Outposts

IDF dismantles illegal West Bank outposts amid rise in nationalist violence

Security officials sharply criticized what they described as the courts' failure to impose meaningful penalties, arguing that judges were reluctant to issue punishments that could deter offenders.

Israeli military forces fire tear gas and disperse Palestinian farmers, preventing them from continuing the olive harvest as they attempt to cross an iron gate erected by the Israeli army in the village of Salem, east of Nablus in the West Bank, October 17, 2026.
Settlers from the Nahala movement build an outpost near the Gaza border, October 15, 2026.

IDF blocks roads leading to Gaza border after Nahala settlers attempt to build outpost overnight

IDF soldiers in the West Bank.

Transferring West Bank enforcement from IDF to police is a mistake without a plan - editorial

Israeli settlers are evacuated from illegal outpost Givat Or Yehuda, in the southern Hebron hills, on August 17, 2026.

IDF, COGAT evacuate illegal outpost near Hebron three months after residents attack police - report


West Bank eviction: The last battle or a start of a new war?

Settlers in Netiv Ha’avot were uprooted this week, but they could become the last batch to face eviction.

Netiv Avot outpost, June 12, 2018.

Demolition of Netiv Ha'avot outpost homes delayed by 3 months

The High Court is allowing families to remain in their homes until June so the state can build alternative modular homes for them.

Trucks and cranes building a new road for Civil Administration vehicles to access the outpost during the demolition of 15 homes.

Government authorizes Netiv Ha'avot outpost

The government also plans to construct 350 homes for settlers in the outpost.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with settler leaders after a cabinet vote legalizing the Netiv Ha'avot outpost, February 2018

Netanyahu promises Havat Gilad outpost could become settlement next week

Last year, the government also created the first entirely new settlement in over 20 years, called Amihai.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem

Defense Ministry planning to legalize 70 outposts

Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben-Dahan said that a team of four or five people had been established to identify outposts that could be legalized and to see how difficult the process would be.

THE OFRA SETTLEMENT is seen from the Amona outpost in the West Bank.

Court chastises government's 'disturbing' conduct on outpost

“In many instances, all of the needed information for a decision was not brought before us... and was not always accurate... this is unacceptable," said former justice Miriam Naor.

Israel's High Court of Justice

WATCH: Israeli forces face off with settlers during outpost eviction

Reports of clashes between activists and border police on the scene.

An activist is removed by security forces from the Netiv Ha'avot outpost during a demolition on November 29.

Netanyahu’s rivals: Finish land survey of Sde Boaz outpost

The Civil Administration began to survey the property in 2012 under the direction of former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon.

SDE BOAZ is seen from the air, with the four contested properties in the forefront.

Netanyahu says Israel starts construction on new West Bank settlement

"The entire public expects of the prime minister not to allow any hostile element, whether they be leftist groups, judicial or clerical bodies, stop the construction," say residents of Amona.

Heavy machinery work on a field as they begin construction work of Amichai, a new settlement which will house some 300 Jewish settlers evicted in February from the illegal West Bank settlement of Amona, in the West Bank June 20, 2017.

Israeli children's TV star causes unlikely Palestinian uproar

Israeli children's favorite TV star 'Yuval HaMebulbal' was the focus of unlikely attention on Wednesday.

West Bank outpost.