Large fire in Israeli settlements near Gaza
Saturday-27-May-2023
A large fire broke out on Saturday afternoon in Israeli settlements bordering the northern Gaza Strip.
Israeli settlements
Hamas slams Israeli decision over Homesh settlement
Thursday-18-May-2023
Hamas spokesman Jihad Taha has strongly denounced the Israeli war minister’s decision to allow Jewish settlers to return to the evacuated illegal settlement outpost of Homesh in the occupied West Bank describing the step as “aggression against the Palestinian people.”
UN: Report on impacts of Israeli settlements on Palestinian rights
Thursday-30-March-2023
The UN Human Rights Council recently discussed a report presented by the Higher Commissioner for Human Rights on Israeli settlement in the occupied Palestinian territories and some of its repercussions on the Palestinian people’s rights.
UNSC: Israel’s settlement plans “impede peace”
Tuesday-21-February-2023
The UN Security Council has expressed its condemnation of plans by Israel’s far-right government to legalize settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories warning in a statement its members adopted on Monday that such Israeli steps “impede peace.”
Qatar warns of Israeli plans to expand settlements in W. Bank
Saturday-7-May-2022
Qatar has warned against Israeli plans to approve the construction of about 4000 housing units for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank describing the step as “a flagrant violation of the international law.”
Sit-in staged in Belgium to protest investments in Israeli settlements
Saturday-5-February-2022
Belgian institutions and unions in coordination with the Palestinian community in the country staged a sit-in on Friday outside BNP Paribas Bank in Brussels in protest at its investments in Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Hamas: Settlement expansion is a systematic Israeli policy
Thursday-28-October-2021
The Hamas Movement has said that the Israeli approval of a plan to build over 3000 housing units for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank confirms that settlement expansion is a systematic policy pursued by all successive Israeli governments describing the plan as “a real war crime.”
Major UK party adopts motion banning trade with Jewish settlements
Tuesday-21-September-2021
The British Liberal Democrats a major party have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a ban on UK trade with the illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Beit Duqqu grape farmers lose markets to Jewish settlements
Saturday-18-September-2021
The village of Beit Duqqu in the northwest of Occupied Jerusalem is well-known for its vast pretty landscape of grapevines that are scattered on swaths of land and hilly slopes and considered a main source of livelihood for hundreds of Palestinian families.
Top UN expert: “Israeli settlements do amount to a war crime”
Saturday-10-July-2021
A high-level UN human rights expert has called for Jewish settlements to be classified as a war crime urging the international community to hold Israel accountable for a practice it has long considered illegal.
