One side effect of the daily terror from the hilltop youth against Palestinian pastoralist communities is that the threshold of interest, shock and disgust keeps risingAmira Hass10:28 AM • June 24 2026 IDTA masked soldier and an unmasked female soldier forcing their way into a Bedouin community's residential compound in the West Bank is not the kind of incident that makes the news. Not even when the soldiers had been fed the "hilltop youth" lie that sheep were stolen from a nearby settler outpost and they are looking for them. Not even when they break into the tin shacks "without even knocking on the door," as one person told me, as they did last Thursday evening in a small community of the Kaabneh tribe in Ma'aleh Wadi Qelt.Loading...Click the alert icon to follow topics:PalestiniansIsrael settlementsWest BankIDFBedouinHuman rightsCommentsLoading...In the NewsIn the News: Israel-Iran Live UpdatesIranAndy BurnhamLebanon Withdrawal EisenkotEbola in IsraelYaacov Agam HaQuizHaaretz PodcastIDF Soldiers Were Sent to Harass a Bedouin Community That's Halfway to ExpulsionThree Mamdani-backed Candidates Triumph in New York Democratic Party PrimaryReport: Israel-Lebanon to Define 'Pilot Zones' Under Lebanese Military ControlPM Working on Deal With Haredi Parties: Judicial Overhaul for Draft Evasion DealPolice Arrest Former Arab Israeli Lawmaker for Alleged Incitement in 2022 SpeechRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIWhere Does Andy Burnham Stand on Israel and Palestine?Israel Is Conducting a Systematic Campaign of Ethnic Cleansing in the West BankAs the World Watched Gaza, Israeli Settlers Charged Ahead in the West Bank. A Clash Is ImminentNetanyahu's Mouthpieces Turn on Trump, Revealing a Deeper Israeli IngratitudeIsrael Is Bleeding Support in U.S. and Pouring Tens of Millions to Change ThatTrump's Iran Deal Castrates Netanyahu, but It's Still Catastrophic for Israel