Israeli settlements

Arab League condemns Israel’s approval of new illegal settlement units

Thursday-31-May-2018

The Cairo-based League of Arab States on Wednesday condemned the recent Israeli approval of a bid to construct thousands of new settlement units on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.

Israel to construct 2500 settler homes on occupied Palestinian land

Thursday-24-May-2018

The Israeli occupation government approved the construction of thousands of settlement units across the occupied West Bank.

Palestinians sound distress signals over Israeli closures in Salfit

Wednesday-23-May-2018

Palestinian farmers from Salfit have launched calls for opening an agricultural road closed off by the Israeli military in Haris village west of Salfit.

Palestinians to take Israel to ICC over settlement on occupied land

Tuesday-15-May-2018

The Palestinian Authority (PA) decided on Monday to file a legal case against the Israeli occupation at the International Criminal Court (ICC) over illegal settlement construction and expansion in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Facebook ad map includes Israeli neighborhoods in Occupied Jerusalem

Sunday-18-March-2018

Facebook has expanded its ad map to reach Israeli settlements located beyond the 1967 borders following a complaint by an Israeli official according to media reports.

New Israeli apartheid fence engulfs Palestinian communities in Salfit

Wednesday-21-February-2018

The Israeli occupation authorities started the construction of a new separation wall dismembering Palestinian communities in Deir Balout west of Salfit.

Israelis bulldoze Palestinian lands to expand settlements in Salfit

Monday-19-February-2018

Israeli bulldozers on Monday morning leveled Palestinian lands near Rafafa settlement illegally built on privately-owned land northwest of Salfit.

Israel to green-light settlement project in Jerusalem’s Zaytoun Mount

Thursday-8-February-2018

A bid has been forwarded by Israel’s so-called Jerusalem development authority to build a promenade in al-Zaytoun Mont (Mount of Olives) in Occupied Jerusalem.According to a Thursday report by Haaretz daily the Jerusalem development authority advanced a plan to build a promenade in al-Zaytoun Mount connecting two settlement compounds in the Palestinian A-Tur neighborhood.

Atouf natural masterpiece tainted by Israeli settlement activity

Wednesday-7-February-2018

As soon as one reaches Atouf Mounts in the northern Jordan Valley large tracts of Palestinian lands making a medley of green ranches appear to be engulfed by newly-constructed Israeli settlements marring the delight triggered by the original natural scenery.

Netanyahu to green-light Gilad settlement outpost

Sunday-28-January-2018

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a Likud ministerial meeting that a bill to okay the Havat Gilad outpost as a settlement will be approved in next week's Cabinet meeting.