Category: Israeli Settlement

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon decided to transfer the collaborators living in Al Daheena area, in the southern Gaza Strip, to the Tal Arad area in the Negev. The decision…

Israeli Defense Ministry Director, Amos Yaron, reported on Monday morning that the construction of the Israeli Separation Wall in the southern West Bank will be completed by the end of…

Chief of Egyptian intelligence, Omar Suleiman, is to arrive in Gaza on Monday for discussions with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and leaders of Palestinian factions over the Israeli withdrawal from the Rafah…

Israeli government approved on Sunday the Philadelphi deal for deploying Egyptian border guards across the Philadelphi Route in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The agreement will…

An Israeli source reported on Saturday that the Israeli government is expected to approve the deployment of Egyptian forces on the Philadelphi route along the Gaza-Egypt border near Rafah. After the…

Sufian Abu Zaida, Palestinian Minister of Detainees and Liberated Detainees, said that there are no current negotiations with the Israeli side regarding releasing Gaza detainees from Israeli prisons. Abu Zaida…

The Palestinian Authority delivered an urgent message to the Quartet objecting to the Israeli policies of settlement expansion in the West Bank, especially around Jerusalem. Dr. Saeb Erekat, head of…

Mohammad Deif, a prominent Hamas activist, also believed to be a master bomb-maker wanted by Israeli security forces for the last decade, appeared on a video tape Saturday saying that…

A Palestinian security source reported on Friday afternoon, that Israeli soldiers installed a military post north of Doughit settlement, in Beit Lahia, in the north part of the Gaza strip.…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said on Friday that the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza is only the beginning, and that it should be followed by further withdrawals from the settlements in…

Israeli newspaper Maariv reported on Friday that the number of settlers in the West Bank has increased by13 thousand over the last year, especially in religious settlements; total number of…

The Israeli government is weighing the possibility of evacuating its troops from the Philadilphi Route, on the Gaza Egypt borders, at the same time of evacuating its forces from the…

Two Palestinian residents were injured on Thursday afternoon, during a protest against the separation Wall in Al Ramadeen village, south of the West Bank city of Hebron. A local source…

Extremist Jewish groups started recently a media campaign calling for leveling Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem as a “compensation for evacuating the settlements in the Gaza Strip”. Al Aqsa Foundation…

Israeli defense officials reported, on Wednesday evening, that Israel proposed to create a dual crossing between Gaza and Egypt which is said to allow free exit from Gaza, but Israeli…

Israeli defense officials reported, on Wednesday evening, that Israel proposed to create a dual crossing between Gaza and Egypt which is said to allow free exit from Gaza, but Israeli…

Settlers escalated their attacks recently against local, international and Israeli journalists reporting on the evacuation of the settlements, in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Nasser Eshtiyya, a Palestinian…

The evacuation of 21 settlements in the Gaza Strip and four in the northern West Bank ended in six days only, not in two weeks as announced by the Israeli…

An Israeli source reported that Israel and Egypt arrived to an understanding which paves the way to sign the “Philadilphi Agreement” in order to deploy Egyptian troops along the Philadilphi…

Dr. Saeb Erekat, head of the Negotiations Department at the Palestinian Authority, said that Israel still insists to maintain its security control over the West Bank city of Jenin. Erekat…

An female Israeli soldier was stabbed by a female settler while trying to evacuate the remainder of settlers and protestors in the settlement of Sa-Nur in the northern West Bank,…

The Israeli Authorities informed the Palestinian Authority that it intends to close the agricultural gates of the Separation Wall in Qalqilia until further notice, which endangers the upcoming olive picking…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas phoned Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Monday expressing hope that the evacuation of settlers from the Gaza Strip and four northern West Bank settlements would…

Israeli Military Intelligence research chief Brigadier-General Yossi Kuperwasser, head of the Israeli Military Intelligence Research Department, said on Monday evening that the Palestinian Authority had foiled an attack against an Israeli target.…

