Theme: West Bank

Israeli President Isaac Herzog sent a warning letter last month to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top officials about a “highly explosive and dangerous reality” in the West Bank and the “moral disgrace” of settler violence, according to the Times of Israel, which says it obtained the letter. The letter was also sent to Foreign Minister Israel Katz, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, and says that IDF commanders, police officers and Shin Bet personnel report “limited tools and a shortage of manpower”. Herzog warned that a flare-up on the ground is liable to carry “severe and far-reaching consequences” for Israel's security, its functioning as a sovereign state, its international standing, Diaspora Jewry and the Israeli economy. He called for the perpetrators to be treated as members of a criminal organization and for a plan with a mass deployment of security forces, widespread arrests, administrative detentions and the dismantling of the groups. Settler violence has surged in recent months, with near-daily attacks and harassment and few perpetrators charged or convicted.

Dozens of Palestinian families returned to their homes in the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Monday after the Israeli army announced the end of its 11-day military operation. Approximately 537 families, comprising nearly 3,300 people, had been forced to leave their homes since the operation began, according to the Support and Relief Committee in Hebron Governorate. Residents reported the theft of gold jewelry, cash and personal belongings, as well as broken doors and damaged household contents. Hebron Mayor Yousef al-Jabari estimated damage to municipal facilities and utility networks at around six million shekels (around $1.9m), and Abdo Idris, head of the Hebron Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said daily losses exceeded 12 million shekels (about $3.8 million), with infrastructure damage surpassing six million shekels. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the operation after Palestinian gunmen killed two Israeli soldiers at a Hebron checkpoint on October 23, according to Reuters, in a text republished by The News.

Al Jazeera journalist Montaser Nassar was detained in raids near Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, according to the network itself.

Israeli forces accompanied by heavy machinery raided the Haska Road area northwest of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday and demolished five Palestinian-owned commercial businesses, local sources said. Nearly 750,000 Israeli settlers live in 156 illegal settlements and around 360 outposts across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, according to Palestinian figures.

An Israeli military order issued on October 28 placed 26,500 m² of land in the villages of Deir Nizam, Umm Safa and Atara under military control, for “military purposes,” according to the Palestinian Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission. The land is designated for a route called the Ateret–Neve Tzuf emergency axis, intended to connect illegal Israeli settlement sites in the area, and the order will remain in effect until the end of 2028. The commission said 5,891 m², or around 22.3 percent of the seized area, are classified by Israeli authorities as “state land,” while another 20,582 m² fall outside that classification.

Israeli soldiers blindfolded, handcuffed and arrested Al Jazeera correspondent Montaser Nassar during a raid on his home in Dura, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera reported.

Israeli forces launched raids on several towns in the occupied West Bank late on Monday, according to local sources. Among the targets are Qabatiya, south of Jenin, and the city of Qalqilya.

October has already recorded the highest monthly number of settler attacks resulting in casualties or property damage since documentation began in 2006, with 397 incidents between October 1 and 26, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Between October 20 and 26, 62 settler attacks were documented across 49 West Bank communities, including 38 related to the olive harvest.

Israeli security forces arrested 18 settlers who rioted and attacked troops during the evacuation of an illegal outpost in the West Bank, according to the Israeli military. The military announced on Monday evening that the detainees are suspected of assaulting security personnel working to halt construction at the outpost.

Hebron governor Khaled Dudin announced on Monday that Israeli forces withdrew from the city after a 10-day siege. According to him, Palestinian security forces took control of the area and displaced families can return. The Hebron Governorate reports more than 3,300 Palestinians displaced or otherwise affected and 15 homes and structures demolished in the operation, which began on October 23 after a shooting attack that killed two Israeli soldiers, wounded three and ended with both attackers killed.

Israel's siege of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, reached its tenth day on Sunday, with Israeli forces threatening to expand their military offensive in the city, according to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA, cited by Al Jazeera. The offensive has displaced more than 3,300 Palestinians, particularly in the al-Jalda and Ain Deir Bahha areas, and resulted in the demolition of 15 homes.

A Palestinian man died on Sunday morning from wounds sustained when Israeli occupation forces shot him in al-Musaddar village, in the central Gaza Strip, according to the Wafa news agency, cited by Middle East Eye. Also on Sunday, Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian olive harvesters near the village of Kafr Malik, northeast of Ramallah, according to Wafa.

Israeli authorities have issued 9,518 demolition or stop-work notices against Palestinian structures in the occupied West Bank since the start of 2015, according to a report by the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission cited by Middle East Eye. Of the total, 9,174 notices were documented between 2015 and 2025 and another 344 in the first nine months of 2026.

Three suspects were arrested on Saturday following a clash between Israelis and Palestinians near the village of Duma in the occupied West Bank, amid the ongoing olive harvest, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Residents of the Ain Deir Baha neighborhood in al-Khalil, in the occupied southern West Bank, had the area declared a closed military zone by Israeli forces during an offensive that reached its eighth day, according to Press TV. The al-Khalil municipality said, according to the outlet, that 4,969 Palestinians from 780 families had been forcibly displaced. The Palestinian Information Center counts Saturday as the ninth consecutive day of the siege, with military reinforcements and detentions of young Palestinians.

Almost 5,000 Palestinians have been displaced by Israel’s military siege on the southern West Bank city of Hebron, according to Al Jazeera. The number of people removed from their homes stands at 4,969, including 441 elderly people, 336 infants under two years old and 312 patients with chronic diseases. The siege began on October 23, after two Palestinians shot dead two Israeli soldiers in Hebron and wounded three others, before the army killed the two attackers.

On the eighth day of the military operation in Hebron, Israeli troops kept the al-Jalda and Deir Bahha neighbourhoods sealed off and fired tear gas and stun grenades at displaced Palestinian residents trying to return home, according to the Middle East Eye. Settlers attacked a Palestinian family harvesting olives in the village of Tel Rumeida near Hebron, injuring five. More than 115 Palestinians have been detained since the operation began, and more than 780 families have been affected, 537 of them fully displaced, according to WAFA, cited by the Middle East Eye.

Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has refused for the past 18 months to sign off on the transfers of funds owed to Ramallah, which have amounted to over US$7 billion, according to the Times of Israel. For much of the past year, the Palestinian Authority has paid its roughly 150,000 public-sector employees only 50 percent of their salaries. The newspaper assesses that the extended political deadlock keeps Benjamin Netanyahu, Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir in their existing positions of influence over affairs in the West Bank, albeit in a caretaker capacity.

Israel demolished on Friday the homes of the assailants who killed two Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron last week, Reuters reported in a text published by Al-Monitor. In a statement announcing the demolitions, Israel’s military said it would “continue to operate proactively and offensively” to thwart attacks in the West Bank. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military would “destroy” the neighborhood where the two attackers came from and that Israel was ready for “extensive action” in the occupied West Bank, the BBC reported.

Israel's Border Police and military seized a weapons cache in the West Bank village of Hable, near Kalkilya, on Thursday night: three handguns, one of them an airsoft pistol, an M-4 assault rifle, components for several M-16 rifles, more than 2,300 rounds of assorted ammunition and 67 magazines, according to police, who announced the raid on Friday morning and arrested two suspects. Also on Thursday night, Israeli soldiers arrested four people in the area around Jenin. In Nablus, Israeli forces stormed Joseph's Tomb in the eastern part of the city at dawn and raided homes in nearby villages, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, cited by Middle East Eye.

Israel revoked the electronic travel authorizations of several American rabbis and activists and of Jewish New York politician Brad Lander after the group worked with Palestinians harvesting olives in the West Bank last week, Al Jazeera reported. Emails from Israel’s immigration authority told recipients that their authorizations had been “revoked” following “a change in circumstances in your case”, with no further reason given, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Jasper Nathaniel and Andrey Kharzhanovsky, activists who are also journalists and assist Palestinians in the West Bank, were arrested by police overnight Wednesday in the South Hebron Hills after footage showed them being attacked by two settlers, at least one of them armed, the Times of Israel reported. Police said Thursday they had received a report of a clash in the area in which two Israeli citizens were attacked, and that police and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops arrested an Israeli citizen and a foreign national. No settlers were reported arrested.

Hebron Governor Khaled Dudin said Thursday that 537 families, or 3,361 people, have been forced from their homes in the Israeli offensive under way in the city, according to Al Jazeera, citing the Wafa news agency. The offensive has disrupted schooling for about 262,000 students at 589 schools in the governorate, and the schools moved to remote learning this week. At Qalandiya camp, Red Crescent teams treated a 15-year-old boy shot with live ammunition in both legs and a 12-year-old child injured by bullet fragments, both taken to the hospital.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) may exit or reduce their presence over the coming weekend in the Hebron neighborhood they have occupied since last weekend, according to the Jerusalem Post, which says the situation is uncertain and highly dynamic. Before the election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the recommendation from IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir to leave the area and allow the at least 2,000 evacuated Palestinians to return home. Adalah petitioned the High Court of Justice on Thursday on behalf of Hebron’s municipality and seven residents to halt forced evacuations and demolitions and secure the return of residents ordered out of their homes.

Israeli forces arrested at least 13 Palestinians on Thursday in raids across the occupied West Bank and continued raids and closures in Hebron for a seventh consecutive day, shutting iron gates around the Old City and seizing Palestinian homes, according to Palestinian sources cited by TRT World.

Activist Adele Shoko said Israeli settlers attacked her and two colleagues in the Palestinian village of Umm al-Khair, in the Masafer Yatta area of the occupied West Bank, in Palestine,, according to social media posts. According to Shoko, US journalist Jasper Nathaniel was also beaten, pepper-sprayed and arrested, then taken away by Israeli forces.

A UN independent commission of inquiry concluded that Israel committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including extermination, persecution, torture and rape, and that it continues to commit genocide in Gaza by deliberately targeting Palestinian civilians. In a report released Monday, the group of experts commissioned by the UN said the ceasefire agreement in Gaza has not stopped what it describes as genocide and accused Israeli forces of torture and rape in the West Bank. The document submitted to the General Assembly compares airstrikes in the West Bank: six Palestinians killed between 2008 and October 6, 2023, against 254 between October 7, 2023 and September 30, 2026.

The UN human rights chief, Volker Türk, warned on Monday that Israel’s operation in the West Bank city of Hebron raises serious concerns of ethnic cleansing, as the number of Palestinians forced from their homes passed 3,000, according to UN News. Threats to empty and erase entire neighbourhoods also raise serious concerns of ethnic cleansing, UN News reported.

Israeli forces closed all entrances to Ramallah on Tuesday morning and set up checkpoints along alternative routes used by Palestinians, including the Ein Sinya and Atara checkpoints and the Rawabi gate to the north, as well as the Nabi Saleh and Aboud gates to the northwest, according to WAFA. Israeli troops also set up a checkpoint near the Ministry of Education district on the al-Bireh-Jalazone road and another on the road connecting Yabroud with Silwad, northeast of Ramallah, according to Mehr News.

Senator Chris Van Hollen called for accountability for nine US citizens killed by Israeli settlers or forces in the occupied West Bank, according to TRT World — Van Hollen renewed his call for accountability for nine Americans killed by Israel in the occupied West Bank since 2022, according to Anadolu.

A United Nations (UN) commission of inquiry accused the Israeli government of committing extermination, persecution, torture and rape against Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank, according to Opera Mundi. The body also said Israeli forces killed 1,080 Palestinians in the West Bank between October 2023 and September 2026, while more than 34,000 Palestinians remained displaced as of August. The independent commission accused Israel of crimes against humanity, including extermination, against Palestinians in the West Bank, according to UN News.

Israel kept committing genocide in Gaza after last October's US-brokered ceasefire, a UN commission said in a report published on Monday, according to Reuters. The report says Israeli authorities kept committing genocidal acts with the genocidal intent to destroy, in whole or in part, the Palestinians in Gaza. Israel's Foreign Ministry called the report a propaganda document detached from reality aimed at undermining the country's right to self-defense. The commission also recorded almost 500 Palestinians killed annually in the West Bank since 2022, the highest numbers since the UN started collecting that data, according to the Jerusalem Post.

