Area C

Palestinians in the village of Qaryut mourn the killing of two residents who were shot dead by an Israeli settler, occupied West Bank, March 3, 2026. (Oren Ziv)

With West Bank under total Israeli closure, settlers are seizing the moment

Israeli settlers have killed two Palestinians and raided dozens of villages amid the war with Iran, as the army restricts movement and backs up the attackers.

By Oren Ziv and Basel Adra March 4, 2026

Tawfiq Bani Odeh, a resident of the Palestinian village of Atuf, with his flock of sheep on Mount Tammun in the northern Jordan Valley, January 23, 2026. (Oren Ziv)

Israel’s new separation wall will sever Jordan Valley from rest of West Bank

The army is issuing evacuation orders and seizing land to prepare a massive barrier — part of a wider project to annex the Palestinian ‘breadbasket.’

By Oren Ziv February 16, 2026

Workers seen at a vineyard in the Israeli settlement bloc of Gush Etzion, occupied West Bank, September 3, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

The theft at the heart of Israel’s booming wine industry

After seizing Palestinian land, settlers are replanting it with vineyards — then exporting their wine as ‘Made in Israel’ to obscure its origins.

By Marta Vidal and Meriem Laribi January 30, 2026

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Ayman Ghrayeb. (Avishai Mohar/Activestills)

At settlers’ bidding, Israel arrests prominent Palestinian activist

Relatives say the detention of Ayman Ghrayeb, known for documenting forcible displacement across the West Bank, is intended to quell his activism.

By Oren Ziv November 24, 2025

Settlers seen in their newly-established outpost inside the Palestinian village of Maghayer Al-Dir, in the West Bank, May 21, 2025. (Oren Ziv)

In a single week, a new settler outpost erases an entire Palestinian community

After building on their land, Israeli settlers attacked and drove out residents of Maghayer Al-Dir, one of the last villages in the southern Jordan Valley.

By Oren Ziv May 26, 2025

Israeli forces prevent the residents of the Palestinian village of Az-Zuweidin from grazing on their private pastures and arrest three Palestinians, southern West Bank, May 4, 2024. (Omri Eran Vardi/Activestills)

In the West Bank, Palestinian unemployment is now Israeli policy

After October 7, Israel revoked the work permits of more than 150,000 Palestinians. On top of spiraling settler attacks, my village faces financial ruin.

By Haitham S. January 21, 2025

Palestinians and solidarity activists harvest olives in Duma, in the north of the occupied West Bank, on the first day of the olive harvest, October 10, 2024. (Avishay Mohar/Activestills)

‘I lost my wife and my land’: A deadly olive harvest season ends in the West Bank

Restrictions and attacks by the Israeli military, together with rampant settler violence, left many Palestinians unable to harvest this year's crop.

By Imad Abu Hawash December 12, 2024

The ruins of a building destroyed by settlers in the displaced Palestinian village of Khalet Khader, occupied West Bank. (Oren Ziv)

The West Bank villages wiped off the map by Israeli settler violence

Since October 7, over 50 rural Palestinian communities have been forced to abandon their homes amid intensifying attacks, threats, and harassment by Israeli settlers — almost always with the backing of the army and police.

By Oren Ziv December 4, 2024

Screening of ‘No Other Land’ in At-Tuwani, Masafer Yatta, occupied West Bank, March 14, 2024. (Oren Ziv)

In Masafer Yatta, our camera can be stronger than the bulldozer

At a screening in At-Tuwani, we realized our film isn’t just sharing our story with the world, but showing our people how we are fighting for change.

By Hamdan Ballal Al-Huraini March 29, 2024

Israeli settlers drive a tractor in the outpost of Ramat Migron, occupied West Bank, September 8, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

A new surge of settler outposts is terrorizing Palestinians off their land

Palestinians across the West Bank describe how Israeli settlers, with military backing, are intensifying their takeover of land for illegal construction.

By Imad Abu Hawash March 8, 2024

Musa Mleihat in front of the tent that is now his home, near Fasayil, occupied West Bank. (Yuval Abraham)

Palestinians struggle to rebuild their lives after West Bank settler pogroms

A surge in settler violence since Oct. 7 has robbed multiple Palestinian communities of their land and livelihoods. Now they don't know where to go.

By Yuval Abraham January 18, 2024

Palestinian residents of Khirbet Zanuta pack their belongings and house materials as they flee their homes following a spike in Israeli settler violence during the Gaza war, West Bank, November 1, 2023. (Oren Ziv)

‘If you don’t leave, we’ll kill you’: Hundreds flee Israeli settler violence in Hebron area

Seeing the Gaza war as a golden hour to fulfill their West Bank ambitions, Israeli settlers have chased out entire Palestinian communities in Area C.

By Imad Abu Hawash November 22, 2023

Solidarity demonstration in the Palestinians village of Susiya, in the South Hebron Hills, West Bank, June 22, 2012. (Yotam Ronen/Activestills)

Settler-soldier militias threaten Susiya with death and displacement

Like other rural West Bank communities, Susiya is being subjected to escalating Israeli assaults aimed at chasing Palestinians out of their homes.

By Hamdan Ballal Al-Huraini October 31, 2023