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On Wednesday morning, Israeli soldiers demolished four structures that had been illegally built by Jewish settlers in the Bat Ayin settlement. The illegal settlement is located near the Etzion settlement…
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netenyahu, is still wary of razing six West Bank outposts waiting for demolition since 2004, while the High Court deliberates the case against the state.On Tuesday,…
As Israeli settlers throughout the West Bank launch a construction blitz following a partial freeze, the Palestinian Authority has drafted a resolution to put to the United Nations Security Council…
Thousands of liters of raw sewage from the illegal Gush Etzion settlement flooded over 50 dunams of Palestinian farmland in the village of Beit Ommar last night. The sewage was…
During a TV Interview with Israel’s Channel 1, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stated that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told him that he cannot extend the freeze on settlement activities…
Arab League Secretary-General Amro Mousa slammed the new Israeli plan to construct more settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem.Mousa said that the Israeli plan is provocative and contradicts all efforts…
In spite of a statement by US officials on Friday, expressing disappointment in Israel’s decision to continue expanding settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem, construction on existing settlements and…
The Israeli Housing Ministry announced bids for the construction of 240 settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli paper, Yedioth Aharonoth, reported Friday that the bids are for units in…
Israeli settlers started, on Wednesday, expansion work in Elkana settlement at the expense of Palestinian lands that belong to villagers of Mas’ha village, west of the central West Bank city…
Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian and Israeli solidarity activists in the village of Susya, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, while the activists accompanied Palestinian farmers to their olive…
On Wednesday night, a group of Jewish settlers started construction for the expansion of Michola settlement, in the Jordan Valley near the central West Bank city of Tubas. The Palestine…
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said that he agrees to extending settlement construction freeze for a number of months, but in return he wants guarantees that it will not be…
A security guard working at the Itamar Jewish settlement, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, torched a number of olive trees that belong to resident of Awarta village,…
Israeli extremists settlers called, on thursday, for the demolition of a mosque in the West Bank village of Burin, near Nablus.An Nablus government source stated that settlers posted stickers on…
In the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem, on Tuesday, Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinian neighborhood residents, provoking a scuffle between Palestinians and Israeli settlers, according to local sources.Israeli police moved into…
Israeli settlers attacked on Tuesday morning some areas in the village of Qaryut south of Nablus and broke into some houses, local sources reported.Residents of the nearby Sara village told…
As the so-called temporary freeze on settlement activities in the occupied West Bank had officially ended. Talks between the United States, Israel and the Palestinian Authority are ongoing in an…
The Land and Research Center reported that Israel was ongoing with its settlement activities during the co-called temporary settlement freeze that officially expired by midnight Sunday. The Center said that…
A number of Israeli settlers uprooted grape vines that belong to a Palestinian farmer from Al-Bak’aa area near Hebron, Monday morning.The Palestine News Agency (WAFA) reported that the Israeli authorities…
The Israeli Radio reported Thursday that Israel intends to construct 25000 units in Modi’in Ilit settlements near the central West Bank city of Ramallah. The Radio said that direct after…
A group of armed fundamentalist Israeli settlers occupied on Monday morning Palestinian farmlands close to Doma village in the Nablus District and started bulldozing the lands and uprooting the trees.…
At the End of the Settlement Moratorium: Approx. 13,000 housing units can be built without further government approval – of which 2,000 for immediate construction Main findings as of September…
An Israeli settler opened fire, on Tuesday, at Palestinian cars driving near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.According to a Palestinian driver, Raafat, the settler created a road block…
Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, stated that Israel’s settlement activities in the occupied West Bank will likely continue after Israel’s “temporary freeze” on such activities ends by the end of…
