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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 616

West Bank outposts

Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu speaks at a conference of the Sovereignty Movement, June 12, 2025. (Screenshot, courtesy Sovereignty Movement)
June 12, 2025, 9:52 pm
Cabinet ministers vow to annex West Bank, Gaza and more at far-right confab
Heritage Minister Eliyahu seemingly calls for Israeli rule over Syria and Lebanon, alleges lack of ‘spirit’ in Israel led to weak territorial policy
By Jeremy Sharon
Palestinian residents of Maghar al-Deir pack up belongings as they flee the West Bank village on May 22, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
May 29, 2025, 8:29 am
In the West Bank, settler harassment swiftly uproots a Bedouin hamlet
Entire community of Maghar al-Deir flees within days after Israelis set up shepherding outpost 100 meters from homes and begin intimidating residents, amid ongoing campaign
By Nurit Yohanan
Radical settler activist Neriya Ben Pazi pictured with his family at his illegal farming outpost HaMahoch in the West Bank. Another of Ben Pazi's farms, the Rimonim Farm, has received state funds through the Agriculture Ministry (Courtesy: Honenu legal aid organization)
May 27, 2025, 10:59 pm
High Court presses IDF, police to enable displaced Palestinian villagers to return home
Court declines to order the demolition of illegal West Bank outpost, which led villagers to flee, and which was established by a radical settler
By Jeremy Sharon
Aerial view of Ma'ale Adumim, a West Bank settlement outside of Jerusalem, February 25, 2025. (Oren Cohen/Flash90)
May 26, 2025, 4:08 pm
Is the government using the housing crisis to drive the settlement movement?
As home ownership inside the State of Israel climbs out of reach, Israelis flock to West Bank settlements — and receive generous government support
By Ariela Karmel
Head of the Nachala Settlement Movement organization Daniella Weiss takes questions during a press conference at an event to promote the reestablishment of Jewish settlements in Gaza, October 21, 2024 (Jeremy Sharon / The Times of Israel)
May 20, 2025, 8:57 pm
UK sanctions ‘extremist settlers,’ illegal outposts, citing ‘Israeli failure to act’
Veteran settler leader Daniella Weiss among those penalized; UK foreign minister says move demonstrates UK’s ‘determination to hold extremist settlers to account’
By Jeremy Sharon
Screenshot of footage posted by Yesh Din showing settlers using a bulldozer to set up an illegal outpost near Turmusaya, West Bank, April 18, 2025. (Yesh Din English / X)
April 19, 2025, 5:51 pm
Settlers filmed establishing new illegal outpost in West Bank under IDF protection
Video shows construction equipment being used to move earth, set up mobile homes; locals say Palestinian man shot by settler in West Bank had leg amputated at Israeli hospital
By Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff
Settlements and National Missions Minister Orit Strock (second from right) and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (third from left) attend a ceremony at the illegal settlement farming outpost of Meitarim Farm, handing over ATVs to illegal settlements and farming outpost, April 3, 2025. (Freddy Barmi)
April 6, 2025, 8:58 pm
Government gifts state-financed ATVs to illegal settlement outposts for security
Ministers Smotrich and Strock attend handover ceremony at outpost farm in presence of formerly sanctioned settler
By Jeremy Sharon
Tharwat Issam Muhammad (center), Maysoun Ahmad Issa Hammad (right) and another resident of the Palestinian West Bank hamlet of Jinba speak about an alleged settler and IDF assault on the dwelling, March 30, 2025. (Jeremy Sharon / The Times of Israel)
April 1, 2025, 5:48 am
‘There’s no justice’: Palestinian villagers reel after brutal settler, IDF rampage
Residents of West Bank’s Jinba hamlet accuse IDF of standing by as settlers raided village; army says unit’s conduct violated ‘professional, ethical’ standards, disciplines officers
By Jeremy Sharon
Young children cross the road in the West Bank outpost of Shvut Rachel, November 17, 2016 (Miriam Alster/ Flash90/ File)
March 23, 2025, 3:59 pm
Security cabinet approves 13 West Bank ‘neighborhoods’ to become independent settlements
Former illegal outposts to get councils, eased funding; Smotrich: An important step on path of ‘de facto sovereignty’; Palestinian Authority, Hamas condemn move
By Jeremy Sharon
Khirbet Zanuta head Faez Tel and Palestinian activists arrive at the abandoned West Bank hamlet of Khirbet Zanuta, March 10, 2024. (Jeremy Sharon/Times of Israel)
March 12, 2025, 10:48 am
A handful of residents return to Palestinian hamlet depopulated by settler violence
Khirbet Zanuta head Faez Tel says other residents afraid to return: ‘There is no place left where settlers are not taking land, not making problems’
By Jeremy Sharon
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich visits the illegal farming outpost of Mishkenot Harel in the central West Bank on December 29, 2024 (Office of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich)
March 6, 2025, 6:18 pm
West Bank illegal outposts, land appropriation hit record high in 2024 — watchdog
Left-wing Peace Now says government has completed groundwork for ‘de facto annexation of West Bank,’ after key administrative powers are transferred from IDF to civilian official
By Jeremy Sharon
An Israeli, allegedly from the illegal settlement outpost of Meitarim Farm, peers into the home of Palestinians in the West Bank village of Khirbet Zanuta, August 31, 2024. (Courtesy Haqel)
February 5, 2025, 12:55 am
High Court orders police and IDF to again let Palestinians return to West Bank hamlet
Ruling comes after security forces were instructed last year to allow residents of Khirbet Zanuta to go back, before renewed settler violence forced villagers to flee a second time
By Jeremy Sharon
View of the Israeli outpost of Shvut Rachel, in the West Bank, January 30, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/ Flash90)
February 4, 2025, 10:08 pm
High Court orders police to investigate assistance to illegal settlement outposts
Ruling responds to seven-year-old petition alleging settlement municipal authorities provide substantive, unlawful support for construction of outposts
By Jeremy Sharon
A Palestinian man lies injured after being attacked by Israeli ultranationalist extremists in the South Hebron Hills region of the West Bank, January 22, 2025. (Courtesy, Haqel - In Defense of Human Rights)
January 22, 2025, 11:10 pm
Israeli extremists attack Palestinian laborers during IDF-approved agricultural work
Palestinian workers, villagers targeted while plowing West Bank land in work coordinated with the IDF; 5 Palestinians, 2 Israelis injured in clashes
By Jeremy Sharon
Demolished buildings in the Palestinian village of Khirbet Zanuta, December 4, 2023. (Courtesy Southern Mount Hebron Activists group)
January 7, 2025, 6:35 am
‘Nothing has been done’: High Court judges said to pan police over settler attacks
Residents of a southern West Bank village have accused security services of ignoring court’s order to facilitate their return to their homes, following repeated harassment
By Jeremy Sharon
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