Israeli settlements

UN calls for rejecting any Israeli attempt to establish settlements in Gaza

Thursday-19-December-2024

Assistant UN secretary-general Khaled Khiari has called on the international community to firmly reject any Israeli attempt to establish settlements in the Gaza Strip or seize any parts of its territory.

Norway’s wealth fund divests from Israel’s Bezeq over services to W. Bank settlements

Wednesday-4-December-2024

Norway's sovereign wealth fund has divested from Bezeq, Israel's largest telecom company, due to the services it provides for illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

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.

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.