Israeli settlement

B'Tselem claims 47 Palestinian families at risk of expulsion, IDF says homes built illegally

B'Tselem says water disruptions threaten 47 Palestinian families in the northern Jordan Valley; IDF sources cite security works and illegal construction.

Palestinians use their phones as Israeli settlers and military personnel stand outside a Palestinian home in Qusra, in the West Bank, August 15, 2026, in this screen grab obtained from a video.
Israeli soldiers clash with Palestinians as they hold Friday prayers during a protest against Israeli settlement expansion and land confiscation near Bethlehem in the West Bank, July 3, 2026.

IDF veterans tell Trump: Settler violence claims are distorted, ignore terrorism - exclusive

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the 8th General Conference of Fatah in Ramallah in the West Bank, May 14, 2026.

PA's Abbas calls for end to 'systemic' settler violence, requests support from UN, Arab leaders

View of a graffiti painted, in the ancient archeological site of Sebastia, near the West Bank city of Nablus, May 12, 2025.

Israel’s archaeological plans in Sebastia risk ‘heritage apartheid,’ Israeli NGO tells ‘Post’


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Arab democracy is seen as a dangerous luxury, and they prefer “pragmatic” deals with tyrants to defeat violent Islamist extremism.

Palestinian youths slinging rocks 521

Israel to clear mines from over 15 acres to expand West Bank settlement

"Instead of landmines which are intended to kill, children will be playing in the streets of the new neighborhood."

The community of Karnei Shomron is seen

Suggestions for solving the Israeli-Palestinians dispute

A positive aspect is that the areas of the enclaves can be expected to be limited compared to the extensive areas of the settlement blocs discussed until now.

A VIEW of the Jerusalem neighborhoods of Ramot (foreground) and Ramat Shlomo (background).

US Ambassador Friedman: Israel 'only occupying 2% of the West Bank'

"There was always supposed to be some notion of expansion into the West Bank, but not necessarily expansion into the entire West Bank."

US Ambassador David Friedman at the knesset

High Court president: Judges can't attend settlement ceremony because it is political

Naor decided that no court representative would attend the ceremony which is celebrating the settling of Judea, Samaria, the Jordan Valley and the Golan Heights.

Miriam Naor

Who will live and who will die?

If we are to be sovereign for the foreseeable future, our responsibility toward Palestinians under our control increases.

THE BEDUIN encampment of Khan al-Ahmar is seen near Ma’aleh Adumim.

Bible Marathon kicked out of international association for passing through territories

“There is no international law that prohibits running the route of the world’s oldest race because it finishes in Ancient Shiloh.”

RUNNERS PASS through Eli during the 2016 Bible Marathon

Kahlon to summon Amnesty to a hearing over settlement boycott campaign

Amnesty Israel: Government is systematically persecuting human rights activists; revoking tax break won’t hurt us.

Moshe Kahlon

Israel to advance plans for 3,000 homes in the West Bank

Netanyahu has also promised that in September he would give the go-ahead for marketing 300 homes for the Beit El settlement.

BULIDINGS ARE SEEN under construction in the settlement of Ma'aleh Adumim [File]

Court freezes law that retroactively legalized unauthorized settler homes

High Court rules law that allows for confiscating Palestinian property for compensation must be debated, also freezes some evictions of unauthorized Israeli outposts.

West Bank outpost.