Judea and Samaria

Jul

2024

Israel Legalizes Five New Communities in Judea and Samaria

The Land of Israel · Israel Uncensored: Israel Legalizes Five New Communities in Judea and Samaria

On today’s Israel Uncensored, Josh Hasten discusses how Israel’s cabinet this week granted full legalization to five communities in Judea and Samaria. While he applauded the decision, Hasten says that Israel should stress that the communities gained full recognition – not as a response to terrorist attacks or as a punishment. Rather, Judea and Samaria are the heartland of the State of Israel and the Jewish People and it’s our right to live and build in these areas.

Jun

2024

Local leaders laud Smotrich’s plan to extend civilian control in Judea and Samaria

Finance Minister and Religious Zionism Party head Bezalel Smotrich holds a faction meeting in northern Israel, May 19, 2024. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.

Judea and Samaria leaders on Tuesday applauded Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s announcement earlier this week that major steps had been taken to transfer administrative authority in the area from military to civilian hands.

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Jun

2024

Protesters block PA workers’ entry to Efrat

A protest organized by B’yadaim Shelanu to prevent the entry of P.A. workers to Efrat in Gush Etzion, June 23, 2024. Credit: B’yadaim Shelanu.

Some 120 protesters gathered in the Gush Etzion town of Efrat on Sunday morning to prevent local building contractors from bringing Palestinian laborers into the community.

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Apr

2024

Judea and Samaria face new reality of aerial terrorism

Binyamin Regional Council head Israel Ganz (in black T-shirt) and IDF Central Command Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fox (on Ganz’s left) during the search for 14-year-old shepherd Binyamin Achimeir. Credit: Binyamin Regional Council Spokesperson.

The more than half a million Israeli residents of Judea and Samaria are no strangers to terrorism. In 2023, the region saw a 350% increase in terrorist attacks compared to the previous year. There were 300 shooting attacks last year, the most since the second intifada in the early 2000s.

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Mar

2024

US sanctions Israeli ‘settlers,’ but won’t reveal its sources

A Jewish settler rides his horse near the outpost of Ramat Migron on Sept. 8, 2023. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

This week, the United States sanctioned another three Israeli residents of Judea and Samaria, accusing them of “undermining peace, security, and stability in the West Bank.”

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Mar

2024

Israeli officials blast new Biden admin sanctions over ‘settler violence’

A Jewish resident of Judea and Samaria herds sheep near his community, Aug. 20, 2023. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

For the second time in as many months, the U.S. State Department, in coordination with the U.S. Treasury, is again issuing financial sanctions against Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria.

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Feb

2024

Blinken’s reversal of ‘Pompeo doctrine’ all about politics, experts say

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on a phone call with U.S. officials, including the president, about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strategy against Hamas on Oct. 11, 2023, in the Oval Office. Credit: Adam Schultz/White House.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday appeared to reverse the Trump administration’s “Pompeo doctrine,” which stated that civilian Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria were not necessarily illegal according to international law.

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Feb

2024

Judea and Samaria leaders, NGOs blast ICJ proceedings

The International Court of Justice courtroom at The Hague. Photo by Ankor Light/Shutterstock.

Leaders of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, along with Zionist Israeli NGOs, have expressed their ire about the hearings currently taking place at the United Nations’ International Court of Justice in the Hague (ICJ) regarding Israel’s legal right to maintain a presence in those often-politicized regions of the country.

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Feb

2024

Israeli Banks ‘Overreacting’ by Freezing Accounts Due to US Sanctions, Expert Says

Bank Leumi chairman Samer Haj-Yehia speaks at Jerusalem’s International Convention Center, Feb. 21, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israeli banks this week made the controversial decision to freeze the accounts of two Israelis sanctioned by the United States under an executive order signed by President Joe Biden. It is believed that the accounts of two other sanctioned Israelis will be frozen shortly. The EO states that the four are guilty of “Undermining Peace, Security, and Stability in the West Bank.”

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Dec

2023

Don’t Be Fooled by the “Settler Violence” Scare

Contra current media campaigns, settlers are overwhelmingly law abiding. (Photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Contrary to a well-orchestrated campaign, what little violence is being committed by a fringe of settlers is either down or about the same. Terrorism, meanwhile, is on the rise everywhere.

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