Katz warns PA against 'Oct. 7-style' attack as West Bank violence rises After a West Bank stabbing of an Israeli settler, Defense Minister Israel Katz warns the Palestinian Authority against launching an “Oct. 7-style” assault. Israel
Analysis As Israeli settler attacks mount, Trump avoids public pressure on Netanyahu President Donald Trump has stayed silent amid a spate of settler attacks on Palestinians and their property in the West Bank. By Elizabeth Hagedorn In Washington, DC, reporting on diplomacy, regional politics, human rights
Amnesty International accuses Israel of state-led ethnic cleansing in West Bank In a new report, Amnesty International said that the escalating forced displacement and settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank is part of a state-led campaign to control the Palestinian territory. Palestine
Ireland bans hard-line Israeli ministers Ben-Gvir, Smotrich: What to know Ireland joined France and the United Kingdom in banning Israel's far-right and pro-settler ministers. Israel
Analysis Israel's Netanyahu further provokes Biden with relocation of outpost yeshiva "It's not just Homesh..it's all that's happening; it's the fact that no one bothers to act according to the law anymore," a senior US diplomat told Al-Monitor, after Israel Israel went ahead with the relocation of the illegal outpost Homesh yeshiva, despite warnings from the Biden administration. By Ben Caspit In Tel Aviv, reporting on national security, Israeli politics, defense
Israeli settlers quietly relocate Homesh yeshiva illegal outpost with Gallant approval Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has allowed Israeli settlers to move their tent yeshiva, illegally cobbled together on the site of the demolished West Bank outpost of Homesh, to a state-owned plot of land. Israel
Israeli settlers, Palestinians clash near Homesh in West Bank after EU visit Reports of Israel's intention to move the makeshift yeshiva at the West Bank Homesh settlement to nearby state land have stoked tensions and clashes between Israeli settlers and Palestinians. Israel
In Israel, DeSantis slams Biden’s MidEast policies 'alienating the Saudis' Visiting Israel, Ron DeSantis is set to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has yet to be invited to the White House under President Joe Biden. Israel
Israeli runner shot in West Bank one day after Jerusalem car attack A group of runners was shot at in the West Bank as Israelis mark Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism. Israel
Israeli settlers march to West Bank outpost as Jerusalem tension spikes Under heavy security, thousands of Israelis, including far-right leaders, are marching to wildcat West Bank Eviatar outpost. Israel
US summons Israeli ambassador as law restraining settlers rescinded After condemning anti-Palestinian statements by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, the State Department slammed the Israeli government over rolling back parts of the 2005 disengagement law. Israel
In legal repeal, Israel to permit settlers' return to north West Bank outposts Eighteen years after Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank, the Knesset authorized Israelis to return to the four West Bank demolished outposts. Israel
US-Israeli citizen injured in West Bank as parties meet in Egypt to de-escalate A second Israeli-Palestinian-American-Egyptian-Jordanian meeting took place on Sunday, with all parties pledging to take measures to de-escalate tensions in Jerusalem and the West Bank, ahead of Ramadan and Passover. Israel
In Paris, Israel’s Smotrich says Palestinian people don't exist, calls them 'fictitious' Addressing far-right French Jews at a conference, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich dismissed the existence of the Palestinian people, claiming he and his forefathers were the “real Palestinians.” Israel
Protests in Washington against Israel's far-right minister Smotrich The State Department agreed to offer a diplomatic visa, but senior officials refused to meet with Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on his visit to Washington. Israel
Analysis Tensions in West Bank threaten Israel-US intelligence cooperation Top US Gen. Milley delivered "unprecedented message" to Israeli officials, warning that internal chaos and growing tensions in the West Bank could endanger the country’s strategic relations with the United States. By Ben Caspit In Tel Aviv, reporting on national security, Israeli politics, defense
