Illegal israeli settlements

Border Police, IDF evacuate four illegal outposts across West Bank

Border Police and IDF units evacuated four illegal outposts in Gush Etzion, Samaria, and Binyamin, following PM Netanyahu’s directive to clear 14 such sites across the West Bank.

An IDF soldier stands guard during an evacuation of illegal West Bank outposts, December 7, 2025.
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

 Jewish settlers at the illegal West Bank settlement outpost of Ramat Migron, on September 8, 2023.

Organizations petition High Court to evict Moshe Sharvit's West Bank outpost amid int'l sanctions

A Jewish settler walks past Israeli settlement construction sites around Givat Zeev and Ramat Givat Zeev in the West Bank, near Jerusalem June 30, 2020.

US tells Israel settlements serious issue, raised at highest level 


Peace Now: Illegal settler outpost building resumed with 16 new sites

Setters explained that outposts were communities begun with pledges of government support and approval that were never actualized.

 building cranes in the Beitar Illit settlement August 17

UNHRC report: Settlements are a war crime

"The transfer of the population by an occupying state into an occupied territory is a grave breach of article 147 of the Fourth Geneva Convention."

Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights addresses a news conference at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland March 9, 2018. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

Cabinet to approve relocation funding for settler families

“There are still families that have no place to go.”

Jerusalem demonstration outside the PMO's office, against the demolition of 15 homes in the Netiv Haavot.

Netiv Ha’avot and Israeli sovereignty

The time has come for us to understand that the Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people, that the Land of Israel belongs to the State of Israel.

Border police remove an Israeli flag from a condemned building in Netiv Ha'avot

First 36 homes go up in new Amichai settlement

“After a long battle, we see the light at the end of the tunnel," said activist Avichai Boaron, an Amona evacuee.

The newly established settlement of Amichai in the West Bank. (Courtesy)

Right wing NGO slams European efforts to raze Netiv Ha’avot

According to the report, the European Union, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium, Norway, Holland and Switzerland helped fund the legal campaign to dissolve the district in Netiv Ha’avot.

Border police remove an Israeli flag from a condemned building in Netiv Ha'avot

National religious rabbis call for outpost legalization before destruction

The High Court of Justice ruled in 2016 that 15 of the homes in the outpost were not built on state land, were illegally constructed and must be destroyed.

Jerusalem demonstration outside the PMO's office, against the demolition of 15 homes in the Netiv Haavot.

'Why did my husband have to die for us to get electricity and water?'

Rabbi Raziel Shevach was murdered in a terror attack on Tuesday near the West Bank outpost of Havat Gilad.

Funeral of Rabbi Raziel Shevach, murdered in West Bank terror attack shooting, January 10, 2017

Liberman: Look into recognizing Havat Gilad as legal settlement

Several right-wing lawmakers echoed Liberman’s comments.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (R) and Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan

Bennett to Netanyahu: Save homes in Netiv Ha’avot

Right-wing politicians oppose the home demolitions, but have been hard pressed to offer the residents more than words of support.

Summer rally for the Netiv Ha'avot Outpost in front of the Knesset.