Israeli settlement

Israel must confront the wider system enabling settler violence - opinion

If we want to have the peace and security we Israelis deserve, let alone live up to our Jewish values, we must make the painful effort to cease projecting the blame onto a small handful of youth.

|ByARIK ASCHERMAN
Palestinians inspect livestock damage after settlers were said to have attacked, stealing 40 sheep in Al-Dhahiriya village, south of Hebron, this past week. We must take responsibility and put an end to it, says the writer.
Defense Minister Israel Katz attends the state ceremony marking 52 years since the Yom Kippur War, held at the military cemetery at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl, on October 5, 2025.

Defense Minister Katz finally condemns Jewish extremist violence against Palestinians

Katz's condemnation came months after a spike in such attacks, six days after a new mass attack last week, and after yet another mass attack earlier Monday.

|ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
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

WATCH: Hilltop Youth, security forces clash during demolition of illegal settlement extension

Gush Etzion Regional Council reached out to Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to request his assistance in dealing with the "anarchy" developing in the area in a letter sent in September.

|BySHIR PERETS
Palestinians inspect the damage following an attack by Israeli settlers west of Nablus in the West Bank, on November 12, 2025.

Just one Jewish 'anarchist' remains in custody after around 100 attack Palestinian village

In total, only six attackers were caught, and four were detained. This marks the 85th recent attack on Palestinians, with the IDF calling for more tools against offenders.

|ByYONAH JEREMY BOB

Netanyahu to meet with settlement leaders who support Trump peace plan

The meeting comes in light of the planned annexation of certain regions of the West Bank, including the Jordan Valley, which was detailed in the "Deal of the Century".

JUNE 7, 2020ByTAMAR URIEL-BEERI
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Jordan Valley community of Mevo’ot Yericho in February 2020

Dead Palestinian suspect of stealing cattle found, case investigated

The circumstances behind the Palestinian's death is unknown. The body was transferred to the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Abu Kabir for further investigation.

APRIL 30, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israeli "cowboys" collect a herd of cattle to separate the bulls from the females, at their farms in Northern Israel.

Pompeo: UN blacklist shows its ‘unrelenting anti-Israeli bias’

"Attempts to isolate Israel run counter to all of our efforts to build conditions conducive to Israeli-Palestinian negotiations that lead to a comprehensive and enduring peace."

FEBRUARY 13, 2020ByOMRI NAHMIAS
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses a news conference in the Press Briefing Room at the State Department in Washington, U.S., January 7, 2020

Is ICC being equal with Israeli settlements, Turkish occupation? - analysis

Seven weeks after Bensouda decided against Israel, all that has been said about the Turkish occupation of Cyprus is that a decision is anticipated at some undefined point later in 2020.

FEBRUARY 10, 2020ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
A UN guard post along the buffer zone of Cyprus and Northern Cyprus as a Turkish and Turkish-Cypriot flag wave nearby

Israel wants gradual annexation now, US wants it all at once later

The Prime Minister's Office drafted maps of eventual Israeli territory in West Bank to bring to US for review.

JANUARY 30, 2020ByLAHAV HARKOV
U.S. President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deliver joint remarks on a Middle East peace plan proposal in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., January 28, 2020

ISIS calls on operatives to target Jews with chemical weapons

The message called on the operatives to begin targeting Jews and to turn the conquered territories into fields of weapons and rocket experiments.

JANUARY 28, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A fighter of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) holds an ISIL flag and a weapon on a street in the city of Mosul June 23, 2014.

Naftali Bennett approves new Jewish neighborhood in Hebron

Palestinians, left-wing groups denounces plans for new neighborhood for "perpetuating" Israeli military control over Palestinians

DECEMBER 1, 2019ByJEREMY SHARON, KHALED ABU TOAMEH
The site of new Jewish construction in Hebron

Pompeo is right, the settlements are not illegal

But statements alone can’t survive without acts on the ground.

NOVEMBER 25, 2019ByYIGAL DILMONI
A general view picture shows houses in the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, in the West Bank February 15, 2017

EU court ruling defied by American declaration

More than 20 international law experts and jurists convened at The Hague to put together their understanding of the law.

NOVEMBER 23, 2019ByJENNY AHARON
European Union flags flutter as people take part in the demonstration "One Europe for all", a rally against nationalism across the European Union, in Vienna, Austria, May 19, 2019.

Land Authority publishes tender for first ever Ma’aleh Adumim hotel

Israel has long held that Ma’aleh Adumim would be part of its sovereign territory in any two-state arrangement with the Palestinians

NOVEMBER 18, 2019ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Maaleh Adumim with sign 370