Settlement Construction Continues in Kiryat Netafim
Israel has informed the High Court of Justice that it will continue construction in a West Bank settlement, despite promises of a settlement freeze for a period of 10 months.…
US, EU, Urge Israel and the P.A To Resume Talks
After voicing a shy call on Israeli to halt the construction of hundreds of new homes for Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem, the United States administration called on the Palestinians…
Israel To Build 700 Homes For Jewish Settlers
The Israeli settler-led government, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu of the Likud Party, decided to construct additional 700 homes for Jewish settlers in illegal settlements it considers part of the “Greater…
New Settlement constructions bids in Jerusalem
The Israeli Housing Ministry released hundreds of new bids to construct homes in Settlements around East Jerusalem. The Israeli Channel 10 reported that the Israeli government released three construction bids…
Settlers Open Fire At A Palestinian Woman In Hebron
Fundamentalist settlers of the Karmeil illegal settlement opened fire on Sunday at a Palestinian woman herding her sheep, south of Hebron in the southern part of the West Bank.Local sources…
Settler Killed In West Bank Shooting
An Israeli settler was shot and killed on Thursday evening near the Jewish settlement of Einav, near the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, Israeli sources reported.The army said that…
Israeli Soldiers, Officers, Leak Memo On Plan To Enforce Settlement Freeze
Israeli sources reported Sunday that a number of Israeli soldiers and officers, who live in West Bank settlements, leaked army plans to enforce the temporary freeze of settlement construction in…
Settlers, Palestinian Farmers Clash Near Hebron
A group of fundamentalist settlers clashed on Saturday with Palestinian farmers near the illegal settlement outpost of Mitzpe Asael, in the southern Hebron Hillls. Local sources reported that two Israeli…
Lieberman: “Large-scale Settlement Activities After Freeze Ends”
Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, stated Thursday that the government of Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will resume its settlement activities on a large scale directly after the 10-month freeze ends.…
UN Envoy: “Settlement Slowdown, Is Not Settlement Freeze”
United Nations Middle East Envoy, Robert Sery, informed the Security Council that Israel’s partial slowdown of settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories is only a slow down not a…
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Emphasizes “Right” Of Israelis To Live In Settlements
In a talk to the Zionist Organization of America on Sunday, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon told the crowd that Jews should be able to live anywhere in what…
Settler Wounded In Clashes With Palestinians Near Nablus
Palestinian sources reported on Wednesday morning that a fundamental Israeli settler was mildly wounded during clashes with local residents of Qaryut village, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.The…
Likud MK: “Settlement Construction to Continue Regardless of Freeze”
Israeli Minister of the Likud Party, Benny Begin, stated that constructions in Israeli settlements will resume regardless of the temporary settlement freeze decision, and added that the 10-month freeze of…
UK Urges Businesses TO Label Settlement Products
The British government issued a statement urging businesses around the country to place clear labels on products made in Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank so that consumers engaged…
Settlement Leaders To Fight Settlement Freeze
Leaders of Jewish settlement in the occupied territories said they will do all what they can to counter the Israeli Government’s decision to temporarily freeze settlement activities in the occupied…
Settlers stop state inspectors from handing out settlement activity freeze orders
Israeli settlers escalated their protest against the Israeli government decision two week ago to freeze construction in west Bank settlement. On Monday morning scores of Israeli settlers blocked a road…
Homemade video shows settler driving car back and forth over Palestinian assailant
When a Palestinian man from Hebron entered an Israeli settlement gas station with a knife, the Israeli settlers on the scene took things into their own hands. After beating the…
84 Structures To Be Built In West Bank Settlements
The Israeli cabinet decided on Wednesday evening to build 84 more homes in a number of illegal West Bank settlements. The decision came while Israel vowed a 10-month freeze of…
Barak: “Settlements Part Of The State Of Israel”
Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, stated during a Wednesday night meeting with heads of West Bank settlements, that West Bank settlement blocs are an important part of Israel. He added…
Settlers Fake Foundations to bypass the government decision on settlement freeze
In order to bypass government freeze of settlement construction , dozens of ‘Fake Foundations’ were established in West Bank settlements in recent days. The Israeli government decided last week to…
Freeze Not Cease
Several fundamental Israeli ministers slammed Netanyahu’s temporary settlement freeze proposal, which was approved by his cabinet, and said that “that this issue a submission to the Palestinian demands”. OSCAILTIMAGE(attachments/nov2009/netanyahu_isrflag_3.jpeg 300…
Netanyahu Announces 10 Months Settlement Freeze
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that his government has decided on a 10-month freeze of construction in West Bank settlements, The temporary 10 months freeze will not include settlements…
American Diplomats Touring Israeli Settlements
American diplomats are touring Israeli settlements in the occupied territories to gather information and meet settlement mayors and settlers. OSCAILTIMAGE(attachments/nov2009/us_isr_settlement2.jpg 300 0) Image Caption Goes Here American diplomats are touring…
UN Slams Israel’s Plan To Expand Gilo Settlement