The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry concluded that Israel committed war crimes and the crimes against humanity of extermination, persecution, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. According to the commission, Israel deliberately targets Palestinian civilians and continues to commit genocide in Gaza. The report records that six Palestinians were killed by airstrikes in the West Bank between 2008 and October 6, 2023, against 254 between October 7, 2023 and September 30, 2026, and concludes that Palestinians in the West Bank are targeted on the basis of their nationality, race and ethnicity, gender and age.

Hebron Governor Khaled Dudin said on Monday that 488 families comprising 3,171 people had been displaced across the wider governorate, according to Al Jazeera. Mayor Yousef al-Jabari told the outlet that 3,043 of those displaced are from within Hebron city limits. The Israeli army said it would bar Palestinian workers from entering most areas of the West Bank through Monday and enforce a full closure of crossings on Tuesday, the day of Israel’s parliamentary election.

Nearly 2,000 Palestinians in Hebron were displaced as Israeli forces took over homes, according to The Guardian; Hebron Mayor Yousef al-Ja’bari told Al Jazeera that 2,200 people had been forced from their homes by Israeli troops and raids, and Israel’s defence minister confirmed “about 2,000” people displaced.

Israeli forces sealed every major entry point into al-Khalil (Hebron), drove more than 2,200 Palestinians out of their homes and turned entire residential quarters into military barracks, according to the Tehran Times.

The Israeli Army said all land crossings with the West Bank will be closed on election day, October 27, and that it would enforce a ban on the entry and exit of Palestinian workers throughout Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley, including industrial zones, according to The Hindu. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to exact a heavy price for Friday's attack, in which two Israeli soldiers were killed, and said he was planning an operation on a scale not seen since Israel first occupied the West Bank in 1967, according to the same newspaper.

Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz acknowledged that Israeli forces forcibly displaced around 2,000 Palestinians from their homes in Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank, barring residents from returning until alleged “Hamas infrastructure” is dismantled, according to TRT World. Katz said about 2,000 residents had been displaced by the operation, which centred on the Ein Deir Baha and Farsh al-Hawa neighbourhoods and targeted homes, businesses, industrial sites and infrastructure, according to the BBC. The operation was announced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday, in response to the killing of two Israeli soldiers by two Palestinian gunmen in an attack on a checkpoint, according to the BBC.

The Israeli army said Palestinians with work permits will be barred from settlements in the occupied West Bank on Sunday and Monday, except industrial zones and other approved areas, according to the Middle East Eye.

The Israeli military forced around 1,200 Palestinians to leave their homes in Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, a Palestinian official said, a day after a Palestinian attack killed two Israeli soldiers. The operation in the al-Jaladah and Ein Deir Baha neighbourhoods, near the military checkpoint at the entrance to the city, is meant to search for militants and weapons, and the military said it would carry out demolitions. Yousef Zouhair al-Jabari, the head of Hebron's municipality, said around 1,300 more residents faced losing their homes in addition to the 1,200 already displaced.

Israeli troops and the Civil Administration continued on Saturday to demolish buildings and infrastructure deemed illegal near the northern entrance to Hebron, as part of a large-scale military operation, according to the Jerusalem Post. During the operation, troops searched about 200 locations and arrested 10 suspects. Civilians who requested to evacuate were allowed to temporarily leave the area through designated checkpoints operated by the Shin Bet and the military.

Five Italian activists detained by Israeli forces in the West Bank this week were released and repatriated on Saturday morning, Italy's foreign ministry said, according to Reuters, in text published by The Hindu. The women were detained by Israeli police in the settlement of Kiryat Arba, next to Hebron, along with other international activists, while trying to protect Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest, according to the Times of India.

The Hebron municipality estimated that 35 hectares had been destroyed or marked for destruction, with about 1,500 people evicted from their homes in the Ein Deir Baha district by Saturday afternoon, according to The Guardian. Hebron Mayor Yousef al-Ja'bari told Al Jazeera that around 2,200 Palestinians had been forcibly displaced from their homes in the al-Jalda and Ein Deir Bahha neighbourhoods, as Israeli forces continue a military operation in the occupied West Bank. Days ahead of elections, Netanyahu said there is a “very big surprise” for the Palestinian Authority and, asked whether he would dismantle it, declined to answer directly, saying he favoured “ruse and surprise”, according to Malay Mail.

Around 1,500 Palestinians have been forced from their homes in the occupied West Bank since Friday, and more than 200 families have been left homeless, according to Middle East Eye. Hebron Governor Khaled Dudin called for international intervention and told the Wafa news agency, cited by Middle East Eye, that the Israelis plan to force out 2,500 further people in the coming hours.

The Israeli army kept up its siege of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank, for a second consecutive day on Saturday, forcing dozens of Palestinians from their homes, according to Palestinian media. Separately, Israeli forces detained 19 Palestinians in raids across the occupied West Bank, according to TRT World.

The World Food Programme (WFP) announced in September a 50 percent cut in the number of food aid recipients in the occupied West Bank, citing “critical funding constraints” resulting from reduced funding from international donors, according to Al Jazeera. The UN agency said about 900,000 people in the West Bank are currently suffering from food insecurity, according to the report.

Israeli bulldozers demolished a three-storey building in Hebron, with families given five minutes to collect their belongings, as part of an operation the army said would last “for several days”, according to Al Jazeera. The announcement was made late on Friday and adds to operations by other forces in “dozens” of areas across the occupied West Bank. In the northern West Bank, Israeli forces raided at least 15 towns and detained dozens of Palestinians, according to Al Jazeera correspondents.

Israel’s military launched an operation in the Hebron area expected to last several days, with systematic searches for infrastructure and weapons and the questioning of dozens of suspects, following Friday morning’s deadly Hamas attack, according to a joint statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency). According to the Jerusalem Post, the searches focus on the area out of which the attackers operated. Troops from the IDF, the Shin Bet, the Border Police and the Civil Administration are carrying out “targeted and thorough searches… in the area to locate and dismantle terror infrastructure and weapons, and to interrogate many dozens of suspects,” according to the Times of Israel.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed “deep concern” over escalating violence and widespread Israeli-imposed closures affecting Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, he said, according to TRT World. On Friday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered an “immediate closure” of Hebron and instructed security forces to prepare for a “full lockdown” across the West Bank following a gun battle in the city. Israel locked down the occupied West Bank after the Hebron shooting, Al Jazeera reported. Guterres condemned the record number of attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in 2026, according to spokesman Dujarric.

