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Israeli Ynet News reported Tuesday that four Israeli soldiers were wounded, one seriously, when a Palestinian Taxi crashed into an Israeli military vehicle that was parked near the Neve Daniel…
A non-violent protest against the illegal Israeli confiscation of Palestinian land in Yatta village was attacked by Israeli settlers on Saturday afternoon.The settlers threw rocks at the demonstrators, injuring two:…
The so-called Israeli Civil Administration Office, run under the Israeli Military in the occupied West Bank, is planning to pave a new road to be used by Jewish settlers, in…
A report prepared and published by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) accused the state of Israel of failing to prosecute Israeli soldiers and settlers who commit crimes against…
A number of armed extremist Israeli settlers illegally confiscated, on Thursday, six Dunams of privately-owned Palestinian lands, south of Al-Khader, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Ahmad Salah, Coordinator…
Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported Thursday that the Legal Counselor of the Israeli Government sent an official document to Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, asking him ensure the government closely monitors…
A group of armed extremist Israeli settlers of the Avraham Avino illegal Israeli settlement, invaded on Wednesday a Palestinian home in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and attacked…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday, a young Palestinian man close to the barbwire fence of an Israeli settlement in the northern part of the West Bank.The army claimed that the…
Three Palestinian farmers were injured, on Monday, after being attacked by a number of extremist Israeli settlers, in Aqraba village, south east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.…
In the village of Qusra, near Nablus in the northern West Bank, a group of armed Israeli settlers stormed the village on Saturday, injuring one Palestinian and sending people running…
The Israeli District Court in Jerusalem ruled, Thursday, that Al-Rajabi home in the southern West Bank city of Hebron is officially owned by the settlers, and ordered the Palestinian owner…
The right-wing led government of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been seeking the approval of the Israeli Supreme Court in order to expand more than 40 settlements build on…
The Palestine News & Info Agency (WAFA) reported Thursday that a number of extremist settlers occupied privately-owned Palestinian lands that belong to residents of the Al-Khader town, near the West…
A Palestinian child was seriously injured after being hit by a settlers’ vehicle as she was walking home from school in Tiqoua’ village, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem.Medical…
The Israeli military and its so-called, Civil Administration Office in the occupied West Bank, decided to confiscate 675 Dunams (166.79 Acres) of privately-owned Palestinian lands in the Nablus district, in…
In a special Interview with Israel’s leading paper, Haaretz, Norwegian Foreign Minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, stated that the International Community should reconsider the import of goods produced in Israeli settlements…
Israeli sources reported that despite the fact the some settlers of the Migron illegal outpost in the occupied West Bank have voluntarily left the outpost, dozens of teenage settlers clashes…
Dozens of extremist Israeli settlers hurled stones and empty, on Saturday evening, at Palestinian homes in Shu’faat neighborhood, in occupied East Jerusalem, one resident was injured.Israeli Police Spokeswoman for Arab…
Palestinian medical sources reported Tuesday that several extremist Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian home in Al-Lubban village, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and violently attacked the family…
Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, reported that a 65-year-old man was moderately injured after being attacked by a group of extremist Israeli…
Settlers residing in the illegal settlement outpost of Mirgon, built on privately-owned Palestinian lands near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, said that they will resist their eviction, and…
The South African Ministry of Trade and Industry has approved a move to place Occupied Palestinian Territory labels on imported goods from Jewish settlements. In a press briefing on Wednesday…
Israeli soldiers handed, Thursday, several residents of the Kufr Jamal village, south of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, military orders informing them that the army intends to confiscate…
A number of extremist Israeli settlers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the Awarta village, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and wrote racist graffiti on the walls…