The United Nations slammed an Israeli plan to expand the Gilo illegal Israeli settlement in East Jerusalem and considered it as another obstacle to the already stalled peace process. OSCAILTIMAGE(attachments/nov2009/un_1.jpg…
Israeli TV: “Israel Agees To Freeze Settlements For 10 Months”
The Israeli TV, Channel One, reported on Monday at night that Israel agreed to freeze all settlement activities, except in Jerusalem, for 10 months. The TV added that Israeli Prime…
Palestinian Child Wounded After Being Rammed By A Setter’s Vehicle
The Palestinian Police in Nablus reported on Friday evening that a 9-year old child was wounded after being rammed by a setter’s vehicle close to Za’tara junction, near the northern…
Israel Planning Seven Settlement Neighborhoods in Jerusalem
The Al Quds Media Center reported that the Israeli government, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu, is planning to build seven large settlements neighborhoods in East Jerusalem.The center added that the Israeli…
Dr. Tibi: “Jerusalem Municipality Planning Additional 15.000 Units For Settlers”
Arab member of Knesset, Dr. Ahmad Tibi, stated Thursday that the Jerusalem municipality is planning to construct additional 15.000 housing units for Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem. In an interview…
Israel To Construct New Neighborhood In Nof Zion Illegal Settlement
Regardless of the statements of U.S President, Barack Obama, slamming Israel decision to construct 900 units in Gilo illegal settlement, the Israeli government decided to implement a plan to construct…
Kouchner Claims Gilo Settlement Expansion Would Not Hinder Peace
French Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner, claimed Wednesday that the Israeli plan to construct hundreds of homes in Gilo settlement, near Bethlehem, would not hinder the peace process. He also expressed…
US Politician urges Americans to move to settlements in violation of international law
A Democratic State Assemblyman from New York is leading a mission of 50 US citizens through Israeli settlements in the West Bank, encouraging the US citizens to move to the…
US Politician urges Americans to move to settlements in violation of international law
A Democratic State Assemblyman from New York is leading a mission of 50 US citizens through Israeli settlements in the West Bank, encouraging the US citizens to move to the…
Israel approves 900 new homes in settlement; US ‘dismayed’
Israeli government officials gave the final approval on Tuesday to a plan that will expand the ‘Gilo’ settlement, near Bethlehem, by 900 units. Gilo, like all Israeli settlements constructed on…
U.S Asks Israel To Halt Construction In Gilo Settlement
Israeli sources reported Tuesday that the United States demanded Israel to halt the construction in Gilo settlement, built on Palestinian lands in between Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Israel considers Gilo as…
East Jerusalem settlements continue to expand despite Israeli government assurances
As part of the 3,000 units scheduled to be constructed in the coming months in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, construction has begun in Ras al-Amud, Pisgat Ze’ev and…
Israeli Police Question An Accomplice of Teitel
The Israeli Police stated Tuesday that it questioned a Jewish man believed to be an accomplice to terrorist Yaakov Teitel, who planned and carried out domestic terrorist attacks. Yousef Spinoza,…
Shabak: “Many Jewish Terrorists Still On The Loose”
After a gag order was lifted on the apprehension of Jewish terrorist, Yaakov Teitel, the Israeli domestic security service, Shin Bet, stated that there are several Jewish terrorists who are…
Shabak: “Many Jewish Terrorists Still On The Loose”
After a gag order was lifted on the apprehension of Jewish terrorist, Yaakov Teitel, the Israeli domestic security service, Shin Bet, stated that there are several Jewish terrorists who are…
Shabak: “Many Jewish Terrorists Still On The Loose”
After a gag order was lifted on the apprehension of Jewish terrorist, Yaakov Teitel, the Israeli domestic security service, Shin Bet, stated that there are several Jewish terrorists who are…
US to Israel: Settlement freeze not a precondition for peace talks
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced on Saturday during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that the US government will no longer press the Israelis to…
Four Palestinians Wounded By Settler Fire In East Jerusalem
Palestinian medical sources reported that four Palestinians were wounded on Friday morning after a number of fundamental settlers opened fire at them. The settlers were trying to break into the…
Bethlehem University Student is Blindfolded, Handcuffed, and Taken to Gaza by Force
Berlanty Azzam, 21, was arrested yesterday while crossing from one part of the West Bank to another – just because her address in the Israeli-controlled Population Registry is registered in…
Bethlehem University Student is Blindfolded, Handcuffed, and Taken to Gaza by Force
Berlanty Azzam, 21, was arrested yesterday while crossing from one part of the West Bank to another – just because her address in the Israeli-controlled Population Registry is registered in…
Israeli government confirms recent increase in settlement expansion
A senior official with the Israeli Defense Department confirmed to Israeli reporters that extensive settlement construction is being carried out in at least 11 Israeli settlements.These settlements are constructed on…
Israeli settlers, lost on Palestinian land, helped home by Palestinian Authority
Two Israeli settlers who wandered into the village of Halhul, near Hebron, were escorted home by Palestinian security guards on Thursday. Due to the fact that the only time that…
Israeli Settlers Sing And Dance In Front Of Palestinian House They Occupied In East Jerusalem
Dozens of fundamentalist Jewish settlers held prayers on Friday in front of a Palestinian home they occupied by court order in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, in East Jerusalem. After praying, the…
Mutiny within Israel’s Army?
