The Burnham government has announced it will sanction all trade in goods and services from illegal settlements in the West Bank.
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The international community has long seen the construction of E1 as a red line.
The government’s move is a direct cricitism of the Netanyahu government.
Reluctance to address settler violence is the outcome of deep social, political and cultural changes, a scholar of Israeli extremist groups argues.
Israeli settlers have always vowed to reoccupy the Gaza Strip.
Violence in the West Bank has intensified since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza.
The two extremist members of the Netanyahu government have consistently opposed any efforts to bring peace to the region.
There are widespread fears that Israel is planning to clear Palestinians from the northern part of the Gaza Strip to allow for settlements.
The settler movement has unprecedented power in Israel today − the result of a decades-long push to mainstream its views and leaders.
A World Bank report from May suggested the Palestinian Authority was close to collapse – it is by no means out of the woods.
Israel has approved its largest seizure of land in the West Bank in over three decades.
Israel’s settler movement, which is already sparking sectarian violence in the West Bank, is laying claim to the Gaza Strip – with support from some senior politicians.
Israel’s highest court has struck down the government’s law limiting its power. Three scholars look at why the law was proposed, what it aimed to do and who supported – and opposed – it.
Israeli settler youth in the West Bank are using their right-wing ideology as a tool that allows them to harm Palestinians and their villages with no remorse.
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