Outposts

IDF dismantles illegal West Bank outposts amid rise in nationalist violence

Security officials sharply criticized what they described as the courts' failure to impose meaningful penalties, arguing that judges were reluctant to issue punishments that could deter offenders.

Israeli military forces fire tear gas and disperse Palestinian farmers, preventing them from continuing the olive harvest as they attempt to cross an iron gate erected by the Israeli army in the village of Salem, east of Nablus in the West Bank, October 17, 2026.
Settlers from the Nahala movement build an outpost near the Gaza border, October 15, 2026.

IDF blocks roads leading to Gaza border after Nahala settlers attempt to build outpost overnight

IDF soldiers in the West Bank.

Transferring West Bank enforcement from IDF to police is a mistake without a plan - editorial

Israeli settlers are evacuated from illegal outpost Givat Or Yehuda, in the southern Hebron hills, on August 17, 2026.

IDF, COGAT evacuate illegal outpost near Hebron three months after residents attack police - report


Israel works to legalize West Bank outposts before Trump arrival

Trump is expected to ask Netanyahu to curb settlement activity...

BETWEEN BILLS to annex illegal outposts and overlooking the rulings of the Supreme Court, the government has sought unilateral solutions to a complex conflict

Israeli Left warns against ‘de-facto’ annexation in Knesset vote

Oppostion leader Herzog says bill to retroactively legalize some settlement homes " goes against all of Israel’s international obligations."

Herzog and Livni

Israel’s High Court freezes Amona deal

Residents of the Amona outpost plan to hold an emergency meeting on the matter on Tuesday night.

Amona outpost in 2015

PM, Bennett offer Amona families relocation deal

‘We feel the injustice and the pain of the residents,’ Bayit Yehudi leader says

‘THERE WILL be war over Amona,’ the graffiti reads at the outpost in the Binyamin region of Samaria in the West Bank

Bill to legalize West Bank outposts advances after Kahlon folds

The bill is considered by the 40 families residing in Amona to be the last hope to avoid the High Court of Justice-ordered December 25 demolition of their hilltop community.

Amona

A-G to rule on use of ‘abandoned property law’ to save Amona outpost

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman is hoping a new interpretation of the law can be found, which would allow the state to seize Palestinian property that had been abandoned for decades.

The Amona outpost in the West Bank

Right-wing politicians scrambling to save West Bank Amona outpost

Amona was first built in 1995, on the edge of the Ofra settlement. It is home to some 40 families and is located in the Binyamin region of the West Bank.

The Amona outpost in the West Bank

Right-wing politicians threaten to act against Netanyahu over Amona outpost demolition

Likud Minister Haim Katz compared the efforts of right-wing politicians to save the outpost of some 40 families with the actions of political opponents of the 2005 withdrawal from Gaza.

The Amona outpost in the West Bank

NGO calls to raze outpost homes: 'Israel's complicity in illegal building is outrageous'

Yesh Din petitions High Court against nine illegal homes in the Derech Ha’avot outpost.

Derech Ha'avot outpost

Netanyahu’s new government to tackle authorizing illegal settler construction

Netanyahu is expected to tackle the issue at the request of the Bayit Yehudi Party, which was the last of the Likud’s four coalition partners to finalize a deal to enter the government.

An outpost beside the West Bank Jewish settlement of Kochav Hashahar