The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s events as they unfold.

Footage from the Palestinian village of Mukhmas, north of Jerusalem in the West Bank, shows several masked settlers hurling stones at Palestinians and at activists from left-wing Israeli human rights group Torat Tzedek this afternoon.

Torat Tzedek head Rabbi Arik Ascherman, who is seen in the driver’s seat of a car as the settlers approach, tells The Times of Israel that two of the car windows were shattered but no one was hurt.

Ascherman says he and other activists drove down to Mukhmas to warn of an incoming settler attack after two stick-wielding settlers charged at them near Mukhmas’s barn, away from the village. About six settlers followed the activists and stoned them, he says.

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Settlers attack Palestinians & Human rights activists in Mikhmas.

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According to Ascherman, the assailants came from the illegal outpost of Kol Mevaser, one of several settler communities that have encircled Mukhmas over the past few months. It is the same outpost whose inhabitants in October carried out a large-scale attack on Mukhmas — wounding Palestinians and activists, burning cars and olive groves, and stealing livestock — amid a surge in settler violence targeting Palestinians during the olive harvest season, Ascherman says. At the time, it took Israeli security forces two hours to arrive on the scene from the time they were first contacted, says Ascherman.

The outpost has a standing demolition order against it, and Israeli security forces have dismantled it repeatedly, but the settlers have kept rebuilding until “the forces gave up” a few weeks ago, says Ascherman. Israeli forces responding to the stone-throwing today did dismantle the outpost afterward, but it was back up again about an hour later, he says. No arrests were reported.

Molly Hart, the activist who captured the footage of Ascherman’s car being stoned, later traveled to the Palestinian village of Duma in the northern West Bank. Hart says settlers came to Duma four times this evening and harassed people, including by shining flashlights in their faces.

In the fourth incident, Hart tells The Times of Israel, a fellow activist was left limping after being hit in the leg by a stone hurled by a settler who had walked into the Palestinians’ compound and rattled the shaky homes. That settler had broken off from three others who were playing loud music from a boombox that they placed just outside the village fence. Police arrived about 15 minutes after the settlers left and made no arrests, she says.

Police and the IDF do not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Eli Feldstein, a former media adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who has been indicted over the Bild affair and is a suspect in the Qatargate affair, alleges that he told Netanyahu in August 2024 that he was trying to get hold of a classified document, and that the prime minister expressed support for his effort.

In a lengthy interview with the Kan public broadcaster, Feldstein says that he thought of the idea after Netanyahu gave a press conference following the murder of six hostages at the end of August that year.

Feldstein says he first told Jonatan Urich, another key adviser to Netanyahu, that he was friendly with someone in the IDF’s Military Intelligence Division who had a document discovered by the IDF in Gaza detailing Hamas’s position on hostage negotiations and demonstrating that the terror group did not want to make a deal to end the war.

Feldstein said he believed publication of the document would bolster Netanyahu’s claim that only military pressure could bring about the release of the hostages, and that there was no possibility at the time to get a hostage release deal, despite demands by large sectors of the public for such an agreement.

Feldstein says in his interview with Kan that after Netanyahu’s press conference, he told the premier that there was a recent document discovered by the IDF in Gaza and that he had a source from whom he and Urich were trying to obtain the document.

“Excellent,” Feldstein says Netanyahu told him in response.

In further revelations, Feldstein claims that Netanyahu’s chief of staff, Tzachi Braverman, said he could stop an investigation regarding IDF information security if Feldstein needed it.

According to Feldstein, Braverman called him late one night in September 2024, and told him to meet him on level -4 of an underground parking lot in the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv.

There, Braverman read Feldstein five or six names from a list and asked him if he knew any of the names, which Feldstein said he did not.

When Feldstein asked him why he was asking this, Braverman said that he knew there was an investigation by the IDF’s information security department that had reached the PMO.

“‘Tell me if this is connected to you, tell me if it is connected to us. I can shut it down,'”........

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