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Palestinians Respond To Israel’s Stranglehold By Forgiving Debts

September 19, 2026 Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss. , , ,
On September 4, at 7:00 a.m., Palestinian journalist Alaa Rimawi posted a simple call on his Facebook page: forgive the debts owed to you. By 8:00 a.m., responses forgiving half a million shekels had already come in. By Tuesday, the total had reached 75 million shekels — approximately $24 million.  The campaign, which Rimawi named “Forgive for the Sake of God,” spread rapidly across the West Bank, drawing thousands of responses from individuals, business owners, and companies. A clothing store owner in Silet al-Daher, north of Jenin, filmed himself burning a registry notebook containing 47,000 shekels in customer debts.

Israel Took Another Major Step Towards West Bank Annexation

August 24, 2026 Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss. , , , ,
Israel’s Defense Minister, Israel Katz, has moved to transfer security authority over Israeli settlements and settlers in the occupied West Bank from the Israeli army to the civil police, a decision Palestinians read as a decisive step toward the de facto annexation of the territory, and one that places the settler movement, in effect, in charge of policing itself. Katz gave the Israeli army two weeks to draft a plan to transfer powers to the police, while the army’s role in the West Bank would be limited to “managing” Palestinians and controlling borders. The announcement, made last Monday, came after ten days of settlers besieging three Palestinian families in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus.

Palestinian Families On A West Bank Hilltop Refuse To Leave

August 22, 2026 Shatha Hammad, Mondoweiss. , , ,
On a large rock under the midday summer sun, Abdul Karim Hassan, 63, sat exhausted by fatigue and grief, staring the whole time toward his two sons’ houses on the hill of Ras al-Ain in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus in the central West Bank. A few meters from the walls of three Palestinian homes in the town, settlers pitched a tent on August 9, 2026, and began besieging the Palestinian families in the area to force them out of their homes. This was only the latest escalation in the series of attacks that settlers have waged on Ras al-Ain for seven months — cutting off electricity and water lines, repeatedly assaulting residents in their homes, trying to break in and burn them, setting ambushes along the road, attacking the homeowners as they moved through the area, and even attempting to kill them.

Village Resistance Disrupted Israel’s West Bank Strategy

July 29, 2026 Ramzy Baroud, Consortium News. , , ,
During a military raid on the small town of Tell, southwest of Nablus, a moment of direct defiance shattered the illusion of total Palestinian submission. Faced with relentless military incursions, land confiscation and settler harassment and violence, local villagers and farmers refused to retreat. In the confrontation that followed, a single Palestinian disarmed an Israeli soldier and opened fire on the invading forces near the illegal Havat Gilad settlement outpost, killing two soldiers and wounding three others. What followed was the predictable, unyielding fury of the occupation.

Israel Is Deporting Foreign Activists Helping Protect Palestinian Communities

July 29, 2026 C. Frances, Mondoweiss. , , , ,
When the sun rises over Masafer Yatta in the West Bank’s Hebron Hills, orange light falls across the horizon, the shepherds bring out their flocks, and the struggle for survival begins anew. On March 15th, that struggle manifested in the form of a speeding car, a wounded child, and several international volunteers who were very, very far from home. It was early in the morning when Elijah, an American activist who asked to only be identified by his first name out of fear of retaliation by the Israeli state, realized that Siwar Hathaleen, a five year old Palestinian girl had been run over by a settler.

Palestinian Families Have Barricaded Themselves Inside Their Homes

July 9, 2026 Shathad Hammad, Mondoweiss. , , ,
Bassam Ideis opens the large gate leading to his home’s courtyard in the Masoudiyya area of the northern West Bank to welcome his guests, staying by the entrance to shut it quickly behind him. Before walking away, he turns back after a few steps to check that it’s locked. Settler incursions from the new outpost erected on May 15 have increased of late. He checks the lock again, just to be sure. On either side of the gate, a long fence encircles the Ideis family home. Iron shutters have been placed over every window. Children rarely come out to play in the courtyard, and the entire property looks abandoned from the outside.

Tel Aviv Advances De Facto Annexation Of Occupied West Bank

June 3, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced a new and major illegal settlement project in the occupied West Bank on 3 June, which aims to see the construction of around 2,000 houses on Palestinian land. According to the minister, 1,006 housing units will be in a new settlement near the occupied holy city of Jerusalem. Over 920 are planned near occupied Nablus and another 234 near the city of Hebron. “We are continuing to build the Land of Israel in practice,” Smotrich said. The settlements will “strengthen our hold on the land, reinforce Israel's security, and establish clear facts on the ground that prevent the creation of an Arab terror state in the heart of the country.”

Israel Is Racing To Expand West Bank Settlements

April 20, 2026 Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss. , , , ,
The Israeli cabinet approved the construction of 34 new West Bank settlements last week, bringing the total number approved by the ruling coalition led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu up to 103. The cabinet decision is the largest batch of new settlements approved in decades, breaking the record set by a previous landmark decision in June 2025, which approved 22 new settlements. While the latest decision has been overshadowed by the regional conflagrations related to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, its timing indicates that Israel perceives a closing window for its ability to entrench its colonial project in its own backyard — the West Bank — in light of shifting realities that might see Iran emerging from the war intact and in a strengthened position regionally.

