Hilltop youth

How Israel's hilltop settlers coordinate attacks to expel Palestinians - analysis

Most of the world considers all Israel's settlement activity in the West Bank illegal under international law relating to military occupations. Israel disputes this view.

A masked man prepares to hurl stones at Palestinians who had gathered for the annual olive harvest season, during an attack by Israeli settlers on the Palestinian village of Beita, south of Nablus in the West Bank, on October 10, 2025.
An attorney has urged the Shin Bet to act after three Jewish hilltop youth allegedly attacked a pregnant Arab woman in Jaffa, warning that settler violence is being shifted from the West Bank into Israel’s cities.

Attorney urges Shin Bet action after alleged Jaffa attack by Hilltop Youth

An illustrative image of a man in handcuffs, being arrested.

Police arrest Hilltop Youth for 'racist attack' on pregnant Arab woman, family in Jaffa - KAN

Israeli security forces clash with Jewish settlers during the evacuation of Illegal structures in Tzur Misgavi, an outpost in Gush Etzion, in the West Bank, November 17, 2025

Israel must restore equality under the law or risk collapse of its liberal democracy - opinion


Hilltop youth quarantined together after refusing state facility

The group rioted on police bus, broke windows and tried to escape after fearing they were being taken to a Shin Bet detention center.

Police at a temporary "checkpoint" on road number 1 outside Jerusalem on April 8, 2020, to check if people are not disobeying the governments orders on a lockdown, in order to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus.

Border Police demolished two settler homes in Area B

The High Court of Justice ordered the razing because the homes were illegal and built on West Bank land under auspices of the Palestinian Authority.

Border police forces reportedly on their way to the Kumi Ori outpost on the outskirts of the Yitzhar settlement to demolish two illegally built homes on January 15, 2020.

A #throwback to the time when outposts were illegal

His report provided extensive details regarding the collision of government offices with the Binyamin Regional Council in building and providing services to illegal Jewish communities.

PROTESTERS CARRY wooden sticks as they stand on a roof during the evacuation of families from the illegal outpost of Netiv Ha’avot last month.

Police round up settler extremist teens in Jerusalem

Gag order placed on details of arrest, youths were forbidden to have contact with each other.

Jewish settlers (R) scuffle with Israeli police officers near buildings slated for demolition by order of Israel's high court in Beit El

Suspected 'Price Tag' attacks pop up in Jerusalem, northern Israel

20 vehicles vandalized in east Jerusalem, hateful messages spray painted on houses in Arab village

At least 20 vehicles found vandalized in east Jerusalem, May 9, 2017. Translation: "Administrative Price Tag"

Think about it: Vetting candidates for youth missions abroad

ARE THE youth going abroad representative of Israel?

Amona resident with Ofra background

Comment: Cracking down on the Jewish settler hilltop youth

A year after Duma attack that left Palestinian parents and toddler son dead, Jewish terrorism is in regression.

Meir Ettinger attends a remand hearing at the Magistrate’s Court in Nazareth.

L'idéologie de " la monarchie de Judée "

Depuis 2013, un mouvement clandestin de dizaines de militants fanatiques a pour projet de « reconstruire le Temple » grâce au terrorisme

Les "jeunes des collines"

Jewish terrorists

"Israeli law does not define these youth as terrorism activists until they actually carry out a crime, and this makes it very difficult to arrest, interrogate or remove them from their communities.

Meir Ettinger attends a remand hearing at the Magistrate’s Court in Nazareth.

Suspects from extremist Jewish group indicted for arson of Church of Loaves and Fishes

The church, which Christians believe is where Jesus performed the Miracle of the Multiplication of the Loaves and the Fishes, was damaged extensively in the fire.

Church of the Multiplication following suspected arson