Al Jazeera reports that a radical movement of young Israeli women, known as "Hilltop Girls," is establishing makeshift hilltop tent settlements in the occupied West Bank. Through a "soft settlement" strategy, they replace military actions with seemingly ordinary domestic life, aiming to gradually legalize the encroachment on private Palestinian land and establish new outposts. The movement is an extension of the "Hilltop Youth" organization, which emerged in 1998, with the ultimate goal of establishing a "Greater Israel" that includes Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and the Arabian Peninsula.

The report indicates that these female settlers use social media to promote themselves, attempting to shed the image associated with violent settlers, claiming they are merely engaged in daily activities such as cooking and laundry. However, their goals are similar to those of extremists: to expand Israel by transforming Palestinian pastoral lands into settlements. For example, the Maoz Esther and Or Ahuvia outposts, located northeast of Ramallah, the former housed 17 families and over 50 children by 2025, and the latter, established in 2023, aims to connect over 20 outposts to form a large settlement cluster. The Israeli government supports these outposts by providing nearly $40 million in food and clothing subsidies, as well as water, electricity, roads, and military protection. In early 2025, the Israeli Knesset also advanced a bill allowing Jews to freely purchase land in the West Bank. UN data shows that between January 2025 and May 2026, at least 2,806 settler attacks were recorded, averaging five per day. In 2026 alone, systematic settler massacres have displaced nearly 2,000 Palestinians.