West Bank outposts

Israel authorizes reconstruction of evacuated West Bank outpost

Wednesday-2-February-2022

Israel's outgoing attorney general Avichai Mandelblit has okayed the reconstruction of the evacuated settlement of Evyatar in Beita town south of Nablus in the northern West Bank Israeli media sources revealed on Wednesday.

Israel to legalize W. Bank outposts before Trump leaves office

Thursday-26-November-2020

Israeli minister of settlement affairs Tzachi Hanegbi has pledged to have dozens of settler outposts in the occupied West Bank legalized before outgoing US president Donald Trump leaves the White House in January.

Palestinian village surrounded by five Jewish settler outposts

Thursday-29-November-2018

The sound of Jewish settler bulldozers as they sweep and dig rocks to build infrastructure for five settlement outposts surrounding the village of Jalud south of Nablus is always heard.

Israel green-lights more than 1000 new West Bank settler homes

Wednesday-22-August-2018

The Israeli occupation authorities on Wednesday approved plans for more than 1000 settlement homes in the occupied West Bank the latest in a raft of approvals since US President Donald Trump took office.

IOA to approve bill expanding courts’ jurisdiction to WB settlements

Saturday-24-June-2017

The Palestinian national office for the defense of land and resistance of settlements condemned the approval of a new bill by the Israeli Knesset which has given preliminary approval to legislation that would let Israeli administrative courts look into disputes between the government and West Bank settlers.

IOA approves 1000 new settlement units across the West Bank

Tuesday-6-June-2017

Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) approved on Tuesday over 1000 new housing units in illegal settlements across the West Bank.

Settlements flood the West Bank with untreated wastewater

Thursday-11-May-2017

Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics revealed that Jewish settlements flood the West Bank with 40 million cubic meters of wastewater annually. The annual production of wastewater in the West Bank however is 34 million cubic meters.

Netanyahu seeks to whitewash 4000 illegal settlement units

Monday-5-December-2016

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking ways to legitimize nearly 4000 settlement units illegally built on Palestinian private lands in the occupied West Bank.

New Knesset bill to legalize settlers’ outposts in W. Bank

Thursday-3-November-2016

Knesset members from Habayit Hayehudi and Likud (government coalition parties) on Wednesday tabled a bill that would legalize Jewish outposts built on privately owned Palestinian land in the West Bank.