Israeli settlements

The fence bisecting the West Bank village of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, June 25, 2025. (Mohammad Ghafri)

The suffocation of Sinjil

Encaging the West Bank town with barbed wire, Israel has cut off residents’ land and left others exposed to settler attacks, including a recent lynching.

By Shatha Yaish July 14, 2025

Israeli soldiers operating in Gaza City, July 28, 2024. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Exterminate, expel, resettle: Israel’s endgame in northern Gaza

Debates over the details of the ‘Generals’ Plan’ distract from the true brutality of Israel’s latest operation — one that drops the veneer of humanitarian considerations and lays the groundwork for settlements.

By Idan Landau November 1, 2024

A volunteer at a pepper harvest in Moshav Hamra, an Israeli settlement in the Jordan Valley, November 9, 2023. (Dor Pazuelo/Flash90)

Pick peppers, patrol for Palestinians: The ‘New Guardians’ of Israeli agriculture

With major government funding, Hashomer Hachadash sends volunteers to cement Jewish control of open farmland — on both sides of the Green Line.

By Georgia Gee September 16, 2024

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An Israeli soldier closes an agricultural gate in the West Bank wall after Palestinian farmers crossed through during the olive harvest near the village of 'Azzun 'Atma, occupied West Bank, October 19, 2022. (Anne Paq/Activestills)

‘Israel always sold the occupation as legal. The ICJ now terrifies them’

Palestinian lawyer Diana Buttu unpacks the ICJ opinion on Israel's military regime, and the lessons of turning international law into action.

By Ghousoon Bisharat July 23, 2024

Israeli settlers attempt to establish a new outpost in response to the killing of two settlers the night before, near the illegal settlement of Itamar, occupied West Bank, October 2, 2015. (Yotam Ronen/Activestills)

The first step toward disintegrating Israel’s settler machine

Despite their narrow focus, recent international sanctions against settlers are laying the foundations to turn verbal condemnations into tangible action.

By Ori Kol March 19, 2024

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plants an olive tree in Netiv Ha'avot, Gush Etzion, occupied West Bank, January 28, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

How to establish a new settlement without the world noticing

Billed as a ‘neighborhood’ in Gush Etzion, the Netiv Ha’avot plan would transform a small Israeli outpost into a substantial West Bank settlement.

By Yonatan Mizrahi October 4, 2023

A field burns amid a series of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, near the village of Qusra, June 22, 2023. (Flash90)

Why settler pogroms are now sweeping the West Bank

Frustrated at the military's pushback to their pogroms, settlers will continue upholding Jewish supremacy by any means necessary.

By Menachem Klein June 26, 2023

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, surrounded by members of his government, seen after a hearing and a vote on the state budget in the Knesset, Jerusalem, May 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The Israeli government enters its most dangerous phase yet

While the judicial overhaul is widely seen as the central attack on democracy, it is paramount to show how it is directly linked to rising attacks on Palestinians.

By Haggai Matar June 3, 2023

Rabbi Leo Dee at the funeral of his daughters Maia and Rina at the Gush Etzion Regional Cemetery in Kfar Etzion on April 9, 2023. The sisters were killed in a shooting attack in the Jordan Valley; their mother, Lucy, later died of her wounds sustained in the same attack. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

A British-Israeli tragedy, born out of the occupation

To omit the violent context in which the Dee family killings occurred is to condemn countless more Palestinians and Israelis to the same fate.

By Ben Reiff April 11, 2023

An Israeli Border Police officer points his weapon at journalists and Palestinian paramedics during clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian protesters in north Ramallah, near the Beit El checkpoint, occupied West Bank, December 22, 2017. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)

The rebellion of Israel’s second army

Outgoing IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi hands over to his successor a ‘policing army’ that is more autonomous, settler-led, and lethal than ever.

By Yagil Levy December 26, 2022

Young Orthodox Israelis wave flags during the annual Jerusalem Day Flag March outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, May 15, 2021. (Keren Manor/Activestills)

The radicalizing rebellion of Israel’s Haredi youth

Once staunch anti-Zionists, Haredi parties have become ensconced in the Israeli right. Now, a generation of disenfranchised Haredi youth is defying its elders and seeking meaning in the most extreme forms of supremacism.

By Pnina Pfeuffer October 31, 2022

Israeli settlers armed with clubs and rocks attack Palestinians in the town of Huwara, near Nablus, occupied West Bank, October 13, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

How my family came face to face with settler violence on the road to Nablus

What began as a family outing in Ramallah ended in a harrowing drive home, with military checkpoints and stone-throwing settlers at every turn.

By Yara M. Asi October 20, 2022

A Palestinian resident of An-Nabi Samwil, occupied West Bank, stands in front of the Tomb of Samuel, holding an old photo showing how the village looked before Israel demolished the Palestinians' houses in the vicinity in order to displace the residents and build a new luxury Jewish settlement, April 28, 2014. (Keren Manor/Activestills)

Israel destroyed Palestinian village for luxury settlement that was never built

Archives reveal Golda Meir's government expelled residents of An-Nabi Samwil in 1971 to house wealthy Israelis. The settlement was aborted, but the Palestinians remain dispossessed, meters from their original homes.

By Yuval Abraham August 30, 2022