Dozens of Israeli settlers accompanied by Israeli troops gathered on a peace of land near the village of Qaryut in the northern part of the West Bank Friday morning and…
When I went into the Jewish religious book emporium, Pomeranz, in central Jerusalem to inquire about the availability of a book called Torat Ha’Melech, or the King’s Torah, a commotion…
A group of Israeli settlers opened fire at a group of Palestinian farmers while working on their lands near the village of Deir Istiah, near Salfit In the northern West…
Dozens of prominent artists in the Israeli theatre community – including actors, playwrights and directors — have signed a pledge that they will not perform in a newly-constructed cultural center…
Several months ago, a religious school in the illegal Israeli settlement of Immanuel was criticized for segregating white Jewish students from non-white Jewish students in classes.Originally, the school was fined…
A group of extremist Israeli settlers torched, on Sunday, 20 Dunams (nearly 5 acres) of Palestinian farmlands south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.The settlers came from the…
Officials from the office of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu categorically rejected a media report that Israel planned to return up to 90% of stolen Palestinian land in the West…
A farmer with the help of the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committee reclaimed land which had been inside of an illegal Israeli settlement.Imad Ash-Shaer of Husan village had his lands annexed…
An Israeli NGO has documented widespread disregard for the construction freeze that was supposed to be enforced in the West Bank settlements.Peace Now, an Israeli group which focuses on illegal…
Israel, on Monday, approved construction of forty new settlement housing units in the Pisgat Ze’ev settlement in occupied East Jerusalem.Each of the four buildings will house ten new apartments, and…
Settlers, with the protection of police, invaded a building in the Old City.Early Thursday morning settlers and police stormed a building in the Old City of East Jerusalem and evicted…
Four settlers and two Palestinians were injured following the destruction of a home built during the settlement construction freeze.The Israeli military demolished two structures and a goat pen belonging to…
Less that one week after the meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli “Construction and Planning Committee” at the Jerusalem Municipality approved, Monday,…
The Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank called on the United States to stop its tax breaks and deductions to organizations that support Israel’s illegal settlements. Dr. Ghassan Khatib,…
Some half a million Israelis are now living over the Green Line: more than 300,000 in 121 settlements and about one hundred outposts, which control 42% of the land area…
Settlement Councils in the occupied West Bank are preparing plans for the construction of 2,700 units for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank directly after the claimed “settlement freeze”…
Expanding on the Jerusalem master plans of 2006 and 2008, the Jerusalem Planning Committee of the Israeli Ministry of the Interior has released the text of a new ‘master plan’…
Dozens of armed Jewish settlers of Bat Ayin Settlement, attacked Palestinian homes in the nearby village of Safa, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.The settlers hurled stones…
Israeli sources reported that a number of Jewish businessmen are holding talks with the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem, controlled and dominated by the Orthodox Patriarchate in Greece, with the…
Palestinian medical sources reported Friday evening that four Palestinians were mildly wounded after a group of settlers hurled stones at Palestinian vehicles east of Qalqilia, in the northern part of…
A group of fundamentalist Israeli settlers torched, Wednesday night, an 11-Dunam olive orchard in al-Rababa valley, in Silwan, south of the Old City of Jerusalem.The Maan news Agency reported that…
The Israeli government, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu of the Likud Party, approved the construction of 14 units in Maaleh David outpost, which is a new settlement neighborhood planned to be…
The Israeli government vowed on Monday that settlement construction and expansion in and around occupied East Jerusalem will be accelerated, but did not present a time frame.In an interview with…
A group of Jewish settlers torched on Monday evening farmlands the belong to residents of Jet village near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia. The settlers also attacked several…
Israeli Peace Now movement reported that several settler organizations started recently modification work in an old police station in Ras Al Amoud Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem, in order to…
