Efrat settlement near Bethlehem to expand
The administration of Efrat, an illegal Israeli settlement near Bethlehem, decided to launch a construction project to build a new “neighborhood” which will be added to the settlement by annexing…
Israeli settlers attempt to confiscate a Palestinian-owned store in East Jerusalem
On Friday, a group of Israeli settlers attempted to confiscate a Palestinian-owned store in East Jerusalem. The Palestinian family who owned the store were surprised when a group of Israeli…
Settlers attacks international activists in Hebron
The Christian Peace Maker Teams (CPT) stationed in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, reported that two extremist Israeli settlers attacked on Wednesday two international observers who attempted to…
Houseless on a Hillside
The Christian Peacemaker Teams, a human rights action group based in the area telephoned the office of IMEMC (the International Middle East media Centre) in Beit Sahour near Bethlehem.“Three houses…
Israeli settlers start new settlement post near Bethlehem
Villagers of Al Khader, located south-west of Bethlehem city in the southern West Bank revealed on Tuesday that Israeli settlers have started to build a new settlement post on their…
Palestinian-Israeli conflict reaches Facebook website
Due to complaints from Israeli settlers over the selection of geographical location, the American based Facebook website will now allow a choice between stating one’s home in either Israel or…
Israel approves the construction of settlers homes in West Bank settlements
Mayor of Ariel settlement bloc, Ron Nahman, stated that the Israeli government decided to allow him to carry a project to build 48 houses for settlers in Ariel settlement bloc…
Israeli police attacks shepherds in Hebron
The Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, reported on Friday that Israeli Border Policemen attacked several Palestinian shepherds grazing their sheep and…
Fayyad meets his ministers, slams Israel’s decision to resume settlement construction
Palestinian Prime Minister, Dr. Salaam Fayyad, headed on Monday the weekly cabinet session in the West Bank city of Ramallah, and discussed Israel's recent decision to resume settlement construction and…
Paris slams ongoing settlement construction
France slammed on Monday the ongoing Israeli settlement construction in the occupied West Bank and considered settlement activities as obstacles that are limiting the ability to create a viable Palestinian…
An Israeli plan to build 400 new housing units in East Jerusalem
n Monday, the military Radio of Israel revealed a new plan to build 400 housing units in the illegal Israeli settlement of Naveh Yakov northeast of East Jerusalem The Israeli…
Palestinians concerned over expected Israeli settlement activities
Senior Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Eriqat, cast doubts on Sunday over Israel's intentions towards peace with the Palestinians. Eriqat's skepticism came after media reports said Israel plans on expanding Jewish settlements…
Israeli Settlers attack a Palestinian legislator near Nablus
Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian legislator Siham Thabit and her family on Friday. The attack occurred while Thabit, a Fatah legislator, was driving with her family and son's pregnant wife on…
Israeli government is licensing illegal settlement outposts
The Israeli Monitoring Committee, part of the Knesset Committees, held a meeting on Monday apparently in an attempt to grant licenses to illegal settlement outposts for the settlers in the…
Israeli activists attacked by Israeli settlers on Palestinian land
A group of Israeli peace workers were attacked Saturday near Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, as they escorted Palestinian shepherds to their grazing land. According to…
Twelve residents injured in a protest against land expropriation near Salfit
The National Resistance Committee reported on Friday that twelve residents were injured near the west Bank city of Salfit after the Israeli army attacked a peaceful protest against the ongoing…
94% of applications for construction permits are rejected by Israel
The Israeli Peace Now Movement released data on the Israeli policies regarding denying construction permits for Palestinians living in area C, which is under full Israeli Control, and revealed that…
Settlers escalate their attacks against Palestinian lands, property in Silwan
Over the past few days, Israeli settlers intensified their attacks against lands and properties of the residents of Silwan neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem. Since the beginning of this year,…
307 new Israeli housing units in an illegal settlement near East Jerusalem
An Israeli official source announced on Friday that the expansion of the illegal Israeli settlement of Har Houma near East Jerusalem reached a stage of submitting contracts to five construction…
Israel to halve personal settlers debts
Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported on Thursday that Israel decided to forgive NIS 350 Million in personal debts owed by 3500 settlers living in 140 settlements in the occupied West…
