Hilltop Youth (Hebrew: נוער הגבעות‎, No'ar HaGva'ot) is a term commonly used to refer to hard-line, extremist[1] religious-nationalist youth who establish outposts without an Israeli legal basis in the West Bank.[2] The ideology of the hilltop youth includes: the Palestinians are "raping the Holy Land", and must be expelled.[3] According to Ami Pedahzur, their work in establishing illegal outposts was not simply the result of individual initiatives, this was "a myth cultivated by the Yesha Council",[4] and, in fact, forms part of a wider multi-faceted settler strategy.