All-time record: more than a hundred illegal outposts established this year

Zman Yisrael reports that since the beginning of 2026, 97 illegal outposts have been established in the West Bank – an all-time record. According to estimates, the actual number exceeds one hundred. The construction is taking place with encouragement from the outgoing government and amid a wave of settler violence against Palestinians.

Zman Yisrael reports that 2026 is not yet over, but an all-time record has already been broken in the establishment of illegal outposts in the West Bank. According to the monitoring of the Peace Now movement, 97 new farms and outposts have been set up since the start of the year – a figure higher than the 60 outposts established in 2024 and about 80 in 2025. Left- and right-wing activists estimate that the list does not include all of them, and in fact there are over a hundred outposts. The article notes that the construction is taking place with encouragement from the outgoing government and under the cover of wars, and that ministers such as Bezalel Smotrich and Yariv Levin have participated in groundbreaking ceremonies. It also states that 30 of the 97 outposts were established in the last three months, in the midst of the election campaign. At the same time, an unprecedented wave of violence by extremist settlers, most of them outpost residents, against Palestinians – 170 attacks between September and October, and 12 Palestinian deaths from March to May. The article quotes Yoni Mizrahi of Peace Now and Dror Etkes of Kerem Navot, who identify a direct link between the establishment of outposts and the violence.