Israel continues to expand settlements in Jerusalem
The Israeli Housing Ministry declared on Tuesday that preparations are being carried out to build at least 1100 houses for settlers in east Jerusalem and its surrounding Arab areas.The Ministry…
Israel to build 1100 new housing units in Israeli settlements throughout East Jerusalem
The Israeli government announced on Tuesday that it has approved the construction of an additional 1,110 housing units in two settlements in the Jerusalem municipality. According to the government statement,…
Israeli Housing Minister: ‘We will not stop construction of Jerusalem settlements’
The Israeli Minister of Housing, Ze'ev Boim, told Israeli media outlets on Tuesday that the Israeli government will not freeze construction of settlements in the city of Jerusalem.He added that…
Khalid: “Israel approved the construction of 7000 settler home in Jerusalemâ€
Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), member of the Political Bureau of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), Taiseer Khalid, stated that…
Khalid: “Israel aprobó la construcción de 7000 casas de colonos en Jerusalénâ€
El miembro del Comité Ejecutivo de la Organización de Liberación de Palestina (OLP), miembro del Buró PolÃtico del Frente Democrático para la Liberación de Palestina (FDLP), Taiseer Khalid, manifestó que…
Settlers attempt to demolish a Palestinian house in Hebron
The Palestinian Popular (Folk) Committees reported on Monday that an extremist settlers group attempted to demolish a Palestinian house in Bani Neim village, near the southern West Bank city of…
DFLP calls for a national campaign to save the Plains areas continued annexation
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) called for launching a comprehensive national campaign in order to save the Palestinian Plaines areas, in the Jordan Valley, from the…
CPT press release on settlers attack against residents in Hebron
The Christian Peace Teams (CPT) stationed in the southern West Bank city of Hebron issues a press release on an attack carried by extremist settlers against Palestinian Shepherds in the…
7300 housing Units to be constructed in Israeli settlements located inside and around Jerusalem
The Israeli municipality controlling the occupied city of Jerusalem approved 7300 new housing units to be added to five Israeli settlements located inside and around the city of Jerusalem.The announcement…
Israeli settlers attack Palestinian women and children in Hebron; seven injured
In the latest Israeli settler attack to take place in the Palestinian city of Hebron, a group of armed settlers attacked and beat a group of women and children, and…
The Islamic-Christian Front slams Israeli construction of a new settlement in Jerusalem
Dr. Hasan Khatir, secretary-general of the Islamic-Christian Front for Defending Jerusalem and Holy Sites, warned on Wednesday of the ongoing Israeli plans and actions to increase settlements in Jerusalem and…
Israel plans to resume its settler-only road which will surround Jerusalem
Khalil Tafakji, an expert in maps and settlements, revealed that the Israeli Authorities revived a project which aims at establishing a settler-only road around Jerusalem, and will lead to the…
Israel expands a Jewish settlement in occupied Jerusalem
Palestinian media sources reported on Tuesday that this week the Israeli Authorities began the construction of more housing units in a settlement located in the eastern part of the occupied…
Eleven Palestinians injured, four abducted during Israeli settler attack in Hebron
On Saturday night, eleven Palestinians were injured by Israeli settlers, and four others were abducted by the Israeli army, during an attack by the settlers and soldiers in Wad al-Hasin…
Hebron settlers welcome Bush with new settlement outpost
A group of Israeli settlers living illegally in the Palestinian territory, the West Bank, attempted to establish a new colony in the area outside Hebron on Wednesday. They said the…
Palestinians implore U.S. actress Susan Sarandon to repudiate Leviev
Dear Ms. Sarandon, We felt sorrow when we learned that you accepted Lev Leviev's invitation to attend the opening night event for his new jewelry store in New York City…
Israeli settlement financier moves to bulletproof mansion in London
Lev Leviev, Israel's richest man, and a major funder of the illegal Israeli settlements scattered across Palestinian land, has bought himself a $70 million bulletproof mansion in the suburbs of…
Palestinian leadership calls on George Bush to pressure Israel on settlements
As the Israeli state continues to expand at a growing rate into occupied Palestinian territory in the West Bank, Palestinians have called on George Bush to be a voice of…
US President encourages Israel to remove a small number of the 300 existing W. Bank settlements
In the lead-up to his first ever visit to the Middle East as President of the U.S., George W. Bush stated Friday that he is encouraging Israel to take down…
Right-wing Israeli group calls for reoccupation of evacuated West Bank Settlements
Homesh First, a right-wing Israeli organization, has called for the reoccupation of West Bank settlements, evacuated under the terms of the disengagement plan, as a response to the ongoing shelling…