As Israeli soldiers, members of the Shimshon Battalion Brigade, were in an oath taking ceremony in Jerusalem, several soldiers and their relatives carried posters vowing not to evacuate Israeli settlements.…
Palestinian Seriously Wounded Near Qalqilia
A 24-year old Palestinian man was seriously wounded after being rammed by a settler’s vehicle near Nabi Elias village, east of the northern West Bank city of Qaqilia. The Media…
Departing Military Commander Calls For Tougher Stances Of Settlers
The departing Israeli Military Central Command Chief, Maj. Gen. Gadi Shamni, stated Wednesday that Israel should show no toleration to fundamental extremist settlers in the West Bank, and should show…
ADC Releases Information Detailing Campaign against Illegal Settlement Development
Today the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) released information detailing the on-going campaign against the funding of illegal settlement development in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. WASHINGTON, Recently, ADC was represented by…
Four Palestinians Wounded During A Scuffle With Settlers In Jerusalem
Medical sources in Jerusalem reported on Tuesday at night that four Palestinians were wounded during a scuffle of fundamental Israeli settlers in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem. Israeli soldiers…
New brochure markets East Jerusalem homes to Jewish families
An Israeli peace group has obtained copies of a brochure that right-wing Israeli settlers are spreading to try to populate an area of the Muslim Quarter of the Old City…
Israel To Approve Construction Of The Largest Settlement Bloc
The Israeli government is planning to approve in the coming few weeks one of the largest settlement blocs in the West Bank as it would include 14.000 units that would…
Settlement Group Publishes ‘confidential Plan’ For Its Supporters, Donors
The Ateret Cohanim that aims at increasing the number of Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem published a confidential plan meant for the eyes of its supporters and donors. The plan…
Peace Now: “Israel is currently constructing 2600 settlement units in the W. Bankâ€
A report prepared and published by the Israeli Peace Now group revealed that Israel is currently constructing 2600 homes for settlers in 1000 buildings in several settlements in the occupied…
Israel issues bids for 447 settler homes in Jerusalem
The Israeli Housing Ministry issued on Thursday bids for the construction of hundreds of settler homes in Jabal Abu Ghneim (Har Homa) in Bethlehem district and Beitar Elit settlement near…
Israeli settlers attack British diplomats touring Hebron
The British Consulate in Israel reported on Thursday that a group of Israeli settlers attacked a delegation of British diplomats who were visiting the southern West Bank city of Hebron.…
Israeli settlers prevent a prayer in Beit Sahour, assault worshippers
Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinian and International worshippers who were holding a prayer service at Ush Ghrab park in Beit Sahour Wednesday evening. As the mass started, the settlers, who organized…
Settlers attack a wedding in Hebron; throw a youth from the rooftop
Israeli settlers attacked a wedding party in Hebron on Saturday evening and wounded two Palestinians, according to the Maan News Agency. One of the wounded residents is a youth who…
Israeli settlers invade Osh Ghrab Public Park in Beit Sahour
Around 70 Israeli settlers invaded Osh Ghrab park in Beit Sahour Wednesday evening and forced international and local volunteers to stop the painting work that they were doing in the…
Israeli settlers leave the park they invaded in Beit Sahour
The Israeli settlers left the local park at Esh Ghrab in Beit Sahour town near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Tuesday morning. According to eyewitnesses the settlers…
The Israeli army intends to turn a military base in Hebron into an Israeli settlement
Local sources reported on Sunday night that the Israeli army expanded one of the military bases in the northern West Bank city of Hebron, as it added a number of…
Bil’in Village Council sues Canadian corporations for involvement in settlement construction
Bil’in Village Council Submits Case before Canadian Court Against Canadian Corporations for Involvement in Illegal Settlement Construction. In a continuation of their struggle for justice in the face of unlawful…
Masked Israeli Settlers attack shepherds near Hebron
The Israeli Information Center For Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B’Tselem) published video footage on Friday showing masked Israeli settlers carrying batons and attacking Palestinian shepherds near the illegal…
US “concerned†over a UN draft demanding Israel to halt settlement activities
