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Smotrich approves more than 3,000 new homes in long-frozen West Bank settlement to ‘bury Palestinian state’

The project has been delayed for more than a decade due to international opposition

By JC Reporter

1 min read

A view of neighbourhoods in Ma'ale in the West Bank (Image: Yonatan Sindel/ Flash 90)

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Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich poses next to ‘death to Arabs’ graffiti during West Bank visit

By Eliana Silver

1 min read

West Bank

Activist featured in No Other Land reportedly killed by sanctioned settler

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Bezalel Smotrich

Far-right minister claims IDF chief supports ‘security annexation’ of sections of Gaza

By JC Reporter

2 min read

Settlers

US national ‘beaten to death’ by West Bank settlers, family says

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Members of a diplomatic delegation from the European Union inspect the damage at Kafr Malik village in the West Bank, following an attack by Israeli settlers (Image: Getty)

By Yaakov Katz

The settler activists who attack the soldiers sent to protect them

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West Bank

Israel to build new power plant in the West Bank

By JC Reporter

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Extremist settlers torch West Bank security site and riot against ‘traitor’ IDF officer

The military has condemned the attack on the installation, saying it poses a ‘danger’ to the safety of civilians

By Imogen Garfinkel

3 min read

June 30, 2025 11:01

A West Bank security installation that was damaged in an overnight arson attack by settlers. (Israel Defence Forces)

Netanyahu condemns settler attack on soldiers

Six Israelis were arrested after extremists hurled rocks at IDF troops

By Imogen Garfinkel

2 min read

June 29, 2025 12:14

IDF soldiers are seen operating in the Binyamin region of the West Bank, March 27, 2025. (Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

By Jake Wallis Simons

Settler violence is corrosive to the soul of Israel – It must be confronted

But we must not lose sight of the fact that Jihadism and Arab rejectionism are the true enemies that squat at the heart of this conflict

4 min read

June 26, 2025 15:03

Palestinians clear burnt belongings in their house after a reported attack overnight by Israelis from a nearby settlement (Getty Images)

Three killed in settler attacks on West Bank villages, claims PA

Human rights groups claimed that more than 100 settlers took part in a number of raids, which saw Palestinians shot and property destroyed

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

June 26, 2025 11:38

Three Palestinians were reportedly killed during settler attacks in Kafr Malik (Image: Getty)

Smotrich preparing ‘operational plan’ to enforce ‘Israeli sovereignty’ over West Bank

Critics of the move claim it would amount to an annexation of the PA-administered territory

By JC Reporter

1 min read

June 6, 2025 13:21

Far-right Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich has ordered his office to draw up 'operational plans' to assert 'Israeli sovereignty' over the West Bank (Image: Flash90)

UK condemns Israel’s approval of new West Bank settlements

Minister Hamish Falconer described the action as ‘a deliberate obstacle’ to the two-state solution

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

May 29, 2025 16:01

Middle East Minister Hamish Falconer. Credit: UK Parliament.

Baby of West Bank terror shooting victim dies in hospital

Ravid Chaim Gez was delivered by emergency caesarian after his mother, Tzeela, was fatally wounded while en route to give birth to him

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

May 29, 2025 09:22

Ravid Chaim Gez passed away in hospital this morning just under two weeks after he was delivered by emergency caesarian (Image: Gez family via X/@AmitSegal)

Israel approves 22 new West Bank settlements in ‘secret vote’

Some of the towns – which reportedly won the approval of the prime minister – will be newly built, while others will be outposts that were previously considered illegal under Israeli law

By JC Reporter

1 min read

May 28, 2025 10:17

Israel has reportedly approved the creation of 22 new West Bank settlements, including new building projects (Pictured: settlers set up tents and Israeli flags outside the village of Bruqin; Image: Flash90)

IDF kills suspect in West Bank murder of pregnant mother

Tzeela Gez, 30, succumbed to her injuries after her car was struck by a gunman as she travelled to hospital to give birth

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

May 19, 2025 11:20

One of the men suspected of involvement in the murder of Tzeela Gez last week has been killed by the IDF (Image: Instagram/@stateofisrael)

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Settlers

Smotrich approves more than 3,000 new homes in long-frozen West Bank settlement to ‘bury Palestinian state’

Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich poses next to ‘death to Arabs’ graffiti during West Bank visit

Activist featured in No Other Land reportedly killed by sanctioned settler

Far-right minister claims IDF chief supports ‘security annexation’ of sections of Gaza

US national ‘beaten to death’ by West Bank settlers, family says

The settler activists who attack the soldiers sent to protect them

Israel to build new power plant in the West Bank

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