A senior Palestinian source reported on Monday evening that Israel has dismantled nearly 70% of its military camps in the Gaza Strip and has only maintained temporary posts. The source stated…

Palestinian security forces started deploying in six locations at the entrances of the West Bank city of Jenin, which is a step carried out by the P.A to follow up…

The Israeli army and Police officers started on Monday the evacuation of settlement of Netzarim, the last of the 21 in Gaza Strip, Israeli sources said on Monday. Palestinians hope…

Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, said on Sunday afternoon that Israel will not carry out another disengagement plan. Sharon added that Israel will negotiate with the Palestinians on the Road…

Israeli army bulldozers began razing settler houses in two evacuated Gaza Strip settlements, Nissanit and Dugit, Israeli sources reported on Sunday. At least 30 houses have been razed so far…

The Gaza Strip is located on the Mediterranean Sea and borders Israel to the north and east and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula to the south. It is inhabited by 1.4 million…

Israeli Authorities decided, on Sunday, to grab more farmlands in Al Sawahra, Al Ezariyya, and Al Tour villages, east of Jerusalem. Khaled Al Azza, director of the Wall Resistance department…

The Israeli police arrested two Israeli youth on Sunday morning suspected of involvement in an attempt to blow up gas canisters in Rehovot on Friday. The two extremists were taken…

Israeli government, on Sunday, formally approved the evacuation of the last seven settlement enclaves slated for demolition under the unilateral disengagement plan, by 16-4 vote, Israeli sources reported. Similar to…

Palestinian jailed legislator, Husam Khader, head of the Committee for Defending Refugees Rights, said that the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip is an important step towards freedom. Lawyer Riyadh…

The Israeli army expects to complete the evacuation of all settlements in the Gaza Strip, and four West Bank settlements by the end of next week, a senior source at…

Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, Abu Mazin, addressed on Friday hundreds of residents who gathered at the Gaza airport, saying that it will be reopened as soon as its reconstruction is…

Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz, and Eren Shendar, the Israeli State Prosecutor, instructed the police to arrest any settler who return to the Gaza Strip, and charge any Gush Katif…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Friday that Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip is not a gift that Israel wanted to give to the Palestinians, but it is a…

A group of right wing protesters against Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza have escaped from a bus as they were being removed from a settlement, military sources say. The activists fled…

An Israeli police source reported on Friday that the police averted a disaster in Rehovot, south of Tel Aviv, after a pullout foe torched gas depot close to a residential…

Israeli soldiers imposed curfew over Al Mawassi area in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip; army claims that curfew was imposed over the Palestinian areas in…

Israeli soldiers handed several residents of Qaryout village, south east of the West Bank city of Nablus military orders informing them of annexing 1200 Dunams of farmlands in Al Hamra…

The Gaza settlement of Gadid, will be evacuated by sundown before Sabath starts, Israeli military sources said on Friday morning. According to an earlier figures report by the Israeli newspaper…

As the Israeli soldiers were attempting to clear settlers on roof of Kfar Darom settlement Synagogue, pullout foes started pouring burning chemicals on the soldiers who started to scream and…

Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, said that the evacuation process of Gaza settlers will be completed by Monday. The statements of Sharon came during a meeting with his ministerial committee…

After the 10-minute warning given to the protestor in Neveh Dekalim synagogue to leave, the unarmed soldiers entered into the building and started evacuating the protestors on Thursday afternoon, ending…

Israeli security forces forcedly evacuated 158 settlers and right-wing activists from 20 buildings in the Gaza Strip settlement of Kfar Darom known which is the most hardliner settlement in Gaza,…

An Israeli military source reported that settlers of Shirat Hayam settlement, in the Gaza strip, hurled stones at the Palestinian neighborhood of Al Mawassi. The settlers, mainly right-wing extremists, were…

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday that Israel will be expected to carry out further withdrawals that would ultimately lead to an independent Palestinian state, Israeli sources…

Israeli soldiers and security forced completed the evacuation of Ganei Tal settlement, in the Gush Katif settlement Bloc late on Wednesday night after the remaining two families agreed to leave.…

