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Masked men armed with clubs and guns approach a village in Masafer Yatta in the south-eastern West Bank, March 29, 2025.

Masked settlers attack Masafer Yatta, leaving several seriously injured

By Yuval Barnea

Israeli security members stand next to a settlement outpost established in the area, near Duma in Nablus, in the West Bank, March 14, 2025.

German journalist detained while in West Bank, ambassador says

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Security forces arrive at the scene of a suspected terror attack near Elazar, in Gush Etzion, on March 21, 2024. Beyond its historical significance, Gush Etzion is a critical asset for Israel’s future, the writer explains.

Settler leader to 'Post': Gush Etzion is a critical asset for Israel’s future

By YARON ROSENTHAL

Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham pose with the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature Film for "No Other Land" in the Oscars photo room at the 97th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 2, 2025

Oscar-winning Palestinian director of 'No Other Land' released after arrest

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF , REUTERS

Muslim women walk, as Israeli settlers carry Israeli flags next to a checkpoint near the Ibrahimi mosque, also known as the Cave of Patriarchs, on the day of the first Friday prayers of Ramadan, in Hebron's Old City, in the West Bank March 15, 2024.

Israel is ramping up annexation of West Bank, UN rights chief says

By REUTERS

A Palestinian shepard holds a goat that was left behind with a broken leg, few days after Bedouins said that Israeli settlers took livestock from the village of Ein al-Auja, in the Jordan Valley, March 9, 2025.

West Bank Bedouin community says Israeli settlers stole hundreds of sheep

By REUTERS

Frozen construction in the Shilo settlement beside the Palestinian village Tumus Ayya.

Annexation: While the IDF fights in Gaza, Smotrich is seizing control of the West Bank

By ZIV STAHL

An Israeli settler prays during a rally marking the third year of Israel's disengagement from Gaza.

Israel is the solution: The Jewish state must have sovereignty in Gaza

By AVI ABELOW

OPPONENTS OF Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan face IDF troops as they secure the fence of Kfar Maimon in July 2005 after police blocked them from marching to the Gush Katif communities to protest against their demolition.

Back to the future in Gaza: Time to end the experiment of expelling Jews for peace

By MICHAEL FREUND

Documentarian Louis Theroux attends the 25th MOBO Awards in London, Britain November 30, 2022.

Louis Theroux to record new BBC documentary on ‘extreme’ West Bank settlers

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

View of a burnt Palestinian car after it was set on fire by settlers in the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus in the West Bank, December 4, 2024

Katz, security forces squabble over Jewish detentions amid West Bank settler violence

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

US President Joe Biden seen leaving a bookstore in Massachusetts with "The hundred Years War on Palestine," November 29, 2024.

Biden spotted with book that accuses Israel of settler-colonialism, apartheid

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

NEW OC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Avi Bluth has his work cut out for him dealing with extremist Jewish violence and a rise in Palestinian terrorism.

Nearly five months in, how has Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth handled extremism, terrorism in the West Bank?

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Israeli soldiers guard during a protest of Jewish settlers outside the West Bank city of Nablus, May 30, 2024

Katz’s populist move threatens Israel’s stability in the West Bank

By JPOST EDITORIAL

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the plenum, during a discussion on the subject of hostages kidnapped during the deadly October 7, 2023 attack, in Israel's parliament, the Knesset, in Jerusalem, November 18, 2024.

Netanyahu condemns settler violence on IDF in West Bank

By REUTERS

Masked Israeli settlers watch after Palestinian fields were set on fire in the village of Asira al-Qiblyia in the northern West Bank on June 2, 2010

Settlers throw rocks at IDF, security forces in West Bank, five suspects arrested

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich cries as he recounts the sacrifices of the Religious Zionist community during the war, October 28, 2024.

Biden's sanctions will damage the economy of West Bank settlements

By SHUKI FRIEDMAN

Jewish settlers seen while Palestinian farmers pick olives during the annual harvest season, in the village of Burqa, east of Ramallah, West Bank, October 20, 2024

Five right-wing settlers arrested after attempted attack on IDF Central Command chief in Hebron

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF