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Showing Displacement in West Bank.
A Palestinian man accused of killing a settler near Ramallah could become the first person sentenced under Israel's new death penalty law, which excludes Israeli citizens from its reach.
Jewish-American activist Sam Sherman says Israel barred his re-entry over his work with Palestinians facing settler violence, calling it "state terror."
Israel has demolished Palestinian shops for a settler road under the E1 plan, which would displace thousands and sever the West Bank's territorial continuity.
Taybeh's mayor says the town is documenting settler attacks and land seizures to pursue civil lawsuits in US courts against settlers and American settlement supporters.
Palestinian factory owners describe settler arson destroying equipment and olive groves in Ein Siniya and as-Samu, with soldiers accused of blocking firefighting efforts.
New mapping of Israeli settlements shows 163 communities housing 750,000 settlers, record outpost growth, and UN data showing settler attacks doubling since 2022.
B'Tselem's new report says Israel is systematically dismantling the conditions of Palestinian collective life in the West Bank, naming Smotrich's 2017 plan as the guiding document.
A teacher at Al Mughayyir's boys' school describes a year of settler and military violence that has killed five pupils, including his own brother.
Settlers armed with clubs beat a 23-year-old Palestinian man in Beitillu village, leaving him hospitalized with severe injuries, an Israeli activist group documented.
Israel is building a 500km barrier and planning 40 new outposts along the Jordan Valley, with a section already seizing Palestinian farmland via nine land orders.
Israeli checkpoints around Nablus have cut a dairy factory's sales by up to 40%, part of a documented $16.8 million monthly drag on the West Bank economy.
B'Tselem's new report, drawing on nearly 2,000 testimonies, argues Israeli raids, demolitions, checkpoints and settler violence in the West Bank form one coordinated system of elimination.
