Settlements

UN Security Council calls urgent meeting to discuss recent Israeli West Bank policies

The session, initiated by the British Foreign Secretary, comes less than a week after the Israeli government reopened land registration in Area C for the first time since 1967.

Mohamed Abushahab, Permanent Representative of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations, addresses the Security Council during the meeting on the situation in the Middle East, at U.N. headquarters in New York City, US, February 18, 2026.
Right wing settlement activists cross the border with Lebanon on Thursday February 13, 2026.

Right-wing activists cross into Lebanon to call to renew settlement; IDF detains suspects

View of the Judean desert, in the West Bank, February 6, 2026.

Security Cabinet approves measures expanding Israeli control in West Bank

A Palestinian woman walks past a mural in the Silwan neighborhood of east Jerusalem on January 21, 2026.

'People will live in the streets': Israel steps up evictions of Palestinians from east Jerusalem


US State Department announces new sanctions against Israeli settler organization, individual

In response to an uptick in settler violence, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller announced new sanctions on Hashomer Yosh and Yitzak Levy Filant.

People enter the State Department Building in Washington, U.S., January 26, 2017.

A wrong turn: Settlers hold gun to 3-year-old's head in attack on Arab-Israeli family in West Bank

Security establishment figures said this was a serious escalation of "right-wing activism" in the West Bank.

 General view of the under construction settlement  Brahat Hadarom or Givat Ronen Harussi close to the Nablusi town in the West Bank on October 25, 2006.

Rise, fall, rumored return: Gaza's Gush Katif remembered in Jerusalem

A ‘rediscovered’ museum provides insight into the thriving Gaza community before the disengagement – and its status post-Oct. 7 today.

 THE STORY of Gush Katif lives on through the museum, founded in 2008.

The ICJ is using a political escape routes to avoid calling Israel out on apartheid - opinion

The legal caution exercised by the ICJ on the most critical issues – such as avoiding the declaration that the occupation itself is illegal.

 A VIEW of Kiryat Arba, near Hebron: The ICJ refrained from explicitly declaring the Israeli occupation itself as illegal, the writer notes.

ICJ sips espresso while Tel Aviv coffee shops burn: A tale of legal myopia - comment

Israeli settlements act as crucial buffers against the kind of aggressions that tend to happen when your neighbors aren't exactly sending you fruit baskets.

 ICJ President Judge Nawaf Salam

G7 condemns Israeli creation of new West Bank settlements

“Israel’s settlement program is inconsistent with international law and counterproductive to the cause of peace,” said the foreign ministers from the seven countries.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken with the assorted foreign ministers of the G7 FOreign Ministers during NATOs 75th anniversary summit in Washington, US, July 11, 2024.

European Union condemns Israeli authorization of five new settlements

The Security Cabinet authorized one outpost for every country that unilaterally recognized Palestine as a state in the last month, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich explained.

 EUROPEAN UNION flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels.

Hundreds of residents from Israel's North plead not be be evacuated from Jerusalem hotel

"This coming Sunday, we are all supposed to leave the Yehuda Hotel, and we have nowhere to go," Nassimi explained. 

 Evacuees from the North at the Yehuda Hotel

Israeli society unites on religion, torn over military issues since October 7 - Pew poll

Showing how Israeli religious and non-religious Jews have united during wartime, the study reflected that 18% of Israelis now believed there to be strong conflicts between religious and non-religious

 Israelis protest for the release of Israeli held hostage in the Gaza Strip and against the current government in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, June 19, 2024.

'We are proud to defend the country': Kibbutz Movement commemorates its 3,422 fallen

In the past year, an additional 322 fallen and murdered from among the Kibbutzim Movements were added - most of them were victims of the October 7 Massacre and casualties of the war that followed.

 Kibbutz Nir Oz after the massacre