West Bank checkpoint

Police commander charged with assaulting Palestinian at West Bank checkpoint

Prosecutors allege a Border Police commander repeatedly beat a Palestinian detainee at a checkpoint before threatening an officer who witnessed the incident.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
Israeli soldiers inspect the Shavei Shomron checkpoint after a Palestinian was killed near Deir Sharaf, west of the West Bank city of Nablus, November 12, 2024 (Illustrative).
Father of Sam Abu Haykal, a 7-month-old Palestinian child who was killed by Israeli soldiers, reacts as he holds his body during his funeral in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, June 6, 2026.

WATCH: Footage shows IDF appearing to shoot seven-month-old Palestinian baby in Hebron

In one released video, the child's father can be seen holding his body and trying to keep pressure on the boy's head wound. 

|ByCORINNE BAUM
Israeli soldiers operate during a military raid in the West Bank city of Hebron, May 24, 2026.

Two Palestinian civilians wounded, one killed during IDF operations in West Bank

The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that a seven-month-old baby was killed in the incident, though the death has not been confirmed by the IDF.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Illustrative: Border police troops conduct large-scale operation to thwart illegal immigration to Israel. September 29, 2024.

Driver rams checkpoint, hits patrol car, then charges IDF soldiers in West Bank

Police opened fire at the wheels of a stolen vehicle after the driver crashed through a checkpoint, struck a patrol car, and sped toward IDF forces in the West Bank.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, MAARIV

Israel planning to increase work permits for Palestinians

According to the World Bank, unemployment in the West Bank in 2016 stood at around 18%.

JANUARY 12, 2018ByADAM RASGON
ALI JAFAR takes a break at the SodaStream factory in Rahat last year

Israel Border Police rescue Palestinian man near Cave of the Patriarchs

A Border Police spokesperson said, "Israel Police and Border Police officers operate without distinction of religion, race or gender."

DECEMBER 5, 2017ByBECKY BROTHMAN
Israeli Border Police treating a Palestinian man who fell unconscious in Hebron.

While we spoke of many things

The Friday night dinner table type discussions lasted three days.

NOVEMBER 22, 2017ByPAMELA PELED
Nowa Huta in Kraków, Poland (above) and New Harmony, Indiana (right) serve as unfinished/failed examples of utopian communities: ‘While New York and Berlin, London, Rawabi and Jerusalem are not yet perfect, some great minds have just been working hard on unpicking the problems.’ (

Planning for the morning after

Ultimately, Israeli sovereignty over Area C should be seen as the positive, ethical and logical step to be taken in the wake of yet another failure to craft a by-definition un-craftable deal.

MAY 17, 2017BySAM SOLOMON
TWO SETTLERS stand atop a ridge in the West Bank.