Settlement construction

Approved: New settlement to integrate people with disabilities into the community

The Northern District Committee: Shibolet settlement in Lower Galilee to integrate people with disabilities. About 350 housing units will be built, with 70 for disabled individuals and their families

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 Minister of Finance and Head of the Religious Zionist Party Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, April 30, 2024.

Israel must take six punitive measures against PA, Smotrich says

 IDF soldier seen walking between two armored vehicles in Gaza, December 20, 2023.

Israeli commander calls to resettle Gaza, reprimanded by IDF

A view of the Maale Adumim settlement in the West Bank, Jan. 28, 2020.

Israel sets borders for three recently-legalized West Bank outposts


Settlements Law could authorize 10,000 illegal Palestinian homes

Liberman, who opposes the new law, said “it causes tremendous damage” to the settlement movement because the legislation can also be applied to illegal Palestinian homes.

Avigdor Liberman

Amid constant clashes, wall to be built around Beit El settlement

Israel claims the move is a necessary security measure given regular clashes in nearby Palestinian refugee camp.

Homes in the Beit El settlement, West Bank

Netanyahu bars IDF from evacuating settlers from Hebron home

The left-wing organization Peace Now called on the government to immediately order the Hebron families removal.

IDF soldiers outside of Beit Hamachpela building in Hebron.

Settlers: ‘Don’t demolish our homes without a solution’

The West Bank hilltop community of Netiv Ha'avot is slated to be demolished by March.

NETIV HA’AVOT residents demonstrate yesterday in front of the Knesset

Israeli settlers to lobby right-wing MKs over marketing freeze

“The fight now moves to inside the Knesset,” Beit El Council head Shai Elon said on Sunday at a press conference in a protest tent settlers set up last week outside the Knesset.

YESHA COUNCIL HEAD Avi Ro’eh speaks during a press conference at the protest tent of Beit El residents in Jerusalem yesterday.

PM reportedly orders renewed Jerusalem construction despite recent freeze

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat has already slammed the premier following the announcement, saying it was a violation of international law and “deliberate sabotage” of a two-state solution.

A laborer works on an apartment building under construction in the Har Homa neighborhood of Jerusalem

UN envoy: Israel is defying UNSC by accelerating settler construction

UN envoy Nickolay Mladenov warned that Israel was not abiding by UN resolutions as Netanyahu boasts of the construction of a new settlement for Amona evacuees.

Heavy machinery work on a field as they begin construction work of Amichai, a new settlement which will house some 300 Jewish settlers evicted in February from the illegal West Bank settlement of Amona, in the West Bank June 20, 2017.

Israeli settlement construction down 23% amid cries of freeze

“There has not been, nor will there will be, a better government for settlements than ours,” Netanyahu said.

A CONSTRUCTION site in the West Bank settlement of Givat Ze’ev, near Jerusalem [File]

Report: Jerusalem building freeze halting plans for 6,000 housing units

‘De facto freeze’ would affect Gilo, Har Homa and Pisgat Zeev.

HOUSES UNDER construction in the Har Homa neighborhood of Jerusalem in 2010

Defense Minister Liberman debunks settlement freeze claims

Liberman: No government has done more for the settlement enterprise.

Destruction of building in Beit El settlement, July 29, 2015