Four peaceful protesters injured in Bil’in
Residents of Bi’in village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Israeli and international peace activists protested on Friday against the Israeli annexation Wall, and the recent statements of the…
Israeli High Court approves of continuation of Wall construction west of Ramallah
The Israeli High Court approved on Thursday the continuation of construction of the annexation Wall, especially in areas located west of the West Bank city of Ramallah. The nine-judge court…
Settlers attack a Palestinian family in Hebron
Settlers from the illegal outpost Ramat Yishai, in the West Bank city of Hebron, attacked on Thursday a Palestinian family and barred its members from plowing their orchard near their…
Israeli prosecution opposes new settler homes near Bil’in, approves existing illegal constructions
Israeli State Prosecution said, on Wednesday, that it is opposed to resuming the constructions of illegal houses in the Matityahu-East settlement neighborhood, in the ultra-Orthodox settlement of Upper Modi’in, constructed…
Israel begins massive settlement project in the West Bank
With the media focused on the recent Israeli attack on the Jericho prison, the Israeli government has begun to develop facilities for what eventually could be the largest settlement project…
Omert to visit Ariel settlement, declare it part of Israel
Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, is expected to declare Ariel settlement as part of the state of Israel during his visit there on Tuesday, Israeli online daily Haaretz reported. Official…
Israeli Settlers attack Palestinian farmers; injure four, including one child
A group of illegal Israeli settlers attacked several Palestinian residents of Sosia, located near the West Bank city of Yatta, south of Hebron, on Monday morning. The Palestine News Network…
Army to annex vast areas near Beit Jala
Israeli soldiers handed, on Sunday, several residents of Beit Jala city, near Bethlehem, military orders informing them that the military intends to annex vast areas of farmlands near the city.The…
Residents, Israelis and International peace activists protest against the annexation Wall
Several residents, Israeli and International peace activists and a reporter were injured, on Friday afternoon, during protests against the annexation Wall in the villages of Beit Seera and Bil’in, near…
Israeli leader plans West Bank settlement expansion, leaked letters show illegal purchases of land
Israel will continue to build in the disputed E-1 zone between the illegally constructed Ma’ale Adumim settlement in the West Bank and Jerusalem, despite American pressure to the contrary, Acting…
Palestinian man, woman in hospital after Israeli settler attacks
A group of Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian man and woman in separate incidents in the Old City of Hebron Wednesday night, medical sources reported. Shaher Fakhouri, 43, and Ghazala…
Israeli leader outlines plan for full apartheid by 2010
Israeli acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he intends to "get Israel’s permanent borders, whereby we will completely separate from the majority of the Palestinian population and preserve a large…
Settlers uproot 50 trees Olive trees near Hebron
An extremist settlers group of Sousia settlement, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, uprooted on Wednesday dozens of olive trees and bushes which belong to residents of Yatta…
Despite Court Ruling, Army resumed Wall construction in Aboud
Israeli soldiers resumed the construction work of the Separation Wall near Aboud village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, in spite of a ruling of the Israeli High Court…
Four residents, Israeli officer, injured in clashes near Ramallah
Four Palestinian residents and one Israeli officer were injured during clashes which erupted near Kharbatha Al Misbah village, south west of the West Bank city of Ramallah.A local source in…
Report: Israel plans to imprison five Palestinian villages near Jerusalem in an enclave
According to a report released Thursday by Israeli human rights group B’tselem, Israeli authorities plan to run a barrier around five Palestinian villages northwest of Jerusalem, and imprison them in…
Soldiers attack peaceful protesters, local and international journalists
Israeli soldiers attacked hundreds of Palestinians and international peace activists while protesting against the Separation Wall in Tulkarem area; soldiers also attacked several international and local journalists.The protest took off…
Settlers attack, abuse two residents near Tubas
The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported that an extremist settlers group attacked two Palestinian residents while they were heading back to Tubas, in the West Bank. The agency stated that…
Sewage of Ariel settlement pumped into Palestinian farmlands
Residents of the northern West Bank villages near Salfit reported that settlers of the nearby Ariel Settlement Bloc continued to pump the sewage water into Palestinian farmlands in the area.The…
Army started implementing plan to isolate lands near Hebron
Israeli army started implementing a plan which aims to isolate 80.000 Dunams of Palestinian lands that belong to residents of several villages and towns, south of the West Bank city…
Israeli Defense Minister: Israel will take 20% of remaining Palestinian land
