The Conversation

West Bank violence is soaring, fueled by a capitulation of Israeli institutions to settlers’ interests

Director of Security Studies and Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell Owais Hammam was walking near his home in Khirbet Bani Harith in the West Bank on Dec. 3, 2025, when, ...
CNN

Israeli settlers torch mosque and spray graffiti in latest West Bank attack

Israeli settlers torched a mosque and sprayed it with graffiti in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, according to Palestinian authorities, the latest in a surge of increasingly brazen settler attacks ...
The New York Times

In an Attack at Sunset, Israelis Set a Palestinian Village Ablaze

The violence last week in Kafr Malik, in the West Bank, comes amid a surge in assaults by Israeli settlers. It also set off a chain of violence in the area. The family of Murshid Hamayel at his wake ...
Democracy Now

As Israel Pushes to Annex West Bank, Norwegian Refugee Council Condemns Growing Settler Violence

Israel’s Knesset has advanced legislation that would effectively annex the West Bank, prompting rare criticism from the Trump administration, which says it does not support annexation. We get a report ...
The New York Times

A Bloody Month in the West Bank Olive Harvest Leads to the Death of a Boy

Palestinians see the violence, and its tolerance by right-wing Israeli officialdom, as part of a broader campaign to harass them and make life so unbearable that they will abandon their villages.