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.

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

IDF soldiers in the West Bank.

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


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

Israeli Minister pledges to block authorization of West Bank Evyatar outpost

Public Security Minister Omer Bar-Lev spoke after PM Bennett said he will honor his pledge to some 50 families who illegally moved to the West Bank hilltop to authorize the outpost.

A structure is seen Evyatar outpost

US, EU condemns settler attack on Palestinian village in Hebron Hills

Seven suspects have been arrested so far, six Jewish extremists and one Palestinian.

 IDF Central Command head Maj.-Gen. Yehuda Fox visiting the Palestinian village of Khirbet al-Mufaqarah in the South Hebron Hills, West Bank, September 30, 2021.

Palestinian rioters near Evyatar outpost put up flaming swastika

Palestinian rioters threw explosives, burned tires and pointed laser lights during the nightly riots, which began before the outpost was evacuated.

 screenshot of a video taken by Abdullah Bahsh

Settlers throw stones, fire crackers at police after outpost razing

Border Police evacuate Kumi Ori neighborhood of Yitzhar, April 23, 2020

Letters to the Editor July 11, 2021: Thrilled to build – and int’l law

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

Letters

Evyatar compromise is an important, but not easy step - opinion

In view of the political constraints involved, this is a great success that the pioneers of Evyatar secured.

THE EVYATAR COMPROMISE stipulates that not only will all existing structures be left in place, including the infrastructure, but the IDF presence will be expanded.

Bennett to advance Evyatar outpost legalization, settlers to evacuate

This is the second time this week that the settlers have announced a compromise deal to evacuate the outpost.

A woman is seen walking in the West Bank settler outpost of Evyatar.

PM Bennett's first settler projects approval, small outpost razing

Settlers and right-wing politicians had complained that already complained of a de facto freeze on the advancement and approval of settler plans under former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

A Palestinian demonstrator gestures as he stands in front of an Israeli soldier during a protest against Israeli settlements near Hebron in the Israeli-West Bank June 4, 2021.