Outposts

New settlement outposts opening in Hebron Hills in response to Yehuda Junction attack

Following the killing of two IDF soldiers at Yehuda Junction, the Mount Hebron Regional Council announced plans for eight new outposts and launched a fundraising campaign.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Settlers in the Mateh Binyamin area, a regional council governing 47 Israeli settlements and outposts in the West Bank. November 02, 2025. (Illustrative)
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.

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
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

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

West Bank outpost evacuated, three arrested in protests

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

NOVEMBER 17, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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.

NOVEMBER 10, 2021ByTZVI JOFFRE
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.

NOVEMBER 7, 2021ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
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.

OCTOBER 2, 2021ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
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.

AUGUST 15, 2021ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH, TOVAH LAZAROFF, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
screenshot of a video taken by Abdullah Bahsh

Settlers throw stones, fire crackers at police after outpost razing

JULY 13, 2021ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
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.

JULY 11, 2021ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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.

JULY 7, 2021ByYIGAL DILMONI
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.

JULY 1, 2021ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
A woman is seen walking in the West Bank settler outpost of Evyatar.