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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 625

West Bank settlements

Illustrative: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is seen on large screens as he addresses members of Norway's Parliament, The Storting, in Oslo, Norway on March 30, 2022. (Heiko JUNGE / various sources / AFP)
Norway rejects calls to toughen investment rules in Israeli companies
By AFP
Lawmakers vote 88 to 16 against a proposal ordering its sovereign wealth fund to withdraw from companies that contribute to Israeli ‘war crimes’ in the West Bank
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
Illustrative: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is seen on large screens as he addresses members of Norway's Parliament, The Storting, in Oslo, Norway on March 30, 2022. (Heiko JUNGE / various sources / AFP)
June 4, 2025, 8:57 pm
Norway rejects calls to toughen investment rules in Israeli companies
Lawmakers vote 88 to 16 against a proposal ordering its sovereign wealth fund to withdraw from companies that contribute to Israeli ‘war crimes’ in the West Bank
By AFP
The Al-Ansar Mosque in Gaza's Deir al-Balah after Israeli airstrikes, June 3, 2025. (Photo by Ali Hassan/Flash90)
June 4, 2025, 3:53 pm
Daily Briefing June 4: Day 607 – Iran balks, Spain reneges, Gaza aid closes for a day
Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman discusses hostages, nuke talks, Gazan aid and arms for Spain; reporter Ariela Karmel looks at settlement expansion and ex-hostage Eli Sharabi as author
By Jessica Steinberg, Lazar Berman and Ariela Karmel
Hananel Gez, widower of terror victim Tzeela Gez, with their baby Ravid Haim who was delivered in an emergency C-section following the Palestinian shooting attack that killed his mother. The baby died on May 29, 2025. (Courtesy of the Gez Family)
May 29, 2025, 1:35 pm
Baby of pregnant terror victim dies after fighting for his life for two weeks
Ravid Haim was born by emergency C-section after his mother Tzeela Gez was shot and killed by a Palestinian terrorist in the West Bank when on her way to give birth
By Jeremy Sharon
Illustrative: A general view of new buildings in the Israeli settlement of Aliyah, south of Nablus in the West Bank. May 21, 2025. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
May 29, 2025, 10:34 am
Defense minister confirms government approval of 22 new West Bank settlements
Katz, Smotrich hail establishment of new communities, legalization of wildcat outposts as ‘protective wall’ for Israel, boosting ‘hold on Judea and Samaria,’ obstructing path to Palestinian state
By ToI Staff
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
Left to right: Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 5, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan attends a UN Security Council meeting at UN headquarters in New York, January 27, 2025 (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/AFP); National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir visits the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, on Jerusalem Day, May 26, 2025 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90).
May 28, 2025, 11:01 am
ICC prosecutor was readying warrants for Smotrich, Ben Gvir before his leave – report
Karim Khan, being probed for sexual misconduct, said to have been preparing war crimes charges against finance and national security ministers for promoting West Bank settlements
By ToI Staff
View of the outpost of Homesh, in the West Bank, on May 29, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
May 28, 2025, 2:09 am
Security cabinet said to secretly okay establishment of 22 new West Bank settlements
Smotrich and Katz reportedly led vote last week to build new communities and legalize existing outposts, including Homesh and Sa-Nur, which were evacuated amid 2005 Gaza withdrawal
By ToI Staff
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
Palestinian laborers work at a construction site in Ma'ale Adumim, in the West Bank, on February 29, 2024. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
May 13, 2025, 12:50 pm
Cabinet approves West Bank land registration process to ‘strengthen Jewish settlement’
Move designed to register land ownership in Area C of West Bank; Smotrich says act will enable settlement development, and is part of ‘de facto sovereignty revolution’
By Jeremy Sharon
Aerial view of Ma'ale Adumim, a West Bank settlement outside of Jerusalem, February 25, 2025. (Oren Cohen/Flash90)
May 7, 2025, 8:20 pm
Union presses Norway wealth fund to divest from firms that aid Israel in West Bank, Gaza
World’s largest sovereign wealth fund urged by Norwegian confederation of trade unions to pull investments from companies ‘that have activities in occupied Palestinian territories’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
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
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, then US President Donald Trump's nominee to be ambassador to Israel, arrives to testify during his Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, March 25, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/AFP)
April 10, 2025, 3:52 am
US Senate confirms Huckabee as next Israel envoy, voting largely along party lines
Democrat John Fetterman joins Republicans in sending Christian Zionist and settlement backer to Jerusalem; Trump: ‘He’ll bring home the bacon, even though bacon isn’t big in Israel’
By Jacob Magid
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