NOTE: Today is an abbreviated round-up of important news articles. FMEP’s Settlement & Annexation Report will not be sent next week.
July 9, 2026
NEW FROM FMEP
- “The Ethnic Cleansing of Umm al Khair: A conversation with Eid Suleiman and Andrey X” [Occupied Thoughts Podcast, 7/8/2026)
- “Born into Apartheid: The Work of Dismantling Jewish Supremacy, w/ Yuli Novak (B’Tselem)” [Occupied Thoughts Podcast, 7/8/2026)
WEST BANK
- “Israel approves plan to establish 13 new settlements in occupied West Bank” (Al Jazeera, 7/3/2026)
- “Israeli finance minister says settlement ‘revolution’ has only just begun” (Middle East Eye, 7/6/2026)
- “Government advances plan to develop tourism in Judea and Samaria with hundreds of millions” (Ynet, 7/3/2026)
- “Alarming Update on Al-Makhrour: Consolidation of Settler Presence and Annexation Plans” (Balasan Initiative, 7/9/2026)
- “Israeli Settler Outposts Now Control Nearly Fifth of West Bank, Peace NGO Says” (Haaretz, 7/7/2026)
- “The Ecology of Dispossession” (Jewish Currents, 7/9/2026)
- “The Crimson Thread: The Israeli Military Barrier Cutting Off Palestine’s Breadbasket” (DropSite, 7/8/2026)
- “These Palestinian families in the West Bank have barricaded themselves inside their homes to survive Israeli settler attacks” (Mondoweiss, 7/9/2026)
- “Undoing History: As the World Watched Gaza, Settlers Charged Ahead in the West Bank. A Clash Is Imminent” (Haaretz, 6/23/26)
- “Humanitarian Situation Report | 3 July 2026” (OCHA, 7/3/2026)
- “’Studying Is a Form of Resistance’: The Library Where Palestinian Children Can Feel Safe” (Haaretz, 7/1/2026)
- “Punish the State, Not Just the Settler: Israeli and Palestinian Activists Search for Solutions to Settler Terror” (Haaretz, 7/8/26)
- “Israel is drowning the West Bank in hazardous waste. Palestinians are paying the price with their health.” (Mondoweiss, 7/8/26)
EAST JERUSALEM
- “How an Abandoned Jerusalem Airport Embodies Netanyahu’s Bleak Vision for Israel” (Haaretz, 7/6/2026)
STATE-BACKED SETTLER TERRORISM
- “West Bank – The impact of Settler attacks | January 2023 – April 2026” (OCHA)
- “Israeli Settlers Raid Palestinian Villages in Wave of West Bank Attacks” (Haaretz, 7/3/2026)
- “In the West Bank, Israeli settlers take over Palestinian’s dream home” (Reuters, 7/3/2026); “Palestinian family says settlers annexed unfinished West Bank home” (Jerusalem Post, 7/4/2026)
- “Netanyahu: Settler Violence in the West Bank Caused by ‘150 or So Juvenile Delinquents’” (Haaretz, 7/7/2026)
NEW REPORT ON ANNEXATION
Peace Now and Kerem Navot have published: “The Israeli Government Advanced De Facto Annexation of the West Bank During its First Three Years in Office.”
From the overview:
“A new report by Peace Now and Kerem Navot, titled Annus Mirabilis: Actions by the Israeli Government to Annex the West Bank, 2023–2025, concludes that the current Israeli government has advanced de facto annexation of the West Bank at an unprecedented pace…Instead of focusing on isolated developments such as settlement construction, outpost authorization, or state land declarations, the report, for the first time, consolidates all government actions and demonstrates that they constitute a single policy. These include structural governance changes, the transfer of civilian powers, settlement expansion, new outpost establishment, expulsion of Palestinian communities, land takeovers, significant infrastructure investment, and changes to the land regime. The report demonstrates how these measures function together as part of a unified government policy.”
BONUS
- “The U.S. and U.K. Condemn Settlement Expansion. Then they Allow Promotions Selling Stolen Palestinian Land.” (DAWN, 6/30/2026)
- “Palestinians brace as Israeli settler figures in coalition seek to cement West Bank gains before election” (The Guardian, 7/8/2026)
- “‘My Party Has Been Stolen’: The West Bank Settlers Drifting Away From Israel’s Far Right” (Haaretz, 7/6/2026)