International human rights workers attacked by Israeli settlers in Hebron
On Saturday morning, a group of human rights workers were attacked by three Israeli settlers in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank.…
Soldiers install fence around West Bank settlements, isolate Palestinian orchards
The Israeli army installed a fence around several settlements which were illegally constructed on Palestinian annexed lands that belongs to the residents of Dir Istia village, near the West Bank…
Last extremist settlers removed from dismantled illegal W.B settlement of Homesh
The Israeli army issued a statement on Wednesday saying that Israeli border police had removed the last right-wing Israeli settlers from the ruins of what used to be the illegal…
Palestinian child seriously injured by Israeli settler gunfire near Bethlehem
Palestinian medical sources at Al Ahli Hospital, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, reported on Wednesday evening that a Palestinian child from Tiqoua’ village, near Bethlehem, was seriously…
Israeli government decides to evacuate illegal settlement in Hebron
The Israeli government gave settlers, on Wednesday, 30 days to voluntarily leave a Palestinian building they occupied in the southern West Bank city of Hebron three weeks ago. Following which…
Peretz orders the evacuation of settlers who occupied a Palestinian house in Hebron
Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz ordered on Thursday that the settlers who occupied a Palestinian house in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, should be evacuated. However,…
Israeli army to allow hundreds of right-wing settlers to ‘visit’ dismantled settlement
Israeli media reported on Tuesday that Israeli forces have agreed to allow a right-wing settler remain at the site of the late illegal Homesh settlement in the northern West Bank,…
Thousands of right-wing settlers try to re-occupy dismantled illegal settlement in West Bank
Under the protection of the Israeli army, scores of Israeli settlers entered the area of the illegal settlement of Homesh, which was evacuated in 2005 during the Israeli disengagement plan…
Israeli Army, Police warn settlers against carrying out their plan of reoccupying evacuated outposts
The Israeli Army and Police force warned on Saturday West Bank settlers against carrying out their plans to reoccupy the evacuated illegal settlement outpost of Homesh in the occupied West…
Illegal West Bank settlers demand compensation for evacuating outpost
Settlers of Hersha, an illegal Israeli settlement outpost in the occupied West Bank, asked the Israeli High court of Justice to compensate them if they are evicted from the outpost.The…
200 Israeli Settlers Seize a Palestinian House in Hebron
Israeli sources reported on Monday night that some 200 armed Israeli settlers, seized Monday evening a Palestinian-owned house in the West Bank city of Hebron, claiming ownership. The settlers, all…
Israeli army annex farm lands to build a military post
The Israeli army issued two military orders to annex farm lands owned by residents of Halhul village south of Hebron city in the southern part of the West Bank on…
Peace Now: 32% of illegal Israeli settlements built on private Palestinian land
On Wednesday, the Israeli organization Peace Now issued a report sating that 32% of the land annexed for the construction of Israeli settlements and outposts is private Palestinian property.The report…
Sewer of Ariel settlement destroys natural sceneries in Salfit
Ariel settlement, one of the biggest settlement blocs in the occupied West Bank, dumps its sewer in the valleys of of Salfit district, in the northern part of the West…
Israel plans to build a settlement neighborhood near Qalanida checkpoint
The ‘Arabs48’ news website published an article based on a report by an Israeli newspaper on Wednesday morning, stating that the Israeli Government is preparing a plan to construct a…
One Israeli Settler found dead near Hebron
One Israeli illegal settler was found dead on Sunday evening near the southern West Bank city of Hebron. The Israeli police stated that the man was stabbed to death and…
Israel plans to construct 1500 settlement housing units on private Palestinian lands
Israeli sources reported on Saturday night after midnight that the so-called Supreme Planning Council for settlements in the occupied West Bank, authorized recently the construction of what was described as…
Israeli forces uproot trees to make way for Israeli Settler-only road
Israeli army bulldozers started on Saturday morning to uproot olive trees privately owned by a Palestinian farmer from the village of Boreen, south of Nablus. Qassem Al Najar, the owner…
Peretz: “We will evacuate all illegal outposts”
Aides to the Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, said on Thursday that he “plans to go all the way in evacuating illegal settlement outposts in the West Bank in full…
Settlers release boars in Palestinian farmlands
