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


US denounces Israel's push to advance 3,988 West Bank settler homes

The move helps shore up Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's fragile coalition but will likely anger the Biden Administration.

 US President Biden welcomes Israel's Prime Minister Bennett, in Washington

IDF renews standing eviction orders against number of West Bank outposts

There are some 100 outposts in Judea and Samaria, most of which are similar to established settlements, but lack authorization.

 A family in the hilltop settlement of Homesh after the modular structures were taken down by police, December 24, 2021.

The Palestinian land grab of Judea and Samaria

The startling statistics show that in just the past two years, from 2019 to 2021, the Palestinians have built a whopping 5,907 illegal structures in Area C.

 MARCHING WITH signs reading ‘preserving and saving the Israeli land,’ in Bat Ayin and Gush Etzion junction, June 21.

Israel to advance plans for 1,303 West Bank Palestinian homes

The plans to construct new Palestinian homes are part of a series of gestures Prime Minister Bennett's government has made to the Palestinians.

 A picture taken with a drone shows Palestinian houses and buildings at Dheisheh refugee camp, near Bethlehem in the West Bank June 17, 2021. Picture taken June 17, 2021.

Construction on park near Arab graves sparks widespread outrage

Nature and Parks Authority insists graves that were illegally placed in the public area in recent years will not be disturbed.

 Arab families sitting by the graves of their relatives near Yusufiya Cemetery

Jordan blasts Israel after 1,300 apartments approved for sale in West Bank settlements

Left-wing politicians and activists expressed outrage as 1,355 housing units are set to be marketed in West Bank settlements.

 300 housing units being built in Beit El in the West Bank

US concerned about Israeli plans for 3,000 settler homes

The announcement about settler housing plans comes amid media reports that Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is under extra US pressure to freeze such plans.

A Jewish settler walks past Israeli settlement construction sites around Givat Zeev and Ramat Givat Zeev in the West Bank, near Jerusalem June 30, 2020.

Israel can't submit to Biden pressure on consulate, settlements - opinion

Since last spring, the Biden administration has pressured Israel to allow the US to reopen a separate consulate, solely for Palestinian Arabs, in the heart of Israel’s capital, Jerusalem.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and US President Joe Biden in the Oval Office in August.

Israeli building in E1 will thwart Palestinian state, NGOs tell IDF

'Israeli construction on E1 harms Palestine’s future growth potential and therefore closes the door to the possibility of a peace agreement,' architect Uri Reicher told the Civil Administration.

The E1 territory, located outside of Jerusalem and within the jurisdiction of the Ma'aleh Adumim settlement

Steps both sides could take towards peace - opinion

Some of these things will be quite unpopular on both sides of the conflict; nonetheless, their acceptance and implementation could have positive impacts for both sides.

A pro-peace protest is held in Jerusalem, following several dyas of ongoing nationalist violence in the capital, April 24, 2021.