Settlement construction

'People will live in the streets': Israel steps up evictions of Palestinians from east Jerusalem

Palestinians seek east Jerusalem, which Israel captured in the 1967 Six-Day War, for a future state and say that leaving their homes there could put an end to their hopes forever.

A Palestinian woman walks past a mural in the Silwan neighborhood of east Jerusalem on January 21, 2026.
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Approved: New settlement to integrate people with disabilities into the community

 Minister of Finance and Head of the Religious Zionist Party Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, April 30, 2024.

Israel must take six punitive measures against PA, Smotrich says

 IDF soldier seen walking between two armored vehicles in Gaza, December 20, 2023.

Israeli commander calls to resettle Gaza, reprimanded by IDF


Settlers rebuild the Amona outpost to protest terror attacks

“Yesterday I promised that we would establish a new settlement point in Binyamin in response to the serious attacks. Today we do it.”

Hopeful settlers of the Amona settlement

Netanyahu: Israel will build West Bank settlements despite ICC pressure

Right-wing politicians demanded government legalize outposts; Shaked called to legalize Ofra after terror attack.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting, December 2, 2018

Three former West Bank outposts on Israel's strategic building list

The including of the three communities on the list “is a clear statement by the government that it will continue to develop and strengthen the settlements [in Judea and Samaria],” Gallant said.

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Liberman pledges to build new Jewish apartment building in Hebron

“We will continue to strengthen the Hebron community with deeds,” Liberman said.

The site of new Jewish construction in Hebron

Israel plans NIS 2.8 billion for 20,000 homes in Ma’aleh Adumim

The expansion project is expected to be completed within ten years.

A general view of houses in the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in the West Bank

Gov’t to approve budget for first Jewish building in Hebron in 16 years

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said, “We continue to strengthen the settlements in Judea and Samaria with deeds and not with words.”

The Hezkiyahu neighborhood in Hebron, where the new construction will be.

Housing starts in settlements up by 187% in second quarter

The second quarter data in 2018 on housing starts is 66% higher than that of 2017.

Heavy machinery work on a field as they begin construction work of Amichai, a new settlement which will house some 300 Jewish settlers evicted in February from the settlement of Amona, in the West Bank June 20, 2017.

Palestinians lash out at U.S. for Israeli settlement activity

“Israel’s latest settlement announcement reaffirms the commitment of the Israeli government to colonization and apartheid,” Erekat said.

Settlement Regulation Law to save homes like in Modiin Illit in the West Bank, 2017

Netanyahu angers settlers by only advancing 1,400 homes

“A nationalist government should be expanding construction and not reducing it,” the YESHA Council said.

A general view of houses in the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in the West Bank

Israel to triple size of West Bank settlement Amihai

Since the 1993 Oslo Accords and until the end of the Obama Administration, Israel has largely refrained from creating new settlements.

THE NEWLY built settlement of Amihai seen from the vinyards of Meshek Achiya just north of the Shiloh Valley July 12, 2018