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…
Israeli Settlers begin construction of a new road in Hebron
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…
More lands to be annexed in Bethlehem for Wall construction, and settler roads
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…
Israel issues tenders to build 690 settlement homes in the occupied West Bank
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…
Troops annex more lands in Bethlehem for `“military purposes`
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 formally annexes 14% of northern Bethlehem
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…
Local residents, international peace activists protest against the Wall in Al Khader
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…
Peace activists protest against the Israeli Wall in Bilin, demand implemention of High Court Ruling
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…
Protest held in solidarity with a Bethlehem resident who lost his shop to the Israeli Wall
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…
Nonviolent movement claims partial victory as part of settlement dismantled near Bil’in
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…
Attorney: Justice Ministry’s plan would ‘launder’ illegal West Bank outposts
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…
Troops attack peaceful demonstrators at anti-Wall protest in Bil’in
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…
Settlers in West Bank kill Palestinian man returning to his home
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. …
More lands annexed near Jerusalem to install `“fortified checkpoint`
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.…
Olmert: `“In view of war in Lebanon, convergence plan is not a top priority`
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…
Israel to expropriate 275 acres near Hebron
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…
Settlers uproot trees near Qalqilia, use the orchards as stables for horses
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,…
Bilin protest marches against the Wall, Israeli aggression in Palestine, Lebanon
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…
Bil’in residents, peace activists protest the Wall, Israel’s offensive in Lebanon and Palestine
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…
Settlers threaten to refuse service in Lebanon if called up
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. …
Peace activists protest against the Wall in Bil’in, against the killing of Lebanese and Palestinians
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…
Israeli High Court bans new construction of Matityahu East settlement, near Ramallah
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,…
Israeli government confiscating 215 dunams of Palestinian land between Hebron and Bethlehem for Wall
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…
“They have closed every exit, as if they want to strangle peopleâ€ÂÂ
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…
Palestinian nonviolent resistance combats Israeli Wall in Bethlehem area village
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…
Five Israeli soldiers killed since last night in southern Lebanon
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…
Hundreds protest Israeli apartheid by holding engagement ceremony at Wall construction site
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…
Israeli forces preventing goods from leaving Qalqilia in West Bank
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…
Israeli Army in Hebron Violates Israeli High Court Order – Again
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…
Reversing ethnic cleansing: The Right to Return Home
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…
Jewish members of the Israeli Knesset calling for the mass resignation of Arab MPs
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…
Report: Israeli settler violence against Palestinians on the rise
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…
Palestinian, Israeli and international peace activists protest against the Wall in Bil’in
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…
Army vehicles bulldoze farmlands in Khan Younis area
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…
Security Council agrees to expand buffer zone in North Gaza
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…
Deadline: 6am July 4th
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…
More Settler Vandalism in Hebron
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…
Soldiers confiscate Palestinian lands for settlement fence in Hebron
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.…
Beit Jala;the Annexation Wall goes Ahead at Full Speed
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…
Mas’ha village land seized for expansion of Elkana settlement
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…
Peace activists play an important role in helping Palestinian farmers isolated by the Wall
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…
Peace activists, residents of Bil’in protest against the Wall
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…
Israeli court backs wall route around Jerusalem
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…