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**Brukhin** (Hebrew: ברוכין, also **Bruchin**) is an [Israeli settlement](/source/Israeli_settlement) located in the [West Bank](/source/West_Bank), about 1 km from the [Palestinian](/source/State_of_Palestine) city of [Bruqin](/source/Bruqin), whose lands were confiscated in order to construct Brukhin.[1]

Over 101 [Orthodox](/source/Orthodox_Judaism) [Jewish](/source/Jews) families are living in Brukhin.[2] A further 100 families are due to move in as the settlement expands (2015).[3] In its population was .

The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank [illegal under international law](/source/International_law_and_Israeli_settlements), but the Israeli government disputes this.[4]

## History

According to [ARIJ](/source/Applied_Research_Institute%E2%80%93Jerusalem), Israel confiscated 332 [dunams](/source/Dunam) of land from the nearby [Palestinian](/source/Palestinians) village of [Bruqin](/source/Bruqin) in order to construct Brukhin.[1]

Brukhin was founded in 1998 on non-private land claimed as state land by Israel as a trailer neighbourhood,[2] and developed by one of the founding members, Amishai Shav-Tal, in October 2000,[5] within the territory administered as part of its municipality by the [Shomron Regional Council](/source/Shomron_Regional_Council). The [Sasson Report](/source/Sasson_Report) established that the Brukhin outpost was an [unauthorized Israeli settlement](/source/Unauthorized_Israeli_settlement). The report also said that $785,000 was spent on Brukhin's infrastructure and public buildings.[5] Construction in the village was frozen in 2012 by an order from the Israeli High Court.[2] In 2012 the Israeli state provided the illegal outpost with official authorization.[6]

On May 15, 2025, a gunman opened fire on a car in Brukhin, killing a pregnant Israeli woman. Her child was delivered in an emergency caesarean section. Israeli authorities stated they were "deeply shocked by the horrific attack in [the northern West Bank] against a pregnant woman and her husband, while they were making their way to the delivery room", while [Hamas](/source/Hamas) praised the attack as a "heroic" response to Israel's "escalating crimes and ongoing aggression against our people in Gaza and the occupied West Bank".[7]

## Popular culture

In July 2015 a ["come and join" video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzfIuJkYl_Y) was released on YouTube featuring a song sung by the families of Brukhin.[citation needed]

## See also

- [Bruqin](/source/Bruqin)

## Footnotes

1. [Bruqin Town Profile](http://vprofile.arij.org/salfit/pdfs/vprofile/Bruqin_tp_en.pdf), ARIJ, 2013, p. 17

1. [Gideon Levy](/source/Gideon_Levy), [Outposts 2012: Coming to a Judea and Samaria hill near you](https://web.archive.org/web/20120426162127/http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/israel-independence-day-2012/outposts-2012-coming-to-a-west-bank-hill-near-you-1.426321), at [Haaretz](/source/Haaretz), 24 April 2012.

1. Jodi Rudoren, [Jeremy Ashkenas](/source/Jeremy_Ashkenas),['Netanyahu and the Settlements,'](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/12/world/middleeast/netanyahu-west-bank-settlements-israel-election.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0) *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)* 12 March 2015.

1. ["The Geneva Convention"](https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1682640.stm). BBC News. 10 December 2009. Retrieved 27 September 2011.

1. [Washington Times](http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/feb/27/20070227-100433-9324r/) 27 February 2008 *Unauthorized but aided by Israel* page 1

1. [Amira Hass](/source/Amira_Hass), ['Israel building farm on Arab land,'](https://www.haaretz.com/2014-06-06/ty-article/.premium/israel-building-farm-on-palestinian-land/0000017f-e5f6-dc7e-adff-f5ff2c870000) [Haaretz](/source/Haaretz), 6 June 2014.

1. ["Pregnant Israeli woman killed in West Bank shooting attack"](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgq89yd7p7o). *BBC News*. 2025-05-15. Retrieved 2025-06-06.

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