Category: Israeli Settlement

Several dozen female settlers from the West Bank blocked a main road in the Gaza Strip and clashed Wednesday afternoon with police officers and Israel army soldiers.  Settlers, who were…

The Israeli Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee is set to meet on March 21 to vote on the first reading of a bill that would mandate a referendum on…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is likely to announce Wednesday that he will implement the principles of the Sasson Report, which calls for the dismantling of unauthorized settlers’ outposts.   Israeli…

The Likud Central Committee approved a resolution Thursday urging the party’s MKs to work for enacting legislation to allow a referendum on the disengagement plan. The resolution was passed with…

The Israeli army announced on Wednesday that it intends to annex 10677 Dunams of Palestinian family farmlands in the villages of Al-Sammoua’, Yatta, and Al-Thaheriyya “near the southern West Bank…

Leaders of Settlements Council in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip met on Tuesday evening with the Israeli Minister of Interior, and Police chiefs in Tel Aviv. The settlers…

Half of the Israeli settler families living in the Gush Katif settlement bloc in the Gaza Strip have expressed readiness to leave the settlement and negotiate with the government for…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told Likud Central Committee chairman Tzachi Hanegbi on Tuesday that he would agree to let Likud members to work toward requiring a referendum on the…

A Druze soldier asked Tuesday Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz to respond to reports that rabbis issued a halakhic ruling permitting live fire on Druze and Bedouin soldiers and police…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is to consider the decision to remove the structures from the settlements after the intended pullout from the Gaza Strip settlements and the four northern…

Sunday, the Israeli police reported in a press conference, that a Jewish company known as “Hemnota” forged documents of Palestinian land ownership and sold it to the Kerin Kayemit, “The…

The Israeli army developed a cannon shell which produces the sound of a normal tank shell, but when fired it does not use explosive charges; army officials said that it…

Kerin Kayemit (The Permanent Israeli Fund) has prepared a plan to expand Israeli settlements in the West Bank ; the plan includes building 6391 new flats and legalizing 120 illegal…

Israeli chief of staff of the air force, Eliezer Shkedi said that when Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip next summer, its apaches, unmanned planes, and other military sensors will…

The Israeli Peace Bloc, Gush Shalom, said that the Israeli government is planning more settlements in the West Bank, in violation to assurances given to the U.S. and to the Palestinian Authority. Gush Shalom revealed…

29 Likud MKs and ministers, including both opponents and supporters of the disengagement plan, are demanding a referendum on the plan before it is implemented. All have signed a letter…

Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz Thursday ordered senior defense ministry officials to prepare a shortened timetable for implementing the disengagement plan. The current timetable requires 8 weeks for evacuating all…

Israel army Chief of Staff Moshe Ya’alon approved this week guidelines for dealing with soldiers who refuse to evacuate settlements. He also decided that units slated to take part in…

An Israeli Foreign Ministry report said that 10 Arab countries will establish full relations with Israel immediately after the pullout from the Gaza strip and parts of the northern West…

Last Monday, Israeli settler leader Pinhas Wallerstein said that the Yesha Council of the Israeli Settlements of the West Bank and the Gaza strip plans to carry out 100,000 demonstrators…

Israel will reconsider its decision to demolish homes in Gaza Strip and West Bank settlements evacuated during the disengagement. Israeli Cabinet Secretary General Yisrael Maimon told Tuesday Israeli Army Radio…

Dov Weisglass, the top aid of Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, said Monday that he expects that settlers would voluntarily evacuate settlements without pressure, due to government generosity in compensating…

Ayed Kamal, head of Madama village council, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus , said on Saturday that the village’s spring was deliberately contaminated and its water supply…

Palestinian Authority officials welcomed on Sunday the Israeli decision to pull out from the Gaza Strip, but warned that the move was insufficient. The officials described the Israeli government’s vote…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stated that the Palestinian Authority would ensure that the Gaza withdrawal takes place quietly – which Israel views as a concern. The Palestinians, Abbas said, would…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his defense minister Shaul Mofaz signed sunday evening the orders to evacuate some Gaza Strip and West Bank settlements.   The Israeli cabinet approved…

