1/ Last Thursday (January 2, 2025), an interesting article was published in Haaretz, detailing how the coup plot was orchestrated by the Justice Minister Yariv Levin and his close associates. >> 2/ It turns out that the key figure in shaping this coup is none other than Dr. Aviad Bakshi, a prominent member of the far right Kohelet organization. >>

1/ On December 9, 2024, the Civil Administration issued an "announcement of the intention to amend the area of jurisdiction of the settlement of Geva Binyamin". >> 2/ For those unfamiliar, “Geva Binyamin” is the official name of the isolated and violent settlement of Adam, located a few kilometers north of Jerusalem's municipal border since June 1967. >>

1/ The isolated and violent settlement of Ofra is home to ambitious individuals driven to change the world. Among them are journalists, publicists, teachers, educators, public officials, civil servents, members of various organizations. >> 2/ A few of them are even aspiring to high judicial positions. Last March, we wrote about one of them: Ariel Erlich. a member of the legal department of the far right Kohelet organization, one of the forces behind the regime coup in Israel. >>

1/ Mr. Yossi Segal, who holds the title of “Custodian of Abandoned and Governmental Property in Judea and Samaria”, is a very busy man. >> 2/ Last month, we reported here on a declaration he signed, designating new State Land for the cemetery of the isolated and ultra violent settlement of Yitzhar. >>

1/ Here is a story: A little over a month ago, a number of bulldozers appeared one morning on a nearby hill west of the Palestinian village of Bardala. Alongside the bulldozers came soldiers guarding the work and the equipment. >> 2/ At no stage were the villagers officially informed of the purpose of the construction, who had authorized it, or how long it would last. No military order or plan was presented to them in order for them to understand what is the scope of the area or the nature of it. Nada. >>

1/ On 23/09/2024, the Supreme Planning Committee of the Civil Administration approved Master Plan 208/3/3 for submission to public objections. The plan, covering an area of approximately 142 dunams, aims to expand the religious/ ultra-Orthodox settlement of Ganei Modi'in. >> 2/ The settlement of Ganei Modi'in was established in the early 1980s on lands belonging to the villages of Ni'lin and Al Midya. >>

1/ In our last post, we mentioned the isolated settlement of Ariel in the context of the expansion of Highway 505, which connects it to even more isolated and violent settlements that are situated in the heart of the West Bank. >>

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2/ Today, we return for a brief look at the settlement of Ariel in order to shed light about the large agricultural areas it has effectively annexed for itself. >>

1/ A man without a past, his present is poor and his future is shrouded in mist" (Yigael Alon)

In 1986, the Israeli military commander of the West Bank signed an Expropriation Order No. 1/86. >> 2/ This order seized approximately 280 dunams of land, an area where the residents of the Palestinian village of Susya had lived for generations. >>

On Wednesday, September 19th, the new head of the Kedumim Council, @ozelvatik, had a packed schedule. >> 2/ The day was equally packed for the "Minister of Settlement and National Missions" @oritstrock, who spent it in the isolated and super violent settlement of Kedumim' which was established in the mid-1970s on the site of an abandoned Jordanian military base. >>

1/ While we generally prefer to focus on what’s going on in the West Bank rather than on organisational matters, there are times when addressing these issues is needed. >> 2/ On 29.10, attorney Carmel Pomerantz filed an appeal to the Jlm District Court against a ruling of the Magistrate's Court that ordered Kerem us to pay a violent settler, name Zvi Bar Yosef, 30,000 NIS, along with an additional 10,000 NIS in court costs (totaling 40,000 NIS). >>

1/ In July 2022, a significant event occurred in the West Bank. For the first time, an entire Palestinian community was expelled from its residence directly by settlers, rather than by the army. >> 2/ This was the Bedouin shepherd community of Ras Al Tin, which had existed for decades northeast of Ramallah on lands belonging to the Palestinian village of Kafr Malek. >>

1/ During Sukkot, a new shepherd outpost was established on a hill about 1.5 km from the Palestinian village of Farha. The residents of Farha have now “managed”, for the first time, to join the list of Palestinian villages whose lands are being actively looted by settlers. >> 2/ There’s no need to dwell on the timing of the outpost's establishment. It is one out of about 60 outposts that were established over the past year, reflecting the rapid disintegration of the Israeli government institutions >>

The community of Jurat Al Khail has been expelled.