Inside The Lives Of West Bank Workers Crushed By Israel’s Labor Ban

April 17, 2026 Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss. , , , ,
Bir Nabala, a ghost town of abandoned houses and empty streets, is surrounded by the Israeli separation wall and was once a vibrant middle-class community. Its diverse businesses benefited from the town’s strategic location north of Jerusalem, which made it one of the city’s important gateways. Then the wall cut Bir Nabala off, killing its commercial life overnight and turning it into a remote village on the far edges of Ramallah. Residents have since been gradually leaving the town. The Israeli wall stretches across the horizon in the village from edge to edge. Lining the streets are a few scattered workshops that continue to function, buried in the silence of empty neighborhoods.

Israeli Settlers Torch Factories And Farmland In West Bank Raid

November 12, 2025 Mera Aladam, Middle East Eye. , , , ,
Israeli settlers carried out a large-scale arson attack on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the latest in a series of army-backed assaults that have surged since October. Dozens of masked settlers targeted an industrial area east of Tulkarm, near Beit Lid, in the attack, setting fire to a dairy factory, surrounding farmland, several buildings and multiple trucks. Settlers also hurled rocks at Palestinians on the scene, wounding at least four people. The fire spread to a nearby nomadic Palestinian community, engulfing their tents.

Display Of ‘Humiliation’: Israeli Army Detains Over 1,000 Palestinians

September 13, 2025 Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss. , , , ,
Israeli forces arrested at least 1,000 Palestinians in a single day on Thursday during a wide-ranging raid on Tulkarem in the northern West Bank, Abdullah Kamil, the governor of the Tulkarem area, told local media. The raid came following a roadside bomb attack on an armored Israeli military vehicle earlier in the day, taking place near a checkpoint outside the city. The attack wounded two Israeli soldiers, according to the Israeli army radio. Kamil added that Israeli forces imposed a total closure on Tulkarem and conducted a campaign of home searches across the city, describing it as a “systematic policy.” The explosion that targeted the armored vehicle as it exited Checkpoint 104, west of Tulkarem, was the first armed Palestinian action in the northern West Bank since the Israeli army forcibly expelled the residents of the refugee camps of Tulkarem and Jenin from their homes earlier this year.

Israel Is Changing The Legal System Governing The West Bank

July 24, 2025 Jeff Wright, Mondoweiss. , , , ,
Israel is accelerating its efforts to cement its permanent control over the West Bank through a number of sweeping legal and institutional changes, according to a new report from Adalah, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel. The 87-page report, Legal Structures of Distinction, Separation, and Territorial Domination, describes the ways in which the Netanyahu government is rapidly building on a long-standing legal matrix that further threatens Palestinians’ right to self-determination. “These developments are not something new to us,” Dr. Suhad Bishara, Legal Director of Adalah and lead author of the report, told Mondoweiss.

Israeli Settlers Escalate Violence, Forced Displacement Across West Bank

May 25, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , , , , ,
The last few days have witnessed a dangerous escalation of violence, theft, and vandalism against Palestinians by illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. Settlers attacked Palestinians in the Al-Auja Waterfall area in Jericho on 25 May for the third time in one day, as part of ongoing efforts to displace families who have lived in the area for decades and establish a new illegal settlement outpost.This came a day after settlers, under the protection of the Israeli army, cut off the water supply to the area. In the Salim plain east of the occupied city of Nablus, settlers also continued to set fire to wheat fields on Sunday, coinciding with separate attacks on Palestinian livestock herders in the northern Jordan Valley area.

Four Reasons Why Ethnic Cleansing Of The West Bank Is Being Accepted

March 22, 2025 Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss. , , , ,
Earlier this week, while Israeli warplanes were resuming their carpet bombing campaign in Gaza, Israel also expanded its offensive on the West Bank, this time reaching the al-Ain refugee camp west of Nablus. Israeli forces entered the camp in the early hours of Wednesday morning when an undercover Israeli force opened fire on a vehicle, killing its driver, Odai Qatouni, and confiscated his body. Israeli forces took over several houses and used them as military positions for 14 hours, forcing some 10 Palestinian families to leave their homes.

A Palestinian Year In Review: Genocide, Resistance And Unanswered Questions

January 1, 2025 Ramzy Baroud, Counter Punch. , , , ,
The story of the Israeli war on Gaza can be epitomized in the story of the Israeli war on Beit Lahia, a small Palestinian town in the northern part of the Strip. When Israel launched its ground operations in Gaza, Beit Lahia was already largely destroyed due to many days of relentless Israeli bombardment which killed thousands. Still, the border Gaza town resisted, leading to a hermetic Israeli siege, which was never lifted, even when the Israeli military redeployed out of much of northern Gaza in January 2024. Beit Lahia is largely an isolated town, a short distance away from the fence separating besieged Gaza from Israel.
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