disengagement

Israeli tanks seen during an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, February 19, 2025. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

In first since Oslo, Israel seizing land for army base inside West Bank city

The seizure order, near Jenin refugee camp, is the latest move aimed at expanding military and settler presence in the north of the occupied territory.

By Shatha Yaish May 27, 2026

Israeli forces fire a water cannon on residents of the settlement of Kfar Darom in Gaza, who barricaded themselves on the roof of the synagogue during its evacuation, Aug. 18, 2005. (Zamir Yossi/GPO)

How Israel’s Gaza ‘disengagement’ planted the seeds of today’s genocide

Enraged by the 2005 withdrawal, the national-religious camp worked to brand territorial concession as a disaster — with ethnic cleansing as the only solution.

By Daniel Levy September 10, 2025

Israelis look at a giant map of the Gaza Strip depicting future Israeli settlements at the "Conference for Israel's Victory" in Jerusalem, January 28, 2024. (Oren Ziv)

Turning Zeitoun into Shivat Zion: Israeli summit envisions Gaza resettlement

Undeterred by the ICJ, ministers and settler leaders promoted plans to expel Palestinians and ‘return’ Israelis to Gaza at a major conference in Jerusalem.

By Oren Ziv January 30, 2024

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The entrance to the Gaza settlements is officially sealed on August 14, 2005 (IDFonline/Flickr)

The final moments of Israel’s settlements in Gaza

Ten years after covering Israel’s Gaza Disengagement from both the Israeli and Palestinian sides, Lisa Goldman recalls four scenes that tell four very different stories and perspectives of those final weeks in Gaza. Exactly 10 years ago, Israel withdrew its troops and settlements from Gaza in an event that was officially called the disengagement. It…

By Lisa Goldman August 4, 2015

Bulldozers in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc. (flickr / ☪yrl CC BY-NC 2.0)

Survey: Israeli Jews tolerate settlements, status quo

A new survey released by Ariel-which-is-now-known-as-a-University, shows, remarkably, that the majority of Israeli Jews inside the Green Line are still basically wedded to settlements and barely register that they pose a problem. -A 52 percent absolute majority agrees that settlements are “a true Zionist act,” twice as many those who disagree (26 percent). The remainder,…

By Dahlia Scheindlin June 13, 2013

Journalism 101: A recommended course for the IDF

Israeli army’s Facebook status chides journalists for not choosing sides and becoming active participants in conflict. By Mati Milstein “Pictured is Zehava Weiss, who was injured earlier this year when Palestinians threw bricks at her windshield. Reporters on the scene were positioned to film the ambush and did nothing to stop it.” The status update…

By +972 Magazine August 27, 2012

Uprooted settlers pardoned by court – why not Palestinians?

By Fady Khoury The High Court of Justice on Thursday handed down its ruling in a petition against the 2010 Termination of Proceedings and Deletion of Records in the Disengagement Plan Law (the Pardon Law), rejecting the petition and upholding the law. In 2005, then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced Israel’s unilateral disengagement from the Gaza…

By +972 Magazine February 26, 2012