Responding to a request from the Israeli High Court regarding two illegal settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli government stated that it intends to “legalize” Hersha and…
Around 100 Israeli settlers clashed with Israeli police forces on Thursday when officers tried to remove homes at the settlement of Hashmonaim, northern West Bank. Police forces managed to demolish…
Israeli Transportation Minister, Yisrael Katz, stated that a full pace of settlement construction and expansion in the occupied West Bank will resume directly after the temporary settlement freeze ends on…
Leaders of the settler movement in the occupied West Bank demanded the Israeli government to withhold all funds meant for the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank for boycotting settlement…
In a move that has become common practice among Israeli settlers, a herd of wild pigs that was captured inside Israel was recently released in the Salfit district, leading to…
Enjoying Israeli police protection, a group of fundamentalist settlers occupied a Palestinian home in Beit Safafa town, in East Jerusalem, and raised Israeli flags on top of it “to declare…
Israeli settlers uprooted on Friday at least 30 Olive trees that belong to residents of Kefir Qaddoum town, near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia. Local sources reported that…
Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, reported that Israeli soldiers fired a gas bomb at a Palestinian Taxi wounding a 23-year-old mother…
Israeli paper, Jerusalem Post, reported that Israel has no intention to dismantle any of the 23 illegal settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank in the foreseeable future. The paper…
According to the Palestinian Water Authority, the settlement of Ariel has been pumping its sewage directly into the nearby Palestinian village of Bruqin, creating a dangerous and unhealthy situation for…
The Islamic Christian Commission in Support of Jerusalem and Holy Sites announced on Monday Israel’s intentions to build 321 new settler homes in East Jerusalem. The new homes which will…
In 2001 the outpost of Derech Ha’avot was established on lands owned by Palestinian villagers from Al Khadir, near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem. On September 28, 2008…
Israeli sources reported that a group of settlers of the Yitzhar illegal settlement, attacked several soldiers and lightly wounded one soldiers on Thursday evening, and also hurled stones at military…
Recent construction in the Har Homa settlement in the occupied West Bank. Forced by Israeli construction in East Jerusalem, the US president delivers a ‘rare rebuke’ of an ally. Israeli…
A group of armed, extremist, Israeli settlers occupied on Monday a Palestinian agricultural land in Wadi Al Hasseen area, east of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and installed…
Israeli settlers invaded on Wednesday at dawn the village of Huwwara, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, torched two cars and wrote graffiti at the wall of a…
A group of extremist Jewish settlers uprooted on Thursday 15 Olive trees in Wadi Qana area, north east of Dir Estia, near the central West Bank district of Salfit.Head of…
Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, reported Wednesday that two youth were hospitalized after being attacked by fundamentalist Jewish settlers in the…
Israeli settlers are trying to have two more Palestinian families evicted from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, in occupied East Jerusalem, in order to allow the construction of Jewish-only…
Palestinian sources reported Sunday that a Palestinian resident from Tammoun town, near Tubas, suffered second degree burns after a group of fundamentalist settlers attacked him near Keryat Shomeneh settlement, and…
Several thousand right-wing settlers and their supporters poured into the Palestinian city of Hebron Thursday and declared the site of the Ibrahimi mosque to be a part of the land…
Early Wednesday morning, near the central West Bank town of Bir Zeit, a group of Israeli settlers attempted to take over buildings and land that has been designated by the…
The BBC reported on Sunday that the United States might abstain for a possible UN Security Council vote on Israel’s illegal construction of Jewish settlements in occupied East Jerusalem. The…
The Israeli Peace Bloc, Gush Shalom, reported that “Shamir Salads” an Israeli company in a West Bank Israeli settlement, is marketing its products in Europe using a fake address claiming…
The Jerusalem Municipality approved the construction of 20 more units for Jewish settlers in an area near the Shepherd Hotel, in occupied East Jerusalem.The decision came just hours before s…
Israel’s TV, Channel 10, reported that Israel announced bids for the construction of 26 additional units for Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem, especially in Abu Ghneim, and east of the…
Local municipal officials in the Palestinian Authority reported Friday morning that overnight, a group of Israeli settlers had ambushed a Palestinian olive grove in the town of Qaryut, uprooting and…
