Israeli settlement

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.

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.
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

Defense Minister Israel Katz attends the state ceremony marking 52 years since the Yom Kippur War, held at the military cemetery at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl, on October 5, 2025.

Defense Minister Katz finally condemns Jewish extremist violence against Palestinians


Israel to advance plans for 3,000 homes in the West Bank

Netanyahu has also promised that in September he would give the go-ahead for marketing 300 homes for the Beit El settlement.

BULIDINGS ARE SEEN under construction in the settlement of Ma'aleh Adumim [File]

Court freezes law that retroactively legalized unauthorized settler homes

High Court rules law that allows for confiscating Palestinian property for compensation must be debated, also freezes some evictions of unauthorized Israeli outposts.

West Bank outpost.

Israeli enclaves in Palestine – Netanyahu’s proposal to Trump

Netanyahu’s proposal to US President Donald Trump, it must be assumed that first is has to be part of a full, comprehensive peace agreement which will establish an independent Palestinian state.

A MAN sits on a fence in Melilla, a Spanish enclave in North Africa. Those successfully scaling the fence are entitled to apply for asylum.

Haredi MK Gafni recalls party's historic support of evacuating settlements

The letter is dated April 18, 1978, when Begin was negotiating peace with Egypt, which involved returning Sinai to Egypt and evacuating Yamit.

Moshe Gafni

Politicians challenge Netanyahu to rebuild destroyed settlements

The four West Bank settlements were dismantled during the 2005 Disengagement plan.

On the ruins of the former Sa-Nur settlement.

Netanyahu: 'We’re connecting the Beitar Illit settlement to Jerusalem'

“There is no government that does more for the settlement in the land of Israel, then this government under my leadership," says Netanyahu.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speeks at Beitar Illit August 3, 2017.

Netanyahu to attend Beitar Illit ceremony for 1,000 new settler homes

The city, the second largest in the West Bank, is in the midst of developing a new hilltop, for which infrastructure has already been completed.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem July 30, 2017.

Analysis: Is Netanyahu softening on annexation?

Since he was elected to the premiership in 2009 and declared his support for a Palestinian state, Netanyahu has walked a careful diplomatic tightrope.

THE SETTLEMENT of Efrat in Gush Etzion. Nothing can change the Obama administration’s mind that settlements are the primary cause of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the author argues.

Not your ‘typical settler’: Secular settlers speak out

‘Guys with “peyot” and bearded faces are much more photogenic than a guy without a beard who speaks Hebrew that everyone can understand’

Ran Segal

Israel steps up Damascus Gate security following Jerusalem attack

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Damascus Gate both a symbol of terrorism and the fight against it.

BORDER POLICE frisk a Arab man in front of Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate, the scene of much recent violence.