Illegal Occupation

The UK Was Right To Sanction Israeli Settlements

September 9, 2026 Rohan Talbot and Medical Aid for Palestinians, Mondoweiss. Educate! Genocide, Illegal Occupation, Palestine, Trade embargo, United Kingdom (UK)

The UK has crossed a political Rubicon on Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. Yesterday, the Government recognised that Israel’s continued control over Palestinian territory is unlawful, bringing it into line with the International Court of Justice’s 2024 Advisory Opinion. For decades, British governments have condemned Israel’s settlements as illegal while allowing the settlement project to expand with impunity. Palestinian communities have been displaced and Israeli control over the West Bank has become ever more entrenched.

Tel Aviv Advances De Facto Annexation Of Occupied West Bank

June 3, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Illegal Occupation, Israeli settlements, Palestine, West Bank

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced a new and major illegal settlement project in the occupied West Bank on 3 June, which aims to see the construction of around 2,000 houses on Palestinian land. According to the minister, 1,006 housing units will be in a new settlement near the occupied holy city of Jerusalem. Over 920 are planned near occupied Nablus and another 234 near the city of Hebron. “We are continuing to build the Land of Israel in practice,” Smotrich said. The settlements will “strengthen our hold on the land, reinforce Israel's security, and establish clear facts on the ground that prevent the creation of an Arab terror state in the heart of the country.”

Inside The Grassroots Network Fighting Against Settler Attacks

April 28, 2026 Majd Jawad, Mondoweiss. Strategize! Community Defense, Illegal Occupation, Israeli Settlers, Palestine

Under the midnight moon atop the mountain in the town of Sinjil, residents carry flashlights, signaling to the hills across the valley. The beams, along with the lights surrounding a small watch tent, usually used as decoration for Ramadan, serve as an early warning system. The signal that the village is awake and watching. “Do you see that light?” one of the young men asks quietly, pointing toward a flicker across the opposite hill. I nod. For a moment, no one speaks. The wind is sharp at this height, and below us, the village is completely dark. “That means they’re there,” he says. “Watching, like us.”

UN Official Says Israel ‘Consolidating Unlawful Annexation’ Of West Bank

February 12, 2026 Mera Aladam, Middle East Eye. Educate! colonization, Gaza, Human Rights, Illegal Occupation, Israel, Palestine, Zionism

The UN human rights chief said on Wednesday that Israel’s expansion of its civilian control in the occupied West Bank would entrench the territory’s integration into Israel and amount to unlawful annexation. Volker Turk, the UN's high commissioner for human rights, warned the move was the latest Israeli step that would render a viable Palestinian state impossible. “If these decisions are implemented, they will undoubtedly accelerate the dispossession of Palestinians and their forcible transfer, and lead to the creation of more illegal Israeli settlements," Turk said.

The Chris Hedges Report: Trump’s Gaza ‘Peace’ Plan

January 20, 2026 Chris Hedges, Consortium News. Resistance Report Donald Trump, Gaza, Illegal Occupation, International Law, Israel, Palestine, Peace Agreement

Lawlessness has been a common theme characterizing the events of the first weeks of the year. The kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the murder of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross, the threat of bombing Iran by the Trump administration. Perhaps one of the worst violations of the law has slipped under the radar amidst the chaos — the continued genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the United Nations’ abetting of Israel and the U.S.’s efforts to ethnically cleanse the region.

Israel’s Move In Somaliland As Broader Strategy For Regional Dominance

January 7, 2026 Abdaljawad Omar, Mondoweiss. Educate! Illegal Occupation, Israel, Somaliland, West Asia

As Donald Trump proclaimed a “forever peace” in the region last October, Israel proceeded to dramatically escalate its military operations, launching repeated assaults across Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, and beyond. In Gaza, Israel has violated the ceasefire over a thousand times; in Lebanon, it continues to target resistance forces; in Syria, it attempts to destabilize the new regime by exacerbating sectarian divisions; and more recently, it has continued to beat the drums of war with Iran. Its recent recognition of Somaliland also signals an Israel that seeks to regionalize its terror regime, challenge Turkey’s presence in Somalia, and position itself closer to Yemen and Iran for future skirmishes.

