“Americans and Israelis need to resist not only border walls, but also the sentiments and systems that make them possible,” writes Nadia Nasser-Najjab.

“After over a decade of legal battles, the state was finally forced to evacuate the illegal West Bank outpost of Amona. But that does not mean we should start celebrating any time soon,” writes Orly Noy.

The fate of the West Bank’s holy sites is the subject of intense competition between Palestinian historical narratives and the theological discourse of the settlement movement. They are also key targets for settlement activities.

Palestinian Israelis and Jews marched arm-in-arm through central Tel Aviv on Saturday night, calling for the government to stop demolishing Arab homes built without permits that it rarely grants.

Israeli officials welcomed on Friday what they took as US consent to expand existing settlements, after the White House reversed a long-standing policy of condemning building on occupied land.

The Times of Israel has learned that Jason Greenblatt, the Trump administration’s special representative for international negotiations, met on Friday with three Palestinian businessmen with close ties to PA President Mahmoud Abbas, and informed them that the administration does not intend to build relations with the PA at this juncture.

Defying Netanyahu, pro-settlement party says that a controversial piece of legislation recognizing building on private Palestinian land will be brought to plenum for final votes.

A Palestinian fisherman was injured in one of a series of Israeli army airstrikes in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday afternoon, which came hours after an Israeli army tank fired two shells into eastern Beit Lahiya, following rocket fire from Gaza that landed in an open area in the Ashkelon region of southern Israel.