{"id":45708,"date":"2025-12-15T14:52:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T11:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/?p=45708"},"modified":"2025-12-15T14:54:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T11:54:52","slug":"israels-security-cabinet-decided-to-establish-19-new-settlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/israels-security-cabinet-decided-to-establish-19-new-settlements","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s security cabinet decided to establish 19 new settlements"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to media reports<\/a>, Israel\u2019s security cabinet decided on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, to establish 19 new settlements in the West Bank. Some of the settlements are slated for areas where Israel has not previously had a presence, while others would be built in densely populated Palestinian areas. Several of the planned settlements are expected to be built in the northern West Bank, on the sites of settlements that were evacuated under the 2005 disengagement plan. In several cases, the new settlements are expected to be established on sites from which Palestinian communities were expelled.<\/p>\n

Last week\u2019s cabinet decision adds to a series of earlier decisions by the Netanyahu\u2013Smotrich government to establish new settlements. Over the past three years, the government has decided to establish 49 settlements<\/a>. The latest decision brings the total to 68 new settlements for the 2023\u20132025 period.\u00a0On the eve of the government\u2019s formation, about 141 officially recognized settlements were operating in the West Bank, built over 55 years. Implementing the government\u2019s decisions would increase that number by nearly 50 percent.<\/p>\n

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Peace Now: \u201cThe government is doing everything it can to entrench Israel\u2019s presence in the territories and to foreclose the possibility of a future of peace and two states for two peoples.\u00a0Establishing settlements in areas where Israel has not previously had a presence is intended to sever Palestinian territorial continuity and to destroy what little economic development remains possible for Palestinians. The government\u2019s policy is not only immoral, but also a security and economic folly that will further worsen Israel\u2019s situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It is important to note that such a decision has far-reaching implications: Legally and politically, it is far more difficult to evacuate a settlement established by a government decision than to remove an outpost built without official authorization.\u00a0The decision to establish the settlements was made by Israel\u2019s security cabinet, whose deliberations and decisions are confidential, rather than by the whole cabinet, whose decisions are made public. As a result, the precise locations of all the planned settlements are not yet known.\u00a0According to information available to us and to media reports, the following settlements and outposts were approved, along with their locations:<\/p>\n

Kida<\/strong> \u2014 the retroactive authorization of an outpost west of the Palestinian village of Duma, in the Nablus district.
\nEsh Kodesh<\/strong> \u2014 the retroactive authorization of an outpost south of the villages of Jalud and Qusra and west of Duma, in the Nablus district.
\nGivat Harel<\/strong> \u2014 a split from the settlement of Givat Haroeh, which was approved<\/a> in 2023. The settlement is located between the villages of Sinjil and Lubban al-Sharqiya, in the Nablus district.
\nMishuol<\/strong> \u2014 likely east of the settlement of Naaleh, between the villages of Ras Karkar and Deir Ammar, west of Ramallah; it may be at the site of the Shalom Farm outpost.
\nReihanit<\/strong> \u2014 likely in the northwestern West Bank, near the settlement of Reihan and the area of the village of Ya\u2019bad.
\nRosh HaAyin East<\/strong> \u2014 likely in the area of the Shirat David farm, established a few months ago between the villages of Zawiya and Deir Ballut, in the Salfit district.
\nPnei Kedem<\/strong> \u2014 an outpost in the Mount K\u2019nuv area, east of the Palestinian town of Sa\u2019ir, near the settlement of Mezad (Asfar) in the southeastern Etzion Bloc. In recent years, it was retroactively authorized as a \u201cneighborhood\u201d of Asfar, and it will now become an independent settlement.
\nYatziv <\/strong>(Shadma) \u2014 an outpost established in November<\/a> on the grounds of a military base, adjacent to the Palestinian town of Beit Sahour, in the Bethlehem district.
\nYa\u2019ar al-Keren <\/strong>\u2014 likely between Beit Ummar and the Al-\u2018Arrub refugee camp, south of Bethlehem.
\nAllenby<\/strong> \u2014 it may be near the Allenby checkpoint in the Jordan Valley, in the Jericho district.
\nKokhav Hashahar North<\/strong> \u2014 likely at the site of the Nahalat Ephraim farm, east of Ein Samia.
\nNof Gilad <\/strong>\u2014 there is a farm by that name in the Umm Zuqa reserve in the Jordan Valley. Still, it may refer to the Netzach Harel farm, near the Bedouin communities in Al-Mu\u2018arrajat<\/a>, between Taybeh and Jericho.
\nYitav West <\/strong>\u2014 it may refer to the area of the Auja farm, near the Bedouin community of Ras al-\u2018Ain<\/a>, which faces frequent threats and is at risk of expulsion.
\nBezek<\/strong> \u2014 at the site of the Bezek farm, also known as Har Bezek 713, the highest peak between the Jordan Valley and the hills of the Jenin area.
\nTamun<\/strong> \u2014 likely on one of the hills near the Palestinian village of Tamun, between the Jordan Valley and the Nablus area.
\nShalem<\/strong> \u2014 near Beit Dajan and Beit Furik; a farm called \u201cDerech Avraham\u201d currently operates at the site.
\nNahal Doran<\/strong> \u2014 an uninhabited area between the settlements of Shima and Adoraim, west of Dura.
\nGanim<\/strong> \u2014 a settlement evacuated under the 2005 disengagement plan, east of Jenin.
\nKadim<\/strong> \u2014 a settlement evacuated under the 2005 disengagement plan, east of Jenin.<\/p>\n

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The decision to establish two new settlements in the northern West Bank, Kadim and Ganim, follows a May 2025 decision to advance the settlement of Sa-Nur<\/a> and the establishment of the Homesh outpost<\/a> in 2023.\u00a0The establishment of these settlements has been made possible by a change to the disengagement law<\/a> that again permits an Israeli presence in an area that had previously been off-limits to Israelis.<\/p>\n

In several cases, the new settlements are expected to be established on sites from which Palestinian communities were expelled (Kokhav Hashahar North \u2014 Ein Samia; Nof Gilad \u2014 Mu\u2018arrajat; Meshuol \u2014 Arab al-Jahalin; Ein Ayyub), or near communities that are currently at risk of expulsion (Yitav West \u2014 Ras al -\u2018Ain).\u00a0These cases suggest that the Israeli government is using settler violence with a clear aim to push out Palestinian herding communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to media reports, Israel\u2019s security cabinet decided on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, to establish 19 new settlements in the West Bank. Some of the settlements are slated for areas where Israel has not previously had a presence, while others would be built in densely populated Palestinian areas. Several of the planned settlements are expected… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":45703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3530,4159],"class_list":["post-45708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-settlement-watch","tag-new-settlement","tag-security-cabinet"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45713,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45708\/revisions\/45713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}