A group of Israeli settlers planted, on Thursday morning, Palestinian land that they illegally took over three months ago, near Al-Khader town, in the Bethlehem district.Coordinator of the Popular Committee…
The Israeli High Court delayed deliberations in a case filed by Israel’s Peace Now Movement on behalf of a Palestinian family demanding Israel to remove Israeli settlers squatting in a…
An Israeli settler driving in Jaber Neighborhood, in the southern West Bank of Hebron, hit a Palestinian child then drove off in what appears to be a ramming attack, medical…
A number of extremist Israeli settlers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the village of Awarta, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and tried to torch two Palestinian cars…
A number of armed extremist Israeli settlers attacked, on Tuesday at dawn, a Palestinian home in Far’ata village, west of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and tried to…
Palestinian sources reported that Israeli soldiers smashed, Sunday, the windshield of a Palestinian car that was parked in the center of Hebron city, in the southern part of the West…
A number of Israeli settlers constructed a chicken farm on a privately-owned Palestinian land, in Khallit Ein Masour area, near Al-Khader city in the Bethlehem district.Ahmad Salah, member of the…
In its 2011 Country report, an annual report about global terrorist activities, the United States described the escalating attacks carried out by extremist Israeli settlers against the Palestinians as “terrorist…
Following around six hours of deliberation, the United Church of Canada (UCC), the largest Protestant denomination in the country, voted for boycotting products made in Israel’s settlements in the occupied…
Fearing international repercussions and criticism, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, decided to shelve a report prepared by former Supreme Court Judge, Edmond Levy, as the report calls for “legalizing” Israeli…
A group of extremist Israeli settlers used electric pumps to empty a Palestinian irrigation well and flooded Palestinian farmlands in as-Seer area, east of Sa’ir town, near the southern West…
A busload of Palestinians returning from Ramadan prayers in the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem late Friday night were attacked by a group of heavily armed settlers who threw rocks at…
Israeli occupation forces began the expansion of Daniel and Eliezer settlements south of Bethlehem on Wednesday.Ahmad Salah, Coordinator of the Popular Committee Against Settlements in al-Khader told WAFA News that…
Israeli forces closed a road near Bethlehem in preparation for the demolition of Palestinian property.The Israeli military frequently confiscates land in the West Bank near the illegal separation barrier. On…
Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz reported on Tuesday that the Israeli government spent NIS 1.1 billion on illegal settlements in the West Bank in 2011, an increase of 38 % over the…
Israel reports that the influx of settlers to the West Bank has increased by 4.5 % bringing the total number of illegal Israeli settlers to 350,143, according to the Population…
A number of Israeli settlers setup mobile houses in the village of al-Khader near the southern Palestinian city of Bethlehem.Ahmad Salah, coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall in…
Israeli settlers seized Palestinian land in several areas around the West Bank on Sunday and Monday according to WAFA news.On Sunday, near the village of Yatta south of Hebron, Israeli…
Israel’s defense ministry revealed plans yesterday to expand the illegal outpost of Givat Salit, near Tubas in the north part of the West Bank.There are more than 100 settlements in…
Following the findings of the Levy Committee, reported on Monday, that declared that Israel’s settler population and military control of the West Bank does not constitute an occupation, Haaretz have…
A government-appointed committee has put forward a proposal that would grant official status to all illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. There are currently more than 200 Israeli settlements…
Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian child from Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, was wounded after being rammed by a settler’s car in Susiya area,…
Three families in the village of Beit Hanina, north of Jerusalem, were evicted a second time by the Israeli military according to WAFA news. When Israeli authorities demolished their building,…
On Monday several teenage settlers attacked a Palestinian man near the illegal Eliezer settlement located close to the West Bank city of Bethlehem.Maan News Agency reported that five teenage settlers,…
Israeli settlers seize five dunums belonging to 67-year-old Ali Khader Issa from al-Khader village, south of Bethlehem in a continuation of illegal land grabs in the area.Ahmad Salah who is…
In a strongly worded resolution on Thursday, the EU parliament condemned Israeli settler violence and demanded ‘an immediate end to house demolitions, evictions and forced displacement of Palestinians.’In recent years…
