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Daniella Weiss at the Nachala Hanukkah celebration, calling to resettle Gaza, in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, Dec. 26, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Inside the Israeli movement to recolonize Gaza

Capitalizing on the Gaza war, Nachala has pushed to rectify what it sees as the 'historical injustice' of Israel's 2005 disengagement. If the ceasefire falters, the group is ready to pounce — with little standing in its way.

By Joshua Leifer February 11, 2025

Israeli settlers and right-wing activists seen building an 'outpost' inside Erez Crossing, February 29, 2024. (Oren Ziv)

Israeli settlers cross into Gaza, build ‘symbolic’ outpost

Dozens of settlers and right-wing activists stormed Erez Crossing, building two wooden structures while soldiers and police stood aside.

By Oren Ziv March 1, 2024

Jewish settlers prepare to resist an evacuation operation at the illegal outpost of Amona, February 1, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Resource: Tracking Israel’s support for illegal outposts

The Israeli government has been quietly authorizing illegal settlement outposts in recent years. A criminal activity, the trend also exposes Palestinians to increased violence and harassment from settlers. Text by Rachel Shenhav-Goldberg Illegal settlement outposts have become increasingly regularized during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s tenure, according to a recent report from Israeli settlement watchdog Peace Now. In a…

By +972 Resources September 20, 2019

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Israeli activists clash with police officers during an operation to evacuate nine homes in the Jewish settlement of Ofra, in the West Bank, February 28, 2017. The Israeli Supreme Court ordered in 2015 to demolish nine homes which were allegedly built on private Palestinian land in Ofra. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

The settlers’ goal is not the settlements

It is the total transformation of Israel. The settlements, the settlers, and the occupation are all entirely associated with one another in the Israeli consciousness. The Left and the Right agree on this, albeit with varying considerations: the Left wants to apportion blame for Israel’s continuing control over the West Bank, while the settlers want to…

By Noam Sheizaf June 8, 2017

An Israeli soldier mourns beside flowers placed on the grave of Israeli border policewoman, Hadar Cohen, 19, during her funeral at the military cemetery in Yehud, near Tel Aviv, Israel, February 4, 2016. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

When will the Left start talking about Israeli trauma?

Without recognizing how deep-seated the trauma of ordinary Israelis really is, the Israeli peace camp will continue to be seen as elitist and disconnected. By Yakir Englander (translated by Dr. Henry R. Carse) My political opinions are aligned with Israel’s Left, but I was not born that way. Even today my personal Israeli narrative is far…

By +972 Magazine February 8, 2016

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

Israeli Nobel laureate offers rightwing talking points on Palestine

Yisrael Aumann won the Nobel Prize in Economics, yet still manages to make no sense on Israeli-Palestinian peace Professor Yisrael Aumann, an Israeli laureate of the Nobel Prize in Economics, delivered on Wednesday a “master class” in the Presidential Conference in Jerusalem, under the title “Peace in the Middle East: A Game Theorist’s Perspective”. The…

By Roi Maor June 24, 2011