Israel new settlements

EU foreign ministers condemn Israel's new West Bank E1 settlement plan

The Foreign Ministry "rejects the attempt to impose foreign dictates upon it [Jerusalem]," it said Friday.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich interacts with a man, on the day of a press conference regarding settlements expansion for the long-frozen E1 settlement, that would split east Jerusalem from the West Bank, near the Israeli settlement of Ma'aleh Adumim, August 14, 2025.
 An illustrative image of Defense Minister Israel Katz.

Katz: Lack of settlements led to security deterioration in Samaria

A view of the Maale Adumim settlement in the West Bank, Jan. 28, 2020.

Israel sets borders for three recently-legalized West Bank outposts

Construction near Efrat in the West Bank

Israel creates fast track for settlement building, Palestinians cancel meeting


White House warns against ‘expansion of settlement activity’

179 homes retroactively legalized in Ofarim, plans advanced for 234 units in Elkana • 50 other homes approved.

Efrat settlement, West Bank

Peace Now: 'Netanyahu abetting illegal settler building'

NGO says the government advanced plans for 1,531 new settler homes in the last year.

Efrat settlement, West Bank

US angry over new Israeli settlement activity

The State Department said the move constitutes "activity that is systematically undermining the prospects for a two-state solution."

Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo

Palestinian attacker lightly wounds 2 IDF soldiers in West Bank stabbing

Security forces shoot and wound the assailant at the scene on Route 60.

Ambulance at scene of stabbing attack in Gush Etzion, July 18, 2016

Mark children call for creation of new settlement at spot of father’s murder

In the aftermath recent terror attacks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Liberman ordered the advancement of plans for 560 new homes in the West Bank settlement of Ariel.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman meets with the Mark family children

Plans for 560 settler homes in Ma’aleh Adumim advance after annexation calls

Right-wing politicians call on Netanyahu to annex the West Bank Jewish city.

Ma'aleh Adumim

Security cabinet weighs tougher measures after latest attacks

Rabbi Michael Mark, father of 10, killed in drive-by shooting Friday; 42 homes to be built in Kiryat Arba.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Knesset cabinet meeting

Amona residents demand government legalize their West Bank outpost

One of the most violent clashes between settlers and security forces took place at Amona in 2007 when the IDF demolished nine unauthorized new stone homes.

Palestinian laborers work at a construction site in a settlement near Jerusalem

UN: IDF has razed more Palestinian structures this year than all of 2015

Of these, 14 structures, nine of which were residential, were demolished in Beduin encampments in the area of E1, which is within the boundaries of the Ma’aleh Adumim settlement.

EU funded illegal Palestinian Beduin construction in the area of the Ma'aleh Adumim settlement.

Netanyahu offers assurances on Hebron homes, but no authorization

The Hebron Jewish community purchased two stone apartment buildings located near the Cave of the Patriarchs from the Palestinian owners.

PM Benjamin Netanyahu