An unauthorized Jewish settler West Bank outpost, Givat EgozIsraeli settlements are residential areas inhabited by Jewish Israelis in the Israeli-occupied territories (lands that were captured by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War). Such settlements currently exist in the West Bank, which is viewed as occupied by Israel by the international community and partially under the control of the Palestinian Authority, and in the Golan Heights, which is also viewed as occupied by Israel.
The term sometimes includes communities in territory that was captured in 1967, but has since been under Israeli civil law, administration and jurisdiction in East Jerusalem, which is incorporated within the municipal borders of Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights, where military rule was revoked in 1981 and has since been under Israeli civil law, administration and jurisdiction under the Golan Heights Law.
An additional eighteen settlements formerly existed in the Sinai Peninsula, twenty-one in the Gaza Strip and four in the northern West Bank. They were abandoned as part of Israeli withdrawals from these areas in 1982 (Sinai) and 2005.
Israeli policies toward these settlements have ranged from active promotion to removal by force, and their continued existence and expansion since the 1970s is one of the most contentious issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The term sometimes includes communities in territory that was captured in 1967, but has since been under Israeli civil law, administration and jurisdiction in East Jerusalem, which is incorporated within the municipal borders of Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights, where military rule was revoked in 1981 and has since been under Israeli civil law, administration and jurisdiction under the Golan Heights Law.
An additional eighteen settlements formerly existed in the Sinai Peninsula, twenty-one in the Gaza Strip and four in the northern West Bank. They were abandoned as part of Israeli withdrawals from these areas in 1982 (Sinai) and 2005.
Israeli policies toward these settlements have ranged from active promotion to removal by force, and their continued existence and expansion since the 1970s is one of the most contentious issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Givat Egoz, near the Neria settlement, was inaugurated as American emissaries visited the region.
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