‘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. (+972 Magazine, 2026-03-24)
With World’s Eyes on Iran, Israel Locks Down the West Bank: The Israeli military has closed checkpoints around the #WestBank, restricting Palestinians’ movement as settler violence ramps up. (The Intercept, 2026-03-10)
Ethnic cleansing concerns in Gaza and West Bank amid intensified violence and forcible transfers by Israel – UN report | United Nations in Palestine (2026-02-19)
The calculated erasure of Ras Ein Al-Auja: Israeli state-backed settler violence is displacing the southern Jordan Valley’s last herding community, advancing efforts to empty Area C of Palestinians. (+972 Magazine, 2026-01-16)
RE: infosec.exchange/@tech4palesti@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com @tech4palestine has announced Aween Rayeh, an app/web site that provides Palestinians with real-time information about Israeli checkpoints and road closures.aweenrayeh.com/ also available for iOS and Android.updates.techforpalestine.org/a#Palestine #Tech #WestBank
Israeli settlers torch homes and vehicles in Palestinian West Bank villages | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/17/
For reasons unknown to me, the various accounts I follow on Twitter/X, and repost here, are hardly posting at all lately. Sometimes a single post a day, sometimes even less.
“It’s like another Nakba”: Notes from the West Bank: “The settlers rule everything since 7 October. Now the soldiers take orders from the settlers, not the other way around.” (Julie M. Norman | The New Humanitarian, 2025-11-04)
LIVE: Israeli air raids, demolitions hit Gaza despite ceasefire with Hamas | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/20
A Lynch Mob in the Olive Fields—and the State Behind It: Pulling at the threads of the attack in Turmus’ayya (Jasper Diamond Nathaniel | Infinite Jaz, 2025-11-03)
"The majority of Palestinians (62%) does not think the Trump Plan will succeed in ending the War in the Gaza Strip once and for all. Although Palestinians in both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip do not think the Trump Plan will indeed bring a permanent end to the war, this pessimism is higher in the West Bank than in the Gaza Strip, ..."
"Since Oct 7, support for the attack persists even as expectations of Hamas victory wane. Gazans are more open to negotiated arrangements;` West Bankers favor armed struggle. Across both, skepticism of external plans coexists with demands for elections and self-defense."
"Israeli settlers, under army protection, stormed the town of Beit Lid near Tulkarm, torching farm tractors, vehicles, and a bulldozer. This attack is yet another escalation in the ongoing wave of settler violence sweeping the West Bank."
LIVE: Israel bombs south Gaza as Palestinians live ceasefire without peace | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/20
"West Bank | Israeli soldiers of the occupation and settlers took turns brutally beating a Palestinian farmer while he was picking olives in the lands of Nahalin, west of Bethlehem, as his mother-in-law tried to intervene to push them away."
With so much attention (rightly) on Gaza, we tend to forget that things in the West Bank are far from easy as well. For updates from there, I suggest following:@QudsNen
"Urgent: Palestinian Authority security forces in Ramallah assault journalists and arrest several of them while they were covering events related to the release of freed prisoners."
Israel has announced the indefinite closure of the Allenby Bridge, suspending the movement of goods and people through the sole crossing point between the occupied #WestBank and #Jordan. The move is reported to be among the first measures of collective punishment following the wave of recognition of a Palestinian state.
Early this morning, Israeli army forces accompanied by heavy machinery stormed the town of Beita in the occupied #WestBank, demolishing the town’s vegetable market without prior notice. The market, which housed dozens of stores, was a source of livelihood for tens of households.
YESTERDAY: Children of Umm al-Khair, in the Masafer Yatta area of the West Bank, play in the last remaining playground of the village. Israeli colonial forces have issued a demolition order for its removal under the pretext of paving a settlement road, following the establishment of a new settlement outpost near Palestinian homes and its planned connection to the Karmiel settlement.. Photos: Mosab Shawer
The French Foreign Ministry has warned that Israel has not notified #France of any plan to close its consulate in #Jerusalem, stressing that #Paris would respond strongly if such a move occurs.The warning follows media reports that the Israeli government decided on Monday to shut down the French consulate in Jerusalem, marking a new escalation after France officially recognized the State of #Palestine. #gaza #israel #genocide #Diplomacy #westbank #fascism #EUpol #FRpol @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe
As a Palestinian family in the town of Hazma, located northeast of occupied #Jerusalem, prepared to hold their son's wedding, Israeli soldiers raided the family's home and gave them 1 hour to evacuate before the demolition process began.
Likud Ministers are urging Prime Minister Netanyahu to annex the West Bank as the time is just "ripe" following Israel's victories abroad, according to Israeli Channel 12's Amit Segal.
Illegal Israeli settlers attack Palestinian village near Ramallah, burn homes, farmlands: 30 Palestinians injured in settler attack in Deir Dibwan village (Anadolu Agency, 2025-06-04)