Settlers Attack A Palestinian Man In Hebron
Sunday April 28, 2013, a number of extremist Israeli settlers violently attacked a Palestinian man, 60, in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Israeli Soldiers…
Israel Delays Eviction Of Illegal Outpost
Sunday April 28, 2013, the Israeli High Court accepted an appeal filed by the Israeli government regarding delaying the eviction of an illegal settlement outpost near the central West Bank…
Settlers Burn Greek Orthodox Church Land In Jerusalem
Sunday evening April 28, 2013, a group of extremist Israeli settlers burnt a land that belongs to the Greek Orthodox Church in Wadi Hilweh, in Silwan town, in occupied East…
Settlers Burn Cars, Home, Trees In Jerusalem
A group of extremist settlers torched, late on Saturday at night April 27, nine cars that belong to the United Nations in its headquarters in Jabal Al-Mokabbir, south of occupied…
Israel Uproots Trees To Prepare For New Settlement In Bethlehem
Thursday April 25, 2013, Israeli bulldozers uprooted dozens of trees on a hill close to the Jabal Abu Ghneim (Har Homa) illegal settlement, east of the West Bank city of…
Soldiers Uproot 700 Olive Trees Near Jenin
Thursday April 25, 2013; Israeli soldiers uprooted more than 700 olive trees in Arraba area, close to the Dotan illegal Israeli settlement, near Arraba village, south of the northern West…
Police Arrests Two Israeli Teenage Settlers For Torching Palestinian Cars
The Israeli Police announced on Tuesday evening that it apprehended two Israeli teenage setters living in an illegal settlement outpost near Dir Jareer village, north east of the central West…
Settlers Burn 10 Cars Near Ramallah
Tuesday April 23, 2013, a number of armed extremist Israeli settlers invaded the Dir Jareer village, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and torched 10 Palestinian cars…
Israeli settlers attack a Monastry near Ramallah
Israeli settlers on Friday raised an Israeli flag over a monastery and chapel in a village near Ramallah after overtaking the building.Priest Aziz Raey said that Israeli settlers broke into…
PLO Calls For Prosecuting Settlers In International Courts
Monday April 8, 2013, the Media and Education Department at the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) called for conducting all needed arrangements to file lawsuits against Israeli settlers, and Israeli political…
Israeli settler attack lands 80-year old farmer in hospital
A Palestinian elderly farmer who was attacked by a group of settlers while working his lands near Tulkarem Friday remains in the hospital and will likely require surgery, according to…
Palestinians Mark Land Day
37 years have passed since Israel illegally decided to steal, and stole, thousands of Dunams of Palestinian lands, especially in the Galilee in 1976, and the Palestinians in historic Palestine…
Settlers Uproot Olive Saplings In Al-Khader
Friday March 29, 2013, Palestinian sources reported that a number of extremist Israeli settlers uprooted hundreds of olive saplings in the Al-Khader town, south of the West Bank city of…
Israel admits: Just 0.7% of West Bank allocated to Palestinians
In documents released on Thursday to the High Court of Justice, the Israeli government has admitted what Palestinians have been saying for decades: that the Israeli government has taken over…
Settlers begin enlarging settlement near Tulkarem
Dozens of settlers have started an enlargement process of Sal’in settlement near Tulkarem. Witnesses said that dozens of Israeli military vehicles have started to open new roads in the area.…
Israel To Build Settlement Units On Palestinian Lands In Bethlehem
The Israeli authorities in the occupied West Bank have issued a military order for the illegal confiscation of Palestinian lands in Khirbit Ed-Deer area, west of Nahhalin village, in the…
Settlers attack Palestinian cars in Nablus
Israeli Settlers on Saturday smashed the windows of several Palestinian cars in Nablus North of the West Bank. Settler-monitoring official in north of the West Bank Ghassan Daghlas, said that…
Israeli Settler Injured Neared Qalqilya
An Israeli settler was shot an injured Monday morning, at the entrance of Kadomim Settlmenet near Qalqilia. Israeli Red Star of David said that the settler’s injury is moderate. Police…
Settlers Seize Land Near Bethlehem
A group of Israeli settlers seized a land in al-Khader village south of Bethlehem. The coordinator of the local anti-wall committee, Ahmad Salah, said that settlers from Eleazar seized the…
Settlers Cut Dozens Of Olive Trees In Nablus
Tuesday evening March 13, 2013, a number of extremist Israeli settlers cut dozens of Palestinian olive trees near Qaryout village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.The settlers…
Israeli security officer brutally beats unarmed Palestinian shepherd
Israeli activists caught on film an attack by an Israeli settlement security guard on a Palestinian shepherd Monday, near the Palestinian village of Susya in the southern West Bank on…
Settlers Cut 60 Olive Trees Near Bethlehem
