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.

JUNE 23, 2026|ByMOSHE DANN

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

Six countries, including the UK and Canada, imposed joint sanctions on West Bank settlers and entities over violence, calling the actions a threat to a two-state solution.

JUNE 9, 2026|ByMATHILDA HELLER, MICHAEL STARR

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

The case refers to the violent November attack on the Palestinian village of Jaba that erupted hours after security forces evacuated the unauthorized outpost of Tzur Misgabi in the Gush Etzion.

FEBRUARY 11, 2026|BySARAH BEN-NUN

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

If we want to have the peace and security we Israelis deserve, let alone live up to our Jewish values, we must make the painful effort to cease projecting the blame onto a small handful of youth.

NOVEMBER 30, 2025|ByARIK ASCHERMAN

Peace Now: Illegal settler outpost building resumed with 16 new sites

Setters explained that outposts were communities begun with pledges of government support and approval that were never actualized.

MARCH 26, 2018ByTOVAH LAZAROFF

building cranes in the Beitar Illit settlement August 17

Right wing NGO slams European efforts to raze Netiv Ha’avot

According to the report, the European Union, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium, Norway, Holland and Switzerland helped fund the legal campaign to dissolve the district in Netiv Ha’avot.

FEBRUARY 18, 2018ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL

Border police remove an Israeli flag from a condemned building in Netiv Ha'avot

German coalition agreement slams settlement policies

Officials in J’lem say it distances Berlin from specific policies, not from Israel

FEBRUARY 8, 2018ByHERB KEINON

European Parliament President Martin Schulz

U.S. to stay in UNHRC as 'black list' publication delayed

Israel's mission in Geneva said on Wednesday that it was preparing a statement responding to the UN report.

JANUARY 31, 2018ByTOVAH LAZAROFF, MICHAEL WILNER

Jewish youth hold Israeli flags at the beginning of a rally march in the West Bank settlement of Itamar, near Nablus.

'Why did my husband have to die for us to get electricity and water?'

Rabbi Raziel Shevach was murdered in a terror attack on Tuesday near the West Bank outpost of Havat Gilad.

JANUARY 12, 2018ByJEREMY SHARON

Funeral of Rabbi Raziel Shevach, murdered in West Bank terror attack shooting, January 10, 2017

Israeli committee approves 1,122 new West Bank housing units

The approvals come a day after a 35-year-old Israeli father of six was killed in a drive-by attack in the West Bank in what is believed to have been a Palestinian terror attack.

JANUARY 11, 2018ByJTA