The United Nations Human Rights Council said that it will investigate the implication of Israeli settlements on the rights of the Palestinian people in the occupied West Bank. Israel condemned…
A report published by UK-based Oxfam International reveals the fragility of Palestinian communities in the Jordan Valley to be the direct result of illegal Israeli settlements.On Thursday Oxfam International, a…
The residents of the Rotem settlement in the North Jordan Valley seized Palestinian land Wednesday as part of their continued illegal expansion.On Wednesday settlers from Rotem, an Israeli settlement in…
A group of extremist Israeli settlers uprooted, on Wednesday morning, 41 olive trees that belong to a resident of Tal village, west of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.Ghassan…
Israeli settlers wrecked numerous olive trees in a Nablus village, in the West Bank.On Tuesday Israeli settlers from the illegal outpost of Havat Gilad entered a privately owned Palestinian field…
Israeli settlers wrecked numerous olive trees in a Nablus village in the West Bank.On Tuesday Israeli settlers from the illegal outpost of Havat Gilad entered a privately owned Palestinian field…
The Israeli Regional Planning and Construction Committee in Jerusalem approved, on Monday, a plan to build a Military College near the Augusta Victoria Hospital in Mount Olive, in occupied East…
The Israeli Today (Israel Hayom) Newspaper claimed that it received information stating that more than 80% of the lands, where the illegal Migron settlement is built, were recently purchased from…
The Palestinian village of Susiya faces demolition orders for all of its 50 buildings after years of relative calm. The decision was contested with official and physical protests.On the June…
On Tuesday Israeli officials started removing the illegal Ulpana settlement outpost, built on privately-owned Palestinian lands, close to the Beit El settlement near the central West Bank city of Ramallah.…
The conservative Israeli government of Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, reached agreement with residents of the Ulpana illegal settlement, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, stating that Israel will…
Palestinian sources reported that the number of Palestinians living in East Jerusalem comparing to the number of Jewish-Israelis living in settlements in and around the occupied city is 10 to…
The so-called “Civil Administration” that runs under the Israeli Military in the occupied West Bank, handed military orders on Tuesday for the destruction of 52 structures and tents in the…
Eight cars belonging to Palestinians were flattened by settlers on Sunday night in Shuafat, Jerusalem. ‘Death to Arabs’ and ‘Ulpana’ were written on cars as retaliation for the failure of…
A number of extremist Israeli settlers of the Maon illegal settlement, cut on Sunday morning, several Palestinian olive trees, east of Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city…
Palestinians in the West Bank were attacked in various locations on Thursday morning by settlers.Settlers attacked Palestinian vehicles on Thursday morning in the south of Nablus and threw stones at…
Settlers of the Sosia settlement in east Yatta, North of Hebron, protected by the Israeli military, prevented Palestinian families from reaching their agricultural lands on Wednesday despite a court ruling…
The Israeli Knesset voted against the proposed ‘Regulation Bill’ on Wednesday. The bill would have retroactively legalized settlements in the West Bank. The bill was intended to avoid the implementation…
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stated Tuesday that he would fire any minister who votes for the so-called “regulation bill”, meant to legalize illegal settlement outposts in the West Bank,…
Monday June 4, 2012, The Flaming Eggplant Cafe a student-run cafe at The Evergreen State College in Olympia announced it will boycott Israeli products. A statement, released today, reads:Our Mission…
Recent news has made it clear that a major building boom in the Israeli settlement programme is underway in the area of the already huge Ariel settlement which points a…
Consultant to the legal unit established by the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) to follow up Israeli violations of Palestinians rights, Naela Attiyeh, reported that resident Najeh as-Safadi has been transferred…
Israel, the state that was established as an implementation of the Zionist ideology that looked at Palestine as a Land without People, for the People without a Land, established by…
On Wednesday, the Knesset will discuss “the Regulation Draft Law” that is meant to legalize the illegal settlement construction on private Palestinian land. I find it hard to believe that…
A number of fundamentalist Israeli settlers burnt, on Monday morning, Palestinian farmlands planed with wheat, east of Yatta city, near the southern West bank city of Hebron.Coordinator of the Popular…
