Settler violence ramps up as Israeli elections near - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Mazal Mualem

Mazal Mualem

Oct 24, 2022

Israeli settlers walk with batons as they cross a street during clashes in which Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian residents and shops in the town of Huwara, West Bank, Oct. 13, 2022. — Israeli settlers walk with batons as they cross a street during clashes in which Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian residents and shops in the town of Huwara, West Bank, Oct. 13, 2022. — Oren Ziv/AFP via Getty Images

With his round glasses and white kippa placed crookedly atop his greying hair, 46-year-old Itamar Ben-Gvir presents an affable figure. But to his detractors, the lawyer turned lawmaker is a pyromaniac whose politics threaten to set the country ablaze

Ben-Gvir, Israel's powerful extreme-right leader

Agence France-Presse

Protesters clash with Israeli security forces during a demonstration against Israeli settler attacks on the Palestinian West Bank village of Huwara, Tel Aviv, Feb. 27, 2023.

Israelis donate over $300,000 for Palestinians attacked by settlers

Rina Bassist

In Paris, reporting on Israeli politics and European affairs

Palestinian protesters run for cover as Israeli forces fire teargas during clashes following a protest against a march by Israeli settlers to the wildcat settlement outpost of Homesh, in the village of Burqa, West Bank, April 19, 2022.

Israeli settler kills Palestinian in Burqa, seven arrested

Rina Bassist

In Paris, reporting on Israeli politics and European affairs

Israeli settlers walk with batons and axes.

Israeli security agencies concerned over rise in settler violence in West Bank

Lilach Shoval