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Israeli Colonizers Construct a Settlement Road Near Hebron, Invade Al-Aqsa Mosque
Illegal Israeli colonizers, on Thursday, attacked Palestinian citizens, began the construction of a settlement road near Hebron, and invaded the…
Israeli Forces Attack Weekly Anti-settlement Marches in Kufur Qaddoum, Beit Dajan, and Occupied East Jerusalem
Israeli forces attacked, on Friday, three separate anti-settlement protests in the occupied West Bank, assaulted a Palestinian journalist, and caused…
Israeli Forces Assault and Injure the Mayor of Beit Dajan, Attack Protestors at the Weekly Anti-Settlement March
Israeli forces attacked, on Friday, non-violent Palestinian demonstrators in the village of Beit Dajan, assaulted the mayor and injured at…
Israeli Forces Injure Palestinians at Weekly Anti-Settlement March, Near Nablus
Israeli forces attacked, on Friday, the peaceful anti-settlement protest, and injured several Palestinians in the village of Beit Dajan, southeast…
Israeli Army Shoots Two Palestinians at the Weekly Anti-Settlement March in Kufur Qaddoum
On Friday, Israeli forces shot and injured two Palestinian young men, and caused dozens more to suffer the effects of…
WAFA: Foreign ministry welcomes UN resolution calling for updating database of companies operating in illegal Israeli settlements
RAMALLAH, Friday, July 14, 2023 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates welcomed in a statement the Human…
Israel Advances Bill to Re-Occupy Four Colonial Settlements
Wafa News Agency reported Thursday that the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee in the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) approved a bill…
WAFA: “Foreign Ministry rejects Israel’s decision to expand its colonial settlement enterprise”
RAMALLAH, Monday, February 13, 2023 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today said it rejects what it…
WAFA: “Settlement Resistance Commission: Israel issued 5,820 demolition orders and removal of structures since 2015”
RAMALLAH, Saturday, January 14, 2023 (WAFA) – The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission said today that the Israeli occupation authorities…
WAFA: “Israel to turn over 360 dunums of usurped Palestinian land in Salfit to legalize a settlement outpost”
RAMALLAH, Wednesday, November 23, 2022 (WAFA) – The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission said today that the Israeli occupation authorities…
WAFA: “Israeli occupation to approve 3,412 settlement units in Jerusalem”
RAMALLAH, Sunday, September 4, 2022 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation’s Planning and Construction Committee in Occupied Jerusalem is considering the…
US Judge Forces Ben & Jerry’s to Sell Ice Cream in Israeli Settlements
In an unprecedented ruling against free speech and the right to boycott, a judge in the United States ruled this…
WAFA: “Israel approves a plan to establish a new illegal settlement in Salfit”
BETHLEHEM, Thursday, August 11, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli authorities today approved a plan to establish a new illegal settlement on…
WAFA: “Settlers seeking to build a settlement outpost set up tents on Palestinian-owned land east of Hebron”
HEBRON, Thursday, July 21, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers today set up a number of tents and wooden caravans on…
WAFA: ” Israel legalizes a settlement outpost east of Ramallah, adds more than 100 housing units to it”
RAMALLAH, Tuesday, July 19, 2022 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation authorities have legalized the Mitzpe Dani settlement outpost built east…
WAFA: “In an effort to desiccate the Palestinian communities in the Jordan Valley, Settlements Council seizes water tanker”
WAFA – In their efforts to desiccate the Palestinian communities in the Jordan Valley in a step to force them…
WAFA: “Palestinian group says Israel okayed a new settlement project near Qalqilia in north of West Bank”
QALQIIA, Thursday, July 14, 2022 (WAFA) – The Bethlehem-based Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem (ARIJ) said today that the Israeli occupation authorities…
PCHR: “In Consolidation of Apartheid: Israeli Construction Plans for 4,000 Settlement Units in West Bank As Supreme Court of Israel Approves Displacement of Hundreds of Palestinians in Hebron”
Date: 07 May 2022: The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the Israeli decision to build thousands of settlement units…
PCHR: “Israeli Prime Minister Renews Support for Settlement Crimes in Occupied Palestinian Territory”
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest terms statements made yesterday by the Israeli Prime Minister,…
Army Injures Several Palestinians at Anti-Settlement Protests Near Nablus
Israeli forces attacked, on Friday, anti-settlement demonstrations in Beita, Beit Dajan and Qaryout near Nablus city, in the northern occupied…
Israel Approves Plan to Connect Settlements in West Bank with West Jerusalem
Israel has approved a 1 billion shekel ($310 million USD) plan to connect the illegal settlements in occupied East Jerusalem…
Israel Authorizes 1,500 New Settlement Units in Occupied Jerusalem