Israeli police arrested Saturday night 5 settlers, including a minor, suspected of physically assaulting Palestinians and Israeli soldiers in the old city of Hebron. The five settlers, whom identity was…

Israeli vice Premier Shimon Peres said Friday that quitting the Philadilphi axis at the Egyptian borders remains a possibility. {mosimage}Peres’s comments came as a response to a warning from Palestinian…

The Israeli cabinet session is expected to be a ‘Super Sunday’ in which two major issues are going to be decided upon. {mosimage}Israeli ministers are to vote on the evacuation…

Mohammed al-Alabbar, A billionaire from the United Arab Emirates, has offered to buy the real estate assets of settlements in the Gaza Strip, Israeli TV Channel 2 reported on Thursday…

According to Israel Radio, Palestinian Authority security official Mohammed Dahlan said that the PA will ensure that Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip is not carried out under fire, but…

Following the Israeli Knesset approval of the evacuation compensations bill, the Israeli cabinet is called Sunday to approve in principle the evacuation of all Gaza Strip settlements plus four isolated…

Following the Israeli Knesset approval of the evacuation compensations bill, the Israeli cabinet is called Sunday to approve in principle the evacuation of all Gaza Strip settlements plus four isolated…

The Israeli Knesset approved Wednesday evening the Evacuation Compensation bill, which is a key bill in the way to implement the disengagement plan. {mosimage}The bill’s third and final reading was…

Articles of the evacuation bill, which is slated for voting at the Knesset plenary on Wednesday, revealed that the compensation bill to settlers and businesses in the Gaza Strip and…

The Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, said on Tuesday that Israel will coordinate his disengagement plan with the Palestinian Authority. {mosimage}In a statement which was described as a “clearest”, Sharon…

Eleven Israeli police officers were lightly hurt Monday evening in clashes with right-wing activists, who attempted to block traffic in many streets around the country, protesting against the disengagement plan.…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee on Monday that he expects the evacuation of settlements in the Gaza Strip and the northern West…

The Israeli online daily Haaretz reported that dozens of Israeli right wing extremists moved recently into the Gaza Strip after changing their addresses to the Gush Katif settlement bloc. {mosimage}The…

Settlers of Itamar in the Nablus area clashed with Israeli Border Police soldiers on Sunday morning at an unauthorized outpost adjacent to the settlement. {mosimage}Border Police officers arrived at the…

The Israeli Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee is scheduled to look at and vote on the penalty clauses of the settlers’ evacuation compensation bill on Sunday. {mosimage}As it stands…

Israeli Police on Friday morning arrested six settlers in the southern Gaza Strip after settlers hurled stones at Palestinians crossing the Gush Katif junction and attempted to pullout drivers out…

Israeli army and security forces decided to freeze plans for a water channel along the Gaza strip borders with Egypt. {mosimage}The decision followed successful talks between Israel and the Palestinians…

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon affirmed Wednesday that a referendum on the disengagement plan will not happen. Speaking to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Sharon accused that calls for the referendum are…

Israeli Education Minister Limor Livnat called the vote legal, but not legitimate, creating uproar among opposition groups. {mosimage}Livnat to ld Israeli army radio that she felt ‘uncomfortable’ knowing that passage…

Israeli soldiers handed residents form the village of Yatta , east of Hebron , military orders to annex family farmlands in the areas of Tal Al-Tawani, and Um Sabba. {mosimage}Moshe…

A number of Gush Katif settlers are looking into forfeiting their Israeli citizenship in order to stay in their settlements even if the disengagement is implemented. {mosimage}’If it comes to…

Despite the government’s commitment to dismantle unauthorized settlers’ outposts, Settlement and settlement outpost construction continued in 2004, according to Peace Now’s annual outpost report published Wednesday.   According to Peace…

The settlers are proceeding with construction in unauthorized outposts, including the ones earmarked for evacuation, army source reported. The army civil administration authority reported that in Givat Haroeh outpost, near…

The Israeli online daily Haaretz reported that the head of the Supreme Court in Israel Aharon Barak, issued preemptive ruling barring the “civil administration” in the West Bank from demolishing…