On Friday, the United States and several member countries of the Security Council, expressed what they described as “concern” over a draft demanding Israel to immediately halt its settlement planning,…
A chilly experience- Confronting the reality in Hebron through Breaking the Silence tour
The tour of Hebron and its settlements, organized by the organization ‘Breaking the Silence’ was once again disrupted by a group of settlers on Friday, 27 of June. ‘Breaking the…
UNICEF Rejects Support From Israeli Billionaire Known for Constructing Settlements in Palestine
New York, NY, June 19, 2008 – A senior advisor to UNICEF’s Director said in a letter today that UNICEF will reject all partnerships with, or financial support from, Israeli…
Burnt land policy, the language of settlers with Palestinian villages
Black burn spots covered vast areas of farmlands that belong to residents of Boreen and Aseera Al Qibliyya villages, south of the northern West Bank city o Nablus; hours after…
Israel approves the construction of 1300 units in East Jerusalem
The Israeli Authorities approved this week the construction of 1300 settler-only homes in the illegal settlement of Ramat Shlomo, near Beit Hanina Palestinian neighborhood in the occupied East Jerusalem, the…
Israeli settlers caught on film beating elderly Palestinian woman
After an Israeli human rights group handed out small video cameras to Palestinians in the West bank, those cameras have been used to capture a number of attacks that would…
Peace activists protest settlers’ attempts to retake a vacated military camp near Bethlehem
Dozens of peace activists and representatives of several factions and institutions in Bethlehem organized on Friday a protest at the location of an evacuated military camp east of Beit Sahour,…
Two Israeli groups, five Palestinian landowners, file a petition against an illegal outpost
The Israeli information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B’Tselem) and the Yesh Din Israeli group in addition to five Palestinian landowners filed on Wednesday a petition to…
UN Secretary General deplores an Israeli settlement plan
United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, deplored on Wednesday an Israeli plan to construct new settlement housing units in the occupied east Jerusalem, which the UN’s resolutions consider an ‘occupied…
Settler rams vehicles against livestock flock, kills three goats
The Christian Peacemaker Teams, CPT, reported on Tuesday that an Israeli settler killed on June 1 two goats and injured two others after ramming his vehicle into a sheep flock…
The Israeli PM Okays new settlements in Jerusalem
On Tuesday the Israeli housing minister Ze'ev Boim told media that the Israeli Prime Minister Ehod Olmert has approved plans to build 884 new housing units for settlers in east…
UN, US concerned over Israeli plan to build 844 new settler homes in East Jerusalem
The White House and the United Nations expressed on Monday concern over the Israeli plan to build 844 new homes for Israeli settlers in the occupied East Jerusalem. Dana Perino,…
Head of PLC Jerusalem Committee slams Israeli decision to expand settlements n Jerusalem
Dr. Ahmad Abu Halbiyya, head of Jerusalem Committee at the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), head of the Jerusalem International Foundation, strongly denounced the Israeli decision to expand settlements in Jerusalem…
Israeli Housing Minister to permit 1460 new housing units in East Jerusalem settlements
In another blatant violation of the promise made in Annapolis in September 2007 by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to halt settlement construction, the Israeli Housing Minister Ze'ev Boim announced…
Settlers protest against reopening main road in Hebron, attack several residents
Dozens of extremist Israeli settlers protesters on Wednesday evening against the reopening of a main road leading to the southern West Bank City of Hebron. The settlers attacked dozens of…
Settlers attack a Palestinian village near Nablus
Dozens of extremist settlers of the Yitzhar settlement, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, attacked Palestinian villagers of Aseera Al Qibliyya on Friday. Several Palestinian villagers were beaten…
Israeli settlers occupy a land east of Beit Sahour, say they want to build a settlement there
Israeli troops arrested Farid Al-Atrash, a lawyer from Bethlehem as he was among other Palestinians protesting the presence of Israeli settlers who occupied a piece of land east of the…
The Popular Committees slams Israeli bulldozing of farmlands near Hebron
The Palestinian Popular (Folk) Committees issued on Wednesday a press release slamming the Israeli occupation forces for uprooting Palestinian lands in the southern West Bank city of Hebron in order…
Israeli government goes against roadmap agreement; approves Modi’in Illit settlement