1/ After years of escalating violence, the residents of Jurat Al Khail could no longer face the threats from the settlers of Asfar, Pnei Kedem, and the surrounding outposts. >> 2/ Jurat Al Khail is just one of dozens of communities and shepherd groups that have been displaced since October 7, 2023, by violent settlers, with the assistance of the Israeli authorities >>

1/ On Tuesday (October 15, 2024), the British Ministry of Finance announced sanctions against four far-right organisations and three shepherds' outposts whose members are involved in severe and ongoing violence against the Palestinian population in the West Bank. >> 2/ The four far-right organisations are Amana, Hashomer Yosh, Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in Yitzhar and Torat Lechima. The three outposts are: Havat Meitarim, where Yinon Levy lives, Havat Emek Tirza, where Moshe Sharvit lives and Havat Shuvi Eretz, where Eden Levy lives. >>

1/ The past year has made the Israeli-Palestinian conflict more deadly than ever before. The year began with the massacre carried out by Hamas in the West Negev settlements and continued with the killing and wounding of tens of thousands of Gazans >> 2/ including many children, women and elderly. Amid this vast sea of grief and suffering, there are many on the Israeli fundamentalist right, along with quite a few of their allies and supporters - fundamentalists in the Muslim world, who are experiencing a sense of euphoria. >>

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1/ On Friday (11.10.24), Haaretz published a long article titled "Netanyahu's Government Not Only Permits Jewish Terror in the West Bank, but Also Finances It". The article explores the phenomenon of youth living in shepherds' outposts in the West Bank. >> 2/ A significant portion of the article details the public funding mechanisms supporting these outposts, many of which have become the most extreme hubs from which settler terrorism against Palestinian communities is spreading >>

1/ It's rare that we recommend here to read a journalistic article, but last Wednesday (18.9.24), the British @FT published a masterful piece describing the events in one particularly wild and violent corner of the West Bank in recent years and especially since October 7th >> 2/ The southeast Hebron hills, an area also known as Masafer Yatta. The article primarily focuses on the situation around the outpost of Havat Ma'on, which has been a hub of persistent settler terrorism since its establishment in the late 1990s. >>

1/ Today, we return to our series of posts focused on Palestinian shepherd communities at risk of displacement due to settlers terrorism and violence. In the previous posts, we covered the situation in the Al Auja area of the Jordan Valley. >> 2/ This time, we turn our attention to the village of Sa'ir, located northeast of Hebron. one of the largest Palestinian villages in the Hebron area. Due to its large population and vast land, small shepherd villages have developed around the village over generations >>

1/ Last Tuesday (October 3, 2024), the BBC aired an excellent hour-long investigation into settler violence originating from several shepherd outposts in the West Bank. >> 2/ The report focused on two main individuals, with a brief mention of a third, whose actions we have been monitoring for years: >>

1/ In the last two posts dedicated to the settler and army terror that hits Al Auja region, we outlined the steps that led to today's reality. In this third and final post of the series, we will focus on the centres from which this violence spreads. >> 2/ In 2004, an isolated and violent outpost called "Naot Kedem", more commonly known as "Havat Omer" (Omer's Farm) was established on some of the abandoned agricultural lands that were originally looted and transferred to the settlement of Yitav. >>
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1/ Today, we continue with the second post in our series on settler and military terror that hits the Al Auja region: The Settlement Period. >> 2/ The richness of the water resources in the Al Auja region has historically attracted shepherd communities depending on access to this vital resource. Among these were Bedouin communities originally from the Negev, who were expelled by Israel to the West Bank after 1948. >>