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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…
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…
A group of Israeli settlers from the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba, east of the West Bank city of Hebron, started to open a new road to connect the settlement…
The Israeli forces Commander for the Central Region of the occupied West Bank, Major General Yair Naveh, has decided to confiscate 152 Dunams of southern Bethlehem. The annexation order aims…
The Israeli Ministry of Housing issued on Monday tenders to construct 690 settlement homes in the Occupied West Bank. The new units will be constructed in large settlement blocs in…
Israeli troops annexed Palestinian orchards east of Bethlehem city in the West Bank, and declared the area as a closed military zone. The order, signed by General Yaer Neveh, confiscates…
Israel has both effectively and officially overtaken northern Bethlehem, swallowing the entire Rachel’s Tomb area. The process was slow enough, ongoing for the past two years, however it all occurred…
Dozens of Palestinian residents of Al Khader village, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, supported by international peace activists, marched on Friday against the construction of the Annexation Wall…
Dozens of Palestinian residents, along with 150 Israeli and International peace activists, held their weekly protest in Bil'in village, near the West bank city of Ramallah, and demanded that Israeli…
Friday, a group of Palestinian residents of Bethlehem and international peace activists held a solidarity act in the city in support of a poor resident who lost his small shop…
Palestinians in the village of Bil'in have declared a partial victory in their struggle against Israeli settlement expansion on their land, as several structures built to expand the Matityahu settlement…
A proposal by the Justice Ministry of Israel is to be discussed next Sunday by a ministerial committee on settlement outposts. An inquiry by Attorney Talia Sasson, commissioned by Ariel…
Hundreds of Palestinian residents, Israeli and international peace activists protested on Friday against the Annexation Wall Israeli is constructing on Palestinian orchards in Bil'in village, west of Ramallah, in the…
The house remained empty since the Israeli authorities confiscated it in 1994. When its owner attempted to return to his home, 17 kilometers east of Qalqilia, Israeli settlers were waiting. …
Israeli soldiers confiscated nine Dunams of Palestinian land from Shu’fat village, north of Jerusalem, in order to expand a military checkpoint located on the western entrance to Shu’fat refugee camp.…
Israel’s Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, said on Friday that as a result of the war on Lebanon and the significant damage caused to residents in northern Israel, the convergence plan…
The Israeli government issued a military order on Thursday to expropriate some 275 acres of farmlands that belong to Palestinian farmers near Hebron, Palestinian sources reported. Palestinian News Network said…
Dozens of settlers of Oranit settlement, near the West Bank city of Qalqilia, uprooted olive trees that belong to residents of nearby villages that became isolated behind the annexation Wall,…
Nearly 150 Palestinian residents of Bil’in village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, and 100 Israeli and international peace activists, protested against the Israeli annexation Wall and the ongoing…
Palestinian residents of Bil’in village, Israeli and international peace activists protested on Friday against the Israeli Annexation Wall, and the ongoing military offensive in Palestine and Lebanon that claimed the…
At least ten Israeli army reservists living in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank have threatened to refuse service if called up to fight in Lebanon, Haaretz newspaper reported. …
At least 250 Palestinian residents of the village of Bil’in, west of Ramallah, along with some 50 Israeli and international peace activists, protested against the Israeli military attacks in Lebanon…
Local, Israeli and international peace activists in Bil’in said that a victory for the Palestinian villagers of Bil’in was achieved after the Israeli High Court of Justice ruled on Thursday,…
Official sources in the Palestinian Office of the Public Land Defense Committee announced Thursday that the Israeli government will confiscate another 215 dunams of land for the Wall. This time…
The roads are closed and Jenin is besieged. Israeli forces are not allowing the northern West Bank residents to move, claiming “hot warnings.” The armed Palestinian resistance may conduct operations…
Hundreds of Palestinian nonviolent activists took the streets outside Bethlehem in protest of the Israeli Annexation Wall. Al Khader Village is being forced under the shadow of the 25-foot concrete…