A committee of the Israeli Ministry of the Interior ruled Monday that the illegal Israeli settlement of Modi'in Illit should be granted legal status, despite the construction of unauthorized expansions…
Livni claims settlements will not obstruct a permanent peace deal
Israeli Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, claimed on Sunday that Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank will not cause any obstruction to a permanent peace deal with the Palestinians, and…
Settler attack a Palestinians village, assault villagers and internationals
The Christian Peace Maker Teams (CPT) reported on Friday that extremist Israeli settlers, including the guard of the illegal Ma’on settlement, broke into the At Tuwani area, in the southern…
Right-wing Israeli settlers will move in to Palestinian town of Ras al-Amud
In the next few days, a new Israeli settlement will be established in the Palestinian neighborhood of Ras al-Amud, east of Jerusalem, according to the former Israeli police commissioner Moshe…
Settlers attack German parliamentarians visiting Hebron, soldiers stood by
A group of fundamental Jewish settlers attacked on Friday German parliamentarians visiting the southern West Bank city of Hebron. The German Foreign Ministry said that it contacted the office of…
Israeli Ministry of Housing approves construction of 100 new settlement homes in the West Bank
On Friday, Ze'ev Boim, Israeli Minister of Housing and Construction approved the tenders for the construction of 100 new settlement homes in the illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank…
Under protection of Israeli army, Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmers near Bethlehem
A group of radical Israeli settlers from the settlement of Efrat attacked Palestinian farmers from the nearby village of Al Ma'ssarah, located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem,…
Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmer near Hebron
At around 10 am on Saturday, 61-year old farmer Sadik al-Bari was attacked by around 25 Israeli settlers, who surrounded the man and his wife while they were working in…
The Popular Committees slams Israeli plan to build 983 home for settlers in Abu Ghneim
The Palestinian Popular Committees issued a press release on Wednesday slamming a new Israeli plan to construct 983 homes for settlers in Abu Ghneim (Har Homa) settlement, near the West…
Israeli official admits of settlement-construction on privately owned Palestinian land
Israeli media sources reported on Tuesday that two months ago the Israeli vice Premier ,Haim Ramon, told the Israeli parliament that the settlement of Ofra, located in the southern part…
Israeli High Court decides to evacuate an illegal settlement outpost near Bethlehem
The Israeli High Court of Justice decided to evacuate an illegal settlement outpost which was constructed by the settlers on a privately owned Palestinian land in Al Khader town, west…
Palestinian child killed when rammed by settlers’ vehicle near Nablus
Palestinian medical sources reported on Monday that a 15-year old child of Salim village, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, was killed after a settler rammed his vehicle…
The Popular Committees slams Israel’s plan to construct 2000 settler homes this year
The Palestinian Popular (Folk) Committees issued a statement on Thursday strongly denouncing an Israeli plan to construct nearly 2000 homes for Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank in 2008.…
Israel to construct nearly 2000 housing units in the West Bank
Israeli media sources reported on Wednesday that the Israeli government is planning to construct nearly 2000 units in Israeli settlements located in the West Bank during 2008. The Israeli daily…
Israel to use alternative methods to protect settlements other than roadblocks
Israeli security sources reported on Tuesday that the Israeli army will start using alternative methods to protect the settlements in cases where roadblocks are removed. The army announcement came after…
The Jerusalem Municipality approves the construction of 600 homes for settlers
The Local Committee for Planning and Construction at the Jerusalem Municipality approved on Monday a plan to construct 600 homes for Israeli settlers in Pisgat Zeev settlement in Jerusalem. The…
Palestinian killed by settlers gunfire near Ramallah
Palestinian medical sources in Ramallah city, north of Jerusalem, stated on Monday evening that one Palestinian resident was shot and killed by Israeli setters gunfire near Ramallah. The sources identified…
Leftist Israeli MP, Belin, urges Olmert to freeze settlement activities
The leftist Israel Member of Parliament, Yusi Belin, urged Sunday the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, to comply with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s call for freezing the Israeli settlement activities…