Settlement Security Officer Torches Palestinian Olive Trees
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 Settlers Write Slogans Call For Mosque Demolition In Nablus
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…
Israeli Police Close Roads In East Jerusalem Neighborhood After Renewed Clashes
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…
Settlers attacks reported in a number of West Bank lcoations
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…
Talks Continue While Settlers Celebrate “Freeze End”
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…
Settlement Activities Did Not Stop During Settlement Freeze, Research Center Says
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…
Israeli Settlers Uproot Grape Vines Near Hebron
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…
Israel To Build 2500 Units in West Bank Settlement
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…
Settlers Occupy Palestinian Farmlands Near Nablus
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.…
13,000 Housing Units Can Be Built Without Further Government Approval
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…
Settler Opens Fire at Palestinian Cars, Soldiers Arrest Civilians
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…
Barak: “Settlement Activities Likely To Continue by the End Of September”
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…
Settlers take over Palestinian land near Nablus
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…
Israeli Rabbis Defend Book’s Shocking Religious Defense of Killing Non-Jews
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…
Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinian Farmers Near Salfit
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…
53 Israeli Artists Boycott New Cultural Center In Ariel Settlement
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…
Israeli Education Ministry Approves New ‘whites-only’ Settlement School
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…
Settlers Torch Palestinian Farmlands Near Nablus
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…
Israeli government denies media report that they might return 90% of West Bank land
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…
Palestinian reclaims land from settlement
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…
Israeli Group Spotlights Sham Of Israeli Construction Freeze
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…
40 New Settlement Units Approved For East Jerusalem
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 Take Home In The Old City, East Jerusalem
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…
Six injured after Israeli military demolishes illegal settler home
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…
32 Units Approved In Pisgat Ze’ev
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,…
P.A Calls On the U.S To Stop Tax Breaks For Settlements
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,…
Settlements Control 42% of West Bank Lands
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…
Israel Readies To Construct 2700 Units For Settlers In the West Bank
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”…
Israeli Government Releases Blueprint For East Jerusalem ‘Master Plan’ Including Expulsion Of Arabs
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’…
Settlers Attack Palestinian Village Near Hebron
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…
Jewish Businessmen Negotiating With Orthodox Patriarchate To Renew Jerusalem Land Leases
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…
Settlers Hurl Stones At Palestinians Near Qalqilia, Four Wounded
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…
Settler Torch Olive Orchard In Silwan
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…
New Settlement Neighborhood In Occupied East Jerusalem
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…
Israel Vows Accelerated Settlement Construction In East Jerusalem
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…
Settlers Torch Farmlands In Qalqilia
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…
Settler Groups Modify 14 Units To Be Inhibited By settlers in East Jerusalem
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…
Netanyahu To “Legalize” Illegal Outposts
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…
Settlers Clash With Israeli Police At A Northern West Bank Settlement
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…
Katz: “Settlement Construction Will Resume In September”
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…
Settler Leaders Demand Withholding P.A Money For Boycotting Settlement Products
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…
Israeli settlers release wild pigs on Palestinian farmland in Salfit
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…
Under Police Protection; Settlers Occupy Home In Beit Safafa
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…
Settlers Uproot 30 Olive Trees Near Qalqilia
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…
Mother Suffocates After Inhaling Gas Fired By The Army At Vehicle Loaded With Children
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…
Jerusalem Post: “Israel Has No Intention To Dismantle Illegal Outposts”
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…
Ariel settlement dumps sewage on Palestinian town
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…
Hundreds Of New Settler Homes In Jerusalem
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…
Settlers – Outpost To Be Authorized As A New Settlement Near Bethlehem
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…
Settlers Attack Israeli soldiers, Wound One
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…
Beit Sahour: A Microcosm Of Israeli Colonization
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…
Settlers Install An Illegal Outpost On Palestinian Land In Hebron
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…
Settlers Torch Two Vehicles, Right Graffiti On Mosque’s Wall
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…
Settlers Uproot 15 Olive Trees near Dir Estia
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…
Settlers Attack, Wound, Two Youths In Hebron
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…
Settlers Aim To Evict Two More Palestinian Families in Sheikh Jarrah
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…
Settlers Attack Resident, Throw Acid At Him
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…
Right-wing Israelis, including legislators, occupy Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron for ‘celebration’
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…