Israeli military forces began on Friday, October 23, an operation to evacuate and demolish homes in the cities of Hebron and Halhul in the West Bank, according to Opera Mundi. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military would go house to house and demolish homes in an operation on a scale unseen in the occupied West Bank for decades, according to The Guardian. According to RT, he said he had instructed the security forces to immediately blockade the city of Hebron and prepare to completely blockade the entire area of Judea and Samaria, the Israeli government's designation, from today. The shooting that prompted the response left five Israelis wounded and two suspected Palestinian attackers killed by Israeli security forces, according to Israeli officials cited by the BBC.

Armed settlers arrived in two vehicles near the Ajja roundabout, south of Jenin, and demolished a memorial to Shireen Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera journalist, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa. The agency reported the destruction on Friday and attributed it to Israeli colonists.

Israel's military identified the two soldiers killed in Friday's shooting attack in the occupied West Bank: Staff Sergeant Ron Yonatan Roytman, 23, from Ashkelon, and Sergeant Yuval Shai Svilem, 20, from Hod Hasharon. Both fell in combat at the Judea Junction when two attackers travelling in a car opened fire on soldiers with an M4 machine gun and a pistol. Three other soldiers from the same battalion were lightly injured.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said it instructed security forces to immediately cordon off Hebron and prepare a full closure of the West Bank starting Friday, according to the Associated Press (AP). The order came a few hours after an attack near Hebron that injured at least five people, some critically, the agency reported. Netanyahu blamed Hamas, saying the group was “planning a major attack aimed at murdering innocent civilians.”

Israeli forces arrested 36 Palestinians during raids across the occupied West Bank, as attacks on farmers intensify during the olive harvest, according to Al Jazeera. The Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission documented 17 attacks by Israeli forces and settlers on Thursday against farmers and land during the harvest.

A shooting attack was reported on Friday morning near the Judea Junction, by Hebron, with several people reportedly wounded, according to The Jerusalem Post. The Israeli military said it killed the two perpetrators and launched a manhunt for possible additional attackers. The two carried a handgun and an M16 rifle and were killed after a brief pursuit as they tried to flee, with roadblocks set up in the area, according to Ynet.

Members of the extremist Hilltop Youth group were filmed waving weapons and dancing to an anti-Zionist song at a wedding in Gush Etzion, in the West Bank, according to KAN News cited by The Jerusalem Post. Later that night, Jewish rioters set fire to a vehicle in the Palestinian village of Beit Umar and spray-painted a message referencing the wedding.

Israel has released nine of the 10 Israeli settler suspects arrested over attacks on a US journalist and European diplomats in the occupied West Bank, placing them under house arrest, according to Al Jazeera. Separately, the Palestinian Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission said on Thursday it had documented 17 West Bank pogroms by Israeli forces and settlers against Palestinian farmers and their land during the olive harvest.

Israeli forces and illegal settlers carried out 23 attacks and violations against Palestinian farmers, their lands and crops, across seven governorates in the occupied West Bank, within 12 hours on Wednesday, according to a Palestinian commission cited by TRT World. A Palestinian farmer was shot in the hand with live fire while harvesting olives in the village of Osarin in Nablus.

An Israeli settler was filmed shouting at and assaulting a Palestinian child during an attack on a family east of Yatta, in the occupied West Bank, where settler violence has surged in recent years, according to Al Jazeera. On Wednesday, the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court extended the remand of a suspect arrested on suspicion of involvement in settler attacks in the West Bank over the weekend, including attacks against a Washington Post photojournalist and European diplomats, according to the Times of Israel. The suspect, Nadav Cohen Tzemach, has a documented history of violence against Palestinians in the West Bank but has never been charged with any crimes, according to the same outlet.

Brad Lander was released with a warning on Wednesday while the other detained volunteers remained held, according to Protect the Harvest. About 80 US, Israeli and British volunteers were detained near Nahalin, in the West Bank, and taken to a police station, the Guardian reported. In a later post, Lander said the IDF released him “with a ‘warning,’ apparently because of my public profile,” according to Reuters.

Israel’s military detained about 90 volunteers with Rabbis for Human Rights in the West Bank on Wednesday, including Democratic congressional nominee Brad Lander and former deputy attorney-general Yehoshua Schoffman, according to sources cited by the Jerusalem Post. The volunteers were accompanying Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest in the village of Nehalim near Bethlehem, an area farmers had been unable to access for three years, according to the group. NPR put the number at about 80 American and Israeli rabbis and activists detained as they helped Palestinians harvest olives near a settlement in the occupied West Bank.

A senior Palestinian official told AFP that Israeli settler attacks risk setting off an “explosion” in the West Bank while urging that the response remain peaceful, according to The Times of Israel. “The terrorism carried out by the army and settlers, under the supervision of the Israeli government… is a prelude to a coming reaction and explosion,” Rajoub told AFP in Cairo.

Israeli police arrested ten suspects on suspicion of involvement in two coordinated attacks over the weekend against a US photojournalist, European diplomats and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to the Middle East Eye, citing Israeli newspaper Haaretz. In a statement on Monday, the force said the detainees are under investigation over the weekend’s violence in the occupied West Bank, and that the cases include the attacks on The Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine and European diplomats, according to G1.

British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband on Monday urged companies and individuals not to submit bids for the E1 settlement project in the West Bank, the Jerusalem Post reported. The British government says it has created new powers allowing it to sanction individuals and companies involved in the construction of illegal settlements such as E1.

Israeli police said on Monday they were examining a complaint filed by the Rabbis for Human Rights NGO against Rabbi Dov Lior over a religious ruling that permits Jews to harvest olives belonging to Palestinians in the West Bank, the Times of Israel reported. In the ruling, written on Friday, Lior said Palestinian land “had essentially been stolen from Jews”, since the Jewish people never willingly relinquished its property in the Land of Israel, and that Jews were therefore permitted to harvest olive trees on Palestinian property “in order to show to the public our ownership of the land”.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir has decided to deploy an additional Border Police company to the Judea and Samaria Division to combat rising nationalist violence in the West Bank, the Jerusalem Post reported. The company began training in August and is expected to take on dedicated operational missions in violence hotspots beginning in late November. Police arrested 10 suspects on suspicion of involvement in the violent incidents, violating a closed military zone order and illegal construction, the Times of Israel reported — two more than the eight announced earlier.