Palestinian sources in Salfit, in the northern part of the West Bank, reported on Thursday that Israeli settlers released boars in Palestinian farmlands near Salfit, in the northern part of…
Settler families evacuated from Gaza to receive 1.5 – 2 M each in compensation
Data collected by the Israeli Disengagement Authority (Sela) reported that an average of NIS 1.5-2 million New Israeli Shekels are expected to be paid as compensation to each family of…
B’Tselem: “number of settlers living in illegal outposts rises to 2000”
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B’Tselem) stated in its annual report on settlements that the number of settlers living in 102 illegal outposts in…
Palestinian farmers and Israeli supporters plant trees near Hebron
Palestinian villagers, side by side with Israeli supporters, have planted olive trees on lands that are set to by annexed by illegal Israeli settlers south of Hebron city in the…
Peace Now: Israeli Settlers in the Occupied West Bank Increased by %5 in 2006
Peace Now, an Israeli peace bloc, revealed Wednesday that the number of Israel settlers based in various Israeli settlements in the West Bank has increased by 5% in 2006 compared…
Israeli Settlers attempt to demolish Palestinian shops in Hebron
Palestinian sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, reported on Monday that settlers from the illegal settlement outposts installed in the center of the city, attempted…
Israeli Settlers occupy a Palestinian house in Hebron
Palestinian sources in Hebron city, in the southern part of the West Bank, reported on Thursday at night that a group of Israeli settlers occupied an old Palestinian house close…
Bethlehem suffering because of Israel’s land Confiscation Policy
Bethlehem and Jerusalem are the hardest hit this year by settlement expansion and land confiscation. Today in the south central West Bank Israeli forces said they will confiscate 17 dunams…
Military bulldozers destroy farm land in Hebron
On Tuesday Israeli army bulldozers started to destroy farmlands that are privately owned by Palestinian farmers from the village of Beit Omer near Hebron in the southern West Bank. The…
Israeli army relocates a military checkpoint near Nablus
Palestinian sources reported on Tuesday that the Israeli army has moved a military checkpoint from the entrance of Al Majdal village south east of Nablus city, in the northern part…
Israeli army destroy Palestinian Farm Land to make way for military post near Hebron
Israeli army bulldozers destroyed a large amount of private Palestinian owned land in the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Monday in order to make way for a military…
Settlers take Palestinian lands by force, plant trees on them
Dozens of farmers from the West Bank city of Hebron complained that Jewish settlers took their lands at gunpoint and started digging holes in the lands in preparation for planting…
Olmert approves shifting route of Wall to include settlements
Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, has approved shifting the route of the Annexation Wall at least five kilometers eastward from the Green Line in the area of Modi'in Ilit settlement.…
Construction continues in illegal settlement outposts that are slated for evacuation
The Israeli Peace Now movement reported that constructions in illegal settlement outposts on Palestinian-owned land in the occupied West Bank continued, as four out of six illegal outposts have expanded.…
Israeli settlers abduct a youth, beat and cut him with sharp tools
Palestinian sources reported on Wednesday at night that Israeli settlers abducted a youth from Hizma village, northeast of Jerusalem, severly punched and clubbed him and cut him with blades until…
Solana says he is shocked by settlement growth in occupied West Bank
Javier Solana, EU Foreign Policy Chief, toured several Arab towns near Jerusalem on Sunday and said that he is shocked by the Israeli settlement growth in the occupied West Bank.…
Hebron family: “Armed settlers walk right through our home”
“Did your home ever become a conduit, a bridge, a shortcut for strangers? This is what has happened in my home,” says Hisham Idris. He and his family of four…
For 6 years some Hebron residents forced to move via rooftop, now Israelis allowing them on street
Six years ago Israeli forces occupying the southern West Bank denied the Palestinians of Hebron the right to walk on Shuhada Street. The Society for Citizens Rights conducted investigations in…
Israeli Army violates Israeli High Court Ruling in Hebron
Israeli police and troops operating in the West Bank city of Hebron prevented on Thursday a Hebron peace activist accompanied by a number of Palestinian residents to walk down Al-Shuhada…
Palestine 2007: Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank
On this stage, not so long ago, I claimed that Israel is conducting genocidal policies in the Gaza Strip. I hesitated a lot before using this very charged term and…
The Israeli Municipality of Occupied East Jerusalem Constructs a Synagogue
The Israeli municipality of occupied East Jerusalem has completed the construction of a Synagogue on an Islamic WAQF land in the holy city, just 50 meters away from the Al-Aqsa…
