israeli Forces Kill Two, Abduct Dozens in West Bank Raids
Military invasions across the occupied territories resulted in deaths, mass detentions, and property destruction while settlers escalated attacks on residents.
Tuesday 8 September
Israeli Forces Raid Anata and Shu’fat, Detaining Dozens
Military vehicles seal entrances, damage water lines, and impose curfew on eighty thousand residents in northeast occupied Jerusalem.
Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Man in Aqraba Siege
Soldiers besieged a home, used anti-tank grenades, and withheld the body of Abdul-Karim Khader after demolishing parts of the structure.
Monday 7 September
Palestinian Killed After Stabbing Incident Near Nablus
Israeli forces killed a suspect following an attack that wounded a colonizer, escalating violence in the northern occupied West Bank.
Sunday 6 September
Huckabee Visits Turmus Ayya, Labels Settler Violence Terrorism
The US ambassador condemned attacks as crimes while using biblical terms for the territory and blaming Hamas for stalled Gaza peace efforts.
Israeli Forces Shoot Two Palestinians in West Bank Raids
Soldiers injured a child and a man with live fire while abducting residents across multiple cities during early Sunday military invasions.
Soldiers eject detained Palestinian from vehicle after beating
Rights group shares footage of man thrown onto ground near Al-Mughayyir village as military jeep drives away without providing aid.
Saturday 5 September
US envoy urges severe consequences for West Bank settler violence
Mike Huckabee meets victims in Turmus Ayya and demands Israeli government guarantee safety without directly criticizing state actions.
Israel Seizes Land in Qabatia for Military Road
Order targets plots near Noa outpost, raising fears of annexation through infrastructure.
Kristof Labels West Bank Actions Ethnic Cleansing Amid Rising Violence
The columnist criticized settler blockades while new reports detail military raids, land seizures, and property vandalism across the occupied territories.
Army Blocks Aid to Besieged Qusra Families
Israeli forces prevent activists from delivering supplies while settler violence escalates across the occupied West Bank territory.
Friday 4 September
Amnesty: Israel Seizes West Bank Land to Link Settlements
Confiscation orders in Jenin target Area A, aiming to connect planned settlements and isolate Palestinian communities from neighboring governorates.
Israeli Forces Abduct Dozens Across West Bank Amid Escalating Raids
Soldiers detain Palestinians in multiple governorates while colonizers attack property and inaugurate a new settlement south of Bethlehem.
Thursday 3 September
Settler Hikes in Qira Signal Looming Land Grab Threat
Armed groups tour West Bank village, marking sites as precursor to expansion and violence.
Two Palestinians Killed in Settler Attack Near Ramallah
Israeli forces protected colonizers who stormed Al-Mughayyir village, killing two youths and detaining relatives amid wider West Bank raids.
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.
Wednesday 2 September
Study: Parks Used to Alter Palestinian Land Identity
Research paper argues green spaces obscure village remains and reshape historical memory in occupied areas.
Tuesday 1 September
Settlers Torch Mosque Near Nablus in West Bank Escalation
Ministry condemns arson at Noureddin Zenki Mosque as settler violence surges across occupied territories with thousands of recorded attacks.
Ben-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.
Ben-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.
Monday 31 August
Settlers 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.
37.5 dunams seized at Beitunia to enlarge an army site
The land falls in basins where registration was never completed, and possession of it passes to an Israeli defence ministry official for 60 days.
Sunday 30 August
Israeli police re-enter Qalandia centre two days after withdrawal
The refugee agency puts more than $5m of equipment at stake at a site that was being readied to take in 340 students next week.
450 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.
Six treated for tear gas in a raid on al-Faraa camp
Israeli forces went into the camp south of Tubas late on Saturday, and in Hebron's Old City soldiers beat journalists who were covering settlers brought in under escort.
Saturday 29 August
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.
Two wounded by live fire in a raid on al-Amari refugee camp
A 15-year-old was hit in the back and a young man in the leg when Israeli troops entered the camp at al-Bireh before dawn, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said.
