West Bank

Top (L-R): Inbar Segev Vigder, Ilia Nozadze, Revital Bronstein; Bottom (L-R): Shahar Goldman, Nadia Sokolenco, Jonas Chrosis; All six were killed in a shooting-and-stabbing terror attack in Jaffa on October 1, 2024. (Photos used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law via The Times of Israel)

October 2, 2024, 5:31 pm

Six victims of Jaffa terror attack named, as more details about shooting emerge

Hamas claims attack; Ben Gvir suggests nearby mosque involved, should be destroyed; in fact, terrorists threatened worshippers there before carrying out the attack, congregants say

By ToI staff and Emanuel Fabian

Israeli troops during counterterrorism activity in Tulkarem, northwestern Samaria, September 2024. (Credit: IDF)

September 15, 2024, 8:33 am

IDF finds terror tunnel next to hospital in Samaria

More than ten armed terrorists were killed during the current offensive, including a man suspected of murdering a Border Police officer in October.

By JNS

Yuri Birnbaum (left), Yohanan Shchori (center), and Adrian Marcelo Podzamczer, killed in a terror shooting attack at the Allenby Bridge Crossing, Sept. 8, 2024. (Courtesy)

September 8, 2024, 10:57 am

3 Israelis killed in terror shooting at crossing between West Bank and Jordan

Jordanian terrorist drives truck from Jordan, opens fire at Allenby Bridge workers and then is shot dead; IDF rules out vehicle was rigged with explosives

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli troops conducting a counterterrorism operation in Judea and Samaria, August 2024. (Credit: IDF)

September 7, 2024, 9:48 pm

IDF probing allegation troops killed dual US-Turkish citizen in Samaria

The fatality was named as Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, an activist with the anti-Israel International Solidarity Movement (ISM).

By By JNS

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz in Tel Aviv, Israel, January 9, 2024. (Official State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy)

August 28, 2024, 8:49 am

‘This is a war’: FM calls for Gaza-style evacuation of Palestinians in West Bank

Israel Katz urges ‘temporary evacuation of Palestinian civilians’ from cities where IDF is engaged in anti-terror raid, receives backing from Agriculture Minister Dichter

By Sam Sokol, Times of Israel

Israeli rescue forces at the site of a terrorist attack near Kedumim in Samaria, Aug. 18, 2024. (Credit: United Hatzalah)

August 18, 2024, 12:42 pm

Hammer-wielding terrorist attacks Israeli in Samaria

The victim, a man in his 40s, sustained severe head injuries.

By JNS

Jit (Photo by Orrling, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)

August 17, 2024, 9:38 pm

Israelis responsible for attacks in Jit ‘will be apprehended, tried,’ Netanyahu says

A Palestinian man was reportedly killed in the Samarian town.

By JNS

First responders at the scene of a suspected terror stabbing in the central city of Holon, Aug. 4, 2024. (United Hatzalah)

August 4, 2024, 10:07 am

Two dead, 2 hurt in terror stabbing spree in Holon; Palestinian attacker shot by police

Rina Daniv, 66, and man in 70s declared dead; Daniv’s husband injured; the couple were having their daily walk in the park; assailant did not have entry permit to Israel

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli army troops consult after a terrorist attack at a gas station adjacent to the West Bank settlement of Eli, Feb. 29, 2024. (IDF)

July 31, 2024, 3:31 pm

Disaster

What kind of tomorrow are we offering to the millions of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank? What kind of tomorrow are we offering to ourselves and to our children?

By Gershon Baskin

Israeli forces during counter-terror operations in Judea and Samaria. (Credit: IDF)

July 30, 2024, 1:29 pm

Israeli forces foil stabbing attack near Hebron

There were no casualties to Israeli forces, the Israel Defense Forces said.

By JNS

View of Judean Hills from Ramallah (Photo by Anthony Baratier, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

July 19, 2024, 3:30 pm

World Court: Israeli presence in East Jerusalem, West Bank is illegal and must end

ICJ says Israel’s actions in West Bank amount to de facto annexation, calls for end of Israeli control; PM slams decision: ‘The Jewish people are not occupiers in their own land’

By Jeremy Sharon

Illustrative: weapons seized by security forces near Neve Ur in northern Israel, after an alleged gun-smuggling over the border with Jordan on July 8, 2022. (Israel Police)

April 10, 2024, 2:43 pm

NYT: Iran has flooded West Bank with arms for 2 years, aims to make it next flashpoint

Report details smuggling routes and complex network of terror groups, criminal gangs and Bedouin used by Tehran to ‘inundate’ area with weapons, ‘foment unrest’ against Israel

By TOI Staff

February 29, 2024, 3:09 pm

Palestinian gunman kills 2 Israelis in attack on West Bank gas station

The attack, coming just days after the resignation of the P.A.'s prime minister and much of his government, signals that the West Bank could be on the verge of a spike in violence.

By Ron Kampeas

A boy walks around a road block placed by settlers, in Howard, West Bank, Nov. 04, 2023. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

February 1, 2024, 2:57 pm

Biden sanctions 4 Israeli settlers for alleged violence against Palestinians and Israeli peace activists

Biden’s executive order represented an escalation of the diplomacy and pressure he has exerted on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to rein in extremists.

By Ron Kampeas

A collage of screen captures from videos recorded on Oct. 7, 2023 showing Hamas attacks across southern Israel. (Image courtesy of The Times of Israel)

January 19, 2024, 3:07 pm

For most Palestinians, Oct. 7’s savagery is literally unbelievable. Blame the TV news?

Al Jazeera and others largely ignored Hamas atrocities, bolstering distrust of Israeli accounts; one poll found 97% in West Bank deny the monstrous acts committed against civilians

By Gianluca Pacchiani