Eu israeli settlements

EU reiterates its call on Israel to refrain from more expansion of settlements

Earlier this week, Israel's security cabinet approved a plan with a budget of 1.3 billion shekels ($427.8 million) for establishing 34 new settlements in the West Bank

View of Karmei Tzur settlement north of Hebron, in the West Bank, November 24, 2025.
Member of Parliament Abtisam Mohamed looks on on the day Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a ministerial statement on Hamas' October 7 attack anniversary and the Middle East at the House of Commons, in London, Britain, October 7, 2024.

British lawmakers press government for immediate ban on Israeli West Bank settlement imports

 View of the desert near Ma'ale Adumim, in the West Bank, January 26, 2021.

EU slams Israel on settlements, Temple Mount after council meeting

The Palestinian Al Majaz Basic School in Khirbet Al-Majaz in the South Hebron Hills, which is under threat of demolition.

EU calls on Israel not to demolish Palestinian herding villages


France threatens Israel ties over settlement annexation

An Israeli diplomatic source said that more EU member states opposed Borrell’s remark than came out against any previous EU statement on Israel.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and France's President Emmanuel Macron meet ahead of the 5th World Holocaust Forum, January 22, 2020.

EU pulls statement referring to settlement activity on “disputed” land

The statement was re-issued with the land instead being referred to only as being "occupied".

A Jewish settler walks at the Jewish settlement outpost of Adei Ad B in the West Bank

Top EU foreign policy nominee has record of slamming Israel, praising Iran

Jerusalem was not particularly fond of Mogherini, and now, under Borrell, things might actually become more difficult.

Spain's Foreign Minister Josep Borrell speaks on his mobile phone at the start of a European Union foreign ministers meeting in Brussels, Belgium July 16, 2018

Fundamentally Freund: The muck of the Irish

Whether Irish parliamentarians or mayors like it or not, Israel and its presence in Judea and Samaria are here to stay.

Ireland's Foreign Minister Simon Coveney speaks during a news conference in Dublin, Ireland, April 12, 2018.

Did Israel's right-wing leadership accept settlement boycott?

Public and private bodies in Israel and the Palestinian Authority are eligible to receive grants for projects if the meet the EU-funded NGO's criteria.

Education Minister Naftali Bennett briefs foreign diplomats ahead of the UNGA vote on Trump's Jerusalem move

Security Council members, EU condemn Israeli settlement activity

The European Union issued an official statement on Israel's settlement activity.

Former Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, Deputy Defense Minister Eli Dahan and former Settler leader Avi Ro'eh at the site of the new Amihai settlement when it was being built in October 2017.

When will a formal EU-Israel dialogue take place?

Israel has a status akin to a member-state within the EU, enjoying strong economic, educational, scientific and cultural ties.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linus Linkevicius in Jerusalem

EU demands Israel rebuild illegal Palestinian school structures

In their statement, the EU also urged Israel to halt settlement construction, while encouraging the rebuilding of illegal Palestinian schools.

Palestinian schoolchildren play outside a tent where they attend lessons after Israeli troops razed their school building in the West Bank village of Jubbet ad-Dib, near Bethlehem August 24, 2017

Report: Jerusalem construction freeze to halt plans for 6,000 housing units

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

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

French envoy: Int'l community wondering if it can trust Israel

Helene Le Gal condemns Settlements Bill, denouncing it as a unilateral decision made by Israel that serves as yet another roadblock to the two-state solution.

A girl holds an Israeli flag on a hilltop near the Maaleh Adumim settlement