"When we talk about Israel’s permanent or future borders it includes the Jordan Valley, Maale Adumim, Gush Etzion, Ariel, Kedumim-Karnei Shomron and Rehan-Shaked", said Israeli Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz in…
Israeli report reveals $14 billion spent by Israel to construct West Bank settlements
A recently released report by the Israeli Research Institute for Economic and Social Affairs, an independent body, estimated that the Israeli government has spent over $14 billion since 1967 to…
Fears of new Israeli settlement as wall completed around Bethlehem
The final section of Israel’s wall separating Bethlehem from Jerusalem will be completed in a matter of days.The wall around Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem will not only sever the connection…
Residents of two southern Palestinian West Bank towns conduct a peaceful protest
Dozens of Palestinian landowners from the southern West Bank villages of Beit Omar and Halhul organized a protest on Saturday, to protest illegal Israeli confiscations of their land. The confiscations…
Israel building ‘apartheid’ roads to keep Israelis and Palestinians separate
Israeli authorities are building ‘Palestinian-only’ roads in the West Bank, while retaining existing illegal settler highways as ‘Israeli-only’ roads, said a senior Israeli security source Friday. Palestinians condemned the idea…
Israeli settlers set ‘sights’ on Palestinian home near Qalqilya
Israelis from the Karneh Shemron settlement have apparently set their sights on a Palestinian home in Kufr Lakif village, near Qalqilya. The eleven members of Mahmoud Awad’s family face the…
At least Ten injured in Wall protest west of Ramallah
At least ten Palestinian and Israeli peace activists were injured on Thursday at noon after the Israeli soldiers attacked a joint peaceful protest against the Separation Wall in Beit Siera…
Family facing constant harassment by settlers
Israeli settlers from the Karneh Shemron settlement have been repeatedly attacking a Palestinian family in Kufr Laqif village, near Qalqilia in the West Bank.The eleven members of Mahmoud Awad’s family…
B’Tselem: `“Israel constructs the Wall to enable settlement expansion`
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B’Tselem, reported that Israel is constructing the Separation Wall in the West Bank under the guise of Security, and…
B’Tselem: `“Israeli constructs the Wall to enable settlement expansion`
from each other and from their orchards, was and remains the main cause of human rights violations of Palestinians living near the Wall.The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in…
Anti-Wall Protest in Bil’in followed by Israeli Army invasion
After Friday prayers in the West Bank village of Bil’in, dozens of Israelis, international supporters and Palestinian villagers marched toward the construction of the Israeli annexation Wall on villagers’ land.…
Troops obstruct, attack, a peace procession against the Wall in Aboud
Approximately 300 residents, Israeli and international peace activists protested against the Separation Wall in Aboud village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Soldiers attacked the procession and fired gas…
Palestinian Authority decries Israeli takeover of Jordan Valley
The Palestinian leadership condemned the Israeli construction of the ‘eastern Wall’ which will completely enclose the West Bank within a de-facto open-air prison. The construction of the eastern section of…
Report: At least twenty Palestinian homes demolished over the last month
According to a report Thursday by the joint Palestinian-International grassroots organization, ‘Stop the Wall’, at least twenty homes have been bulldozed in the past month, most of them in the…
Olmert talks about taking the Jordan Valley, soldiers impose total closure
The Israeli military has imposed a total closure on the Jordan Valley area of the Palestinian West Bank since 2005, literally cutting off 2 million Palestinians from their sources of…
Hamas emphasizes need for Israeli withdrawal
Khalid Mashal, a leader-in-exile of the Palestinian Hamas party, stated Monday in an interview that Israel must withdraw its troops from Palestinian territories as a prerequisite for peace talks. "If…
10 residents injured In Beit Sera village, near Ramallah
The Maan News Agency reported on Monday that at least ten residents were injured during clashes which erupted after the residents protested against the Separation Wall in Beit Sera village,…
Aboud residents, peace activists, protest against the Wall
Residents of Aboud village, near Ramallah, Israeli and international peace activists, and two newly elected members of the Palestinian legislative council conducted a peaceful protest against the Separation Wall and…
Olmert to Palestinians: No Negotiations; We Will Take Jordan Valley, Surround the Rest with Wall
In an interview with Israeli Channel Two television Wednesday — his first since taking on the role of acting Prime Minister after Ariel Sharon’s stroke in early January, Ehud Olmert…
Israeli settler population increased by 12,000 in 2005
A study by Peace Now, based on Israeli government figures, released Tuesday reveals that, despite Israel’s ‘disengagement’ from the Palestinian Gaza Strip in August and September of 2005, the overall…
Israeli High Court demands state to explain why it did not move Wall route in Bil’in
The Israeli High Court of Justice ordered, on Thursday, the state prosecutor to explain why is the state rejecting to change the rout of the Separation Wall in Bil’in village,…