Israeli police arrested eight suspects over settler attacks on diplomats and a US photojournalist in the West Bank, in operation “Olive Leaf”, after settlers attacked Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine and European diplomats in separate incidents, according to The Hindu.

Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand said Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank, including recent attacks against European diplomats, is unacceptable, according to Mehr News.

The Israeli election on 27 October, the first since 2022, follows the Hamas-led attacks of 2023, the genocide in Gaza and the war on Iran, with key issues including the security of the occupied West Bank, the growth of settlements and compulsory military conscription for ultra-Orthodox communities, according to Middle East Eye, with Benjamin Netanyahu seeking a new term.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says settlers raided a Palestinian village, vandalized a building and set fire to a shed, according to The Times of Israel.

US diplomats visited a Christian Palestinian village in the West Bank on Sunday, following attacks by Israeli settlers on European diplomats and an American photojournalist in recent days. The European Union said Sunday that it “strongly condemns” an attack by a group of Israeli settlers on visiting European diplomats in the occupied West Bank, and urged full accountability and effective measures to prevent continued acts of violence and violent harassment against Palestinians, including during the ongoing olive harvest season, as well as against journalists.

Israeli settlers attacked European diplomats, a French mayor and the archbishop of Cambrai in Taybeh, in the occupied West Bank, on Saturday, injuring three people and damaging a car, according to the Tehran Times. Belgium’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Maxime Prévot, condemned the violence against Palestinians, foreign diplomats and journalists and said his country would continue to push for European Union sanctions on settlers.

US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee denounced the settler attack that left Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine badly beaten and needing surgery as a “despicable act of terror”, The Guardian reported.

The European Union “strongly condemned” violent settler attacks in the West Bank, including attacks against European diplomats, the bloc’s foreign policy spokesperson said on Sunday, according to the Jerusalem Post. The statement came a day after Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot said Israeli settlers had attacked Palestinian civilians, European diplomats and a French mayor in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli prime minister’s office urged caution before drawing conclusions from reports of attacks on European diplomats by masked Israelis in “Judea and Samaria” — the name the Israeli government uses for the occupied West Bank — and said any violence against diplomats is unacceptable, according to the Jerusalem Post.

The Trump administration asked Israel to stop settler attacks in the occupied West Bank, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine, who was attacked by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, underwent surgery on a finger that was nearly detached in the attack, her daughter said.

Masked Israeli settlers attacked a delegation of European diplomats in the occupied West Bank, assaulting a French mayor and damaging cars, according to the BBC. The delegation also included officials from Belgium and Poland, according to Al Jazeera. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot demanded that Israel crack down on criminal violence after a French mayor was beaten by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, and top US diplomat Marco Rubio said the United States is very disturbed by footage of the assault and urged Israeli authorities to crack down on violence across the territory, according to TRT World.

Belgium condemned on Saturday an attack by Israeli settlers on a convoy of European diplomats in the occupied West Bank, during which a visiting French mayor was beaten. Witnesses told the Middle East Eye that diplomats from the French, Belgian and Polish missions had driven to Taybeh, a largely Christian village in the occupied West Bank, when settlers arrived to stop Palestinians from picking their olives. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar also condemned the attack, calling it “rioter” violence.

The European Council has warned that companies that become involved in the construction of the E1 settlement in the occupied West Bank could face legal, economic and reputational consequences, according to Middle East Eye. The warning came days before the October 19 deadline for bids in one of the construction tenders. The plan connects West Bank settlements with occupied East Jerusalem and would effectively cut the West Bank in half, making a Palestinian state unviable, according to the outlet. The alert came after Britain’s sanctions on Israeli settlements — including sanctions on bodies that finance settlement construction — came into effect earlier this week.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has urged Israel to halt and reverse the establishment of settlements in the occupied West Bank, calling the Palestinian issue “the greatest historical injustice of this century”, according to Russian state broadcaster RT. Wang said the immediate priority is to fully open access to Gaza, where two million civilians must not be left struggling to survive or exposed to a worsening humanitarian catastrophe. According to RT, he met Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Thursday on the sidelines of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) summit in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Israeli settlers attacked a diplomatic delegation that included the French consul in the occupied West Bank village of Taybeh, according to Middle East Eye. The village’s mayor, Suleiman Khourieh, told Al Jazeera that the settlers launched the attack on Saturday afternoon, the outlet reported.

Israel said Thursday that the British Consulate in east Jerusalem has “ceased to function” in that capacity and that 20 staffers will leave the country, in what the Associated Press (AP) describes as the biggest diplomatic rift between the two close allies in decades. The dispute began last month, when the United Kingdom banned trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, which the UN and much of the international community consider illegal. A sign outside the consulate was taken down, but Britain said the building remains open and a core staff will continue to deliver “vital services” and work with Palestinians.

The Washington Post condemned the beating of its photographer Heidi Levine and the theft of her equipment by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and urged a thorough investigation and follow-through from the authorities, in a statement by executive editor Matt Murray cited by RT. The Committee to Protect Journalists documented at least 16 incidents involving 35 Palestinian, Israeli and international journalists in the first eight months of 2026 alone, figures already above those recorded in 2025.

Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine is one of two people injured and taken to hospitals in the Ramallah area during the attack by Israeli settlers on the annual olive harvest in the village of Abu Falah, in the West Bank, on Friday, according to Palestinian medics cited by Reuters, in a text republished by Al-Monitor. Dozens of masked settlers dressed in black burned olive trees and threw rocks at Palestinians in a coordinated attack on the village’s harvest. Le Monde reports that the Washington Post journalist was beaten by settlers.

Israeli settlers attacked olive harvesters in Abu Falah in the West Bank on Friday, injuring Palestinians and American photojournalist Heidi Levine of The Washington Post, according to The Times of Israel. From her hospital bed, Levine said she was pushed to the ground and kicked repeatedly, and that her flak jacket and helmet likely saved her.