Netanyahu’s Plan To Occupy Gaza Violates World Court Ruling

August 12, 2025 Marjorie Cohn, Scheer Post. Educate! Benjamin Netanyahu, Gaza, Illegal Occupation, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel

As the death toll of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip surpasses 61,000 and Israel continues to starve Gazans to death, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made clear that Israel plans to occupy all of Gaza. When asked in an August 7 appearance on Fox News whether Israel would “take control of all of Gaza,” Netanyahu replied, “We intend to.” The Israeli Occupation Forces say they already control about 75 percent of Gaza. The remaining 25 percent includes Gaza City, Khan Younis, and many neighborhoods and refugee camps in central Gaza. Israel’s occupation of Gaza flies in the face of the July 19 ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ, or World Court). I

Israel Is Changing The Legal System Governing The West Bank

July 24, 2025 Jeff Wright, Mondoweiss. Educate! Gaza, Illegal Occupation, Israel, Palestine, West Bank

Israel is accelerating its efforts to cement its permanent control over the West Bank through a number of sweeping legal and institutional changes, according to a new report from Adalah, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel. The 87-page report, Legal Structures of Distinction, Separation, and Territorial Domination, describes the ways in which the Netanyahu government is rapidly building on a long-standing legal matrix that further threatens Palestinians’ right to self-determination. “These developments are not something new to us,” Dr. Suhad Bishara, Legal Director of Adalah and lead author of the report, told Mondoweiss.

Israel Is Trying To Expel Us From Masafer Yatta

July 4, 2025 Mohammad Hesham Huraini, Mondoweiss. Resist! Displacement, Illegal Occupation, Israel, Masafer Yatta, Palestine

Approximately one month ago — after years of harassment and intermittent demolitions — Israeli occupation forces arrived in the Palestinian village of Khallet al-Dabe’, one of the 12 communities that make up Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills in the occupied West Bank. They proceeded to demolish the village almost entirely. In just two and a half hours, Israeli occupation forces reduced almost the entire village to rubble. Like Khallet al-Dabe’, all of the Palestinian villages in Masafer Yatta are now under threat of permanent expulsion after the Civil Administration — the Israeli military body in charge of governing the West Bank — issued an order allowing what it calls “live-fire training” in Masafer Yatta, an action taken to reinforce its designation of the area as “Firing Zone 918.”

Hezbollah Chief Addresses Israeli Occupation Of South Lebanon

March 11, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. Resist! Hezbollah, Illegal Occupation, Israel, Lebanon

Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Naim Qassem said on 9 March that Israeli forces currently occupying south Lebanon will inevitably face resistance if they do not withdraw. “I tell the Israelis, if you remain at these points, this resistance will not let you continue there,” Qassem stated on Sunday. “If the occupation continues, it must be confronted by the army, the people, and the resistance,” despite some people wanting “liberation through diplomacy,” the resistance leader added. “We committed to the [ceasefire] agreement while the enemy violates it … it assaults people far from the border in their cars and in their homes,” he went on to say.

Campaign Against Project Nimbus Gathers Steam And Supporters

August 25, 2024 Omar Zahzah, The Electronic Intifada. Resist! Google, Illegal Occupation, Israel, Palestine, Project Nimbus

Years of activism against Google’s complicity in Israel’s colonial violence against Palestinians have forced the multinational tech behemoth into a rigid moral impasse and exposed the hollowness of its brand. In April 2021, Google and Amazon were awarded a $1.2 billion contract with Israel for Project Nimbus, which aimed to streamline all of Israel’s government and military operations into one cloud service. Hundreds of Google and Amazon workers opposed the deal out of the conviction that such an undertaking would bolster “further surveillance of and unlawful data collection on Palestinians” and “expansion of Israel’s illegal settlements on Palestinian land,” as they wrote in the UK’s Guardian newspaper in 2021.

The ICJ Finds That BDS Is Not Merely A Right, But An Obligation

August 14, 2024 Craig Mokhiber, Mondoweiss. Resist! Apartheid, BDS Movement, Genocide, Illegal Occupation, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Palestine

Israel and its lobby have, for years now, been engaged in a frenzy of activity to further insulate Israel from accountability by using their influence in the West to effectively outlaw organized opposition to Israel. Foremost among these efforts has been the Israeli campaign to penalize calls to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel for its gross violations of human rights. As a result, countless laws and policies are now on the books across the U.S. and the broader West, trampling on core constitutional principles and internationally guaranteed human rights in defense of Israeli impunity. But an advisory opinion issued last month by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) should help to turn that around.

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