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.
Israeli air strike kills three in Jenin, the first in months
Red Crescent crews sent to the site west of Jenin refugee camp were held on arrival, then ordered away without taking the dead or wounded, the society said.
Friday 28 August
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.
Wednesday 26 August
Work begins on turning the seized Qalandia centre into a school
Israeli municipal crews went into the vocational institute on Wednesday to ready it for their own pupils, while soldiers held the compound for a second day.
Israel 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.
Fifth Israeli entry at the Qalandia training centre since May
Guterres has told Israel to leave every UN site it has taken and hand it back, after more than 50 personnel and four armoured vehicles moved onto the vocational school.
Demolition notices served in Kafr Aqab and Qalandia camp
Houses and other buildings along the wall were marked for removal, and 40 people were held and questioned at the UN training centre before work began on pulling it down.
Tuesday 25 August
Israeli forces take over two UNRWA centres north of Jerusalem
The vocational training centres at Qalandiya and Kufr Aqab serve some 16,000 refugees across the West Bank, and a child was shot and wounded beside one of them the same day.
Israeli lawmaker takes a sledgehammer to a memorial at Madama
The army says the demolition was never approved and that the legislator misled it, while the village council says soldiers stood by and watched him work.
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.
Settler 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.
Monday 24 August
US 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.
More than 10 homes demolished in Masafer Yatta in two months
In Deirat, one family lost a two-storey house holding 25 people, put up a tent, and watched Israeli forces demolish that too and level the ground beneath it a month later.
Sunday 23 August
Israeli forces kill Fathi Khazem at his home in Jenin
His 12-year-old son, the only witness inside the flat, says soldiers shot his father after he refused an order to kneel. The army says he came at a soldier with a knife. His body has not been returned.
Families 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.
Israeli forces close the last open entrance to al-Mughayyir
The village northeast of Ramallah lost its eastern entrance in October 2023 and has been reachable only from the west since. On Sunday that way in was shut too, and tear gas was fired at vehicles that came near it.
Settlements 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.
Saturday 22 August
Settlers 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.
Settler 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.
Friday 21 August
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.
Thursday 20 August
Israel returns the body of a 17-year-old withheld since March
Teams from the Palestinian civil affairs authority took the remains at a checkpoint north of Ramallah. A campaign that documents the practice counts 800 Palestinian bodies still held.
Two 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.
Wednesday 19 August
30 Palestinians detained in a day of West Bank raids
The Palestinian Prisoner Society counted arrests in five governorates on Wednesday, and puts the number of Palestinians now held by Israel at about 9,400, a third of them without charge.
Israel puts 1,234 settlement units in E1 out to tender
Three Israeli organisations petitioning against the plan say the state had undertaken to warn them before any E1 tender, and told them in July that none was due for two to three months.
Monday 17 August
UN 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.
Israeli forces demolish a Qalandia home and farm buildings near Nablus
Fifteen people lost their housing in a single morning, against 165 structures pulled down across the territory in July.
At least 11 Palestinians detained in dawn raids across the West Bank
The raids reached four governorates, with homes searched, a vehicle seized and gas fired in two communities.
Silwan family forced to demolish its own home
Three more homes on the same street were ordered emptied, one of them lived in since 1966.
UN 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.
Sunday 16 August
UN partners: over 900 barriers hinder aid across the West Bank
Checkpoints and obstacles are slowing deliveries between governorates.
Palestinian teenager injured in settler attack southeast of Tubas
The Red Crescent treated a 16-year-old near the Ein Shibli checkpoint.
Church official urges action over attacks on Palestinian Christians
The appeal cites land confiscations and restrictions.
Palestinians ask foreign governments to act on settler attacks
Officials and residents in Bethlehem call for concrete measures.
Saturday 15 August
Settler herds graze in Palestinian wheat fields across the West Bank
Farmers say the harvest calendar is no longer theirs to set.
Medics say closures turn routine ambulance journeys into ordeals
Checkpoints and closures are lengthening transfers in the West Bank.