Legality of israeli settlements

Katz: Lack of settlements led to security deterioration in Samaria

Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan referred to Judea and Samaria as “Israel’s bulletproof vest.”

 An illustrative image of Defense Minister Israel Katz.
 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

Then Minister of Defense Naftali Bennett visits new housing projects in Judea and Samaria

Bills to legalize outposts, repeal Disengagement pass preliminary vote

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

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


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

US: Israeli seizure of abandoned Palestinian property ‘unprecedented’

While each statement was prompted by a reporter’s question, Thursday’s comments were prepared in advance.

Amona

Why Amona?

The question of land ownership, however, has not been determined by a court, and Arab claimants have not presented any valid proof which entitles them to the land.

Amona