Since the Six Day War in 1967, Yatta has been under Israeli occupation, along with the rest of the West Bank.
As of September 1995, Yatta and its immediate region, now known as Area A, have come under the administration of the Palestinian Authority (PA).

The population in the 1967 census conducted by the Israeli authorities was 7,281.

On 17 September 2001, a Jewish terrorist group, the Bat Ayin Underground, planted two bombs in the schoolyard at Yatta: One was timed to explode during the recess, and a second bomb several minutes later, in the expectation that teachers and students would be drawn to examine the damage.
A malfunction caused the first bomb to explode earlier, and Israeli sappers managed to defuse the second bomb in time.

At least seven Palestinians were killed in Yatta during the Second Intifada in different incidents from 2002–04.
On March 8, 2012 Israeli soldiers shot dead 20-year-old Zakariya Abu Eram and injured two others during a raid in the town with the intent of arresting Abu Eram's uncle Khaled Mahamra, a Hamas member, who was sentenced to life in prison and released as part of the exchange deal to free captive IDF soldier Gilad Schalit.
The Israeli's claimed they fired at the men only after one of them stabbed a soldier during the arrest attempt.

In June 2016, two assailants from Yatta were apprehended after firing upon Israelis dining in a Tel-Aviv café, after which they were charged with killing four people and injuring 16 others.

In June 2019, the mayor of Yatta announced that he decided to change the name of Bahrain Street in his municipality to Marzouq al-Ghanim Street as an act of protest against Bahrain's hosting of a US-led economic workshop.
Since the Six Day War in 1967, Yatta has been under Israeli occupation, along with the rest of the West Bank. As of September 1995, Yatta and its immediate region, now known as Area A, have come under the administration of the Palestinian Authority (PA). 
The population in the 1967 census conducted by the Israeli authorities was 7,281.
On 17 September 2001, a Jewish terrorist group, the Bat Ayin Underground, planted two bombs in the schoolyard at Yatta: One was timed to explode during the recess, and a second bomb several minutes later, in the expectation that teachers and students would be drawn to examine the damage. A malfunction caused the first bomb to explode earlier, and Israeli sappers managed to defuse the second bomb in time.
At least seven Palestinians were killed in Yatta during the Second Intifada in different incidents from 2002–04. On March 8, 2012 Israeli soldiers shot dead 20-year-old Zakariya Abu Eram and injured two others during a raid in the town with the intent of arresting Abu Eram's uncle Khaled Mahamra, a Hamas member, who was sentenced to life in prison and released as part of the exchange deal to free captive IDF soldier Gilad Schalit. The Israeli's claimed they fired at the men only after one of them stabbed a soldier during the arrest attempt.
In June 2016, two assailants from Yatta were apprehended after firing upon Israelis dining in a Tel-Aviv café, after which they were charged with killing four people and injuring 16 others.
In June 2019, the mayor of Yatta announced that he decided to change the name of Bahrain Street in his municipality to Marzouq al-Ghanim Street as an act of protest against Bahrain's hosting of a US-led economic workshop.
Yatta, Hebron