The Israeli police approved a request filed by fundamentalist Jewish settlers who requested to be allowed to hold a protest in Silwan Arab town, in East Jerusalem. The protest is…
A group of fundamentalist Jewish settlers burnt on Thursday at night an olive orchard in Safa village, north west of Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank. Dozens…
The Ir Amim “City of Nations” Israeli peace group reported that the Jerusalem Municipality is currently looking into a plan to build 50.000 homes for Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem.…
The United Nation secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, condemned the latest Israeli decision to build 1,600 new settlers homes in East Jerusalem. Ban Ki-moon in his statement said that Israeli settlements…
U.S. Vice President, Joe Biden, stated that Israel’s Interior Ministry’s decision to build 1600 homes for Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem undermines the efforts to restart the Middle East peace…
“The Marker” Israeli newspaper reported Monday that the Israeli government, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu, decided to allocate dozens of millions of US Dollars for settlement activities in the occupied West…
The Israeli government approved 112 new housing units to be built in a settlement in southern West Bank. The Israeli environment minister told the army radio that the government approved…
Israeli Ynet News obtained a video showing fundamentalist Jewish settlers celebrating the memory of terrorist Dr. Baroch Goldstein, and praising his crime that targeted Muslim worshipers at the Ibrahimi mosque…
Israeli municipality workers and troops started, on Monday midday, preparation steps to takeover a land owned by a {Palestinian man in East Jerusalem. OSCAILTIMAGE(attachments/mar2010/stopethniccleansing.jpg 300 0) Photo by Active Stills…
Palestinian medical sources in Jerusalem reported on Wednesday at night that several Palestinian residents, including children and women, were wounded in Sheikh Jarrah.All those injured reported unprovoked attacks from Israeli…
Israeli settlers organization announced, Monday, a plan by the Israeli controlled Jerusalem Municipality to construct 550 new settlers homes in Jerusalem’s east city.According to Ahmed Lebn, a researcher specializing in…
Right-wing Israeli settlers threw stones at Palestinian cars near Nablus, breaking several windshields and wounding a Palestinian doctor on Sunday.According to local news sources, the incident took place on the…
A group of fundamentalist settlers attacked a Palestinian child in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, on Wednesday, causing concussion and bruises that required hospitalization.Local sources reported that the…
Local sources have reported that an 18-year old teenager from the Palestinian village of Iraq Burin, near Nablus, was shot by an Israeli security guard from the settlement of Har…
A seven-story building constructed by right-wing Israeli settlers on Palestinian land, in East Jerusalem in 2004, is moving toward receiving ‘retroactive approval,’ with the unexpected support of Israel’s Interior Minister,…
A group of right-wing, armed, Israeli settlers occupied a 500-Dunam Palestinian mountain south of Nablus city, in the northern part of the West Bank. The settlers intend to create a…
On Sunday Israeli Minister without portfolio, Benni Begin, placed the corner stone of ten new homes for Jewish settlers in the illegal settlement of Beit Hagai, south of Hebron in…
Israeli sources reported, Sunday, that the head of the Etzion Brigades of the Israeli army informed the Committee for a Jewish Shdemah that they intend to reoccupy the military camp…
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, toured on Friday a number of settlements in the occupied West Bank, and reaffirmed the stance of his government regarding retaining West Bank settlements, especially…
Fatima al-Dahoudy, a home-owner and resident of East Jerusalem, was fined 20,000 NIS after objecting to a court ruling allowing settlers to live in her home. An additional fine of…
Dozens of armed fundamentalist settlers invaded the village of Beit Illu, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, on Tuesday evening. Local sources reported that armed settlers ransacked…
Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, head of the Od Yusef Chai Yeshiva, was detained and interrogated by the Israeli police, on Tuesday, in connection with the arson of a mosque in the…
A group of fundamentalist settlers uprooted fifteen olive trees, on Sunday evening, that belong to a resident of the Dir Nitham village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah.The…
Israeli Paper, Yedioth Aharonoth, reported Monday that the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, approved a deal that grants former soldiers free pieces of land in the occupied Negev and Galilee.…