Britain brought new regulations into force on Thursday that significantly expand its sanctions powers, enabling action against construction companies, developers and financial institutions supporting settlement expansion in the West Bank, according to the Jerusalem Post. The measures took effect four days before the deadline for submitting bids for construction in the E1 area between Jerusalem and Ma’aleh Adumim, amid a diplomatic dispute between Israel and Britain.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called on Israel to halt and reverse settlements in the West Bank during a meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Baku, on the sidelines of the seventh summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA). Wang said the Palestinian question is the greatest historical injustice of the 21st century and that the two-state solution is the right path to resolving it, and called for the full opening of access routes into Gaza to prevent a worsening humanitarian disaster. China’s foreign ministry said Wang called on Israel to stop and reverse its “forced establishment” of West Bank settlements.

Six Palestinian farmers petitioned Israel’s High Court of Justice to restore access to farmland blocked for three years around Nahalin, in the occupied West Bank. The petition was filed by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, which is seeking an urgent hearing as the olive harvest begins, according to The Jerusalem Post.

The UK’s new sanctions regime against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank came into effect on Thursday, October 15, days before the October 19 deadline for construction tender bids for the E1 settlement, with Israel having closed the British consulate last week in protest, forcing the withdrawal of 21 diplomats and the downgrade of the consulate to mission status, according to Middle East Eye.

Norway is expected to overhaul the ethical rules for its $2.3 trillion wealth fund following the findings of a state-appointed commission due on Thursday, according to Reuters; the review follows the Trump administration’s protest against the divestment from Caterpillar shares over the use of the US company’s bulldozers in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, according to Reuters.

The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the Palestinian Territories and head of the Supreme Fatwa Council, Sheikh Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, issued a fatwa on Tuesday banning the purchase of olive products from settlers, in response to escalating settler violence, especially against olive trees this harvest season, his office said. Under the ruling, it is forbidden to buy olive products “stolen from Palestinian trees and sold by [settlers], due to the great evils involved.”

Israel’s military told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that soldiers were dispatched to Mikhmas, in the occupied West Bank, following a report of graffiti and arson at the mosque and damage to a vehicle, and that no suspects were identified. An AFP journalist reported that slogans were spraypainted in Hebrew on the exterior walls, including “just because we are quiet doesn’t mean we are asleep”. Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque, an olive tree and a vehicle in the occupied West Bank, according to Al Jazeera, amid Israeli forces’ raids on villages across the territory.

Jewish settler extremists attacked the West Bank village of Mukhmas on Tuesday night, setting fire to a mosque, a vehicle and an olive tree, according to the Jerusalem Post, citing Israeli and Palestinian media. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) arrived at the area, but no suspects were found and no arrests were made.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the return of Palestinians displaced from refugee camps in the northern occupied West Bank and vowed that Israeli forces would remain in control of the area, according to Anadolu Agency. Netanyahu said that the displaced are not residents but terrorists, in response to remarks in the High Court of Justice about the return, while tens of thousands remain unable to return to the Jenin, Nur Shams and Tulkarm camps since January 2025, according to Al Arabiya (AFP).

An Israeli military vehicle ran over and injured three Palestinians during an incursion into Ya’bad, west of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, according to Middle East Eye.

A Palestinian family was attacked at home in the early hours of this Tuesday by masked men posing as Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers, near Kusra in the West Bank, according to a KAN News report published by the Jerusalem Post. The father, the mother and two teenage daughters were beaten and taken to a hospital in Nablus. According to the same report, the mother and the two daughters tried to help the father and were also beaten.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will control the territory from the Jordan River to the sea, during a visit to the separation line in the West Bank: “We are safeguarding the area from the Jordan River to the sea. Our country, our control,” he declared, according to the Jerusalem Post. During the same visit, he called the Tulkarm camp a terrorist stronghold and rejected the Supreme Court order on the return of displaced Palestinians: “I heard that someone at the High Court of Justice says the residents should be brought back here. These are not residents; they are terrorists.”

Israeli forces wounded a child with live ammunition during attacks in Ramallah and Al-Bireh, in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry says. Troops entered several Palestinian nongovernmental organizations’ (NGOs) offices and the courtyard of the Palestine Medical Complex, according to Middle East Eye. Wafa identified two injured journalists: Palestine TV’s Khaled Mattawa, who sustained a hand injury from a sound bomb, and Sky News Arabia’s Firas Lotfi, who suffered a shrapnel wound to his foot.

Israeli forces have raided multiple locations across the occupied West Bank since late Monday, storming homes and detaining at least three Palestinian men, according to local sources cited by Middle East Eye. The raids targeted the city of Qalqilyah; the town of Idhna, west of Hebron; the al-Jalajel area in Hebron; the village of Tal, southwest of Nablus; the town of Madama, south of Nablus; and the town of al-Yamun, west of Jenin, among others, according to the outlet.

The Palestine Information Center (Moata), in a report published on Sunday, said demolitions hit 2,143 homes and 9,477 structures and facilities in the West Bank in three years, while a United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights report cited in the same text noted hundreds of demolished residential structures and harm to transportation networks and essential service infrastructure, according to Mehr News. Israel’s Supreme Court instructed the state to detail the timetable and acceleration of measures to enable return to the Jenin, Tulkarm and Nur Shams camps, without ordering the immediate return of residents or the withdrawal of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) from the camps, according to The Jerusalem Post. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz to instruct the IDF not to cooperate with the Court, according to the same paper.

Israeli authorities installed three iron gates across a 200-metre stretch of Hebron's Old City a few days ago, according to Al Jazeera. Approximately 40 percent of the 89 checkpoints in the West Bank and 11 percent of all 925 movement obstacles are located in the H2 area of Hebron, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Central Command completed preparations on October 8 for the coordinated Palestinian olive harvest in the West Bank, according to The Jerusalem Post. About 200 Palestinians and activists gathered opposite an illegal outpost and a confrontation with 20 settlers developed, including stone-throwing, until the IDF arrived to separate the sides.

