Israeli settlement

Are Israeli ‘settlements’ illegal? - opinion

The idea of a “two-state solution,” creating another Palestinian state, in addition to Jordan, is not realistic or practical.

View of the settlement of Sa-Nur in the West Bank, April 19, 2026.
Palestinian demonstrators burn an Israeli flag during a protest against US position on Israeli settlements, in the West Bank city of Nablus, November 26, 2019.

UK, Canada, France, Norway, Australia, NZ sanction West Bank settler individuals, entities

View of graffiti sprayed by extremist settlers in the village of Jaba, West Bank, November 18, 2025.

Court indicts 18-year-old over alleged racist revenge attack in Palestinian West Bank village

Palestinians inspect livestock damage after settlers were said to have attacked, stealing 40 sheep in Al-Dhahiriya village, south of Hebron, this past week. We must take responsibility and put an end to it, says the writer.

Israel must confront the wider system enabling settler violence - opinion


Biton: No budget to legalize West Bank settler outposts

Right now the Civil Administration lacks the ability to service Israeli and Palestinians in Area C, according to Biton.

Defense Ministry's Civil and Social Issues Minister Michael Biton touring the Gaza Strip area, August 20, 2020.

On US election eve, MKs say Netanyahu must act now to legalize outposts

Right-wing parliamentarians worry a change in US leadership may doom West Bank outposts • settlers living there are the "last line in our fighting against the Palestinian takeover of Area C"

MK Gideon Saar signs a declaration demanding that Netanyahu authorize West Bank outposts

Settlers warn of de-facto building freeze following annexation back-track

"We’re being played as if we were a chip on a backgammon board.”

A general view of the Givat Hamatos neighborhood is seen in east Jerusalem

Netanyahu to meet with settlement leaders who support Trump peace plan

The meeting comes in light of the planned annexation of certain regions of the West Bank, including the Jordan Valley, which was detailed in the "Deal of the Century".

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Jordan Valley community of Mevo’ot Yericho in February 2020

Dead Palestinian suspect of stealing cattle found, case investigated

The circumstances behind the Palestinian's death is unknown. The body was transferred to the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Abu Kabir for further investigation.

Israeli "cowboys" collect a herd of cattle to separate the bulls from the females, at their farms in Northern Israel.

Pompeo: UN blacklist shows its ‘unrelenting anti-Israeli bias’

"Attempts to isolate Israel run counter to all of our efforts to build conditions conducive to Israeli-Palestinian negotiations that lead to a comprehensive and enduring peace."

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses a news conference in the Press Briefing Room at the State Department in Washington, U.S., January 7, 2020

Is ICC being equal with Israeli settlements, Turkish occupation? - analysis

Seven weeks after Bensouda decided against Israel, all that has been said about the Turkish occupation of Cyprus is that a decision is anticipated at some undefined point later in 2020.

A UN guard post along the buffer zone of Cyprus and Northern Cyprus as a Turkish and Turkish-Cypriot flag wave nearby

Israel wants gradual annexation now, US wants it all at once later

The Prime Minister's Office drafted maps of eventual Israeli territory in West Bank to bring to US for review.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deliver joint remarks on a Middle East peace plan proposal in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., January 28, 2020

ISIS calls on operatives to target Jews with chemical weapons

The message called on the operatives to begin targeting Jews and to turn the conquered territories into fields of weapons and rocket experiments.

A fighter of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) holds an ISIL flag and a weapon on a street in the city of Mosul June 23, 2014.

Naftali Bennett approves new Jewish neighborhood in Hebron

Palestinians, left-wing groups denounces plans for new neighborhood for "perpetuating" Israeli military control over Palestinians

The site of new Jewish construction in Hebron