Israel closes all but 11 border crossings to West Bank
An order implementing the Israeli closure of all but 11 border crossings into the Palestinian West Bank was put in place on Thursday, prohibiting Palestinians from crossing in other places,…
Violent clashes erupt as army evacuates Amouna illegal outpost
Israeli online daily Haaretz reported that soldiers razed nine houses illegally constructed at the Amouna illegal settlement outpost near the West Bank city of Qalqilia. Hundreds of settlers flocked to…
Israeli court reiterates ruling to evacuate outpost
A few hours after Israeli Supreme Court Justice Elyakim Rubenstein issued a temporary injunction delaying the planned evacuation of the unauthorized settlement of Amona, south of the West Bank city…
Court orders evacuation of unauthorized West Bank outpost
A few hours after Israeli Supreme Court Justice Elyakim Rubenstein issued a temporary injunction delaying the planned evacuation of the unauthorized settlement of Amona, south of the West Bank city…
Settlers withdraw from Marketplace in Hebron, vow to return
Late Monday night, Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, completed the evacuation of settlers who have been illegally occupying the downtown marketplace since 2002.The settlers departed…
Mazuz: ‘no deal reached on settlers’ return to Hebron market place’
A senior Israeli source reported on Monday evening that the Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz denied media reports which claimed that the state had signed a deal with Hebron settlers…
Olmert rejects settlers request to delay evacuation of illegal outpost
The acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rejected on Monday evening a request by settler leaders to delay the evacuation of the Amouna illegal settlement outpost, installed on Palestinian Private…
Army holds secret talks with settlers on evacuation of Hebron marketplace
Israeli online daily Haaretz reported that while the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, is warming to evacuate the settlers who occupied the Hebron market in 2002 by force, the army…
Troops uproot 150 Dunams of farmland, west of Hebron
Israeli soldiers uprooted, on Sunday, agricultural areas which belong to residents of Beit Al Roosh village, south west of Hebron in the West Bank. The village is close to the…
Israel plans to accelerate the construction of the Wall
The acting Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, instructed the security department to accelerate the construction of the Separation Wall in the West Bank. The decision was initially made during a…
Two injured, three arrested in Bil’in
Two Palestinian residents, including a child, and one Korean peace activist, were injured; three other residents were arrested after the Israeli soldiers attacked a peaceful procession against the Separation Wall…
Israeli army evacuates Illegal outpost of Amona, Hebron market next week
Israeli army chief Dan Halutz said on Tuesday that the Israeli army will evacuate the illegal West Bank outpost of Amona in northern of the West Bank and the Hebron…
New settlements expansion in East J’lem funded by US Israelis
According to the Israeli online daily Haaretz, an Israeli construction company is attracting dozens of wealthy American Israelis to purchase apartments in Nof Zion Israeli illegal outpost in the southeast…
Bil’in protest unites candidates, residents, in joint peaceful struggle against the Wall
Approximately 5000 residents, candidates to the legislative elections, Israeli and international peace activists marched on Friday against the Separation Wall in the village of Bil’in, near Ramallah. Abdullah Abu Rahma,…
Peres: Israel does not intend to withdraw from the West Bank and Jerusalem
After a 45-minute-meeting with US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, Shimon Peres said, on Wednesday, that Israel will be ready to hold negotiations with the Palestinians on a permanent peace…
Peres: Israel does not intend to withdraw from the West Bank and Jerusalem
After a 45-minutes meeting with US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, Shimon Peres said, on Wednesday, that Israel will be ready to hold negotiations with the Palestinians on a permanent…
Settler leaders say Olmert ‘declared war’ on them
Settler leaders sharply attacked, on Wednesday, the acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for calling the army to devise a plan to evacuate 20 illegal outposts in the West Bank,…
American Jews to Israel: Bring Settlers Home
A group of Jewish Americans who call themselves, "The Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace" called the American Administration to urge Israel to evacuate all the Jewish settlements in the…
Israeli court acquits settlers who confessed to killing Palestinians
The Israeli District Court in Be’er Shiva, acquitted on Monday Avri Ran, an extremist settler, and the leader of the Hilltop Youth settler group, of charges which included attacking and…
Sharon planed four options for West Bank settlements
In an article published, on Monday by the New Yorker magazine, Israeli sources revealed that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered, before he suffered the stroke, the Israeli National Security…
Hundreds of settlers try to break into Palestinian neighborhood in Hebron
