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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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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 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…
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…
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 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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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, 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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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.…
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.…
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…
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.…
“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…
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 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…
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 has completed the construction of a Synagogue on an Islamic WAQF land in the holy city, just 50 meters away from the Al-Aqsa…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
Israeli military bulldozers started on Tuesday to construct a section of the Annexation Wall near Artas village, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem. The army uprooted dozens of…
An expanded panel of the Israeli High Court of Justice, headed by Justice Aharon Barak, rejected on Sunday petitions against the route of the Annexation Wall near the village of…
Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported that the Israeli government's Disengagement Administration (Sela) has paid millions of shekels in compensation to dozens of settlers families who were evacuated from illegal settlement…
This Friday in Bil'in, some 250 Palestinians and 50 Israeli and international peace activists carried the weekly protest against the Israeli annexation Wall in Bil'in village, near the West Bank…
The Israeli Peace Now movement held a press conference in Jerusalem on Tuesday and said that it found in a new study on settlements that approximately 40% of the settlements…
Palestinians may not ride in cars with Israeli license plates, according to a new rule announced today by Israeli authorities. Palestinians are already barred from driving on 40% of the…
Palestinians may not ride in cars with Israeli license plates, according to a new rule announced today by Israeli authorities. Palestinians are already barred from driving on 40% of the…
Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Right Center (Musaada) demanded the Legal Counselor of the Israeli so-called Civil Administration Office in the occupied West Bank, to cancel a decision that aims…
Some 300 Palestinians and 100 Israeli and international peace activists marched on Friday against the Israeli Annexation Wall in Bil'in village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. The procession…
In spite of the official Israeli statements of intension to evacuate illegal settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, settlers continued their illegal activities of expansion of settlement outposts north…
The town of Azzun 'Atma has come to represent the worst of the worst of the effects of the Israeli Wall in the West Bank. The small town is in…
A report prepared by the Israeli embassy in Russia revealed that the number of Russian Jews who left the country back to Russia arrived to 50.000, while three years ago…
Israeli Authorities plan to annex Palestinians lands in Anata town, north of Jerusalem, for the construction of the Annexation Wall and for “military purposes”. The decision (T -06/84) states that…
Israeli police detained about 30 gay pride activists in Jerusalem Friday for secretly planning a parade in violation of an earlier decision agreed upon by police and parade organizers to…
Israeli army officers closed the old city area of Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque to Palestinian worshipers whose ages are less than 45 on Friday. There is a strong presence…
Palestinians inside the Green Line are holding a nonviolent sit-in throughout Tuesday in protest of the Israeli decision to build a Jewish museum on the ruins of an Islamic cemetery,…
When Israel launched its demographic war against Palestinians in 1947, it was carried out through military tactics that were difficult to conceal from the international community. The unresolved result of…
An extremist settlers group of Shvut Rachel settlement, in the northern part of the West Bank, attacked on Thursday several Palestinian residents while picking their olive orchards in the area.…
Spokeswoman of the Peace Now movement in Israel, Hagit Ofran, described the Israeli government as idiotic, and slammed the continuous killings and offensive against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.…
Hundreds of Palestinian residents of Bil'in village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, and dozens of Israeli and international peace activists held their weekly protest in Bil'in Friday, pleading…
The Palestine News Network reported that Israeli soldiers stationed near Har Homa settlement (Abu Ghneim) fired at several residents of Beit Sahour town, near Bethlehem, while trying to pick their…
European Union' Foreign Policy Chief, Javier Solana, told the Israeli Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, on Thursday that Israel must evacuate all illegal settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank and…
Israeli military sources reported on Wednesday that Israel Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, does not intend to evacuate illegal settlement outposts, in the occupied West Bank, in the near future, but…
Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported that the Israeli “Defense Establishment”, conducted a two year investigation that revealed that there has been rampant illegal constructions in dozens of settlements in the…
A survey conducted by the Israeli Peace Now movement revealed that 75 illegal settlement outposts in the West Bank are installed on private Palestinian lands that the settlers controlled by…
Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, said that he is considering granting legal status to some illegal settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, in exchange for which the Yesha Council…
The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported that settlers of the Susia illegal settlement outpost, east of Yatta town in Hebron district, annexed 150 Dunams of farmlands, plowed them and planted…
Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron constructed an illegal settlement outpost east of Yatta village, south of the city. The illegal construction is located south of…
The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported that settlers of Sal'it and Michola, in the Northern Plains area of the Occupied West Bank, brought bulldozers and construction machines apparently in an…
Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz will meet with settlement leaders Monday to discuss plans to leave settlements in the West Bank voluntarily. Senior officials in the Israeli army are to…
Israeli troops started expanding a military base, today, in the city of Hebron, in the south of the West Bank at the expense of farmers' land. According to local…
Residents of Azoun 'Atma live behind the Wall in southern Qalqilia. The village became entirely isolated from the rest of the northwestern West Bank district when the Wall was imposed,…
At this time last year, many people in this settlement started eyeing their future with increased doubt. Some 8,000 Jewish settlers had just been forcibly removed from Gaza, and people…
As on every Friday for the last 20 months, the villagers of Bil’in, supported by international and Israeli activists, marched from the village mosque after prayers to the Israeli annexation…
The Israeli Peace Now organization reported that building in illegal settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank was stepped up during the recent Israeli war with Lebanon. The movement…
The village has recently added a second floor to the health clinic. Because the village is situated in what Israel refers to as Area C (complete Israeli control), the Palestinians…
Several hundred locals, Israelis, Palestinians and internationals, demonstrated against the Apartheid Wall Friday in the village of Bil’in, north of the West Bank city of Ramallah. According to Abdullah Abu…
Israeli vice premier, Shimon Peres, said during a press conference in Ritz Hotel in London on Thursday morning that he supports settlement construction and expansion in the occupied West Bank…
Today, on my way to Jordan and my flight home, I did something no Palestinian from the West Bank can do. I woke up in Ramallah (in the West Bank),…
Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, decided to open the Rafah Border Crossing between Gaza and Egypt for two days to allow Palestinian residents to cross into and from Egypt. …
The Israeli government is ongoing with its expansion plans in the occupied West Bank; on Thursday, it issued tender bids to build 164 new homes for settlers in three settlements…