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Irish bill to curb trade with Israeli settlements due in 'coming weeks', minister says

Ireland has been drafting the proposed legislation for the last year and has faced pressure from opposition politicians to include a ban on services as well as goods.

View of the settlement of Sa-Nur in the West Bank, April 19, 2026.
Minister of State for International Development and Diaspora in Ireland Neale Richmond takes part in the fifth plenary meeting, during the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development, in Seville, Spain, July 2, 2025

Ireland's top lawyer raises legal issues on sanctioning services in Israeli settlements

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar at the Knesset, December 2, 2025; illustrative.

Foreign criticism of West Bank settlements 'discriminatory against Jews,' Sa'ar says

Singapore's Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City, US, September 27, 2025.

Singapore imposes sanctions, entry bans on four Israeli settlers


Republicans urge Biden to veto anti-Israel UNSC resolution on Monday

Members of the Security Council have been negotiating a draft resolution on Israeli settlements in the West Bank drafted by the United Arab Emirates in coordination with the Palestinians.

 THE UNITED NATIONS Security Council holds a regular meeting on the situation in the Middle East, focusing on Israel in relation to the Palestinians.

Settlement legalization inconsistent with Israeli democracy, US says

US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said that the Biden administration had clarified its opposition to settlement activity.

US State Department spokesperson Ned Price speaks during a news conference in Washington, US, March 10, 2022.

Which outposts have now become nine new West Bank settlements? - explainer

Though these outposts have only officially become settlements recently, they have been around for much longer.

Otzma Yehudit MK Limor Son Har-Melech withIsraelis who set up new illegal West Bank outpost in memory of Rabbi Drukman

Israel shores up West Bank settlements after Netanyahu's Paris visit

The government agreed to split the hilltop community of Kochav Yaakov into two settlements, despite European and American opposition.

View of the Jewish settlement of Eli, in the West Bank on January 17, 2021.

Housing Minister promises to help Israelis settle in West Bank

Yitzhak Goldknopf said that based on visits he had made there, "part of the solution to the housing crisis lies in these areas!"

View of the Jewish settlement of Eli, in the West Bank on January 17, 2021.

Settlers accuse Gantz of freezing West Bank Jewish housing plans

Gantz has frozen the advancement of housing plans for West Bank settlements as part of his re-election campaign, the Yesha Council claimed.

 Defense Minister Benny Gantz attends a Blue and White party meeting in the Knesset last month.

Israel Elections: Using settlement activity as a campaign tactic

The Nahala Movement campaign is an effort to focus the attention on the settlements, and to bring the spotlight back on the issue of a Palestinian state.

 Settlers from the Nahala Settlement Movement beginning to march from the Gush Etzion junction on their way to establish illegal outposts on Wednesday,  and, on the right, Israeli and Palestinian detractors protesting the action.

Settlers vow to build more outposts after 7 West Bank encampments razed

“We have only just begun,” veteran settler leader and Nahala co-chair Daniella Weiss told reporters.

 Settler youth at Hilltop 26 near Kiryat Arba, one of the protest points for outpost settlement, July 21, 2022.

Settlers fear Biden visit may strengthen Palestinian hold on Area C

The Palestinians believe that all of Area C, where the Israeli settlements are located, must be part of the final borders of their state.

 People gather as Israeli machineries demolish a Palestinian house in Masafer Yatta, in the West Bank July 4, 2022.

Israel's coalition crisis: Silman, the coalition rebel, can decide its fate - analysis

Yamina MK Idit Silman, who resigned from the coalition, is stuck between a rock and hard place regarding Monday's seminal bill.

 Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and MK Idit Silman seen in better days for them at a Knesset plenum session last July.