Pesha Magid

The head of a left-wing Arab party dropped out of Israel's election after the Supreme Court indicated judges were likely to disqualify him for an article that described the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks as an "important historical event".

On the outskirts of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian woman has transformed her home into an art centre ​where children use drawing to process their experiences of settler violence and Israeli military raids.

The Libi family is in the vanguard of a hardline movement to seize land with farms and livestock, displacing Palestinians. As illegal outposts proliferate, settler violence is surging. 

Dozens of masked Israeli settler militants attacked homes surrounding the occupied ​West Bank village of Qusra on Saturday, the first major attack since a siege by settlers in the area earlier this month drew ‌an international outcry.

After watching anxiously from the U.S. for seven sleepless nights Loui Ridi decided to board a flight from Detroit for the Middle East and try to ⁠visit his home.

Families on the outskirts of Qusra, the West Bank village where Palestinian homes have been under siege for nearly a week, said they have faced sometimes deadly attacks by militant settlers for months.

The United States wants Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to publicly condemn militant settlers who have besieged Palestinians in their homes in ​the occupied West Bank, U.S. and Israeli officials said on Friday, as settlers pressured residents by pitching a new tent before Israeli soldiers arrived and it was taken down.

On a searing summer day, Israeli settlers splashed in a West Bank pool created by siphoning off water that had irrigated Palestinian crops, one of many seizures of water resources across ​the occupied territory.

Israeli prosecutors on Thursday charged a Jewish settler over the killing of a Palestinian community ‌leader last year in the West Bank, the first such indictment in more than seven years amid a rise in settler violence in the occupied territory.

Israeli forces shot and wounded at least one Palestinian, ‌arrested at least three, and closed entrances to the village of Tal in the occupied West Bank on Friday as more than 100 Israeli settlers marched towards the village, residents said.