The Palestine News Network (PNN) has reported that a number of extremist Israeli settlers cut, on Tuesday morning, nearly 60 Palestinian olive trees that belong to a resident of Nahhalin…
Settlers Attack Three Children Near Jerusalem
Sunday March 3, 2013; a group of fundamentalist Israeli settlers assaulted thee Palestinian schoolchildren in Jaba’ village, north of occupied East Jerusalem. The three are brothers; this is the second…
Israeli officer shakes hand with settler who attacked Palestinians
On Saturday, masked Israeli settlers were caught on camera shaking hands with Israeli border guards stationed in the village of Umm al-Amad, south of Hebron, then proceeded to harass a…
Settlers Install New Outpost Near Nablus
On Friday at dawn, a group of armed extremist Israeli settlers installed a new illegal settlement outpost in Ras Hazem Mountain that belongs to the residents of Salem village, east…
Settlers Invade Qasra Village Near Nablus
Thursday February 21; a group of armed extremist Israeli settlers invaded, shortly after midnight, the village of Qarsa, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, broke into several…
Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinian Shepherds In Nablus, Hebron
Wednesday February 20; several extremist Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian shepherds in Burin village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and in Hebron, in the southern part of…
Israel Admits Using Private Palestinian Lands In Kibbutz Meirav
The so-called “Israel’s Lands Administration” acknowledged that privately-owned Palestinian lands in the West Bank’s Northern Plains have been used for the expansion of the Kibbutz Meirav, located within the Green…
Youth Injured After Being Rammed By Settler’s Vehicle In Bethlehem
Monday evening February 18; In another hit and run incident, a Palestinian youth was injured after being rammed by a settler’s vehicle in Wad Fookin, west of the West Bank…
Israeli settlers pump sewage into ancient Palestinian village
The Israeli settlement of Shafi Shamron, in the northern part of the West Bank, has routed its sewage pipes to dump directly into the historic village of Sabastiya, home to…
Israeli government gives convicted murderer 1.3 million for illegal takeover of Palestinian land
An Israeli settler who was released early from a life sentence for killing 3 Palestinians in 1983 has received compensation of 1.3 million NIS (around $250,000) from the Israeli Tax…
Abu Rudeina: “Settlements Are Main Obstacle To Peace”
Palestinian Presidency Spokesperson, Nabil Abu Rudeina, stated Monday that the Israeli government must change Israel’s policies regarding the peace process.He added that Israel’s settlement construction and expansion activities in the…
Airstrip Established In Illegal West Bank Settlement
Despite its illegality, the Israeli Army and the Aviation Department do not seem bothered by an illegal small airstrip established by a former Air Force pilot who lives in the…
Child Injured After Being Rammed By Settler’s Vehicle In Hebron
Monday February 11 – Palestinian medical sources in Hebron reported that a Palestinian child was injured after being rammed by a settler’s vehicle in the southern West Bank city of…
Israel To Build 90 Units In Bet El Settlement
The Israeli government decided to build additional 90 units in the Bet El illegal settlement, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, as part of a prior agreement…
Israel Said To Be Willing To Conduct Limited Settlement Freeze
Israeli sources reported that the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu is “weighing the possibility of a conditional, limited freeze” on settlement activities, as an act of goodwill towards the Palestinian…
Four Palestinians Injured In Traffic Accident With A Settler
Palestinian medical sources reported that four Palestinians have been injured, on Sunday evening, in a traffic accident with a settler south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.Coordinator of…
Soldiers Attack Nonviolent Protest Against Settlement Road in Beit Safafa
Sunday February 10; Israeli soldiers and policemen violently attacked a nonviolent protest against a settlement road being built on Palestinian lands in Beit Safafa town, in occupied Easy Jerusalem. Two…
British businessman promises to resign as chairman of Israeli settlement exporter
Jimmy Russo, the Company Chairman of EDOM, has told Corporate Watch that he plans to resign from his chairmanship and “actively seek to sell” his 20% shareholding in the Israeli…
Israel Approves 869 Units In West Bank Settlements
Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, approved on Friday the construction plans of a total of 869 units in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, the Palestine News Network (PNN)…
Netanyahu’s Office: “No Change On Settlements Policy”
The office of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stated Thursday that the new Israeli government, headed by Netanyahu, does not intend to change its policies regarding the construction and expansion…
Palestinian Shepherd Injured After Being Attacked By Settlers Near Nablus
Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian shepherd was attacked, on Wednesday afternoon, by a group of extremist Israeli settlers west of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.The Maan…
166 Homes In Eli Settlement Built On Private Palestinian Land
Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported Tuesday that the Civil Israeli Administration, operated by the Israeli Army in the occupied West Bank, said some 166 homes in the Eli settlement in the…
Settlers Install An Illegal Outpost Near Qalqilia
Head of the Jayyous village council, Ghassan Khreisha, stated that a number of extremist Israeli settlers installed a new illegal outpost near the Al-Yobik area, West of Jayyous, near the…
Settlers Uproot Olive Saplings In Al-Khader
Tuesday January 22, a number of armed extremist Israeli settlers invaded an orchard that belongs to a local resident of the Al-Khader city, near Bethlehem, and uprooted several olive saplings…
Settlers Cut 50 Olive Trees Near Bethlehem
A number of extremist Israeli settlers cut, Thursday, more than 50 olive trees that belong to a resident of Husan town, west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.Member of…
Peace Now: “Netanyahu’s Settlement Policies Undermine Realistic Peace Deal”
Israeli Peace Now movement issued a report about Israel’s illegal settlement construction and expansion activities in the occupied territories, and said that the policies of Netanyahu and his government undermine…
Several Farmers Injured After Being Attacked By Settlers Near Bethlehem
The Radio Bethlehem 2000 reported, Tuesday, that several Palestinian farmers, from Tequa’ village, east of Bethlehem, were injured after being attacked by a group of extremist settlers as they were…
Israel Publishes Plans For New Settlement Units in West Bank
The Israeli government published plans for the construction of additional 170 units, and 84 “guestroom”, for Jewish settlers in Rote m illegal settlement, in the Jordan valley, Hagit Ofran of…
Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinians Near Nablus
Dozens of extremist Israeli settlers attacked, Thursday, a number of Palestinians playing with snow in Orif village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. At least one resident…
Netanyahu Claims Settlements Do Not Threaten Peace
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, claimed that Israel’s construction and expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, mainly in and around occupied East Jerusalem, “do not pose any…
2012 Witnessed High Increase In Settlement Activities
The Israeli government approved in 2012 tenders for the construction of 2386 settlements in occupied Jerusalem, compared to 772 units approved in 2011 and 256 in 2010, Israeli human rights…
Likud Officials Call On Government To “Annex C Area” In West Bank
Israeli sources reported that two senior officials of the Likud Party of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, called on the government to “officially annex C area” of the occupied West…
Settlers Conduct Several Attacks In West Bank
Since the first hours of the new year, Israeli settlers carried out numerous attacks against Palestinian property and lands in different parts of the occupied West Bank, and wrote racist…
Army Fails To Evict Illegal Outpost Near Ramallah
Israeli soldiers tried to evict an illegal settlement outpost, erected by extremist Israeli settlers near the Bet EI illegal settlement, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah; the…
In Another Direct Message Against Peace; Israel Approves 942 Settlement Units
The so-called Israeli Committee for Construction and Planning in occupied Jerusalem approved, Monday, a new project for the construction of 942 units for Jewish settlers in the illegal Gilo settlement,…
Despite US criticism, Israel continues with plan to construct 6,000 new settlement units
The US State Department issued a statement this week that included a rare criticism of Israeli policy, calling the ongoing construction of settlements on Palestinian land a ‘pattern of provocative…
US, EU, Denounce Israel’s Settlement Plan
The United States and the European Union issued statements denouncing Israel’s new plan to build thousands of units in illegal Israeli settlements in and around occupied Jerusalem, and in a…
Knesset Head: “Jerusalem Not Part of Negotiations”
Head of the Israeli Knesset, Reuven Rivlin, of the Likud Party of Benjamin Netanyahu, stated that settlement construction in Jerusalem will continue, and claimed that Israel will never give-up control…
Settlers Attack Residents, Vehicles, Near Nablus
Palestinian medical sources reported Saturday that several injuries took place in Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, after extremist Israeli settlers, and soldiers attacked Palestinian homes and…
Colonizing Christmas: Facts on Israeli Occupation and Bethlehem
PLO Negotiations Affairs Department Issued Their Latest Fact Sheet entitled “Colonizing Christmas: Facts on Israeli Occupation and Bethlehem”.Bethlehem is a vivid example of the severe and appalling effects that Israeli…