In a poll conducted by Market Watch, upon request from the Israeli Peace Now movement, shows that 28 percent of the settlers support disengagement, including the pullout from Gaza Strip…

The Israeli news website ArabYnet reported that Israeli settlers in Gaza Strip bought a piece of land approximately 30 Dunams, (7.5 Acres) adjacent to the settlement of Kfar Darom in…

A clash erupted between Israeli settlers and the Palestinian Police who redeployed in the area of Neve Dikalim in Gaza Strip.   The clash, which is the first of its…

Palestine News Network (PNN) reported on Thursday that dozens of villagers from Huwwara, south of Nablus , complain of the continuous settlers attacks against them and their family farmlands. Hasan Sweity reported…

The Israeli government decided to implement the Absentee Property Law in East Jerusalem. The decision passed quietly last July, but is published because of a plan to build a new…

Soldiers guarding the settlement of Mevo Dotan in the West Bank are suspected of breaking into settlers’ homes and stealing electrical appliances, Israel Radio reported on Monday. According to Israel…

The Israeli Army on Sunday dismantled one of its bases in the settlement of Yitzhar in the Nablus region after Israeli settlers demanded the army leave. The soldiers left, the…

An Israel army officer was lightly wounded overnight in a confrontation with Jewish settlers near the West Bank city of Nablus. Three settlers posting flyers calling soldiers to refuse orders…

The number of settlers living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip settlements increased by 6 percent last year. According to statistics published Sunday by the Israeli Interior Ministry’s Population…

Leaders of the Yesha Council of Settlements on Wednesday accused Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of demonizing and de-legitimizing the settlers. Senior Yesha officials accused that the confrontation between soldiers…

The Israeli army has said lately that young West Bank settlers are arriving in numbers into Gaza settlements to join attempts to disrupt the implementation of the disengagement plan.  Army…

Israeli newspaper online Haaretz said police arrested two female settlers while stealing olives from a Palestinian olive grove near the village of Sinjil north of Ramallah. The two girls who…

The Zionist Council will publish its annual report soon. Early findings reveals that more Jews left Israel than moved in during the year 2004. According to information from the Israeli…

Two Jewish families moved into a house near Rachel’s Tomb in the West Bank city of Bethlehem this week. The two families joined yeshiva students who earlier moved to the…

An Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, said on its online edition on Sunday that more than 140 settlers are preparing to erect two settlement outposts in Hebron, in the West Bank.…

An Israeli military source said that three soldiers and two Palestinian activists were shot dead on Thursday morning in a fire exchange which erupted in the settlement on Thursday morning.…

Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom assured the Bush administration Tuesday that Israel would not build or enlarge any settlements, but would continue construction in “built up areas” to meet “natural…

The Israeli High Court of Justice on Monday turned down settlers’ petitions against the evacuation of the unauthorized West Bank outpost of Givat Haroeh. Residents of the outpost said that…

In an interview he gave to the Guardian newspaper on Thursday, the British Foreign Minister Jack Straw criticized Israel’s plans of building 1000 more settlers housing units in the West…

Israeli Agriculture Minister Israel Katz revealed Tuesday plans to expropriate some 31,000 dunams (8,000 Acres) of land to expand Jewish settlements in the Jordan Valley. Katz said he intended to…

The Israeli Defense Ministry is considering using an Israeli satellite to take photographs of all settlements in the West Bank to help Israeli teams negotiate with their American counterparts the…

Until a few years ago, the small settlement of Harasha in the western part of the northern West Bank was defined as an outpost. Harasha, on a hill 780 meters…

Army is preparing to remove three caravans placed near the unauthorized West Bank outpost of Givat Assaf, Israel Radio reported. Hundreds of settlers arrived at the site late on Wednesday.…

Israeli News Paper Yodot Ahranot revealed Monday a new plan to build 533 new housing units in West Bank settlements, and that the government increased considerably subsidies allocated to settlements.…

Israel has begun building 100 new housing units in the Har Gilo settlement outside Jerusalem, political sources said Monday. They said construction of the new housing at Har Gilo, which…

The Israeli Housing Ministry published Tuesday tenders for the construction of some 1,000 new housing units in West Bank settlements. The tenders include 604 homes in Betar Ilit, 214 in…