The Israeli occupation authorized, on Thursday, a settlement scheme for 1,500 units in occupied Jerusalem between the French Hill…
WAFA: “Four EU countries urge Israel to halt colonial settlement construction in Jerusalem”
Ramallah, Thursday, January 20, 2022 (WAFA) – The foreign ministers of four EU countries urged Israel on Wednesday evening to…
Israel Develops Further Golan Settlement Expansion Plans
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is presenting a plan to expand settlement in the occupied Syrian Golan, including two new…
Finland Introduces Bill to Stop Imports from Israeli Settlements
A pivotal bill was recently introduced in the Finnish parliament that would prohibit all merchandise imported from the illegal Israeli…
Palestine Chronicle: “Words without Action: The West’s Role in Israel’s Illegal Settlement Expansion”
By Dr. Ramzy Baroud for the Palestine Chronicle: The international uproar in response to Israel’s approval of a massive expansion…
UN experts: Israeli Settlement Expansion ‘Tramples’ on Human Rights Law
GENEVA (3 November 2021) – United Nations Office of the High Commissioner GENEVA (3 November 2021) – UN human rights…
WAFA: “Israeli settlers continue to set up mobile homes on occupied Palestinian land to expand settlement”
NABLUS, Thursday, July 15, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers continued today to set up mobile homes near the villages of…
Human Rights Expert Michael Lynk; Israeli Settlements Amount to a War Crime
Michael Lynk, United Nations (UN) special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), spoke last week in…
Army Injures Dozens in West Bank Protests Against Settlements
Scores of Palestinian demonstrators were injured, on Friday, when Israeli forces attacked peaceful protests across the occupied West Bank, the…
EuroMed: Israel demolished 58 Palestinian facilities, built 5,000 settlement units in Jerusalem in 2021
Israel has demolished 31 homes and 27 Palestinian facilities after plans to construct 4,982 new settlement units were approved, since…
WAFA: “UN official: Israeli settlements damage prospects of a Palestinian state”
NEW YORK, Thursday, March 25, 2021 (WAFA) – UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland said today…
B’Tselem & Kerem Navot Report: “This Is Ours – And This, Too: Israel’s Settlement Policy in the West Bank”
A new report issued last week by B’Tselem and Kerem Navot, “This Is Ours – And This, Too: Israel’s Settlement…
WAFA: “African leaders: Israeli settlements on occupied territories are illegal”
ADDIS ABABA, Sunday, February 07, 2021 (WAFA) – African leaders reaffirmed today that all Israeli settlements erected on the occupied…
WAFA: “Foreign Ministry pledges to legally pursue US ambassador to Israel for recognizing settlement project”
RAMALLAH, Tuesday, January 19, 2021 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today pledged to legally pursue the…
Israeli Settlement Expansion Condemned by PA, EU and Numerous Countries
In response to Israel’s announcement that they have approved an additional 780 colonial settlement units, a number of countries have…
Israeli Authorities Approve 780 New Settlement Units in Advance of Trump’s Exit
As the US government prepares to inaugurate Joe Biden as President on Wednesday, the Israeli government announced Sunday a plan…
Palestinians Demonstrate Against Israeli Settlements in Kafr Thuluth Village
Palestinian civilians held a demonstration, on Saturday, in Kafr Thuluth village, southeast of Qalqilia, in the northern occupied West Bank,…
Suspicious Death of Palestinian in Gilo Settlement
Local sources have reported that a Palestinian man died under suspicious circumstances in the Israeli settlement of Gilo, near Bethlehem,…
Amnesty Condemns AirBnb for Listings in Israeli Settlements
The following statement was released by Amnesty International on December 10,2020: As Airbnb prepares to go public in a multi-billion-dollar…
Arab League rejects Israeli settlement project in occupied Jerusalem
By The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA): The Arab League rejected today, Israel’s new settlement project north of occupied…
EU Mission Visits Site of Planned Israeli Settlement Expansion; Heckled by Right-Wing Israelis
Several representatives of the European Union (EU) in Israel and Palestine visited the site of a proposed Israeli settlement on…
Peace Now: “Israel Opens Tenders For 1.257 Units In Givat Hamatos Settlement”
This is a statement by the Israeli Peace Now Movement The Tender in Givat Hamatos Opened with 1,257 units Press…
Israeli Cabinet Approves New Colonial Settlement near Gaza
The Israeli government approved on Sunday the construction of a new colonial settlement to be built atop the ruins of…
WAFA: Israel’s ‘Silicon Valley’ settlement plan to be built on the ruins of dozens of Palestinian businesses
JERUSALEM, Monday, November 02, 2020 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation authorities today approved the destruction of dozens of Palestinian businesses…
PEACE NOW: Amid Pandemic and Economic Crisis, Israel to Advance at Least 4,430 Settlement Units
The Higher Planning Council (HPC) of the Civil Administration is set to convene to advance at least 4,430 settlement units…
Israel Announces 164 New Illegal Settlement Units in Bethlehem
