Editing Israeli settlement (section)

===Regularization and outpost method===
{{see also|Regulation Law|Israeli outpost}}
The 2017 [[Regulation Law|Settlement Regularization in "Judea and Samaria" Law]] permits backdated legalization of outposts constructed on private Palestinian land. Following a petition challenging its legality, on June 9, 2020, Israel's Supreme Court struck down the law that had retroactively legalized about 4,000 settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land.<ref>{{cite news|title=Israel's Supreme Court strikes down law legalising settlements on private Palestinian land|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-settlements/israels-top-court-strikes-down-law-legalising-settlements-on-private-palestinian-land-idUSKBN23G2MI|publisher=Reuters|date=June 9, 2020|access-date=June 10, 2020|archive-date=11 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611115455/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-settlements/israels-top-court-strikes-down-law-legalising-settlements-on-private-palestinian-land-idUSKBN23G2MI|url-status=live}}</ref> The Israeli Attorney General has stated that existing laws already allow legalization of Israeli constructions on private Palestinian land in the West Bank.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/A_73_45717.pdf/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220216104802/https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/A_73_45717.pdf|archive-date=16 February 2022|title=Situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 Note by the Secretary-General|date=2018-10-22|website=reliefweb|access-date=2019-09-20}}</ref> The Israeli Attorney General, [[Avichai Mandelblit]], has updated the High Court on his official approval of the use of a legal tactic permitting the de facto legalization of roughly 2,000 illegally built Israeli homes throughout the West Bank.{{efn|group=upper-alpha|The Regularization law, opposed by Mandelblit, would allow the state to expropriate private Palestinian land where some 4,000 illegal settler homes have been built, provided that they were established "in good faith" or had government support, and that the Palestinian owners receive 125 percent financial compensation for the land.}} The legal mechanism is known as "market regulation" and relies on the notion that wildcat Israeli homes built on private Palestinian land were done so in good faith.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/ag-urges-court-to-strike-regulation-law-given-new-ways-to-legalize-outposts//|title=AG urges court to strike Regulation Law, points to new ways to legalize outposts|date=2018-12-18|website=The Times of Israel|access-date=2019-09-20|archive-date=21 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190921124456/https://www.timesofisrael.com/ag-urges-court-to-strike-regulation-law-given-new-ways-to-legalize-outposts//|url-status=live}}</ref>

In a report of 22 July 2019, PeaceNow notes that after a gap of 6 years when there were no new outposts, establishment of new outposts recommenced in 2012, with 32 of the current 126 outposts set up to date. 2 outposts were subject to eviction, 15 were legalized and at least 35 are in process of legalization.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://peacenow.org.il/en/return-of-the-outpost-method|title=Return of the Outpost Method 32 new unauthorized settlements under the Netanyahu government|date=2019-07-22|website=PeaceNow|access-date=2019-09-20|archive-date=10 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610014422/https://peacenow.org.il/en/return-of-the-outpost-method|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://972mag.com/outposts-peace-now-report/143492//|title=Resource: Tracking Israel's support for illegal outposts|date=2019-09-20|website=trocaire|access-date=2019-09-20|archive-date=22 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190922121234/https://972mag.com/outposts-peace-now-report/143492//|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-at-least-16-israeli-unauthorized-west-bank-outposts-established-since-2017-1.7546752|title=At Least 16 Israeli Unauthorized West Bank Outposts Established Since 2017|date=2019-07-22|website=Haaretz|access-date=2019-09-20|archive-date=22 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190922013837/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-at-least-16-israeli-unauthorized-west-bank-outposts-established-since-2017-1.7546752|url-status=live}}</ref>