On Wednesday, 18 February 2026, the second day of Ramadan, at around 2:00 P.M., two settlers led a herd of cattle to two sheep farms on the outskirts of the village of Mikhmas, southeast of the city of Ramallah. The settlers, one of them about 15 years old, chased after 'Ayed Abu ‘Ali, 52, the owner of one of the farms, who was grazing his sheep near it. The teen threatened Abu ‘Ali and his flock with a stick, while the other settler filmed what was happening. The two then threw stones at Abu ‘Ali and the sheep. At that point, Abu ‘Ali’s son Mu’aiad, 22, arrived and tried to protect his father and the flock...
On Wednesday, 28 December 2025, at around 7:20 P.M., Qays ‘Allan, 20, from the village of ‘Einabus in Nablus District, drove three of his friends in his car. The four young men drove toward ‘Allan’s home, which is in the western part of the village, and stopped at a grocery store along the way to buy snacks and soft drinks. When they were about 500 meters away from the house, a bright light suddenly shone on them from the other side of the road, as though someone were signaling to them with a flashlight...
On Monday, 2 March 2026, at around 12:00 P.M., several settlers and a settlement guard known to local Palestinian residents arrived with a backhoe at Qaryut farmland, and began working on private land belonging to village residents. About seven residents who heard the noise the settlers were making gathered at a spot overlooking the land, near their homes on the edge of the village. They watched what was happening from there and shouted at the settlers...
The death penalty bill, which enjoys broad support from the Israeli public, passed last night in the Knesset. The Israel Prison Service has already begun preparing designated facilities for execution. B'Tselem Executive Director Yuli Novak: "Israel is reaching a new low in the dehumanization of Palestinians, enshrining their cruel treatment in state law. It already kills Palestinians systematically and faces no demands for accountability. Under the leadership of top ministers, the Israeli system is day by day becoming a system that normalizes the killing and injury of human beings."...
The Silwan area, located south of the Old City of Jerusalem and annexed to the city’s municipal boundaries, is home to between 45,000 and 50,000 Palestinian residents. Its unique location next to the Old City, near al-Aqsa Mosque for Palestinians and the Temple Mount for Jews, puts it at the forefront of the Israeli regime’s campaign of dispossession...
On Friday, 16 January 2026, at around 9:20 A.M., a group of Israeli settlers led a flock of sheep onto privately-owned Palestinian land on the southern side of the village of al-Mughayir, about 300-350 meters from the village homes. About 10 minutes later, residents arrived from the direction of the village and threw stones at the settlers to drive them away. A few minutes later, soldiers entered the village through the eastern entrance, which leads to Route 458 (Alon Road). The military blocked this entrance shortly before 7 October 2023, and it has since been used only by military forces. The force advanced to the area south of the village and moved both the settlers and the residents from the spot.
On Tuesday, 27 January 2026, at around 6:00 P.M., three military jeeps drove along a road near the old Halal market in the town of a-Dhahiriyah, Hebron District. Soldiers who got out of the vehicles set up an ambush in a yard with olive trees on one of the streets in the area. At about the same time, Muhammad Nasrallah, 17, and his cousin Hassan Nasrallah, 18, left to visit a friend who lives near the market. At around 8:00 P.M., they decided to go to Muhammad’s house. The two went their usual route, taking a shortcut via a dirt path, which ends at a stone wall separating it from the road. According to Hassan Nasrallah, the two did not know there were military forces in the area and did not see the soldiers, who were hiding among the olive trees on the other side of the street.
At around 1:30 A.M. last night (Sunday, 15 March), Israeli troops operating in Tamun in the northern Jordan Valley opened heavy fire at a vehicle driving inside the village...
Over the past week, settler militias shot and killed four Palestinians and injured at least 15 others with live fire in a series of attacks across the West Bank.In the early hours of Sunday, March 8, settler militias raided the village of Khirbet Abu Falah and shot and killed Fare’ Jawdat Abu Nurah (57). Military forces joined the attack and shot and killed Thaer Faruq Hamayel (30). Additionally, the military fired massive quantities of tear gas into the village. A resident of the village, Muhammad Jawdat Abu Nurah (55), suffered cardiac arrest and was evacuated to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, likely due to gas inhalation. At least five other Palestinian residents required medical treatment, including another resident injured by live fire..
Since October 2023, women in the Gaza Strip have been living under Israel’s genocide against Palestinians there. Daily care for the family typically falls to women: preparing food, maintaining hygienic living spaces, and tending to children’s health and education. These responsibilities have become difficult, if not impossible, to carry out in the harsh living conditions of internally displaced persons (IDPs): living in tents without access to essential supplies such as water, food, cooking equipment and cleaning materials, and with a decimated education system...
On the night between 20 and 21 November 2025, around midnight, two Israeli Border Police vehicles carrying about 12 Special Patrol Unit officers raided the Kafr ‘Aqab neighborhood in East Jerusalem. The vehicles stopped on the Ramallah-Jerusalem road, next to the commercial center by the Sikal junction. Some of the officers were masked and, according to eyewitnesses, their rifles were fitted with silencers...
Last night (Tuesday), 24 February, at around 8:00 P.M about 20 Israeli settlers raided the village of Khirbet Susiya in Masafer Yatta, in the South Hebron Hills, armed with clubs and flammable materials. They attacked homes and cars with stones, and set fire to three tents, a pre-fab, chicken coops and cars at several spots throughout the village...
Israel’s regime of apartheid and occupation is inextricably bound up in human rights violations. B’Tselem strives to end this regime, as that is the only way forward to a future in which human rights, democracy, liberty and equality are ensured to all people, both Palestinian and Israeli, living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
Since the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023, Israel has acted in a coordinated and deliberate manner to destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip, committing genocide against its residents. In light of Israel’s actions in Gaza, the public statements made by Israeli decision-makers, and the international community’s failure to take effective action, there is a serious risk that the Israeli regime will expand the genocide to other areas under its control—first and foremost, the West Bank.
B’Tselem calls on the Israeli public and the international community to use every tool available under international law to bring an immediate end to Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people.