Outposts

IDF dismantles illegal West Bank outposts amid rise in nationalist violence

Security officials sharply criticized what they described as the courts' failure to impose meaningful penalties, arguing that judges were reluctant to issue punishments that could deter offenders.

|ByAMIR BOHBOT
Israeli military forces fire tear gas and disperse Palestinian farmers, preventing them from continuing the olive harvest as they attempt to cross an iron gate erected by the Israeli army in the village of Salem, east of Nablus in the West Bank, October 17, 2026.
Settlers from the Nahala movement build an outpost near the Gaza border, October 15, 2026.

IDF blocks roads leading to Gaza border after Nahala settlers attempt to build outpost overnight

Nahala claimed that over 700 people, including dozens of families with children, rabbis, MKs, bereaved families, and wounded IDF veterans, participated in establishing the "Pioneers of Gaza" outpost.

|ByAMIR BOHBOT
IDF soldiers in the West Bank.

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.

|ByJPOST EDITORIAL
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

The outpost, known as Givat Or Yehuda, was reportedly the site of a violent incident three months earlier, which Army Radio cited as the reason for Monday's evacuation.

|ByMAYA ZANGER-SHAMIR

‘Undocumented Jewish communities’

It may be time for Israel’s right to adopt some of the tactics of the American left, and to undertake a campaign to rebrand Jewish outposts in Judea and Samaria as “undocumented communities.”

MARCH 24, 2022ByMICHAEL FREUND
GATHERING AROUND damaged structures after Israeli security forces demolished Maoz Esther, March 21.

Left- and right-wing protesters vie for Evyatar outpost

Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan slammed the protest as a "provocation of the extreme Left" and called on security forces to stop it.

FEBRUARY 17, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Left-wing organizations protest against the Evyatar settlement in the West Bank, February 18, 2022.

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.

FEBRUARY 9, 2022ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
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.

FEBRUARY 8, 2022ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
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.

JANUARY 24, 2022ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
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.”

JANUARY 24, 2022ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
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.

JANUARY 24, 2022ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
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.

JANUARY 19, 2022ByGIL HOFFMAN
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.

DECEMBER 17, 2021ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
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.

DECEMBER 10, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, REUTERS
PALESTINIANS CONFRONT security forces during a protest against the Evyatar outpost near Nablus earlier this year