Palestinian population in West Bank

Court orders return for Jalud Palestinian families home after extremist settlers drove them out

Justices give authorities 14 days to secure families’ return and demand answers on why identified suspects, vehicles, and repeated attacks produced so little criminal enforcement.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
Chief Justice Esther Hayut and fellow Israeli Supreme Court judges at the High Court in Jerusalem
Israeli settlers gather outside a Palestinian home in Qusra, in the West Bank, August 15, 2026, in this screen grab obtained from a video.

Palestinians say settlers want to ‘expel us, kill us’ as Jewish extremists return to Kusra

Palestinian residents who remain in the area told KAN News that they still feel threatened by Jewish extremists in the area.

|ByCORINNE BAUM, SHIR PERETS, REUTERS
Israeli soldiers operate in the village of Tell, near the West Bank city of Nablus, July 25, 2026.

Deadly Tell clash between settlers, Palestinians may mark West Bank turning point - analysis

Competing accounts of the deadly Tell confrontation highlight growing tensions over settler violence, Palestinian attacks, and the risk of a wider uprising.

|ByGIORGIA VALENTE/THE MEDIA LINE
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the 8th General Conference of Fatah in Ramallah in the West Bank, May 14, 2026.

PA's Abbas calls for end to 'systemic' settler violence, requests support from UN, Arab leaders

The President of the Palestinian National Authority sent letters to Arab nations and the UN requesting international support after violent incidents in the West Bank saw an uptick in the last week.

|ByRUBY SADIKMAN

Crossing the point of no return

It could be that we have already missed the two-state option.

APRIL 1, 2014ByMENACHEM KLEIN
How many settlers in the West Bank create an irreversible new reality?

The C-section solution

With Kerry’s peace initiative clinically dead, it’s time to take up Bayit Yehudi leader Naftali Bennett’s approach, under which Israel would annex Area C of the West Bank.

APRIL 1, 2014ByAMIEL UNGAR
Demonstrators rally in favor of construction in E-1, between Jerusalem and Ma'aleh Adumim

Model city

Bashar al-Masri is the driving force behind Rawabi, the largest private-sector project ever carried out in the Palestinian areas.

MARCH 19, 2014ByANDREW FRIEDMAN
Entrepreneur Basher al-Masri shows off his Rawabi project, February 23