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Eyeing a new opportunity, Jewish settlers are positioning themselves on the Gaza border

Around 30 such families signed up to move to Gaza weeks after Oct. 7, but a further 800 have signed up to move to six would-be Gaza settlements down the road.

 Arbel Zak, a senior Nachala leader, holds a map of envisioned settlements inside Gaza, at the Nachal Oz soldiers memorial overlooking Gaza, April 15, 2025.
 An illustrative image of Defense Minister Israel Katz.

Katz: Lack of settlements led to security deterioration in Samaria

 Settler youth at Hilltop 26 near Kiryat Arba, one of the protest points for outpost settlement, July 21, 2022.

Settlers vow to build more outposts after 7 West Bank encampments razed

Unveiling the new settlement of Amichai

In pictures: A settlement is born


Settlers blocked from moving to building opposite Cave of the Patriarchs

Jewish families from Hebron had purchased half of the structure, which they called Beit Hamachpela, and moved into it at the end of March 2012.

IDF soldier stands guard next to Beit Hamachpela in Hebron.

Peace Now to High Court: New land allocations to West Bank settlements must be made public

The secrecy that surrounds such allocations makes it impossible for the Palestinians to oppose them or ask that the land be assigned to them instead, NGO says.

The West Bank Settlement of Givat Ze'ev

Coalition infighting continues over settlement tax benefits

According to MK Gafni, adding the West Bank would cost NIS 600m. out of the amount allotted for the benefits, leaving less for periphery towns.

The West Bank Settlement of Givat Ze'ev

Analysis: If you will it

"The minute you exploit land under military occupation by using it for residential purposes, you are sawing off the branch on which the entire settlement enterprise is perched."

Education Minister Naftali Bennett addresses crowd at Beit El settlement

Bayit Yehudi MKs call to adopt Levy Report, legalize outposts

Report says settlements are legal under international law, calls on government to allow construction of outposts.

Bayit Yehudi MKs call to legalize outposts

Get a grip, There’s no grab!

Peace Now purposely misrepresented this step – which was simply the formal completion of a well-known process – as expropriation of land, and another example of “occupation, expulsion and theft.”

Gevaot, located in the Etzion settlement bloc.

CBS: 76% drop in West Bank housing starts

The number of finished homes in West Bank settlements also fell, dropping by 38% in the first quarter of this year.

Construction in West Bank settlement of Efrat, April 29, 2014.