Legality of israeli settlements

Netherlands to prohibit imports, sales of West Bank settlement products

The ban, which will take effect on September 22, 2026, is more symbolic in value than practical, as it will be challenging to enforce.

Police officers stand next to pro-Palestinian protesters outside the University of Amsterdam during a protest, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 8, 2024
Member of Parliament Abtisam Mohamed looks on on the day Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a ministerial statement on Hamas' October 7 attack anniversary and the Middle East at the House of Commons, in London, Britain, October 7, 2024.

British lawmakers press government for immediate ban on Israeli West Bank settlement imports

 An illustrative image of Defense Minister Israel Katz.

Katz: Lack of settlements led to security deterioration in Samaria

 Settler youth at Hilltop 26 near Kiryat Arba, one of the protest points for outpost settlement, July 21, 2022.

Settlers vow to build more outposts after 7 West Bank encampments razed


Netanyahu: Both settlements and Israeli courts need to be protected

The High Court of Justice has ordered the evacuation of Amona by December 25.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu praises the new budget before the cabinet debate yesterday.

Palestinian village to state: Stop activists flocking to Amona

The Amona outpost is built on land that belongs to residents from Silwad.

ISRAELI POLICEMEN gather in 2006 to remove the outpost of Amona.

Controversial settlement bill shelved over coalition infighting

The settlements bill is meant to allow the state to pay the Palestinian land owners on whose property settler homes were illegally constructed.

The Amona outpost in the West Bank

Amona settlers reject new state plan to avoid violent demolition

On Wednesday the Knesset plans to hold the first of three necessary votes to turn the Regulations Bill into law.

ISRAELI POLICEMEN gather in 2006 to remove the outpost of Amona.

Knesset hawks prepare for showdown on controversial outpost bill

Coalition chairman David Bitan obtained Kulanu’s support for the bill in its preliminary reading last Wednesday by promising that clauses seen as defying the court would be removed.

Amona

State to ask court to delay Amona evacuation

Bennett warned that his party would leave the coalition if the evacuation was not postponed or cancelled.

ISRAELI POLICEMEN gather in 2006 to remove the outpost of Amona.

New ownership claims may scuttle Amona relocation plan

Earlier this month Palestinians claimed ownership of 24 of the lots. The new objections leave only six property lots on which to create a new community for the 40 families that live in Amona.

SEVERAL OF THE 40 homes at the Amona outpost, which the High Court has ruled must be removed by December 25.

Jerusalem building row breaks out prior to Obama-Netanyahu meeting

The Jerusalem Planning and Construction Committee cancels meeting to discuss expansion of Gilo as Netanyahu travels to US to meet with Obama.

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man pushes a shopping cart past a construction site in Gilo, in December 2012

Israeli politicians renew push to retroactively legalize 2,000 settler homes

MK Hotovely said bluntly that those who say that there are legal issues with the bill are “lying.”

Amona

Celebrating Kedumim’s 40th, Bennett calls to annex Area C

He told the thousands of people that he imagined how in a few short years he would be able to state: “We promised the imposition of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria – and we kept our promise."

KEDUMIM CELEBRATES its 40th anniversary on Tuesday night