Israeli settlements

MEP Rima Hassan during the European Parliament Plenary, September 2024. (The Left/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Rima Hassan is breaking Europe’s Palestine taboos. France put her on trial

Prosecuted for defending Palestinians’ right to resist, the MEP says Gaza has exposed a ‘complete divorce’ between governments and their publics.

By Liam Syed July 16, 2026

Fakhri Abu Diab, beside the rubble of his house that the Jerusalem Municipality demolished in 2024, Al-Bustan, Silwan, occupied East Jerusalem. (Faiz Abu Rmeleh)

In East Jerusalem, ‘a whole Palestinian community is about to be expelled’

Israel is forcing out Al-Bustan’s 1,500 residents to build a biblical theme park. To avoid paying huge fines, families are demolishing their own homes.

By Shatha Yaish May 1, 2026

Shadmot Mehola Solar Field, in the Jordan Valley, occupied West Bank. (Sofia Fani Gutman)

With foreign backing, Israel’s solar energy boom is powering apartheid

Israel’s self-branding as a pioneer in sustainability obscures how its ‘green development’ is fueling the takeover of Palestinian land and resources — and international corporations are helping to bankroll it.

By Sofia Fani Gutman, Carolina Pedrazzi and Andrey X February 20, 2026

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Workers seen at a vineyard in the Israeli settlement bloc of Gush Etzion, occupied West Bank, September 3, 2020. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

The theft at the heart of Israel’s booming wine industry

After seizing Palestinian land, settlers are replanting it with vineyards — then exporting their wine as ‘Made in Israel’ to obscure its origins.

By Marta Vidal and Meriem Laribi January 30, 2026

Israeli forces carry out demolitions in the Palestinian village of Khalet al-Daba, in Masafer Yatta, southern West Bank, May 5, 2025. (Mosab Shawer/Activestills)

In a West Bank ‘firing zone,’ Palestinians are erased as settlers lay down roots

While settlers' concrete mixers rumble under the Israeli army’s watch, Palestinian life in Masafer Yatta is being dismantled piece by piece.

By Basel Adra October 27, 2025

Rabbi Avraham Zarviv poses for a picture on June 29, 2025. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)

Israel’s destroyer-in-chief in Gaza lives in a settlement home marked for demolition

Avraham Zarviv, who boasted of razing 50 buildings a week as a reservist in Gaza, has an unenforced demolition order on his own West Bank home.

By Oren Ziv July 30, 2025

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

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