An Israeli military source reported on Saturday at night that hundreds of settlers, most of them masked, attempted to break into Al Qasaba neighborhood, in the West bank city of…
‘Settler girls’ attack peaceworkers in Hebron
On Thursday January 12th, two members of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) were attacked by a group of 30 Israeli settler ‘girls’ while walking near the Tel Rumeida settlement in…
Mofaz delays evacuation of Amouna outpost by 14 days
Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz decided, on Thursday, to postpone the evacuation of the illegal settlement outpost of Amouna, north of the West Bank, for another two weeks, Israeli online…
Army obstruct peace procession in Bil’in
Israeli soldiers obstructed a peaceful procession in the West Bank village of Bil’in, near Ramallah, and fired gas bombs at the residents; several residents suffocated after inhaling gas, and received…
Settlers burn Palestinian homes in Hebron
Extremist settlers torched two Palestinian homes in the West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday in protest to evacuating them from shops they occupied in the city’s market., No injuries…
Settlers, policemen clash at an illegal outpost, four soldiers and eleven settlers injured
Israeli online daily, Haaretz, reported that four Israeli police officers and 11 settlers were lightly injured, on Wednesday, in clashes at Amouna illegal settlement outpost in the West Bank. The…
Israeli H. Court permits Wall construction near Modi’n settlement
Israeli online daily, Haaretz, report on Monday that the High Court of Justice rejected on Monday, appeals filed by Israelis and Palestinians against the planned route of the West Bank…
Non violent protest freezes Wall construction in Aboud
On Saturday, Israeli soldiers installed a new checkpoint on the road to Aboud village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, and deployed in the surrounding fields in an attempt…
Settlers uproot 100 Olive trees near Hebron
An extremist settlers group uprooted recently 100 Olive trees which belong to residents of Yatta village, near the West Bank city of Hebron. The Olive groves overlooks a road which…
Settlers renew their attacks against residents of Hebron
Extremist settlers of Keryat Aba’ settlement, east of the West Bank city of Hebron, renewed on Thursday, their attacks against the residents of both Wadi Al-Hussein and Wad Al-Nasara areas,…
Peace Now Movement petitions Supreme Court to halt Modi’in Illit construction
Israeli Peace Now movement filed a petition, on Wednesday, to the Israeli Supreme Court to halt the construction of the illegal settlement of Modi’in Illit that is built on the…
Isr. High Court forbids building the Wall around illegal W. Bank outpost
Israeli High Court of Justice gave, on Sunday, the Israeli government the green light to construct the Separation Wall around settlements north of the West Bank, and barred the construction…
Documents reveal illegal West Bank construction project
According to documents published by the Israeli online daily, Haaretz, illegal permits were issued retroactively for a new West Bank settlement expansion project while buildings were being constructed or even…
Documents reveal illegal West Bank construction project
According to documents published by the Israeli online daily, Haaretz, illegal permits were issued retroactively for a new West Bank settlement expansion project while buildings were being constructed or even…
Army demands settlers to evacuate Palestinian wholesale market in Hebron
Eight settler families, who took over eight Palestinian stores, at a market in the West Bank city of Hebron, were handed out eviction notices by representatives of the Israeli Civil…
Eight injured during a protest against the Wall in Beit Jala
Eight Palestinian residents suffered bruises and concussions during a protest against the Separation Wall in Beit Jala, near Bethlehem, after the soldiers attacked and clubbed the protestors their peaceful procession…
Settlers attack several homes in Hebron
An extremist settlers group attacked, on Wednesday at night and Thursday morning, dozens of homes in the West Bank city of Hebron, and pinched several chickens owned by the residents.…
ISR H. Court order halt of construction of separation wall near J’lem
The Israeli high court issued, on Wednesday, an order instructing the army to halt the construction in a section of the Separation Wall that extends from Maaleh Adumim Settlement bloc…
Peace Now movement visits Modi’n Elite settlement
Delegates of Peace Now leftist movement visited Modi’n Elite settlement, west of Ramallah, in order to report on the implementation of a project which will lead to the construction of…
Peretz: `“Settlement outposts harms Israel’s image`
Israeli Labor Party chairman, Amir Peretz, slammed the policy of the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, regarding illegal settlement outposts, and said that the they damage Israel’s image internationally. Israeli…
Settler youths install 14 illegal outposts in the West Bank
Hundreds of settler youth installed 14 illegal settlement outposts in several West Bank areas, on Tuesday, in what was described by the Israeli media as a campaign to show their…
Army confiscates 231 Dunams in Hebron Area
Israeli army issued three military orders to confiscate 231 Dunams from the West Bank cities and villages of Al Thahiriyya, Al -Sammou’ and Yatta, south and south west of Hebron…
Will `“black list` sabotage Rafah agreement?