A woman set herself on fire at a roadblock inside Israel and has burns over 60 percent of her body, Israeli police said. Megan Adom ambulance evacuated her to a…

Israeli security forces who began forcibly evacuating the settlers of Neveh Dekalim, the largest settlement in the Gaza Strip, are facing a violent resistance on the part of the settlers…

An Israeli military source reported, on Wednesday morning, that settlers in Shirat Hayam settlement are collecting intelligence info on army movements expecting a possible close attack. The settlers are aware…

Israeli army said, its troops will evacuate all the settlers in the Gaza Strip and the four small northern West Bank settlements within 10 days. Recent reports said that more…

Thousands of Israeli soldiers started flooding into Naveh Dekalim settlement in the Gaza Strip after the midnight deadline for voluntary evacuation expired. The Army expects to complete the evacuation process…

Israeli army Major General Dan Harel, the Higher Commander of the Disengagement, said on Tuesday evening, that the army will start the “forced evacuation” of Neveh Dekalim and other settlement…

Senior Israeli disengagement official, Eival Giladi, said on Tuesday that about half of the settlers in the Gaza Strip, have left the Gaza strip of their own will. “Nearly 50…

As the implementation of the disengagement plan begun, a major question is raised among the Palestinians, regarding what would this step, which took Israel 38 years to take, lead to.…

Israeli Director of Military Intelligence, Major General Aharon Ze’evi, claimed on Tuesday that the Palestinian resistance may renew its attacks in April if the peace talks do not progress. The…

Abdul-Fattah Hamayel, in charge of the file of the Wanted and Deported Fighters in the Gaza Strip, stated that their file will be closed following the Israeli withdrawal from the…

An Israeli military source reported on Tuesday that soldiers arrested two soldiers trying to ransack home in Pe’at Sadeh settlement in the Gush Katif settlement Bloc. This marks the third…

Israeli soldiers arrested, on Tuesday morning, three leaders of the Yesha Council of settlements, among nearly 500 right-wing activists while trying to infiltrate into the Gush Katif settlements Bloc via…

An Israeli military source reported on Monday evening, that the evacuation of Kadim and Ghanim settlements, north of the West Bank, was completed. Most of the settlers of the two…

Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, addressed the Israelis on Monday at night and said that “Israel is leaving the Gaza Strip from “position of strength, not weakness” and vowed harsh…

A group of 100 extremist settlers gathered in the “Jewish Quarter” in Jerusalem on Monday evening in an attempt to attack al-Aqsa Mosque. An Israeli police source in Jerusalem said…

Palestinian National Security Advisor, Jebril Rajoub, said that the United States has pledged to continue the implementation of the Road Map Plan, and added that he hopes the Arab countries…

Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, addressed the Israeli settlers in the Gaza Strip telling them “Go in peace, and come to visit us as guests and tourists”. The statements of Abbas…

The Israeli government approved on Monday the evacuation of the Gush Katif settlement bloc in the southern Gaza Strip by 16-4 vote, Israeli sources reported on Monday. This is the…

Israeli TV, Channel 10, published a report on Sunday at night showing videos of soldiers poaching the evacuated settlers’ homes in Beat Sadeh settlement, in the southern part of the…

Israel intends to keep major settlement blocs under its control despite no matter what the agreement with the Palestinians over final status will be, Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told…

A group of Israeli right-wing anti-pullout protestors started a day-long rally opposite to the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s office in West Jerusalem, in the early hours of on Monday…

Palestinian Minister of Interior Nasser Yousef instructed the Palestinian security forces to act to find and release the French journalist kidnapped in the Gaza Strip Sunday night, Palestine News Network…

The Israeli army issued eviction notices to the settlers of the Nissanit settlement in the northern Gaza Strip, as the first step on the ground after sealing off the Strip…

Israeli sources reported that more than half of the Gaza Strip settlers have already left their houses in the settlement two days before the start of the disengagement plan. According…