At least six people were injured by Israeli gunfire in Khan Younis, according to the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza, cited by Al Jazeera, in a text by Middle East Eye. In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces closed all entrances to the village of Madama, south of Nablus, on Sunday morning, preventing residents from entering or leaving, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

Two young Palestinian men were shot and wounded during an Israeli military raid on the city of Jericho on Friday night, one in the thigh and the other in the foot, and were taken to hospital, according to the Wafa news agency, cited by Middle East Eye. On Saturday morning, Israeli forces prevented Palestinian farmers from harvesting olives on their land in the town of Kafr Ni’ma, west of Ramallah, Wafa reported.

The Palestinian Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, a Palestinian government body operating under the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), recorded at least 19 settler attacks on Friday against the olive harvest in the West Bank, according to Al Jazeera. According to the commission, the incidents included attacks on Palestinian olive harvesters, the burning and uprooting of olive trees, and the theft of crops and livestock. More than 50 olive trees were uprooted by settlers in Qusra, the commission said.

David Milstein, a senior advisor to US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, used his position to quash reports on Israeli activities in the West Bank and present the Netanyahu government in a favorable light to Washington, according to the New York Times, in a report published by the Jerusalem Post on Thursday. The report is based on 12 anonymous sources who work or interact with Milstein in both Jerusalem and Washington. Huckabee refuted the report and criticized the absence of any named source.

A 44-year-old Palestinian, Ali Hassan al-Bazari, was killed in an attack by Israeli settlers on farmers harvesting olives near Burqa, in the occupied West Bank, according to Middle East Eye. The Palestinian Health Ministry said nine Palestinians were wounded, one of them critically. Witnesses said Israeli soldiers were present and protected the settlers during the attack, and it was not immediately clear whether al-Bazari was killed by settler or army fire.

Israeli forces launched several brigade-level operations across the West Bank overnight, arresting and questioning dozens of wanted suspects accused of involvement in terrorism and incitement, including expressing support for Hamas’s October 7, 2023 onslaught, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said. The goal, per the IDF announcement, is to arrest and interrogate dozens of individuals wanted for terrorism and incitement to terror, with particular emphasis on those who expressed support for the October 7 attack.

Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called for the dismantling of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank during an event on Wednesday morning marking the third anniversary of Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack. Arriving at exactly 6:29 a.m. at the security fence near the Nitzanei Oz interchange, he warned that the October 7 attack could repeat itself.

Israeli forces raided Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, imposed a curfew, arrested residents and demolished memorials to Palestinians, according to the Wafa agency via Mehr News. Settlers attacked a Palestinian home and set a vehicle on fire in Deir Nizam, near Ramallah, on Wednesday, according to Palestinian reports cited by N12 via the Jerusalem Post.

Armed Israeli settlers beat AFP photographer Jaafar Ashtiyeh on Tuesday, aged 58, leaving him requiring hospital treatment as he covered ongoing settler violence against West Bank olive farmers, according to AFP. Ashtiyeh suffered bruises to his head and torso and was taken by ambulance to a hospital; the attackers also took his camera equipment. The violence took place despite the presence of at least a dozen Israeli soldiers around 500 metres away, according to photographer John Wessels, who was also threatened with a firearm. AFP’s global news management condemned the attack and demanded a full investigation.

Israeli forces opened fire on a vehicle carrying three Palestinians near Bani Naim, east of Hebron, on Monday, according to Al Jazeera. The Palestinian civil authority named the man killed as 38-year-old Hossam Alaa al-Din Abdul Jabbar Walad Ali. The Palestinian Red Crescent said its crews treated three people injured in an attack by Israeli settlers in the Imriha area.

The UK threatened to expel one Israeli diplomat for each of the 27 British diplomats whose diplomatic status at the consulate would be terminated if Israel closes the British consulate in East Jerusalem, according to Al Jazeera. Israel ordered the consulate’s closure by 8 October, in retaliation for British sanctions on illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. The Foreign Office did not deny the Ynet report and said it would not comment on speculation, according to The Guardian.

Wafa, the Palestinian news agency, reported that more than 15 people were wounded and one was killed in attacks by Israeli forces and settlers on Palestinian towns and villages, according to the Middle East Eye. Israeli opposition leader Avigdor Lieberman called for dismantling the Palestinian Authority and creating an Israeli-Jordanian confederation to control parts of the West Bank currently under the PA’s control, according to Haaretz. Under the plan, Israel would apply sovereignty over Area C, which makes up about 60 percent of the occupied West Bank and remains under full Israeli control.

Israeli forces detained three Palestinian farmers and seized a truck loaded with bananas in Ras al-Ahmar, southeast of Tubas, according to the Middle East Eye. Israeli settlers protected by soldiers attacked Palestinian homes in Wadi al-Hasin and Harat Jaber, in the Old City of Hebron, and settlers wounded a 27-year-old Palestinian in the village of Usarin, south of Nablus.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invited to Israel as a guest of honour the Indian captain of a Tel Aviv-bound flydubai flight, Smit Machchhar, and said he wanted him and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to light a flame at a national ceremony for Israel’s Independence Day next May, a role usually reserved for Israeli citizens. In the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers and soldiers attacked and blocked Palestinian farmers from harvesting olives, according to Al Jazeera; more than 80,000 Palestinian families rely on the olive harvest as a source of income.

Israel’s National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, said the entire occupied West Bank “belongs to Israel” and vowed to dismantle the Palestinian Authority, according to Middle East Eye. In an interview with Channel 14, he said that, if appointed defence minister, he would work to dismantle the Palestinian Authority and push for Palestinians to leave the occupied West Bank and Gaza. The Anadolu Agency reported that the minister said the entire West Bank “belongs to Israel” and threatened to dismantle the Palestinian Authority.

Israel launched a new wave of demolitions of olive groves in the occupied West Bank, with military orders to uproot trees on the eve of the olive harvest, which typically begins in October, according to Middle East Eye. According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, 55 such orders were issued between the start of the year and September, affecting about 2,373 dunams, compared with 47 orders covering 1,613 dunams throughout 2025.

