Settlements

Israel charges Jerusalem man for threatening foreign journalists, damaging vehicles in West Bank

Prosecutors say the suspect blocked journalists’ vehicles north of Ramallah, threatened them with a club and a rock, tried to slash a tire, and damaged a windshield.

The scene after Israeli settlers attacked four Palestinian vehicles, including one belonging to CNN International, in the town of Halhul, south of Hebron, June 15, 2026
Israeli security forces at the scene of a stabbing attack near the Israeli settlement of Alon Moreh, in the West Bank, July 23, 2026

Israeli man seriously wounded in West Bank terror stabbing, two Palestinian attackers killed

Israeli soldiers disperse with tear gas Palestinians who had gathered as a fire blazes near the village of Tell, adjacent to the Israeli settlement of Havat Gilad, west of Nablus in the West Bank on July 18, 2026.

Katz goes all out against IDF attempts to reduce Jewish violence against Palestinians - analysis

Highway 465's expansion was approved.

Smotrich announces expansion of West Bank's Highway 465, pushes for new level of 'safety, security'


Israeli moderately wounded after being struck with an iron rod in West Bank altercation

After Civil Administration workers demolished an illegal outpost in the area and left the site, the shuttle carrying the approximately 20 workers was attacked by dozens of Jewish Israelis.

A picture taken from the Palestinian village of Sair shows the Israeli settlement of Metzad on March 15, 2017.

Yeshiva students seize house in Hebron's old city for dorms

A press release from the yeshiva claimed that this was the first time Jews had entered the old city since 1929.

Students from Yeshiva Shavei Hevron claim the Valero house in the old city.

'The Disengagement is dead!' Settlers open first kindergarten in Homesh in 20 years

"We will also open new kindergartens in Gush Katif," Yossi Dagan said, referring to the settlement in Gaza forcibly dismantled during the Disengagement.

Kindergarten opened in settlement of Homesh, in the West Bank, September 1, 2025.

Netanyahu Hails Recognition of 17 New Communities in Binyamin

“I said that we would build and hold fast to our land, our homeland, and we are doing it."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with his wife Sara, ministers, and Knesset members, at a tribute event

Dutch FM resigns over blocked Israel sanctions, party officials follow

Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp resigned despite reaching a compromise that would have seen an import ban on settlement goods.

Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp speaks to the media, on the day of a NATO foreign ministers' meeting at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium April 4, 2025.

UK summons Israeli ambassador over West Bank settlement expansion plan

Britain's Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth Office summoned Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely to discuss the plans to establish a settlement in E1, between Jerusalem and Ma’aleh Adumim.

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.

'Pioneers of the Bashan': Israeli activists illegally lay cornerstone for new settlement in Syria

A group of Israeli activists crossed the Israel-Syria border in order to lay the cornerstone for a new, illegal settlement named "Neveh Habashan."

 IDF soldiers operate on Mount Hermon, on the border between Israel and Syria, December 12, 2024

Germany tells Israeli government to stop West Bank settlement construction

This comes after Smotrich announced his approval for settlements in the E1 area.

An Israeli flag flutters, as part of the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim is visible in the background, in the West Bank, August 14, 2025.

UN human rights office says Israeli plan for settlement near Jerusalem breaks international law

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich previously approved plans for a settlement that would split east Jerusalem from the West Bank.

 View of Ma'aleh Adumim and the area known as E1, in the West Bank. January 2, 2017.

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Protesters, predominantly Houthi supporters, demonstrate in solidarity with Palestinians, in Sanaa, Yemen, August 8, 2025.