The Latest Breaking News from Homesh

No casualties reported; calls to legalize community in response

Israel has begun taking steps to resettle the evacuated illegal outpost of Homesh near Burqa village in Nablus.

The reproach comes after months of escalating violence between Israelis and Palestinians.

The Biden administration rebuked Israel on Sunday over an order that allows Jewish settlers to establish a permanent presence in a West Bank outpost that Washington has warned Jerusalem it should avoid legitimizing.

The amendment could see Israelis resettle four outposts in the northern occupied West Bank evacuated in 2005.

Israeli head of the Shomron regional council, Yossi Dagan, announced that he met with the new Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and discussed the necessity of rebuilding four settlements that were evacuated in the West Bank. Dagan stated that the government of Benjamin Netanyahu is preparing to change the status…

A group of settler leaders, headed by the chief Ashkenazi rabbi, David Lau, toured the Homesh settlement, declaring their determination to rebuild the region, despite US warnings, the position of High Court of Justice in West Jerusalem, and the law that prohibits their entry to the area. The Homesh settlement…

Incoming Israeli PM promises far-right ally Ben Gvir that illegal settler outposts will be legalised.

Thousands of Jewish settlers marched on Tuesday to the abandoned outpost of Homesh in the occupied West Bank.