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'They created an alternate judicial system': Public defenders reflect on rights violations during Gaza Disengagement

Nearly two decades later, Advs. Inbal Rubinstein and David Witztum revisit how courts and law enforcement overreached in prosecuting teenage protestors during 2005 Gaza Disengagement, creating what they call a parallel justice system that failed to uphold basic procedural rights

Netael Bandel | 08.05.25

'I thought, "To hell with it, why abandon this?"': Eyeing rebuilding Homesh, 20 years after disengagement

Two decades after Homesh was evacuated in Israel’s disengagement, the northern West Bank settlement is flourishing anew; Settlement activists reclaimed it sooner than expected under a right‑wing government advancing annexation legislation

Elisha Ben Kimon | 08.04.25

תיעוד של מחבלי חמאס חמושים בוזזים את הסיוע ההומניטרי

Smotrich says Hamas will not reach aid, hints at plan for Jewish settlements in Gaza

Minister explains remaining in coalition by 'great things' to come, says there is more opportunity than in the areas left by Israel in 2005; despite claiming aid would not reach Hamas, IDF posts images of armed terrorists taking over aid truck, threatening Gazans

Yoav Zitun, Nina Fox, Itamar Eichner | 07.29.25

Red states move to use 'Judea and Samaria' instead of 'West Bank' in official documents

State legislators from Utah, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Idaho, Iowa and Oklahoma to follow Arkansas in passing new laws favoring biblical name as settlement leader pushes for U.S. support for annexation

Itamar Eichner | 07.20.25

Moshe Zar, a central figure in the settlement movement, dies at 88

Many West Bank settlements are built on land he purchased from Palestinians; he survived an assassination attempt by an Arab land dealerin 1983 and was a member of the Jewish terrror group that planted the bomb that targeted the mayor of Nablus in 1980

Idan Blumhof | 07.13.25

What's the truth about 'settler violence'?

Regavim’s Naomi Kahn told the ILTV News Podcast that most of the international data on “settler violence” is unreliable.

Maayan Hoffman, ILTV | 07.06.25

Israel's new settlements plan, a response to European push for two-state solution

Analysis: Government approves 11 new communities and 11 legalized outposts in the West Bank, expanding territorial control by 40% since 2022; move timed ahead of Macron’s pro-two-state summit and framed as a message to Hamas

Elisha Ben Kimon | 05.29.25

שר הביטחון ישראל כ"ץ ושר האוצר בצלאל סמוטריץ' בסיור משותף ביו"ש

As Israel approves new West Bank settlements, officials push for annexation

After quiet Cabinet approval, Katz and Smotrich praise move to build 22 new communities as 'historic'; new settlements along the Jordan border aim to bolster Israel’s long-term strategic posture

Elisha Ben Kimon | 05.29.25

קארים חאן, איתמר בן גביר, בצלאל סמוטריץ'

Suspended ICC prosecuter mulled arrest warrants for far-right ministers, report

Karim Khan, now on forced leave amid sexual misconduct allegations, considered warrants to arrest Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich for involvement in settlement expansion, WSJ reports; prosecutors discussing whether ministers committed war crimes

ynet | 05.28.25

Security Cabinet secretly approved establishment of 22 West Bank settlements

A the initiative of ministers Israel Katz and Betzalel Smotrich, the Political-Security Cabinet approved the establishment of 22 West Bank settlements in Binyamin, the Dead Sea region, the Jordan Valley, Mount Hebron and Samaria, including Homesh and Sa-Nur, which will be rebuilt; These are their names

Itamar Eichner | 05.27.25

Norway wealth fund divests from Israel's Paz Retail and Energy due West Bank activities

This divestment comes after the fund's ethics watchdog, the Council on Ethics, adopted in August a tougher interpretation of ethics standards for businesses that aid Israel's operations in the Palestinian territories

Reuters | 05.12.25

שלישם עליזה רייז ז"ל רחל כהן ז"ל אלעד וינקלשטיין ז"ל

IDF kills last remaining terrorist from fatal West Bank attack in January

Omar Zakharna, eliminated in shootout with security forces involved, was involved in attack near settlement of Kedumim that killed Elad Winkelstein, Aliza Reiss and Rachel Cohen; families see closure but little solace

Idan Blumhoff , Einav Halabi, Yoav Zitun | 04.16.25

Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Bilal arrested for throwing rocks at Israeli soldiers, IDF confirms

Yuval Abraham, who co-directed 'No Other Land' with Hamdan Bilal, first alleged that a group of settlers attacked Bilal at his home in the Masafer Yatta region of the southern West Bank; IDF responds that Bilal was arrested on suspicion of throwing rocks at Israeli security forces

Daniel Edelson, New York, Einav Halabi | 03.24.25

In shift toward Arab engagement, settler leaders visit UAE in first-ever delegation to Muslim country

West Bank settler leaders, meeting senior officials in Abu Dhabi and leveraging ties to Trump allies, push to shape Saudi-Israel normalization talks while seeking to block Palestinian statehood and replace PA with local governance

Elisha Ben Kimon | 03.21.25

בצלאל סמוטריץ' מדבר על המשך המהפכה המשפטית בישיבת סיעת הציונות הדתית בכנסת

Smotrich pushes ahead with plans for West Bank annexation

Far-right minister says is working to disrupt plans by the Palestinian Authority to create continuity of Palestinian population in an area that would cut Gush Etzion off from Jerusalem and bring about a Palestinian State

Elisha Ben Kimon | 12.17.24

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