Al Arabiya television said on Friday the Israeli army had found the body of an Israeli soldier who had previously been reported missing, in southern Lebanon. Earlier on Friday, Israel…
At the weekly protest in Bil’in village, west of Ramallah in the West Bank, Palestinians, internationals and Israelis challenged the recent Israeli decision to block certain holders of American passports…
Many of the merchants in the city of Qalqilia, a city of 40,000 that is completely surrounded by the Israeli Wall, are reporting that the Israeli authorities have closed the…
The Hani Abu Haykal family, which lives directly opposite the Tel Rumeida settlement in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of Al-Khalil (Hebron), has received a written military order declaring the street…
In the spring of 1948, some Jewish mukhtars (headmen) of Jewish colonies in Palestinian went over to the Arab Palestinian mukhtars in the nearby villages which maintained good neighbourly relations…
In an unprecedented step, Palestinian members of the Israeli Knesset are being asked to resign collectively. Hussein Al Arvaian, President of the Regional Council of Unrecognized Villages in the Negev…
The Palestine Liberation Organization released a report Sunday regarding an upswing in Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank in recent weeks. The settler attacks are in addition…
Dozens of residents of Bil’in village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Israeli and international peace activists, along with a Basque Nationalist musical group, protested on Friday against the…
Israeli military bulldozers started to level wide areas of lands owned by the residents of Al faraheen area east of Khan Younis south of Gaza Strip on Thursday. Local eyewitnesses…
The security cabinet, after convening in Jerusalem Wednesday morning has agreed to expand operations in Gaza, which will likely include a significant expansion of the buffer zone in the north…
Palestinian factions responsible for the capture of the Israeli soldier released their third military communique setting a deadline for the conclusion of negotiations.Palestinian factions responsible for the capture of the…
Israeli settler youth have continued to trash an internationally funded project intended to make it safer for Palestinian girls living in the Tel Rumeida section of Al-Khalil (Hebron) to reach…
According to official sources in the General Land Defense Committee in the Hebron District, Israeli forces continued to build a fence around yet another illegal Israeli settlement south of Hebron.…
On the morning of Tuesday 27th of June, Israeli bulldozers guarded with armed personnel started cutting and uprooting olive trees in the Cremisan area of Beit Jala in preparation for…
The ‘Jews-only’ settlement of ‘Elkana’, built on illegally seized Palestinian land, has begun construction of an additional 54 houses on farmland belonging to Mas’ha village farmers. Elkana settlement has been…
International peace activists from all around the world have become a friend of Palestinian farmers and villagers who are isolated from their orchards by the Israeli annexation Wall. Their nonviolent…
Approximately 250 Palestinians and 60 international and Israeli peace activists protested on Friday against Israel’s annexation Wall in Bil’in village, west of Ramallah in the West Bank. Several protesters, wearing…
The Israeli Supreme Court has rejected two challenges to the route of the West Bank annexation Wall in and around the occupied east Jerusalem, allowing construction to proceed as planned…
Friday and Saturday, Israeli soldiers started bulldozing farmlands belonging to Palestinian families from Sabastia village, near Nablus, in an operation that aims to expand the nearby Shavei Shomron Settlement. Resident…
Friday, dozens of residents of Bil’in village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, along with dozens of Israeli and international peace activists held their weekly protest against the annexation…
Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, instructed the Israel army on Thursday to conclude preparations for the evacuation of illegal settlement outposts in the West Bank within two weeks. The first…
The Israeli Newspaper Maariv reported on Thursday that the Jerusalem Municipality is planning to construct houses, a huge parking lot, Mall and a hotel in what is known as the…
Beit Ayn settlers are being supported by the Israeli military, police, and secret service in their campaign to seize land owned by a Palestinian family near Hebron. While the settlers…
Israeli military bulldozers uprooted on Saturday morning dozens of olive treas that belong to the sons of Mahmoud Hussein Al Sheikh, from Snieria village, south of the West Bank city…