Water and Resistance
The view from the Palestinian village of Nahhalin, in the west Bethlehem area, is sobering. This small village—along with the villages of Husan, Battir, Wadi Fuqin, and Al Walaja—are becoming…
Soldiers attack information Minister during protest in Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers attacked on Sunday the Palestinian Information Minister, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, after his participation in a nonviolent protest against the bulldozing of olive orchards in Artas village, near Bethlehem.The…
Baraka: “Israel is eliminating the horizons of a peaceful solution”
Arab member of the Israeli Knesset, head of Democratic Front parliamentarian bloc, stated on Saturday that Israel is interested in destroying and eliminating the horizons of a permanent solution with…
Dr. Barghouthi warns of Israel’s illegal plan displace a Palestinian village
Palestinian Minister of Information, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, warned on Saturday of the Israeli plans to evacuate the Al Aqaba Palestinian village, and demolish houses, a mosque, kindergarten, a clinic and…
An elderly Palestinian woman dies after being plowed by a settler’s car
Hospital sources in the West Bank city of Qalqilia announced death of a Palestinian elderly woman, due to wounds she sustained in a car accident on Friday. Salam Hajjar, 62-year-old,…
Army to annex 80% of Al Aqaba village
Residents of Al Aqaba village, near the West Bank city of Tubas, are subjected to continuous Israeli annexations to their lands and parts of their village, especially after the Israeli…
Israel is planning to build 20 thousand houses for settlers around Jerusalem
Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz revealed plans of the Israeli government to build more than 20 thousand settler houses near Jerusalem in addition to 500 housing units near Abu Dis east…
International human rights workers attacked by Israeli settlers in Hebron
On Saturday morning, a group of human rights workers were attacked by three Israeli settlers in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank.…
Soldiers install fence around West Bank settlements, isolate Palestinian orchards
The Israeli army installed a fence around several settlements which were illegally constructed on Palestinian annexed lands that belongs to the residents of Dir Istia village, near the West Bank…
Last extremist settlers removed from dismantled illegal W.B settlement of Homesh
The Israeli army issued a statement on Wednesday saying that Israeli border police had removed the last right-wing Israeli settlers from the ruins of what used to be the illegal…
Palestinian child seriously injured by Israeli settler gunfire near Bethlehem
Palestinian medical sources at Al Ahli Hospital, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, reported on Wednesday evening that a Palestinian child from Tiqoua’ village, near Bethlehem, was seriously…
Israeli government decides to evacuate illegal settlement in Hebron
The Israeli government gave settlers, on Wednesday, 30 days to voluntarily leave a Palestinian building they occupied in the southern West Bank city of Hebron three weeks ago. Following which…
Peretz orders the evacuation of settlers who occupied a Palestinian house in Hebron
Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz ordered on Thursday that the settlers who occupied a Palestinian house in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, should be evacuated. However,…
Israeli army to allow hundreds of right-wing settlers to ‘visit’ dismantled settlement
Israeli media reported on Tuesday that Israeli forces have agreed to allow a right-wing settler remain at the site of the late illegal Homesh settlement in the northern West Bank,…
Thousands of right-wing settlers try to re-occupy dismantled illegal settlement in West Bank
Under the protection of the Israeli army, scores of Israeli settlers entered the area of the illegal settlement of Homesh, which was evacuated in 2005 during the Israeli disengagement plan…
Israeli Army, Police warn settlers against carrying out their plan of reoccupying evacuated outposts
The Israeli Army and Police force warned on Saturday West Bank settlers against carrying out their plans to reoccupy the evacuated illegal settlement outpost of Homesh in the occupied West…
Illegal West Bank settlers demand compensation for evacuating outpost
Settlers of Hersha, an illegal Israeli settlement outpost in the occupied West Bank, asked the Israeli High court of Justice to compensate them if they are evicted from the outpost.The…
200 Israeli Settlers Seize a Palestinian House in Hebron
Israeli sources reported on Monday night that some 200 armed Israeli settlers, seized Monday evening a Palestinian-owned house in the West Bank city of Hebron, claiming ownership. The settlers, all…
Israeli army annex farm lands to build a military post
The Israeli army issued two military orders to annex farm lands owned by residents of Halhul village south of Hebron city in the southern part of the West Bank on…