Israel Starts Removing Mines Close To Border With Jordan, To Build Settlements
Israel has officially started the removal of landmines close to the border with Jordan to use the lands for illegal settlement construction in the area, especially in the Wadi Araba…
EU Countries Denounce Israeli E1 Plan
Foreign Ministers of the European Union issued a statement, after holding a meeting in Brussels Monday, denouncing the Israeli E1 illegal settlement project that will lead to the total isolation…
Canada Denounces Israeli Settlement Plan
Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, informed Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that his country cannot support Israel in its recent decision to build thousands of settlement units in the E1…
Israel Approves Advancement Of The E1 Settlement Project
The Israeli Civil Administration Office in the occupied West Bank has officially approved “the advancement” of the recent decision made by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu to build thousands units…
Settlers Cut, Uproot, 200 Olive Trees Near Bethlehem
Palestinian sources reported that a group of extremist settlers cut and uprooted approximately 200 olive trees in Palestinian orchards west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.The sources said that…
P.A To Head To Security Council To Counter Israel’s’ New Settlement Plan
The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, headed by president, Mahmoud Abbas, decided to head to the United Nations Security Council to ask it for a resolution ordering Israel to…
Israel Defies International Law by Approving More Settlement Projects in Occupied Jerusalem
In violation of international law, Israel is continuing its policy of settlement expansion in the West Bank in general, and occupied East Jerusalem in particular. The Office of the Israeli…
Israeli Ambassadors Summoned In Britain, Sweden, and France
Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported Monday that the governments in Britain, Sweden and France summoned the Israeli ambassadors in protest to the newly declared Israeli plan to construct settlement units in…
Israeli Security Services Oppose Government Decision To Build More Settlements
The Israeli Security Services expressed rejection of the new Israeli government decision to build additional 3000 units for Jewish settlers in occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank, and said that…
Europe “Concerned” Regarding Israel’s New Settlement Construction Plan
Israeli Army Radio reported, on Saturday evening, that several countries of the European Union strongly denounced the new Israeli decision to build 3000 units for Jewish settlers in the occupied…
Israel To Build 3000 Settlement Units In West Bank, Jerusalem
In a new direct violation of International Law and the Fourth Geneva Convention, to which Israel is a signatory and a repeated violator, the Israeli government decided to build 3000…
Jerusalem Municipality Delays Discussion Session To Change Arab Names Of Jerusalem Neighborhoods
Yesterday, the Jerusalem Municipality postponed a session to discuss the change of names and streets in the neighborhoods of Silwan and Swaneh, in accordance with the request of the settlers…
Racist graffiti, arson by Israeli settlers in Bethlehem
A group of right-wing Israeli settlers tried to set fire to a Palestinian home near Bethlehem Sunday night, and spraypainted racist graffiti on the home and nearby structures.The graffiti included…
Jerusalem: Ground Cracks in Wadi Helwe due to Israeli Excavations
The Information Center of Wadi Helwe in Silwan reported the presence of cracks on the ground and earth collapses in the main street of the Neighborhood of Wadi Helwe in…
Israel To Build 538 Units In Itamar Settlement
Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, approved last September a plan to construct additional 538 units in the Itamar illegal Israeli settlement, near the northern West…
Ashton: “New Israeli Settlements Bids, Regrettable”
European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, stated that the new Israeli decision to announce bids for new constructions meant at expanding two Israeli settlements…
Settlers Occupy Palestinian Residence In Jerusalem
The Maan Mix Satellite TV station broadcast a video documenting several Israeli soldiers breaking into a Palestinian residential building in occupied East Jerusalem, terrifying the family and forcing them to…
Settlers Uproot Palestinian Trees Near Hebron
A number of extremist Israeli settlers uprooted dozens of olive and prune trees that belong to a resident of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.Resident Rashed…
Palestinian Injured By Settlers Near Nablus
Palestinian medical sources in Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, reported that a resident was injured during clashes with Israeli soldiers who invaded the Orif village, south…
Army Demolishes Three Structures In Illegal Settlement, Clashes Reported
Israeli sources reported Thursday that Israeli settlers clashed with Israeli soldiers while demolishing three illegal structures built by the settlers near the Yitzhar illegal settlement, south of the northern West…