Hundreds of Palestinian residents, Israel and International peace activists protested on Friday against Israel’s annexation Wall in the West Bank village of Bil’in, near Ramallah, and expressed their support and…
Israeli settlers from Gosh Atzion Settlement to the southwest of Bethlehem tore through the streets of Bethlehem area villages Friday. The settlers were protesting their inability to use more of…
The Israeli High Court of Justice rejected on Tuesday a petition filed by the Israeli Peace Now movement demanding the government to evacuate six illegal settlement outposts installed on private…
Israeli Justice Minister, Haim Ramon, reported on Sunday that the evacuation of West Bank illegal settlements outposts will commence in a few weeks time, and that a ministerial committee is…
Israel has begun laying the foundations for a new Jewish settlement deep in the West Bank — breaking a promise to Washington while strengthening its hold on a stretch of…
Approximately six hundred Palestinian residents and one hundred Israeli and international peace activists along with several members of the Palestinian Legislative Council protested on Friday against the annexation Wall in…
An Israeli poll conducted by the The GeoCartographia Research Institute in Israeli revealed that 44% of the settlers in the West Bank are willing to voluntarily evacuate from the settlements…
The Israeli High Court of Justice approved Tuesday the continued construction of the annexation Wall around the settlement Shavei Shomron despite the petition against it. The wall isolates the residents…
Israeli authorities issued a military order to annex 30 Dunams of Palestinian lands that belong to residents of Al Jab’a village, south-east of Bethlehem. The annexed lands will be used…
The Israeli government has approved a decision to expand N. Maskiyot settlement in Jordan Valley, seizing Palestinian land for a ‘military training base’. This expansion of the settlement will expel…
An Israeli army and police force stopped on Saturday Israeli peace activists and Palestinian farmers and prevented them from delivering water to Susa village near Hebron. The village has been…
During his speech in front of the US congress on Wednesday evening, the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, attacked the Palestinian Authority headed by Hamas, and claimed that Hamas is…
One week ago heavily guarded Israeli bulldozers dredged the lands of Amatin Village, 15 kilometers east of Qalqiliya in the area known as Jabal Abu Suwayd. Farmer Al Haji Suleiman…
Israeli online daily Haaretz reported on Wednesday that at least two settler families moved on Tuesday into apartments in a illegal settlement neighborhood of the West Bank settlement of Upper…
The Israeli High Court of Justice rejected on Tuesday an appeal filed by the residents of Al Ezariyya town, east of Jerusalem, against the rout of the annexation Wall which…
Israeli High Court of Justice approved on Monday the route of the annexation Wall near Qalqilia, north of the West Bank. The decision involves isolating thousands of Dunams of Palestinian…
Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, has approved on Sunday the expansion of four West Bank settlements, the first such approvals since he came to office. Peretz considers the expansion…
King Abdullah II of Jordan wrote to the U.S President, George W. Bush urging him to "explore all opportunities to achieve the president’s vision for a two-state solution”, and to…
Peace activists of Taayush organization (Arab – Jewish Partnership) and the Israeli Peace Now Movement, along with Palestinian farmers from the West Bank city of Hebron, organized on Saturday voluntary …
The Israeli Ynetnews reported that Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz renewed evacuation orders for a 12 illegal settlement outposts in the West Bank Wednesday night, as directed by Israel’s Prime…
The Israeli group Peace Now held a protest tour Friday near the illegal Israeli settlement of Maon farm, near the West Bank City of Hebron, following the violent behaviour of…
Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, gave the Palestinian Government a period that has a maximum time limit of six months to respond to his conditions for the resumption of peace…
The Israeli government, headed by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, started on Wednesday morning implementing what is known as “The Negev and Galilee Development Plan” by demolishing three Arab houses in…
Leaders of the Yesha Council of settlements met on Monday to discuss what was described as “thwarting withdrawals” planned by the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, and to discuss the…
A report Monday from the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign said since the beginning of May, Israeli occupation forces have begun uprooting farming lands in the southwest of Jeeb village…
