Outposts

Transferring West Bank enforcement from IDF to police is a mistake without a plan - editorial

Katz has spoken about the transfer as though the fundamental decision has already been made, while the institutions expected to carry it out are still trying to determine whether it is workable.

IDF soldiers in the West Bank.
Israeli settlers are evacuated from illegal outpost Givat Or Yehuda, in the southern Hebron hills, on August 17, 2026.

IDF, COGAT evacuate illegal outpost near Hebron three months after residents attack police - report

JEWISH SETTLERS are seen at the unauthorized Beit Anot outpost in the Gush Etzion area of the West Bank after being informed of an expected evacuation, June 1, 2026.

Three female soldiers wounded by settlers while clearing illegal West Bank outpost

An IDF soldier stands guard during an evacuation of illegal West Bank outposts, December 7, 2025.

Border Police, IDF evacuate four illegal outposts across West Bank


IDF razes settler buildings at West Bank's Homesh, yeshiva remains

The move by the IDF and Border Police comes as the Homesh yeshiva fears that the IDF plans to oust them from the hilltop, where they have been illegally situated for over 15 years.

 Israeli security forces are seen demolishing illegal structures at the Homesh outpost in the West Bank, on February 9, 2022.

Bennett's gov't bent on legalizing Evyatar outpost, Minister says

A deal struck to legalize the yeshiva was born from a defense concern: The government didn't want to see a violent repeat of Amona.

 Settlers and right-wing activists hold a study session at the Evyatar outpost, to demand that the Defense Minister Benny Gantz allow a yeshiva to be opened at the site.

Israeli settlers attack Palestinians, stores in West Bank’s Huwara

NGO Yesh Din claimed that the attack, which left three Palestinians injured, was in full view of the army.

 The scene where Israeli settlers attacked the cars and stores of Palestinians in the town of Huwara near Nablus, January 24, 2021.

Don't whitewash outposts by calling them 'young settlements' - Lapid

After a journalist asked Foreign Minister Yair Lapid about connecting outpost residents to the electricity grid, Lapid said: “These are not young settlements, these are illegal outposts.”

 A young man at the settlement of Evyatar looks out at a neighboring Palestinian village.

IDF to raze five West Bank outpost homes after settler attack

The demolition order sparked outrage from Religious Zionist Party MK Orit Struck who demanded justice for a family on the outpost who didn't participate in the attack.

 General view of the under construction settlement  Brahat Hadarom or Givat Ronen Harussi close to the Napluse town in the West Bank on October 25, 2006.

Gantz mulling hooking up illegal Palestinian homes to national grid

Many Jewish outposts in the West Bank would fit the criteria set in the new Electricity Law.

 PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett sits at the government table in the Knesset plenum with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz. Might Bennett go the way of Sharon, Olmert and Livni?

Security forces evacuate West Bank outpost named for Dimentman

Yehuda Dimentman was very active in the Nahala Movement, which seeks to create new outposts and strengthen Israel's hold on Judea and Samaria.

 The new Nofei Yehuda settler outpost is seen near Kiryat Arba in the West Bank, on December 17, 2021.

Man killed in clash with IDF near Evyatar - Israeli media

The IDF said that hundreds of Palestinians had gathered in the area, south of the Palestinian city of Nablus.

 PALESTINIANS CONFRONT security forces during a protest against the Evyatar outpost near Nablus earlier this year

West Bank outpost evacuated, three arrested in protests

Some 50 right-wing protesters, mostly settlers, attempted to impede the evacuation of Geulat Zion.

Evacuation of Beit Dror outpost, July 27, 2021

Meretz MK refuses to apologize for call for settler leader's kids to be taken

Mossi Raz stated that the children of settler leader Itai Zar should be taken and given to an adoptive family.

Meretz MKs Michal Rozin and Mossi Raz on a tour of West Bank outposts on Thursday with Peace Now