settler attacks

An Israeli soldier stands next to an ambulance after the army curfew was lifted for three hours, in the southern neighborhoods of the West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil), January 21, 2026. (Mosab Shawer/Activestills)

Israel’s roadblocks are choking emergency care in the West Bank

With proliferating closures, checkpoints, and settler attacks, Palestinian medics say routine ambulance journeys have become life-or-death ordeals.

By Shatha Yaish August 13, 2026

Israeli settlers fly an Israeli flag on the house of Ahed Khatib, inside Area B near Aqarba, in the West Bank, February 2026. (Oren Ziv)

‘Erasing the lines’: How settler outposts are seizing new regions of the West Bank

After decades consolidating their control over Area C, Israeli settlers are expanding into Areas B and A — nominally under Palestinian Authority jurisdiction — and displacing communities, a joint investigation reveals.

By Oren Ziv and Ariel Caine March 24, 2026

At the entrance of the tent where Israeli settlers gathered and beat residents and activists, in the herding community of Khirbet Humsa in the Jordan Valley, March 13, 2026. (Oren Ziv)

‘I thought we were going to be raped’: A night of settler terror in the Jordan Valley

Settlers tied up and beat Palestinians and activists in the herding community of Humsa while sexually assaulting one man, amid a wave of attacks in the area.

By Oren Ziv March 17, 2026

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An activist helps extinguish a fire set during a settler attack in Al-Tuban, Masafer Yatta, occupied West Bank, Jan. 27, 2026. (Roni Amir)

Inside a coordinated, multi-village settler-soldier pogrom in Masafer Yatta

As settlers set homes ablaze and looted livestock across three villages for over five hours, Israeli soldiers blocked ambulances, arrested victims, and even took part in beatings. This is how it unfolded.

By Basel Adra January 30, 2026

Khalil Al-Hathalin, a representative of Umm Al-Khair’s residents, indicates on a map the area of the village threatened by Israeli demolition orders, in Umm Al-Khair, Masafer Yatta, occupied West Bank, October 29, 2025. (Mosab Shawer/Activestills)

In Umm Al-Khair, erasure seems only a matter of time

With demolitions looming and settler violence escalating, our community faces a coordinated push to break our spirit and uproot us from our land.

By Tariq Hathaleen and Ahmed Hathaleen November 20, 2025

Israeli forces carry out demolitions in the Palestinian village of Khalet al-Daba, in Masafer Yatta, southern West Bank, May 5, 2025. (Mosab Shawer/Activestills)

In a West Bank ‘firing zone,’ Palestinians are erased as settlers lay down roots

While settlers' concrete mixers rumble under the Israeli army’s watch, Palestinian life in Masafer Yatta is being dismantled piece by piece.

By Basel Adra October 27, 2025

Palestinians watch smoke rising after a vehicle is set on fire by Israeli settlers during an attack on the first day of the olive harvest in the West Bank village of Beita, October 10 2025. (Avishay Mohar/Activestills)

Settler terror devastates West Bank olive harvest

Israeli military restrictions and over 150 settler attacks in the past two weeks have prevented many Palestinians from harvesting this year’s crop.

By Oren Ziv and Basel Adra October 24, 2025

Israeli settlers attack the village of Turmus Ayya in the West Bank, June 26, 2025. (Oren Ziv)

With West Bank annexation in the air, settlers revel in their impunity

Israeli settlers have rampaged through Palestinian towns and rioted at a military base in recent weeks, knowing government officials have their backs.

By Oren Ziv and Shatha Yaish July 9, 2025

Ahmad Nawajah holding the Oscar won by the film No Other Land, in Masafer Yatta, the occupied West Bank, March 25, 2025. (Courtesy of the family)

In Masafer Yatta, we need more than awards — we need protection

‘No Other Land’ exposed the world to our struggle. But as settlers and soldiers escalate their attacks after the Oscars, our existence hangs by a thread.

By Ahmad Nawajah April 8, 2025

Hamdan Ballal, left, and Rachel Szor, winners of the award for best documentary feature film for "No Other Land," attend the Governors Ball after the Oscars in Los Angeles, March 2, 2025. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Must the Palestinian have an Oscar for the world to care when he’s attacked?

We can't accept the rules of recognition set by the very powers that dispossess us, especially the idea that our success is what makes us worthy of protection.

By Sleman Altehe March 25, 2025

Mourners at the funeral of Khalil Salem Ziadeh in Wadi Rahal, August 27, 2024. (Oren Ziv)

‘If you try to defend yourself, you’re dead’: A West Bank village’s night of terror

Palestinians in Wadi Rahal were left to pick up the pieces after settler-soldiers from a nearby outpost stormed the village and killed one resident.

By Oren Ziv August 29, 2024

A settler fires at Palestinians from the village of a-Tuwani in the South Hebron Hills using a weapon he had grabbed from an Israeli soldier, June 26, 2021. (Screenshot from video by B'Tselem)

WATCH: Settler grabs Israeli soldier’s weapon, fires at Palestinians

Settler attacks in the South Hebron Hills have increased over the past few months, sometimes involving cooperation with soldiers.

By Basel Adra August 2, 2021

Israeli soldiers blindfold and arrest a young Palestinian man in Hebron. (photo: Activestills.org)

Administrative detention being used to push controversial ‘terror law’

A new bill that paves the way for putting Israeli citizens in administrative detention could one day affect activists, human rights workers, and Palestinian citizens of Israel. By Sawsan Khalife’ A week after the Shin Bet recommended that Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon sign off on administrative detention for two Jewish Israelis following the attack in the…

By Sawsan Khalife' August 16, 2015