Israeli Settlers Try To Take Over Land Slated For New Palestinian Town
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…
U.S. Might Abstain During UN Vote On Jerusalem Settlement Construction
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…
Settlement Food Company Market Its Food In Europe Using Fake Address
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…
Jerusalem Municipality Approves More Units For Jewish Settlers
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 Approves Two Bids To Build 426 Units For Settlers
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…
Israeli settlers tear up olive grove, uprooting 40 trees near Nablus
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…
Israeli Police Approves A Protest For Fundamentalist Settlers in East Jerusalem
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…
Settlers Torch Olive Orchard In Hebron
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…
50000 Units For Settlers in Jerusalem Currently In The Planning Stage
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.…
Ban Ki-moon Condemns Israeli New Settlers’ Houses In 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…
Biden: “New Constructions in Jerusalem Undermine Peace Talks”
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…
Amidst US Officials visit; Netanyahu’s Government Allocates Millions For Settlements
“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…
Israel’s Government Approves More Settlers Homes In The West Bank
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…
Fundamentalist Settlers Praise Goldstein, Celebrate His Massacre
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…
Israel Plans To Takeover More Palestinian Owned Land In East Jerusalem
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…
Several Residents, Including Children, Wounded In Sheikh Jarrah
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…
Israel Releases New Plans to Build 550 Settler Homes in Jerusalem
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…
Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinian Cars & Drivers Near Nablus
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…
Palestinian Child Wounded By Settlers in Hebron
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…
Israeli Settler Security Guard Shoots Palestinian Teen in Northern West Bank
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…
Effort To Retroactively Approve Illegal Jerusalem Settlement Backed By Interior Minister
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,…
Settlers Occupy a Palestinian Mountain In Nablus
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…
More Homes For Settlers In Hebron
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…
Israel Plans To Reoccupy Evacuated Military Camp That Became Public Park
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…
Netanyahu: “We Will Never Evacuate Settlement Blocs’
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…
27,000 NIS Fine For East Jerusalem Woman
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…
Settlers Attack Beit Illu Village, Ramallah
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 Arrested In Connection To Arson of Mosque in Palestine
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…
Settlers Uproot 15 Olive Trees Near Ramallah
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…
Soldiers Get “Free Space In Settlements” For Military Service
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.…
Settlers Attack Nablus Village, Two Youth Wounded By Soldiers
Palestinian medical sources reported on Saturday evening that two Palestinian youths were wounded by Israeli military fire as soldiers attacked local residents defending themselves from fundamental settlers near Nablus. The…
Shiokhy: “Toxic Settlement Products Buried in West Bank”
Azmi Shiokhy, head of the Palestinian Consumer Protection Program in the West Bank, stated that several Israeli factories in are pumping and burying their toxins in several areas in the…
Settlers Desecrate Muslim Cemetery Near Nablus
A group of fundamentalist settlers vandalized and desecrated on Wednesday a Muslim cemetery near the northern West Bank city of Nablus. OSCAILTIMAGE(attachments/jan2010/hebron_cemetry.jpg 300 0) File – Muslim Cemetery Desecrated in…
Army Dismantles An Illegal Settlement Outpost
Israeli soldiers dismantled on Tuesday an illegal settlement outpost in the northern part of the West Bank. The army said that the outpost was installed by fundamentalist settlers in contradiction…
Nine Settlers, Including Three Teens, Arrested For Involvement in Salfit Mosque Attack
Israeli sources reported Monday that the Israeli Police and Internal Security Services detained on Sunday six teen yeshiva students and three adult settlers from the illegal West Bank settlement of…
Settlers Steal 25 Dunams Near Nablus
Israeli settlers stole on Thursday 25 Dunams (6.17 Acres) of Palestinian lands that belong to the residents of Dir Istia village, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.Local sources…
Israeli Government Grants Permission to Settlement Municipalities to Issue Construction Permits
Israeli sources are reporting that Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, has granted the local municipalities of the settlements to continue granting permits for construction, so that construction can be renewed…
Netanyahu: “Settlement Construction To Resume In Eight Months”
Israeli Prime Minister, head of the Likud Party, Benjamin Netanyahu, told his government coalition partners on Sunday that the so-called “temporary freeze on settlement activities” ends in eight months, and…
Israel To Build More Jewish-only Apartments In East J’lem
Four new residential buildings in East Jerusalem were approved by the Jerusalem planning and building committing on Monday, the Israeli daily Haaretz reports. The four buildings, which will house a…
Palestinian Medics, Firefighters, Rescue Settlers From Fire
Palestinian medics and firefighters rushed to an area near Tiqua’ village, in the Bethlehem District, to rescue a group of Jewish settlers after a mechanical error set their bus ablaze,…
Settlers Protest Settlement Freeze By “Smashing Ice”
The so-called Yesha Council of Settlements organized a protest for the settlers in front of the residence of Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and installed an ice structure before breaking…
Dexia Bank Refuses Grant For Jewish Settlements
The Belgian-French Group, Dexia, refused to finance grants meant for the construction of property in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. The decision came after a Palestinian and a…