A Palestinian security source in Gaza reported that the Palestinian security forces completed their deployment around the settlements in the Gaza Strip. General Jamal Kayed, head of the Palestinian Security…

As hundreds of settlers started to evacuate from the Gaza Strip on Sunday evening, thousands of Israeli police men closed the entrances of Gaza in a bid to bar pullout…

Five Israeli soldiers were injured when an Israeli tank crew opened fire at them responding to an attack claimed to be by a Palestinian group near the Kfar Darom settlement…

Tawfeeq abu Khousa, spokesman of the Palestinian Ministry of Interior said on Saturday at night that Israel will hand three settlements in the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority on…

The Israeli police reported on Saturday that it will start deploying the “sixth ring” of disengagement forces, and will install dozens of roadblocks in the south of the country in…

A Palestinian security source reported on Saturday afternoon that the P.A police and security started deploying in areas close to the settlements slated for evacuation under the Disengagement Plan. The…

Egyptian forces will be deployed on the border with the Gaza Strip starting next week as Israel starts implementing its withdrawal from the area, the Agence France-Presse reported on Friday..…

The United States State Department on Friday issued a security alert to Americans visiting Israel, warning them of violent protests by settlers and other pullout foes over the coming weeks. The…

A massive rally organized by the Palestinian Authority in the Gaza Strip on Friday gathered tens of thousands of Palestinians, including many fishermen from Gaza City’s fishing harbor. The rally,…

In a move that seen as provocative, some 25 armed settlers marched Friday through Palestinian villages in the West Bank in an attempt to reach the settlements of Sa-Nur and…

Al-Qassam brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) announced on Friday that its operatives will not disarm after the pullout from the Gaza Strip, intended to start…

Al-Qassam brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) announced on Friday that its operatives will not disarm after the pullout from the Gaza Strip, intended to start…

Nathmi Mhanna, head of the Border Crossing Department at the Palestinian Authority, said on Friday that the Rafah Border Crossing, which links the Gaza Strip with Egypt, will remain opened…

Expressing satisfaction with the huge number of right-wingers who gathered at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv to protest the disengagement plan on Thursday evening, leaders of the Yesha Council, the…

Dr. Mohammad al-Hindy, one of the political leaders of the Islamic Jihad, said on Thursday that the real battle with the occupation ends after Israel withdraws from all of the…

Settlers’ leaders are planning a massive protest rally in Tel Aviv on Thursday night, in their last bid to disrupt the pullout slated to start August 15. The Yesha Council…

Israeli police and army admitted on Wednesday that they failed to bar thousands of right-wing pullout protestors from entering the Gaza Strip; the number of pullout opponents who managed to…

In bid to coordinate security activities prior to and during the Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip and the four minor northern West Bank settlements, a joint Palestinian-Israeli operations room…

Israeli President Moshe Katsav apologized on behalf of the State of Israel to the settlers for asking them to leave the settlements. He made the comments in a special address broadcast live…

An Israeli paratrooper refused on Wednesday to carry out an order related to the disengagement plan, an Israeli military source reported. The soldier is the first paratrooper to refuse to…

An erstimated 40,000 to 50.000 pullout opponents conducted an anti-disengagement protest at the “Western Wall plaza” in Jerusalem on Wednesday evening, according to Israeli sources. Additional protestors had planned to join the…

The Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip and the four West Bank settlements is not an end to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian land; an Arab senior diplomat was…

Former Israeli Minister of Finance Benjamin Netanyahu would win over Prime Minister Ariel Sharon by a margin of 47 to 32 percent if primary elections for the Likud party leadership…

The Israeli army is tightening the closure it has imposed on the Gaza Strip in preparation for implementation of the withdrawal of settlers from the area, a Palestinian security source reported…

Israel and the Palestinian Authority agreed on Tuesday on details of a plan to destroy the homes in Gaza Strip settlements slated for evacuation under the Israeli pullout plan. Under…

Israeli and international leftist peace activists accused the Israeli army of using demonstrations against the Separation Wall in the West Bank village of Bil’in as a “test field” for its…