Ilia YEFIMOVICH / AFP via Getty Images It was during a ceremony at a settlement in the occupied West Bank last September that Israel's prime minister made his intentions clear. "We are going to fulfill our promise that there will be no Palestinian state," said Benjamin Netanyahu. "This place belongs to us." He was signing an agreement to push ahead with the expansion of a settlement in an area known as E1, just to the east of Jerusalem. In recent days, the opening up of tende

The E1 plan has drawn criticism over concerns that construction could disrupt Palestinian territorial continuity and make statehood more difficult. Israeli minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich attends a press conference announcing his plans to approve more than 3,000 housing units in the E1 settlement project between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim, August 14, 2025. (photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90) The government plan to populate the contentious E1 area, located between Ma’

In several cases, jurisdiction areas were also divided or reorganized, allowing separate settlements to be established under distinct municipal administrations. View of the settlement of Sa-Nur in the West Bank, April 19, 2026. | (photo credit: NASSER ISHTAYEH/FLASH90) A June study from Bimkom showed an acceleration in the Israeli government’s use of settlement jurisdiction orders in the West Bank since October 2023. Israeli officials have issued 114 military orders establish

Israeli settlers set fire to two vehicles and a Bedouin tent south of Nablus in one attack last month [Credit: EPA] The twenty-seven foreign ministers of the European Union approved new sanctions on Monday on Israeli settlers over rising violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. There has been a surge in attacks by settlers since the start of the Gaza war in October 2023, the UN has recorded. Settlements - illegal under international law - are built on Israeli-

Many German companies and institutions are intimately connected with Israel. Any change in support for its annihilation of Palestinians would result in the loss of profits and influence