Three Palestinian school children were injured in the West Bank city of Hebron after being attacked by extremist settlers living in illegal settlement outpost in the city. The attack was…
In an address to the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) on Thursday, Interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that Israeli settlements built illegally in the West Bank will establish the final…
Israeli settlers in the southern West Bank area of Hebron are beating Palestinian’s donkeys without mercy. An armed group from Kiryat Arba, the first settlement in the West Bank imposed…
Israeli settlers living illegally in Hebron, in the Palestinian West Bank, prevented Wednesday afternoon Palestinian school children from returning home from school in Hebron to their home village in Umm…
Israeli settlers living illegally in Hebron, in the Palestinian West Bank, prevented Wednesday afternoon Palestinian school children from returning home from school in Hebron to their home village in Umm…
On Monday Israeli authorites began to construct the Annexation Wall in Ras Khamees neighborhood, in Shu’fat refugee camp near Jerusalem despite a court ruling opposing the closure of the area…
Israel will unilaterally, pullout from some areas in the West Bank in the coming four years, stats the agreement signed between the majority party Kadima and its ally the Labor…
Palestinians from the village of Hawara, south of Nablus, accused settlers on Sunday of sneaking into a quarry in the middle of the night Saturday and torching trucks and an…
400 Palestinian residents of Bilin village, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, 30 Israelis and 40 international peace activists, protested on Friday against the Israeli annexation Wall, and against…
The Israeli High Court of Justice ruled, on Wednesday, that it will allow Israel to complete the construction of the annexation wall surrounding Jerusalem. Dozens of Palestinian petitioners appealed to…
All week, Palestinians living in the village of Aqaba, in the western part of the Jordan Valley, have been receiving demolition orders on their homes and village buildings from Israeli…
Anata secondary school in East Jerusalem has been experiencing daily incursions by Israeli forces, as the Israeli Annexation Wall runs through the middle of the schoolyard. Israeli soldiers arrived en…
The plan unveiled by newly-elected Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, euphemized as the "Convergence", which will consolidate many of the 450,000 Israeli settlers living illegally in the Palestinian West Bank…
Palestinian and Israeli sources confirmed that a body found in a burned car Thursday morning in Jericho was that of Mahmoud Abu Al-Hawa, apparently attacked for selling East Jerusalem property…
Israeli security sources reported on Tuesday that soldiers arrested last night a Palestinian resident who bit a soldier during a protest against the Wall in Bil’in village, west of Ramallah…
Extremist settlers in Jerusalem, and under-cover units of the Israeli army. attacked on Sunday a four-story Palestinian residential building in Al Tour village, east of Jerusalem, and forced the families…
Early in the morning of April 9, 1948, commandos of the Irgun Israeli militia (headed by Menachem Begin) and the Stern Gang attacked Deir Yassin, a village with about 750…
A group of extremist armed settlers attacked on Saturday several Palestinian Shepherds east of Sa’ir village, in Hebron district; one shepherd was badly injured in his face. A medical source…
Abdullah Abu Rahma, coordinator of the Popular committee Against the Wall in Bil’in village, west of Ramallah, reported on Friday that dozens of residents, Israeli and international peace activists protested…
Since Ehud Olmert’s election as the new Israeli Prime Minister on March 27, Israeli settlers living illegally in the occupied Palestinian West Bank have increased attacks on Palestinians and internationals,…
The Israeli Peace Now movement intends to petition the Israeli High Court of Justice to order the evacuations of six illegal West Bank outposts. Israeli online daily, Ynetnews, reported that…
A new report issued Tuesday by the International Solidarity for Human Rights Organization indicates that Israel confiscated 2,432.3 Dunams of Palestinian land in the first quarter of 2006. The report…
The Israeli High Court is slated to issue a ruling regarding installing a “security Wall” around several roads in the Hebron Mountain area after it held a session on Monday…
Palestinian farmers across the West Bank are finding it increasingly difficult to plough their fields as Israeli settlers, living illegally on Palestinian land, increase their attacks. Rabbis for Human…
An extremist Israeli settler group of the Ramat Yishai illegal settlement outpost, in Hebron, attacked on Saturday three Palestinian farmers and a Swedish peace activist in Tal Romeida neighborhood in…