Welcome to FMEP’s Weekly Settlement Report, this week we are issuing an covering everything you need to know about Israeli settlement activity this week.
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West Bank Settlement News
- Peace Now has provided an updated table of all 2025 settlement plans being advanced. See: “Settlement Planning Monitor: Updated List of Approved Plans”
- “Advancement of 1,344 Housing Units in the West Bank” (Peace Now, 3/21/25)
- “Israel settlers raze large areas of Palestinian land in near Ramallah” (MEMO, 3/20/25)
- “Israeli Army to Demolish 180 Homes in West Bank Palestinian Refugee Camps” (Haaretz, 3/21/25)
- “Israel issues demolition orders for Palestinian homes, farmland in Bethlehem” (MEMO, 3/21/25)
- “In shift toward Arab engagement, settler leaders visit UAE in first-ever delegation to Muslim country” (Ynet, 3/21/25)
- “Humanitarian Situation Update #274 | West Bank” (OCHA, 3/21/25)
- “Israeli settlers hold celebrations in central Hebron, occupied West Bank” (Middle East Eye, 3/16/25)
- “‘Public execution’: The Israeli checkpoint terrorising a Palestinian town” (Al Jazeera, 3/5/25)
- “Israeli settler violence is rapidly emptying Jordan Valley of Palestinians” (+972 Magazine, 3/19/25)
- “Israeli settlers attack West Bank village, residents say” (Reuters, 3/14/25)
- “West Bank livestock theft symbol of tensions and settler ‘impunity’” (Al-Monitor, 3/18/25)
- New Reports:
- “Israel ramps up settlement and annexation in West Bank with dire human rights consequences” (UN Human Rights Council, 3/18/25)
- “The Bad Samaritan: Land Grabbing by Settlers Through Grazing” (Peace Now & Kerem Navot, 3/20/25)
- “Settler Grazing: A New Mean of Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank” (JLAC, March 2025)
East Jerusalem Settlement News
- “He led the fight to save Sheikh Jarrah for 15 years. Now he faces his own eviction” (+972 Magazine, 3/14/25)
Gaza Annexation & “Resettlement” News
- “Israel threatens annexation after ground invasion in north, south Gaza” (Al Jazeera, 3/19/25)
- “Israel defence minister threatens to annex parts of Gaza” (Al-Monitor, 3/21/25)
Israeli Government News
- Ben Gvir to intro law to leave Oslo Accords, Hebron Agreement, Wy River, etc.
- “Israel enacts exacting new rules for aid groups assisting Palestinians” (Washington Post, 3/15/25)
U.S. Government News
- “Huckabee’s Senate hearing for Ambassador to Israel set for March 25” (Israel Hayom, 3/20/25)