Israeli settlements

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.

IOA appropriates thousands of Palestinian dunums in Salfit

Monday-5-July-2021

The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) announced plans to appropriate thousands of dunums of Palestinian land in Salfit governorate.

Palestinian shot at for allegedly trying to carry out stabbing attack

Friday-25-June-2021

A Palestinian youth was shot and wounded near the illegal Jewish settlement of Yitzhar in southern Nablus on Friday afternoon Hebrew media reported.

Israel okays new settler projects in different illegal settlements

Thursday-24-June-2021

The Israeli occupation army’s civil administration approved for deposit 31 construction projects including commercial housing and religious buildings in illegal settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

Netanyahu storms Susya village in Masafer Yatta

Monday-15-March-2021

Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials on Sunday stormed the Palestinian ancient village of Susya in Masafer Yatta south of al-Khalil.

British consul: Israeli settlements are illegal

Monday-15-February-2021

British Consul General in Occupied Jerusalem Philip Hall has condemned Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories as “illegal and an obstacle to restarting peace talks.”

European countries deeply concerned over Israel’s settlement plans

Tuesday-19-January-2021

Britain Germany and Italy have voiced deep concern about Israeli plans to build new settler homes in the occupied Palestinian territories.

UN expert calls for holding Israel accountable over settlement plans

Saturday-31-October-2020

A UN human rights expert has urged the international community to take decisive action against Israel’s settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian territories describing a recent plan to build 5000 settler homes as a grave violation of the international law.

Nurseries are threatened with extinction by Israeli settlements

Thursday-1-October-2020

Ali Daoud a worker in the agricultural nursery for more than 15 years in Qalqilya in the northern West Bank does not feel at peace because of the Israeli settlement scheme that threatens Qalqilya nurseries with extinction.