The so-called Israeli settlement council announced, on Sunday, a new illegal colonial settlement project, in the southern West Bank city…
Amnesty International to TripAdvisor: Remove Listings in Israeli Settlements
This call to action was posted today by Amnesty International: As Israel steps up construction of illegal settlements in the…
Israel Plans New Colonial Settlement in Northern West Bank
Israeli authorities reportedly endorsed the erection of a new Israeli colonial settlement near the Kufur Qasem town, north of the…
Sick Palestinian Worker Abandoned outside Settlement near Salfit
A Palestinian worker showing coronavirus symptoms was abandoned, on Sunday by Israeli settlers, outside the illegal Burkan settlement, near the…
PLO Official Slams Israel’s Settlement Plans, Calls on EU to Intervene
Saeb Erekat, the Secretary-General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), on Wednesday, urged the European Union…
UN Official Concerned Over Israel’s Settlement Expansion Plans
United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, Wednesday, voiced his concern over Israeli settlement announcements,…
Arab League Denounces Israel’s Settlement Plans
In a statement, on Sunday, the Arab League Assistant Secretary General for Palestine and Occupied Arab Territories, Saeed Abu Ali,…
Italy, France and Germany Call on Israel to Halt Settlement Expansion
Italy expressed deep concern over the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement to proceed with the construction of 5,000 housing…
Israel Planning Thousands of Settlement Units North of Jerusalem
The Israeli Ministry of Housing announced Tuesday that it plans to construct thousands of new Israeli settlement units in the…
PCHR Welcomes the Publication of UN Database on Business Enterprises Operating in Israeli Settlements
On 12 February 2020, after three years of delay and consistent pressure by Palestinian, regional and international organizations, the Office…
Human Rights Expert: Settlement Database, an “Important Initial Step”
Office of the High Commissioner of the United Nations published a report, on Friday, by Michael Lynk, Special Rapporteur for…
Official BNC Statement on Release of Long-delayed UN Settlement Database
Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) We welcome this long-delayed UN list of complicit companies. Some major firms involved with illegal…
Israel Further Severs Ties with UN over Settlement Blacklist
Israel has suspended its ties with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Israeli Foreign Ministry (FM) announced…
Palestine: Al-Haq and CIHRS Welcome Publication of UN Database on Settlement Business Activities
Press Release By Al-Haq is an independent Palestinian non-governmental human rights organisation: Geneva, Switzerland – Palestinian, regional, and international organizations have…
Release of Long-Delayed UN Settlement Database Significant Step Towards Holding Israel Accountable
BDS Movement Press Release: We welcome this long-delayed UN list of complicit companies. Some major firms involved with illegal settlements…
Report: Netanyahu Plans to Extend Israeli Sovereignty Over Jordan Valley and Settlements
By: Madeeha Araj for PNN The National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Settlements stated in its latest report, that…
Report: Israel Steals Land, Erects Nature Reserves and National Parks to Expand Settlements
Madeeha Araj/PNN The National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Settlements stated, in its latest weekly report , that the…
Al-Haq: Release UN Database on Businesses Profiting from Israel’s Settlement Enterprise
Ramallah-based Al-Haq Human Rights organization, on Tuesday, called on the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to…
France Deplores New Israeli Settlement Expansion Plans
France condemned, on Friday, the recent Israeli decision to green-light the construction of 1,936 housing units in the West Bank…
European Union Denounces Israel’s Settlement Expansion
The European Union, on Thursday, criticized Israeli plans to expand illegal settlements built in the occupied Palestinian territory and called…
UK Condemns Israeli Plans for Illegal Settlement Expansion
The United Kingdom (UK), on Wednesday, called in Israel to “immediately” halt illegal settlements’ expansion in the occupied West Bank,…
Israeli Elections: Netanyahu Vows More Settlements, Annexation
The National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Settlements stated, in its latest weekly report, that the Israeli government still…
Peace Now: 1,936 Israeli Settlement Units Approved for Occupied West Bank
In a statement, on Monday, settlement watchdog Peace Now, said that the Israeli planning authority advanced the plans for the…
Fateh Official: Israel’s Settlement Colonization is an Illegal Presence That Must Be Removed
Fateh spokesman and member of its Revolutionary Council, Osama al-Qawasmi, said that Israel’s settlement colonization of Palestinian occupied land is…
Israeli Media: 2000 New Settlement Units Approved for West Bank
It is expected that Israeli Civil Administration will approve, within days, the construction of thousands of settlement units in the…
3000 New Settlement Units to be Approved for the West Bank
The Israeli government announced that it will approve a new plan to build 3000 settlement units throughout occupied West Bank,…