150 dunams of Palestinian farmland bulldozed by Israeli troops near Hebron
According to local sources, Israeli troops escorted huge tractors that started bulldozing a road linking the settlement of Sossia to newly annexed Palestinian lands in Yatta village, east of Hebron…
The Israeli Wall will annex 19000 out of 22000 Dunams in Al Khader village
Al Khader, near Bethlehem, is facing a harsh future as a result of the construction of the Annexation Wall, as Israeli bulldozers continue to uproot the town’s farmlands to construct…
Settlement sewage polluting northern West Bank
Residents of Burqin in the northern West Bank report that their lands are being polluted by an Israeli settlement built on Salfit District lands. Farmers told PNN on Monday that…
Hamas: “We will not remain idle as Israel constructs a new settlement in the Jordan Valley”
Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, warned on Thursday that it cannot stand idle as Israel continues its settlement activities in the West Bank and Jerusalem, adding that the new approval of…
Despite Israeli assurances, illegal settlements continue to grow
In the month of December alone, 90 new Israeli trailers were placed on illegally-seized Palestinian land in the West Bank. The trailers are the first stage of expanding existing Israeli…
Israeli forces expanding Wall in West Bank’s Jordan Valley
Residents of the northern Jordan Valley in the West Bank are living in state of fear and anxiety as Israeli forces overtake more land. The Wall is being built on…
New Israeli settlement approved for Jews evacuated from Gaza last year
The Israeli government has approved the construction of a new Israeli settlement on Palestinian land in the West Bank to house Israeli settlers who moved out of settlements in the…
Jewish immigration into Israel on the rise
Today, about 40 British Jews will arrive in Israel, bringing the number of British Jewish émigrés this year up to 700, according to the Jewish Agency, a group responsible for…
Peretz approves Wall route around Maali Adumim
Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, approved the original route of the Annexation Wall that will surround Maali Adumim settlement by annexing more Palestinian lands and placing them inside the settlement’s…
Israeli Hight Court rejects appeal against Wall route north of Jerusalem
The Israeli High Court rejected on Wednesday an appeal filed by residents of Al Ram neighborhood, in Jerusalem, against the construction of the Annexation Wall around the norther Jerusalem neighborhood.…
Study: “Wall forced 17% of Jerusalem families out of the city”
The Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights (BADIL) conducted a study that revealed that 17% of the Palestinian families in Jerusalem were forced to relocate outside the borders…
Troops level two Palestinian homes in Jerusalem
Palestinian sources in Jerusalem reported on Tuesday that Israeli policemen and border-guard units leveled two Palestinian homes in Al Tour and Ras Al Amoud, in East Jerusalem. Israel claims that…
Al Nu’man Village; already surrounded by the Wall, the gate is now open to Israeli settlers
Northern Bethlehem's Al Nu'man Village is enveloped from all sides by the Wall and residents cannot come or go without passing through an Israeli controlled gate. On Sunday Israeli forces…
Army uproots trees to install a Wall section near Bethlehem
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…
Israeli court rejects petitions to change route of Jerusalem Wall
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…
Illegal settlers in Gaza were also paid millions to evacuate
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…
Bil’in peaceful protest marks agriculture season, demands free accesses to isolated orchards
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…
Peace Now: “40% of West Bank settlements are built on private Palestinian property”
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…
‘Apartheid road system’ cemented with new regulations on driving
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…
‘Apartheid road system’ cemented with new regulations on driving
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…
Israel issues an order to annex hundreds of Dunams in the West Bank
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…
Bil’in protest commemorates independence, calls for Palestinian Unity
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…
Settlers continue expansion of illegal outposts in the occupied West Bank
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…
A village cut in two: the goal is displacement, looting and land confiscation
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…
Report: Sharp increase of Russian Jews immigrating back to Russia
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…
Israel plans to annex lands north of Jerusalem for the Wall
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 Arrest Gay Pride Activists Amidst Security Threats
