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West Bank outposts

Decision said to include financial sanctions on extremists
Report: Cabinet quietly okayed plan to curb settler violence; PM called phenomenon ‘cancer’
Israeli settlers, top, and Palestinians clash as brush burns along a roadside after Palestinians set it ablaze to prevent the settlers from approaching the West Bank village of Sinjil, July 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
By ToI Staff
Ministers said to have kept March decision -- and Netanyahu's harsh criticism -- secret for political reasons; security chiefs wanted it made public
A Palestinian woman reacts as she holds the dust from the rubble of her house which was demolished by Israeli security forces, in the Palestinian village of Beit Awwa in the southwest of the West Bank on February 11, 2026. (HAZEM BADER/AFP)
July 23, 2026, 6:35 pm
West Bank demolitions far higher for Palestinians than Israelis in 2025, rights group says
96% of demolition orders against Palestinian illegal construction were enforced, compared to 20% in settlements; no Palestinian building permits approved, vs 27,350 for settlements
By Jeremy Sharon
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a cornerstone-laying ceremony for the new settlement of Doran in the Mount Hebron region of the West Bank, June 16, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
July 22, 2026, 6:49 pm
Smotrich takes steps to make his major settlement policy shift harder to reverse
Minister strengthens powerful Settlements Administration inside Defense Ministry, claims step will entrench expansion he oversaw, though new government would still be able to overturn it
By Jeremy Sharon
Extremist settlers reportedly steal goats from the Palestinian village of Deir Ibzi, July 19, 2026. (Screenshots, courtesy Peace Now)
July 21, 2026, 4:31 pm
Extremist settlers steal 200 goats from two Palestinian villages – report
Footage from Peace Now shows Jewish extremists driving dozens of goats through Palestinian village of Deir Ibzi; 35 goats later returned by Israeli officials
By Jeremy Sharon
A Palestinian farmer (L) attempts to prevent Israeli settlers from approaching an olive grove being harvested near the Palestinian village of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah in the West Bank, on October 29, 2025. (Zain JAAFAR/AFP)
July 19, 2026, 8:20 pm
Government document shows 650 youths living in illegal West Bank outposts
Figures come from Settlements Ministry budget allocations for ‘at-risk youth’ in West Bank, providing settlement municipal authorities with NIS 12M for outpost youth residents
By Jeremy Sharon
Solidarity activists work to block settlers from entering a building in the West Bank village of Jurish, July 17, 2026. (X video/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 17, 2026, 9:26 pm
Settlers raid West Bank village in PA-run area; IDF, arriving on scene, lets them flee
Military reportedly doesn’t hand settlers over to police, declares closed military zone forcing activists to leave West Bank village
By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian
Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth speaks during a handover ceremony for the commander of the 99th Division, near Netiv Haasara on the Gaza border, July 15, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)
July 16, 2026, 8:51 pm
IDF’s West Bank chief claims illegal settler farming outposts ‘greatly strengthen security’
Avi Bluth tells residents of wildcat communes — which critics say have become ground zero for violent extremists and a tool for dispossession of Palestinian lands — that he loves them
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
US Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) is interviewed by Reuters during a visit to Turmus Ayya, near Ramallah, in the West Bank, July 9, 2026. (REUTERS/Ammar Awad)
July 14, 2026, 12:24 pm
US lawmaker detained by settlers says lack of punishment shows Israeli complicity
Israel’s ‘genocidal’ response to October 7 and the ‘apartheid’ conditions in the West Bank lead Ro Khanna to drop ‘pro-Israel progressive’ label he was using 4 years ago
By Jacob Magid
IDF soldiers stand behind a masked settler swinging a slingshot while hurling stones at Palestinians who had gathered for the annual olive harvest season, during an attack by Israeli settlers on the West Bank village of Beita, south of Nablus, on October 10, 2025. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)
June 26, 2026, 11:12 am
As settlers rampage, IDF soldiers accused of aiding violence, theft against Palestinians
Israeli activists describe a pattern of troops standing by or actively taking part as settlers from illegal outposts assault, harass and loot from Palestinians in the West Bank
By Jeremy Sharon
Illustrative: Israeli security forces clash with Hilltop Youth as they evacuate and demolish an illegal outpost built near the Jewish settlement of Metzad, east of the Palestinian city of Sa'ir in the southern West Bank on November 17, 2025. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
June 15, 2026, 3:24 pm
Government to provide 50-shekel daily stipends for hundreds of hilltop youth – report
NIS 5.5 million ($1.9m) said designated for settler minors, amid effort ostensibly aimed at addressing violent daily attacks against Palestinians by residents of West Bank outposts
By ToI Staff
An armed settler accompanied by IDF soldiers tells Palestinians and Israeli civil rights activists that only Jews can stay on privately owned Palestinian land in Area B of the West Bank, on the outskirts of the Palestinian town of Tarqumiyah, during a confrontation on June 5, 2026 (Screenshot composite, courtesy)
June 10, 2026, 10:57 pm
‘Jews are allowed, Arabs have to get out,’ armed settler tells Palestinians, activists
Settler, backed by IDF troops, sought to prevent Palestinians from working their land; ‘Goal is expulsion of Palestinians from their land,’ says rights group
By Jeremy Sharon
IDF soldiers confiscate a water tanker belonging to a Palestinian Bedouin herder from the hamlet of al-Farisiya in the Jordan Valley, May 25, 2026. (Courtesy Jordan Valley Peace Activists)
May 28, 2026, 11:10 pm
Palestinian herders file High Court petition against IDF confiscation of water tankers
Motion demands IDF provide for humanitarian needs of residents of West Bank Bedouin hamlet, since they can no longer sustain themselves or their livestock
By Jeremy Sharon
A Civil Administration excavator uproots a Palestinian olive tree in the northern West Bank, May 7, 2026. (Courtesy)
May 8, 2026, 1:27 am
Smotrich announces uprooting of 3,000 trees planted by Palestinians in northern West Bank
Civil Administration says trees’ removal, latest in a series of such actions, will enable the creation of a new settlement; 3 Palestinians reportedly injured in settler attack
By Jeremy Sharon, Nurit Yohanan, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Palestinian residents of Ras Ein al-Auja village in the West Bank pack up their belongings and prepare to leave their homes after deciding to flee mounting settler violence, January 11, 2026. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)
April 28, 2026, 11:50 pm
JNF halts most funding for at-risk youth in West Bank over settler violence links
Fund’s chairman says money was supporting activities leading to expulsion of Palestinians, vows not to back extremist outposts set up by far-right ministers
By ToI Staff
Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot (right) together with Samaria District Council Chairman Yossi Dagan during a tour by Eisenkot of settlements in the Samaria district of the northern West Bank, April 15, 2026. (Arik Mirmour)
April 16, 2026, 4:43 pm
Eisenkot visits illegal settlement outpost, site of severe assault against Israeli lawyer
Yashar party chief and former IDF chief of staff visits Shuvael as part of a tour of northern West Bank settlements; Peace Now urges him not to turn a blind eye to settler violence
By Jeremy Sharon
View of the Israeli settlement of Kedumim in the West Bank, February 12, 2026. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
April 9, 2026, 6:28 pm
Government approves a record 34 new settlements, as it acts to deepen hold on West Bank
Security cabinet decision constitutes largest number of settlements okayed by any government at one time, brings total number approved by current government to 103
By Jeremy Sharon
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