Peace Now: 32% of illegal Israeli settlements built on private Palestinian land
On Wednesday, the Israeli organization Peace Now issued a report sating that 32% of the land annexed for the construction of Israeli settlements and outposts is private Palestinian property.The report…
Sewer of Ariel settlement destroys natural sceneries in Salfit
Ariel settlement, one of the biggest settlement blocs in the occupied West Bank, dumps its sewer in the valleys of of Salfit district, in the northern part of the West…
Israel plans to build a settlement neighborhood near Qalanida checkpoint
The ‘Arabs48’ news website published an article based on a report by an Israeli newspaper on Wednesday morning, stating that the Israeli Government is preparing a plan to construct a…
One Israeli Settler found dead near Hebron
One Israeli illegal settler was found dead on Sunday evening near the southern West Bank city of Hebron. The Israeli police stated that the man was stabbed to death and…
Israel plans to construct 1500 settlement housing units on private Palestinian lands
Israeli sources reported on Saturday night after midnight that the so-called Supreme Planning Council for settlements in the occupied West Bank, authorized recently the construction of what was described as…
Israeli forces uproot trees to make way for Israeli Settler-only road
Israeli army bulldozers started on Saturday morning to uproot olive trees privately owned by a Palestinian farmer from the village of Boreen, south of Nablus. Qassem Al Najar, the owner…
Peretz: “We will evacuate all illegal outposts”
Aides to the Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, said on Thursday that he “plans to go all the way in evacuating illegal settlement outposts in the West Bank in full…
Settlers release boars in Palestinian farmlands
Palestinian sources in Salfit, in the northern part of the West Bank, reported on Thursday that Israeli settlers released boars in Palestinian farmlands near Salfit, in the northern part of…
Settler families evacuated from Gaza to receive 1.5 – 2 M each in compensation
Data collected by the Israeli Disengagement Authority (Sela) reported that an average of NIS 1.5-2 million New Israeli Shekels are expected to be paid as compensation to each family of…
B’Tselem: “number of settlers living in illegal outposts rises to 2000”
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B’Tselem) stated in its annual report on settlements that the number of settlers living in 102 illegal outposts in…
Palestinian farmers and Israeli supporters plant trees near Hebron
Palestinian villagers, side by side with Israeli supporters, have planted olive trees on lands that are set to by annexed by illegal Israeli settlers south of Hebron city in the…
Peace Now: Israeli Settlers in the Occupied West Bank Increased by %5 in 2006
Peace Now, an Israeli peace bloc, revealed Wednesday that the number of Israel settlers based in various Israeli settlements in the West Bank has increased by 5% in 2006 compared…
Israeli Settlers attempt to demolish Palestinian shops in Hebron
Palestinian sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, reported on Monday that settlers from the illegal settlement outposts installed in the center of the city, attempted…
Israeli Settlers occupy a Palestinian house in Hebron
Palestinian sources in Hebron city, in the southern part of the West Bank, reported on Thursday at night that a group of Israeli settlers occupied an old Palestinian house close…
Bethlehem suffering because of Israel’s land Confiscation Policy
Bethlehem and Jerusalem are the hardest hit this year by settlement expansion and land confiscation. Today in the south central West Bank Israeli forces said they will confiscate 17 dunams…
Military bulldozers destroy farm land in Hebron
On Tuesday Israeli army bulldozers started to destroy farmlands that are privately owned by Palestinian farmers from the village of Beit Omer near Hebron in the southern West Bank. The…
Israeli army relocates a military checkpoint near Nablus
Palestinian sources reported on Tuesday that the Israeli army has moved a military checkpoint from the entrance of Al Majdal village south east of Nablus city, in the northern part…
Israeli army destroy Palestinian Farm Land to make way for military post near Hebron
Israeli army bulldozers destroyed a large amount of private Palestinian owned land in the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Monday in order to make way for a military…
Settlers take Palestinian lands by force, plant trees on them
Dozens of farmers from the West Bank city of Hebron complained that Jewish settlers took their lands at gunpoint and started digging holes in the lands in preparation for planting…
Olmert approves shifting route of Wall to include settlements
Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, has approved shifting the route of the Annexation Wall at least five kilometers eastward from the Green Line in the area of Modi'in Ilit settlement.…
Construction continues in illegal settlement outposts that are slated for evacuation
The Israeli Peace Now movement reported that constructions in illegal settlement outposts on Palestinian-owned land in the occupied West Bank continued, as four out of six illegal outposts have expanded.…