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…
Army closes the Aqsa Mosque to those aged less than 45 years old
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…
Nonviolent protest continues against construction of Jewish museum on desecrated Islamic cemetery
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,…
The Demographic and Economic War against Palestinians
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…
Settlers attack Palestinians harvesting their olive trees
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.…
Peace Now describes the Israeli government as “idiotic”
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.…
Israeli army injures 16 protesters demanding to be able to harvest their olives in Bil’in
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…
Farmers attacked while picking olives near Har Homa settlement
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…
Solana: “Israel must remove all illegal outposts, advance Road Map Plan”
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…
Military sources: “Peretz does not intend to evacuate outposts, only isolated construction”
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…
Settlements continue to expand on Palestinian lands, despite Israeli promises to the U.S
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…
Peace Now: “Most settlement outpost are installed on private Palestinian property”
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…
Peretz considers granting legal status for illegal settlement outposts
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…
Settlers annex 150 Dunams of Palestinian lands near Hebron
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…
Settlers construct an illegal outpost in Hebron
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…
Settlers plan on expansion in the Northern Plains of the West Bank
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…
Peretz to meet with settlement leaders to discuss the option of voluntary evacuation
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 Army expands a military base at the expense of farmers’ land
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…
Israeli authorities impose additional restrictions on farmers in southern Qalqilia
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,…
After war in Lebanon, Israeli settlements growing again
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…
Weekly Non-violent protest in Bil’in challenges Israeli Wall Construction on Bil’in village land
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…
Peace Now: `“Israel stepped up settlement construction during war`
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 clinic at At-Tuwani village
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…
Army invades village of Bil’in, disrupting peaceful anti-Wall march
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…
At a London Conference, Peres says settlement construction cannot be prevented
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…
An Israeli’s short cut, a Palestinian’s occupation
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),…
Disengagement Vs the Road Map
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. …
Israeli government issues tender for the construction of more settler homes
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…
Elderly Palestinian man attacked by Israeli settlers while Israeli soldier watches, doing nothing
Khalil Nawaja, in his 70s, was attacked with sticks and pipes Monday evening by a group of seven Israeli settlers with their faces covered. An Israeli soldier was escorting the…
Palestinian family attests to ongoing Israeli settler attacks
A Bedouin family near the village of Sussiya in Hebron was visited today by a group of internationals and Palestinians working for the PSP (Palestine Solidarity Project) and International solidarity…
Israel announces construction of new ‘Jews-only’ road and land confiscation in Bethlehem area
Israeli authorities announced Sunday a new plan to isolate over 7000 dunums of Palestinian land in the Bethlehem and Hebron areas in preparation for the continuation of the Wall and…
Nonviolent resistance continues as Israel confiscates another 100 dunams of Bethlehem
The central West Bank’s Bethlehem is going piece by piece. Israeli army Commander of the Central Region, Yair Naveh, adopted a new resolution Friday providing for the confiscation of 100…
Palestinian residents, Israeli and International peace activists protest the Wall in Bil’in
Abdullah Abu Rahma, coordinator of the Popular Committee Against the Wall, reported that at least 150 residents, eight internationals and six Israeli peace activists protested against the Israeli Annexation Wall…
Catholic report: ‘Israel is suffocating Gaza to seize Jerusalem’
The following is a report issued this week by the Catholic relief agency, Caritas: Today, Israel issued tenders for 690 new settlement units around occupied East Jerusalem. Meanwhile, the months-long…