The son of Itamar settlement security coordinator, who was killed on Friday’s shooting incident, lashed out at Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for planning to allow Palestinian police to carry…

Olmert: Wide scale evacuation of WB settlements needed; Sharon trembled with rage; Right wing points finger at Sharon as standing behind Olmert’s comments. A source in Israeli Prime Minister Ariel…

Under direct Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s instructions, the Housing Ministry has temporarily halted and reexamining tenders for the construction of over 1,000 housing units in the Palestinian territories. It…

The government of Israel will try to evacuate unauthorized West Bank settler’s outposts before the U.S. presidential elections in November, sources in the PM office said Saturday. Israeli Prime Minister…

Sharon told Friday U.S. envoy Eliot Abrams he would keep his promise to remove unauthorized settlers’ outposts. ‘I am steadfast in my promise on the issue of the outposts,’ he…

The Israeli Ambassador to Washington Dani Ayalon said the decision to build the new 600 housing units in Ma’aleh Adomim, east of Jerusalem, is not a violation of previous commitment…

The Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told the visiting US envoys on Tuesday that Israel intends to dismantle the unauthorized settlers’ outpost in the West Bank as soon as possible.…

Israel handed Tuesday a list of 28 unauthorized West Bank settler outposts to the U.S. U.S. Ambassador Dan Kurtzer, after a six-week delay. The handover of the list came a…

While the Israeli Defense Ministry was officially supposed to be dismantling unauthorized settler outposts, the Housing Ministry had been financing them through budgets sent to established settlements that would sponsor…

The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue, Mifath, said that the continuous increase of settlements aims to diminish any opportunity to establish a Palestinian viable independent state in…

Netanyahu have authorized on Monday a new budget of NIS 300 millionIMEMC & Agencies, June 15, 2004 Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have authorized on…

the Palestinian village of Walajah south of Jerusalem was submittedIMEMC Staff & agencies, June 11, 2004 A private plan to build a new settlement on 2000 dunams of land near…

Israeli police reported Wednesday that during the year 2004, settlers’ attacks against Palestinian residents, especially in the northern West Bank and Hebron areas, increased considerably. Since January 2004, there has…

by settlers at the site of the unauthorized Hazon David outpost nearGhassan Andoni-IMEMC & Agencies, May 25,2004 Army and border police dismantled Tuesday morning a structure built by settlers at…

Israel failed to submit a list of unauthorized settlement outpostsU.S. IMEMC Staff & Agencies, May 17, 2004 Israel failed to submit a list of unauthorized settlement outposts on the West…

list of the unauthorized settlers’ outposts to the U.S.IMEMC Staff & Agencies, May 17, 2004 Following the published news over the failure of Israel to submit a list of the…

outposts, a Peace Now report released Monday, based on a study theyIMEMC Staff & Agencies, May 10, 2004 In the midst of talks around evacuating unauthorized settlers’ outposts, a Peace…

be used to build outposts in the West Bank.IMEMC Staff, May 5, 2004 17:20 The Israeli Housing and Construction Ministry has released money to be used to build outposts in…

West Bank Settlement blocs, said sources close to the Israeli PrimeIMEMC & Agencies, April 17, 2004 After the visit to Washington, ‘Israel is planning to expand the West Bank Settlement…

Tuesday morning for talks over his disengagement plan with U.S.IMEMC Staff & Agencies, April 13, 2004 Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon departed for Washington early Tuesday morning for talks over…

Sharon and his Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz decided to evacuate 5IMEMC Staff & Agencies, April 13, 2004 Army Radio reported Tuesday that the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his…

sign a document of principles that sets the ground rules for theIMEMC & Agencies, April 9, 2004 The Yesha Council of Settlements has backed out of an agreement to sign…

demolished an illegal settlement Wednesday morning, near theIMEMC & Agencies, March 31, 2004 Settlers and Boarder police clashed after some 300 Israeli soldiers demolished an illegal settlement Wednesday morning, near…

prevented the army and the police from removing a mobile house setupMEMC & Agencies, February 21, 2004 The Israeli Radio reported that Hundreds of Israeli settlers prevented the army and…