Israeli settlers abduct a youth, beat and cut him with sharp tools
Palestinian sources reported on Wednesday at night that Israeli settlers abducted a youth from Hizma village, northeast of Jerusalem, severly punched and clubbed him and cut him with blades until…
Solana says he is shocked by settlement growth in occupied West Bank
Javier Solana, EU Foreign Policy Chief, toured several Arab towns near Jerusalem on Sunday and said that he is shocked by the Israeli settlement growth in the occupied West Bank.…
Hebron family: “Armed settlers walk right through our home”
“Did your home ever become a conduit, a bridge, a shortcut for strangers? This is what has happened in my home,” says Hisham Idris. He and his family of four…
For 6 years some Hebron residents forced to move via rooftop, now Israelis allowing them on street
Six years ago Israeli forces occupying the southern West Bank denied the Palestinians of Hebron the right to walk on Shuhada Street. The Society for Citizens Rights conducted investigations in…
Israeli Army violates Israeli High Court Ruling in Hebron
Israeli police and troops operating in the West Bank city of Hebron prevented on Thursday a Hebron peace activist accompanied by a number of Palestinian residents to walk down Al-Shuhada…
Palestine 2007: Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank
On this stage, not so long ago, I claimed that Israel is conducting genocidal policies in the Gaza Strip. I hesitated a lot before using this very charged term and…
The Israeli Municipality of Occupied East Jerusalem Constructs a Synagogue
The Israeli municipality of occupied East Jerusalem has completed the construction of a Synagogue on an Islamic WAQF land in the holy city, just 50 meters away from the Al-Aqsa…
150 dunams of Palestinian farmland bulldozed by Israeli troops near Hebron
According to local sources, Israeli troops escorted huge tractors that started bulldozing a road linking the settlement of Sossia to newly annexed Palestinian lands in Yatta village, east of Hebron…
The Israeli Wall will annex 19000 out of 22000 Dunams in Al Khader village
Al Khader, near Bethlehem, is facing a harsh future as a result of the construction of the Annexation Wall, as Israeli bulldozers continue to uproot the town’s farmlands to construct…
Settlement sewage polluting northern West Bank
Residents of Burqin in the northern West Bank report that their lands are being polluted by an Israeli settlement built on Salfit District lands. Farmers told PNN on Monday that…
Hamas: “We will not remain idle as Israel constructs a new settlement in the Jordan Valley”
Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, warned on Thursday that it cannot stand idle as Israel continues its settlement activities in the West Bank and Jerusalem, adding that the new approval of…
Despite Israeli assurances, illegal settlements continue to grow
In the month of December alone, 90 new Israeli trailers were placed on illegally-seized Palestinian land in the West Bank. The trailers are the first stage of expanding existing Israeli…
Israeli forces expanding Wall in West Bank’s Jordan Valley
Residents of the northern Jordan Valley in the West Bank are living in state of fear and anxiety as Israeli forces overtake more land. The Wall is being built on…
New Israeli settlement approved for Jews evacuated from Gaza last year
The Israeli government has approved the construction of a new Israeli settlement on Palestinian land in the West Bank to house Israeli settlers who moved out of settlements in the…
Jewish immigration into Israel on the rise
Today, about 40 British Jews will arrive in Israel, bringing the number of British Jewish émigrés this year up to 700, according to the Jewish Agency, a group responsible for…
Peretz approves Wall route around Maali Adumim
Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, approved the original route of the Annexation Wall that will surround Maali Adumim settlement by annexing more Palestinian lands and placing them inside the settlement’s…
Israeli Hight Court rejects appeal against Wall route north of Jerusalem
The Israeli High Court rejected on Wednesday an appeal filed by residents of Al Ram neighborhood, in Jerusalem, against the construction of the Annexation Wall around the norther Jerusalem neighborhood.…
Study: “Wall forced 17% of Jerusalem families out of the city”
The Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights (BADIL) conducted a study that revealed that 17% of the Palestinian families in Jerusalem were forced to relocate outside the borders…
Troops level two Palestinian homes in Jerusalem
Palestinian sources in Jerusalem reported on Tuesday that Israeli policemen and border-guard units leveled two Palestinian homes in Al Tour and Ras Al Amoud, in East Jerusalem. Israel claims that…
Al Nu’man Village; already surrounded by the Wall, the gate is now open to Israeli settlers
Northern Bethlehem's Al Nu'man Village is enveloped from all sides by the Wall and residents cannot come or go without passing through an Israeli controlled gate. On Sunday Israeli forces…