Falk Calls For Boycotting Companies Benefiting From Israeli Settlements
United Nations Special Rapporteur on humanitarian affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories, called for boycotting all firms that benefit from Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, and stated…
Israeli Settlers Attack Undercover Israeli Soldiers
The Israeli TV reported that a group of extremist Israeli settlers violently assaulted a number of undercover soldiers of the Israeli army thinking they were Palestinians. The incident took place…
Ahston Slams Israel’s Decision To Build 797 Units In Gilo Settlement
E.U. High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, denounced the recent Israeli decision to construct additional 797 units for Jewish settlers in the Gilo settlement, and stated…
Israel Approves 800 New Units In Gilo Settlement
The Israeli government of Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, granted Thursday its official approval for the construction of 800 units in the Gilo illegal settlement, south of occupied Jerusalem.Construction bids will…
Israel To “Legalize” Illegal Settlement Outposts
Israeli media sources reported that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, intends to submit a proposal for “legalizing” illegal Israeli settlement outpost, built on privately-owned Palestinian lands in the West Bank.Netanyahu…
Settlers Uproot Olive And Grape Trees In Al-Khader
Ahmad Salah, coordinator of the Popular Committee Against the Wall in Al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem, reported that a number of armed extremist settlers uprooted 20 olive trees and 15…
Settlers March In Sheikh Jarrah Neighborhood In Jerusalem
Dozens of extremist Israeli settlers marched, Tuesday, in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, in occupied East Jerusalem, and conducted provocative acts while chanting slogans against the Arabs and Palestinians.The Quds Media Center…
Settlers Seal Southern Entrance Of Al-Khader Village
Monday, Israeli sources reported that dozens of Israeli settlers closed the southern entrance of the Al-Khader village, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and blocked all Palestinian traffic.…
Settlers Burn Olive Trees Near Nablus
Palestinian media sources reported, Saturday, that a group of extremist Israeli settlers burnt Palestinian Olive trees that belong to residents of Qaryout village, near the northern West Bank city of…
Palestinian Injured As Settlers Attacked Farmers In Hebron
Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, reported that one resident was injured after a group of extremist Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian family…
Israeli Police Forms “Jewish Terror” Branch In The West Bank
Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that the government of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, decided to form a unit that has the sole responsibility of dealing with “Jewish Terrorism”, and that…
Child Moderately Injured After Being Rammed By Settler’s Vehicle
Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, reported Thursday that a Palestinian child suffered moderate injuries after being rammed by a settler’s vehicle near…
Caught On Tape: “Settlers Harvest Palestinian Olive Trees”
A number of Israeli settlers, including children, were caught on tape harvesting Palestinian olive trees in the Tal Romedia neighborhood, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron.The Youth Coalition…
Settlers Attack Burin village Near Nablus
Israeli settlers invaded, on Wednesday evening, the Burin village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and attacked several residents returning home from their olive orchards. Two youths…
Two Palestinians Injured After Being Attacked By Settlers Near Nablus
Palestinian medical sources reported that two Palestinians were injured, on Wednesday evening, after being attacked by several extremist Israeli settlers in Burin village, near the northern West Bank city of…
Settlers Uproot 300 Olive Trees Near Ramallah
Palestinian sources reported Wednesday that several extremist Israeli settlers uprooted around 300 olive trees that belong to residents of Al-Mogheer village, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.…
Settlers Cut Dozens Of Olive Trees Near Nablus
Local sources reported that a group of armed extremist settlers of the Aliyea illegal settlement cut dozens of Olive trees that belong to residents of Qaryout village, south of the…
Israel Rejects Settlers Claim Of Purchasing Hebron Home
The Israeli Civil Administration Office in the occupied West Bank decided not to grant a group of settlers a permit to purchase a Palestinian home near the Ibrahimi Mosque in…
Settlers Install New Illegal Outpost Near Nablus
A group of extremist Israeli settlers installed, Wednesday, a new illegal settlement outpost near Yanoun Palestinian village, south east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.Ghassan Daghlas, in charge…