Israeli forces detained dozens of Palestinians during a raid on the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus, according to Wafa, cited by Middle East Eye. Israeli settlers attacked olive harvesters again in the town of Beita, south of Nablus, on Saturday morning as farmers picked olives, and damaged olive trees and crops in al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, after allowing their sheep to graze on agricultural land, Middle East Eye also reported.

A 19-year-old Palestinian, identified by the Palestinian Health Ministry as Bahaa Sami Amin al-Natsheh, was killed by Israeli settler gunfire in Kobar, north of Ramallah; Palestinian authorities say 30 Palestinians have been killed by settlers since the start of 2026, more than in any full year since 2022.

Israeli settlers shot dead Mashhour Shaher Yassin, 51, during an attack on the village of Yasuf, in the central West Bank district of Salfit, according to WAFA. Salfit Governmental Hospital Director Mohammad Al-Ramahi said Yassin succumbed to injuries sustained during the attack by the settlers. Reuters, citing Palestinian officials, reported that Israeli settlers shot two Palestinians, killing one and injuring the other, in the village of Yasuf in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Thursday.

The United States (US) Senate blocked by 47 votes to 51 the resolution requiring the State Department to report within 30 days on deaths and human rights conditions in the West Bank, according to The Guardian. The text, led by Democrat Chris Van Hollen, cited nine American citizens killed by Israeli settlers or security forces in the occupied West Bank since 2022. Democrat John Fetterman voted with Republicans against the measure, while Republican Rand Paul voted in favor.

An Israeli air strike and gunfire killed two Palestinians and injured several others in Gaza on Tuesday, according to the Wafa news agency, cited by Middle East Eye. The victims’ bodies and several casualties, including children, were brought to Al-Shifa Hospital after the strike on an apartment in the al-Nasr neighbourhood, in Gaza City, according to medical sources cited by Middle East Eye. In the occupied West Bank, more than 100 Israeli settlers attacked the village of Jalud, preventing a Palestinian family from returning home and clashing with troops, witnesses said, in a Reuters text republished by The Hindu. The Israeli military said the settlers set the Tubasi family’s homes on fire, blocked access roads and hurled rocks at Israeli officers, three of whom were injured, and that it arrested two settlers and launched an investigation, Reuters reported.

Around 100 settlers raided Jalud, south of Nablus, shortly after midnight, targeting the homes of the Toubasi family, according to Middle East Eye. The family had returned to the house hours before the attack, after an Israeli court ordered the army to secure their return, the same outlet reported. More than 100 Israelis blocked roads, burned tires and threw rocks at security personnel, and set fire to Palestinian-owned structures, vehicles and other property in the area, according to Israel National News.

The Netherlands said Monday it regretted Israel's decision to revoke the accreditation of Dutch diplomats based in the West Bank, according to AFP, in a text republished by France 24. Israel retaliated after Dutch authorities began implementing a ban on imports of products from Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Dutch Foreign Minister Berendsen said the decision stems from the obligation, under international law, not to contribute to the illegal settlements.

Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for Israel to go to war in the occupied West Bank and do there what it did in Gaza, according to the Middle East Eye. In a podcast interview, he also renewed his demand to dismantle the Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited self-rule in parts of the occupied West Bank, according to The Times of Israel.

Israel revoked the credentials of Dutch diplomats in Ramallah in response to the Netherlands’ ban on goods from Israeli settlements, according to the Middle East Eye. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said the diplomats must return their Israeli-issued diplomatic documentation within seven days. The Netherlands began enforcing a national ban on 22 September on the import, purchase and sale of goods from Israeli settlements, according to the Middle East Eye. Israel’s foreign ministry said it revoked the diplomatic status of the Dutch at the Netherlands’ Representative Office in Ramallah, in response to the Dutch government’s ban on imports of products originating from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to the Khaleej Times.

According to the Wafa agency, Israeli authorities decided to impose a comprehensive closure on the West Bank and close crossings into the territory until Saturday for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Israeli forces closed roads and entrances to towns around Ramallah, including Turmus Ayya, Aboud, Nabi Saleh, Atara and Taybeh, and set up checkpoints at Yabroud and Ein Sinyah, according to local sources cited by the agency, while residents reported harassment at the entrance to Turmus Ayya.

Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called on Israel to “go to war” in the West Bank and “do what we did in Gaza”, according to Middle East Eye. He said the Palestinian Authority, which he called a “terror authority”, must be dismantled.

Israel's attorney general has ordered a one-month postponement of an E1 settlement construction tender in the West Bank to avoid it being used for electioneering, according to Al Jazeera. The tender, published on 18 August, covers seven residential compounds containing 1,234 housing units, out of the 3,401 units approved for E1, according to Israeli media.

The United Nations human rights office added 61 companies to its list of firms operating in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, in an update released on Friday. The database, first released in 2020, now lists 214 firms from 11 countries, according to AFP, in a text published by Courthouse News; most are from Israel, and there are companies from France, Germany, China and the United States, according to Middle East Eye. In this year's update, five companies were removed.

According to Middle East Eye, citing the Palestinian news agency Wafa, Israeli forces detained six Palestinians across the occupied West Bank, including 17-year-old Mahmoud Daher Mahmoud Daoud from the town of Beita, south of Nablus. Israeli settlers attacked a Bedouin community on the outskirts of Asira al-Qibliya, south of Nablus, and stole several sheep and a tractor, local sources told the same agency.

The United Nations (UN) human rights office expanded on Friday, 25 September 2026, its database of companies with activities in Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories: there are now 214 firms from 11 countries, with 61 additions and five removals since the previous update, Le Monde reports. Airbnb, Booking.com, Motorola Solutions and TripAdvisor remain on the list, and the UN human rights office said the update is a reminder to companies of their human rights responsibilities, according to Le Monde.

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Tuesday, September 22, 2026, in his debut at the United Nations General Assembly, that violence in Gaza and Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank were pushing the two-state solution towards a “point of no return”, according to Middle East Eye. Burnham cited the E1 settlement project, which he said would sever East Jerusalem from the West Bank, and urged action to match the international support states declare for a Palestinian state. The speech came two weeks after Britain, France and Canada announced, on September 8, 2026, sanctions on goods from Israeli settlements, to which Israel responded by ordering the closure of the British consulate in East Jerusalem within 30 days, according to France 24.