US congressman says he was detained by armed Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank

Ro Khanna said settlers were armed with US-made weapons and Israel Defense Forces refused to intervene…

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/11/ro-khanna-congressman-detained-israel-settlers-west-bank

 

Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says

Israeli soldiers and settlers are using gendered violence and sexual assault and harassment to force Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank, human rights and legal experts say. 

Palestinian women, men and children have reported attacks, forced nudity, invasive and painful body cavity searches, Israelis exposing their genitals, including to minors, and threats of sexual violence...

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/21/israeli-soldiers-using-sexual-assault-to-force-palestinians-out-of-west-bank-report-says

 

A strategy ‘to make life intolerable’: Israeli settlers are driving Christians out of West Bank

The Taybeh community has survived crusaders and the Ottoman and British empires, but the latest attacks leave its future in question…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/05/israeli-settlers-driving-christians-out-west-bank

 

‘Settlers brought the violence’: ethnic cleansing in the West Bank

"When the war started settler leadership understood they had an unprecedented opportunity to step up ethnic cleansing for the area," Sarit Michaeli, international director of rights group B'Tselem. 

"The midterm goal is to remove Palestinians from all the open land in the West Bank, and they are doing this with the full participation of the Israeli government. The settler maps make clear that ultimately they want to empty the land of Palestinians."…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/14/settlers-violence-ethnic-cleansing-west-bank-village

 

Israeli figures warn state has ‘lost control’ as West Bank settlers attack - The Washington Post

The attacks, carried out by roving gangs of masked men and boys, have underscored the extent to which the Israeli government has allowed Jewish settlers to operate with impunity in the occupied territory. They have also exposed a deep rift between the most radical Israeli settlers, who believe they have a divine right to the land, and parts of the traditional security establishment, which sees the violence as destabilizing and undermining the state...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/19/west-bank-settler-violence-palestinians/

‘They have total impunity’: West Bank settler violence surges after Gaza ceasefire

UN logs 260 attacks in October alone, its highest monthly tally, as settlers attack farmers and burn olive trees…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/18/west-bank-surge-settler-violence-israel-palestine

 

Israel’s president says ‘shocking’ settler violence against Palestinians must end - POLITICO

His remarks, and those of two high-ranking military officials, came after dozens of masked Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian villages of Beit Lid and Deir Sharaf in the West Bank on Tuesday, setting fire to vehicles and other property before clashing with Israeli soldiers...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/13/israels-president-says-shocking-settler-violence-against-palestinians-must-end-00650197 

 

The quiet war: What’s fueling Israel’s surge of settler violence – and the lack of state response

This increase in violence is also enabled by a climate of impunity. Israeli security forces have been stretched thin by operations in Gaza, Syria, Iran and beyond. In the West Bank, the military increasingly relies on settler militias known as "Emergency Squads," which are armed by the Israeli military for self-defense, and army units composed primarily of religious Zionist settlers, such as the Netzah Yehuda Battalion. Such groups have little incentive to stop attacks on Palestinians, and at times, they have participated. 

This dynamic has dangerously blurred the line between the state military and militant settlers. The Israeli police, meanwhile, under the command of far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, appear focused on protecting settlers. Police leadership has been accused of ignoring intelligence about planned attacks and failing to arrest violent settlers or enforce restraining orders. Yesh Din, an Israeli human rights group, asserts that just 3% of attacks have resulted in a conviction. 

In June 2025, military attempts to curb settler militancy triggered a violent backlash, as extremist settlers attacked military commanders and tried to set fire to military facilities. Settlers view efforts to restrict their actions as illegitimate and a betrayal of Jewish interests in the West Bank…

https://theconversation.com/the-quiet-war-whats-fueling-israels-surge-of-settler-violence-and-the-lack-of-state-response-261990

Family of US citizen beaten to death by Israeli settlers calls on Trump administration to prosecute killers

"This is not an isolated tragedy. There's a devastating pattern of Americans being killed in Israel, brutalized and murdered with impunity by Israeli forces and settlers." 

Musallet's death is part of a growing wave of violence by Israeli settlers in the West Bank. Israeli forces and settlers have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in the territory and injured at least 9,000 since the Hamas attacks on Israel in October 2023…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/sayfollet-musallet-citizen-killed-israeli-settler-west-bank

 

Far-right Israeli settlers step up attacks on aid trucks bound for Gaza - The Washington Post

Groups of settler youth are tailing relief convoys, setting up checkpoints and interrogating drivers. In some cases, far-right attackers have ransacked and burned trucks and beaten Palestinian drivers, leaving at least two hospitalized...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/26/west-bank-aid-trucks-gaza-settlers/

‘Barbaric’: Palestinian lorry drivers recount settlers’ attack on Gaza aid convoy

"We are shocked and surprised that the army did not provide us with any kind of protection," he said. "Even though they were present and watching what was happening. The army was at the service of the settlers.'' 

Zoubi said the drivers fled the scene but that when they returned later to retrieve their belongings, they were attacked by the settlers, some of whom were armed. 

'At that point the army gathered us and ordered us to raise our hands on the walls," he said. "The settlers were free to terrorise us. I have never been attacked so brutally before…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/palestinian-lorry-drivers-israeli-settlers-attack-gaza-aid-convoy

Biden's Sanctions Against Israeli Settlers Ignores State's Role in West Bank violence

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‘They took our home, our land, everything’: Palestinians displaced by illegal settlers tell their stories

As the UK, US and France impose sanctions on 'extremist Israeli settlers', Palestinians face assault by gun, bulldozer and attack dog…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/01/they-took-our-home-our-land-everything-palestinians-displaced-by-settlers-tell-their-stories

Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, briefly explained

Some settlers have for years harassed and attacked the Palestinians living there, often with impunity and occasionally with the support of Israeli soldiers. In the weeks since October 7, however, the rate of violence has significantly increased. It is already the deadliest year since the Second Intifada, and is getting bad enough for the eyes of the world to occasionally leave Gaza and look to the West Bank. 

"I continue to be alarmed about extremist settlers attacking Palestinians in the West Bank," President Joe Biden said in late October, comparing the attacks to "pouring gasoline on fire."…

https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/12/2/23984104/west-bank-israel-palestine-settler-violence