The Maan News Agency reported Monday that Israeli settlers from the Kiryat Arba settlement posted, on Saturday at night, eviction leaflets in Palestinian communities near Hebron. Residents said that the…
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is weighing the possibility of moving settler homes, illegally built in Ulpana outpost, in the West bank, as a maneuver meant to avoid the implementation…
Israeli sources reported Saturday that a military investigation revealed that extremist teenage settlers from the Yitzhar settlement, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, attacked last Saturday, a wounded…
Palestinian medical sources reported Friday that a Palestinian farmer was injured when Israeli soldiers attacked several farmers, and fired concussion grenades at them, while working in their lands in ‘Roman…
The Jerusalem Municipality along with Israeli Ministry of Tourism are to jointly allocate 4 million NIS to fund the development of a new settlement project, according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz,…
Migros, one of Switzerland’s largest enterprises, has announced that it will start labeling all Israeli settlement products in 2013, following the example of various countries around the globe. Migros spokeswoman…
On Tuesday Israeli soldiers bulldozed more than 30 Dunams (7.4 Acres) of Palestinian farmlands in al-Baq’a area, east of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and confiscated irrigation systems…
A fire started by Israeli settlers on Tuesday in Qaffin, near Tulkarem in the West Bank was put out by the Palestinian Civil Defense. The fire fighters arrived at the…
The Jerusalem Municipality and the Israeli Ministry of Tourism will be allocating 4 million Israeli Shekels for a “sound and light” project, in what Israel calls the “City of David…
PNN has reported Israeli sources as announcing that a resident of the Palestinian village of Urif near Nablus had been seriously wounded during a confrontation with Israeli settlers. The Israeli…
Local sources in Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank reported Saturday that a group of armed Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers in their lands in a number…
With South Africa taking the lead in banning all products from the Occupied Territories labeled as Israeli products, and now the Republic of Ireland and Denmark to follow suit it…
Despite an Israeli High Court ruling that the Ulpana settlement neighborhood must be vacated and demolished because it is illegal, a Knesset bill that had been proposed to circumvent the…
Palestinian sources reported that on Wednesday evening dozens of Israeli settlers closed the main road near Tiqua’ town, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, blocking Palestinian traffic which…
Givat HaMatos or “Airplane Hill”, so named for the military plane shot down during the six day war in 1967, has major new settlement plans for 2,610 housing units and…
Calls for Israel to be held responsible by the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court for its settlement crimes on Palestinian land were voiced by Taysir Khalid, a…
Press Release By B’Tselem; On Saturday, 19.5.2012, around four thirty in the afternoon, a large group of settlers descended on the eastern outskirts of the village ‘Asira al-Qibliya, from the…
Palestinian medical sources reported that two Palestinian were injured during clashes with Israeli settlers who invaded, on Saturday evening, the eastern area of the Aseera Al-Qibliyya village, south of the…
Palestininan News Network, PNN, reported on Thursday that Israel has unveiled a project to expand the settlement of ‘Ariel’ in the northern West Bank in two phases at the expense…
A number of extremist Israeli settlers invaded, Thursday, Einabous village, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and torched a Palestinian car.Ghassan Douglas, a Palestinian official in charge of…
The Palestinian News Network has reported that the Finance Committee of the Knesset approved on Tuesday the allocation of NIS 44 million to support settlements in the West Bank, and…
Israeli sources reported that, last week, Israeli soldiers forced closure of a Palestinian elementary school in Khribit Jibna village, in the south Hebron hills, in the southern part of the…
A group of armed extremist Israeli settlers occupied privately-owned Palestinian farmland at gunpoint. The land belongs to a resident of Al-Khader city, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.Coordinator…
Damning new Israeli Police evidence surrounding the original decision to start building in Beit El’s Ulpana area poses serious problems for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party, who…
In their urgency to “resolve” a perceived problem with the Bedouin population, the Israeli government has proposed that 2,300 Bedouins be relocated from hill surrounding the Palestinian town of As…