UN Envoy: Israel Has Pushed Forward Plans to Build 22,000 New Housing Units in Settlements
The United Nations Middle East envoy reported, on Wednesday, that Israel had pushed forward plans to construct over 22,000 housing…
Report: Hebron is More Than Ever Targeted by Settlement and Judaization Projects
By: Madeeha Araj (National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Settlements) for PNN The National Bureau for Defending Land and…
Islamic Organization Criticizes Israel’s Settlement Plans in Hebron
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has condemned a controversial plan by Israel to build a new settlement in the…
Jerusalem: New Settlement Operations to Alter Historical Features
The National Bureau for defending land and resisting settlements stated, in its latest weekly report , that the Israeli Housing…
Palestinian President Slams Israel’s Plan for Settlement Expansion
The Palestinian presidency condemned the Israeli new settler project announced, on Sunday, by Israel’s new Israeli Defense Minister, Naftali Bennett,…
High Representative to the EU: Settlements are an Obstacle to Peace
Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, stated, on Thursday, that Israeli…
Netanyahu Approves 40 Million Shekels for Illegal Settlements
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu announced the allocation of 40 million shekels (NIS) in aid, to support the ‘security and…
Israel to Expand Illegal Settlement by 11,000 Housing Units
The Israeli Ministry of Housing is working on re-planning the construction of a new settlement on the abandoned Qalandia airport…
A Question of UN Credibility: Releasing the Settlements Database
by Nada Awad, Maha Abdullah for Al Shabaka Palestinian Policy Network Hundreds of Palestinian, regional, and international organizations have called on the previous and…
Opinion: Israel’s Next Move is the Real Danger in the U.S. Decision to Normalize Illegal Jewish Settlements
Ramzy Baroud – Middle East Monitor It is hardly a major surprise that the US government has finally decreed that…
Analysis: International Law is Clear on One Point: Israel’s Settlements are Illegal
Richard Falk – Middle East Eye: Despite the U.S. administration’s announcement to the contrary, there is no question as to the…
UN Security Council Rebukes US Reversal on Settlements
Failing to issue a statement denouncing the US stance regarding the legality of settlements, all members of the United Nations…
Kairos Palestine Denounces Pompeo’s Illegitimate Legalization of Settlements
Kairos Palestine expresses deep disappointment that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced—in a statement that disregards the Geneva…
U.S. Congress Members Urge Pompeo to Reverse Decision on Settlements
More than 120 U.S. Congressmen and Congresswomen have sent an urgent letter to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, urging…
Christian Group Troubled by U.S. Position on Israeli Settlements
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land (ELCJHL) has expressed deep concern over the recent U.S. declaration…
UK: “We Urge Israel to Halt its Counterproductive Settlement Expansion
The United Kingdom urged Israel, on Thursday, to halt its “counterproductive” settlement expansion, declaring that it is illegal under international…
International Law Experts: United States Has No Legal Capacity To Legalize Settlements
Aseel Akhras/Days of Palestine International law experts agree that the US administration does not have the legal capacity to legalize…
Israeli Prime Minister Approves Settlement Expansion in Jordan Valley Following US Announcement
After Mike Pompeo, the US Secretary of State, made a statement Monday reversing decades of US policy, and contradicting international…
PCHR: “Pompeo’s Comments on Israeli Settlements are in Contempt of International Law and Abort Peace Prospects”
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strictest terms the remarks made by the United States’ State…
UNHR: “Israel’s Settlements Are In Breach Of International Law”
In a statement, the United Nations Human Rights Office stated that Israel’s settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories are in…
EU: Israeli Settlements Are Illegal
The European Union is sticking to its stance that Israeli settlement constructions in Palestine are illegal under international law, a…
Peace Now: “US Announcement on Softening Settlements Stance Marks a New Broadside on the Two-State Solution”
On the announcement by U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo about dropping the US stance on settlements as inconsistent with international…
Palestinian Officials Denounce US Decision on Settlements
Presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said, today, that the announcement by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, that the Israeli…
Israel to Seize Land in Salfit for Settlement Expansion
The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) announced its intent to seize hundreds of dunams of Palestinian land in Salfit province, in…
Lands East of Jerusalem Seized for Settlement Expansion
Israel’s policy of seizing Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem al-Quds has not come to an end…