Settlements

Security Cabinet approves measures expanding Israeli control in West Bank

Newly approved measures will remove land-sale restrictions, expand enforcement in Areas A and B, and renew state-led land acquisition in the West Bank.

View of the Judean desert, in the West Bank, February 6, 2026.
A Palestinian woman walks past a mural in the Silwan neighborhood of east Jerusalem on January 21, 2026.

'People will live in the streets': Israel steps up evictions of Palestinians from east Jerusalem

Chief of Staff, Lt. Col. Eyal Zamir conducts a situation assessment as part of an operation in the Hebron region

IDF carries out anti-terrorism operation in Hebron, seizes illegal weapons, arrests wanted suspects

An employee adjusts the Canadian flag next to the Israeli one, at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, October 31, 2018

Canadian Jews support war in Gaza, condemn settlement expansion, Diaspora survey finds


Rise, fall, rumored return: Gaza's Gush Katif remembered in Jerusalem

A ‘rediscovered’ museum provides insight into the thriving Gaza community before the disengagement – and its status post-Oct. 7 today.

 THE STORY of Gush Katif lives on through the museum, founded in 2008.

The ICJ is using a political escape routes to avoid calling Israel out on apartheid - opinion

The legal caution exercised by the ICJ on the most critical issues – such as avoiding the declaration that the occupation itself is illegal.

 A VIEW of Kiryat Arba, near Hebron: The ICJ refrained from explicitly declaring the Israeli occupation itself as illegal, the writer notes.

ICJ sips espresso while Tel Aviv coffee shops burn: A tale of legal myopia - comment

Israeli settlements act as crucial buffers against the kind of aggressions that tend to happen when your neighbors aren't exactly sending you fruit baskets.

 ICJ President Judge Nawaf Salam

G7 condemns Israeli creation of new West Bank settlements

“Israel’s settlement program is inconsistent with international law and counterproductive to the cause of peace,” said the foreign ministers from the seven countries.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken with the assorted foreign ministers of the G7 FOreign Ministers during NATOs 75th anniversary summit in Washington, US, July 11, 2024.

European Union condemns Israeli authorization of five new settlements

The Security Cabinet authorized one outpost for every country that unilaterally recognized Palestine as a state in the last month, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich explained.

 EUROPEAN UNION flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels.

Hundreds of residents from Israel's North plead not be be evacuated from Jerusalem hotel

"This coming Sunday, we are all supposed to leave the Yehuda Hotel, and we have nowhere to go," Nassimi explained. 

 Evacuees from the North at the Yehuda Hotel

Israeli society unites on religion, torn over military issues since October 7 - Pew poll

Showing how Israeli religious and non-religious Jews have united during wartime, the study reflected that 18% of Israelis now believed there to be strong conflicts between religious and non-religious

 Israelis protest for the release of Israeli held hostage in the Gaza Strip and against the current government in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, June 19, 2024.

'We are proud to defend the country': Kibbutz Movement commemorates its 3,422 fallen

In the past year, an additional 322 fallen and murdered from among the Kibbutzim Movements were added - most of them were victims of the October 7 Massacre and casualties of the war that followed.

 Kibbutz Nir Oz after the massacre

Settler group wins case on demolishing 'threatening' structure built over Route 398, West Bank

The High Court found in the groups's favor and ordered the government to explain why it had failed to enforce the law, within a time limit of two weeks.

 VIEW OF Tekoa, 2021.

Apartheid or no Jewish majority: Israel's settlement dilemma - opinion

Israel's former ambassador to South Africa writes: The choice between apartheid and the end of the Jewish majority is fast approaching.

 A construction site for new housing in the Jewish settlement of Shiloh, in the West Bank, on June 21, 2023.