The recent black list, which has effectively barred 15 leaders of military wings from traveling via the Rafah border crossing, has created a new crisis in light of threats by…
ISR Housing Ministry released tender for constructing 228 settlers houses in W. Bank
Israeli Housing and Construction Ministry released, on Monday, tenders for the construction of 228 houses for settlers in the West Bank. The tenders include constructing 150 units in Beitar Elite…
Settlers uproot 100 trees in the West Bank village of Borin
Israeli settlers of the Illegal settlement of Yetzhar uprooted on Monday morning 100 olive trees in an orchard which belongs to local farmers of the village of Borin near the…
Settlements council: `“Sharon is preparing for a second Disengagement`
Israeli Settlements Council claimed on Sunday that the Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, is preparing for another unilateral Disengagement Plan, in the occupied West Bank. Several leaders of the Settlements…
Patriarch Sabbah: `“Separation Wall is turning Bethlehem into a big prison`
Latin Patriarch Michael Sabbah said, on Saturday evening, after arriving in Bethlehem that Israel should remove its Separation wall which is surrounding the Holy City, and transforming it into a…
Residents, peaceful activists in Bil’in, protest against the Wall, settlements
Residents, Israeli and international peace activists protested, on Friday afternoon, against the Separation Wall and settlements, in Bil’in near the West Bank city of Ramallah, and attempted to reach their…
Army evacuates a legal Caravan in Bil’in
In a move which was intended to reveal the sided policy of the Israeli army, and government, residents of Bil’in, near Ramallah, installed on Thursday a Caravan in orchards which…
Army evacuates a legal Caravan in Bil’in
In a move which was intended to reveal the sided policy of the Israeli army, and government, residents of Bil’in, near Ramallah, installed on Thursday a Caravan in orchards which…
Residents, activists in Bil’in protest against settlement outposts
Several residents and international peace activists placed caravans, on Wednesday morning, in Palestinian orchards near Bil’in village, in Ramallah area, and raised Palestinian flags, in a move which resembles their…
Right-wing settlers group prepares to build 15 outposts
Israeli online daily Haaretz reported that a far-right settlers group is planning to construct fifteen new settlement outposts in several West Bank areas. The group, which calls itself The Loyalists…
Israeli ministry of housing submit tenders for 137 new housing units in the West Bank settlements
Israeli Ministry of Housing issued tenders on Monday for 137 new housing units in the settlements of Ariel and Karni Shamron, near the West Bank city of Nablus.Israeli Peace Now…
Eight injured, four arrested in Bil’in
Dozens of Palestinian, Israeli and international peace activists protested against the Separation Wall and settlements, in Bil’in village, near Ramallah. The peaceful protest was met with military violence; eight were…
High Court orders evacuation, settlers remained
The Israeli Prosecution informed the High Court that settlers, who occupied homes and stores in the Old City of Hebron, will be evacuated within two months. The Israeli Radio reported…
Mofaz approves construction, expansion of West Bank settlements
Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz gave the green light for the construction of hundreds of new settler homes in West Bank settlements, directly violating Israel’s obligations under the road Map…
EU decides not to publish report criticizing Israeli settlements activity in E. J’lem
The European Union decided on Monday not to publish a report which includes critical information on Israeli settlement activities in East Jerusalem, and on the route of the Separation Wall…
Army plans to evacuate Al Hathaleen tribe near Hebron
A Palestinian expert in lands and settlement activities warned on Monday that Israel is preparing a new plan to evacuate Al Hathaleen tribe in the West Bank city of Hebron…
Patriarch Sabbah participates in a procession against the Wall in Aboud
Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah joined the residents of Aboud village, near Ramallah, Israeli and international peace activists in a peaceful procession against the Separation Wall in the village, Al Quds…