Settlement activity

Report: 1,242 Israeli occupation and settler attacks in the West Bank during April

Saturday-4-May-2024

The head of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Authority, Muaeed Shaban, has said that Israeli occupation forces and Jewish settlers carried out 1,242 attacks during the month of April.

IOA seizes 8 square dunums in Jordan Valley region

Friday-22-March-2024

The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) seized 8 square dunums (about 3 square miles) of land in the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank for the establishment of hundreds of settlement units, an Israeli media outlet reported on Friday.

IOA seizes Palestinian-owned land and homes in J’lem

Wednesday-20-March-2024

The Israeli high court of justice approved on Monday the appropriation of several dunums of Palestinian-owned land containing three houses in the southeast of Occupied Jerusalem following a 20-year legal battle.

UN Human Rights Chief deplores new moves to expand Israeli settlements in occupied West Bank

Friday-8-March-2024

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Friday deplored Israel’s latest actions regarding the occupied West Bank, saying the drastic acceleration in settlement building is exacerbating long-standing patterns of oppression, violence, and discrimination against Palestinians.

Hamas: Israeli plan to build new settlement units in Jerusalem defies international community

Thursday-7-March-2024

Hamas Movement said in a statement on Wednesday, “the Israeli occupation authorities’ approval to build about 3,500 new settlement units south of Jerusalem indicates that it is planning to seize more of the Palestinian land.

W. Bank town of Qusra under Israeli siege for 70 days

Sunday-25-February-2024

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have been laying siege on Qusra town in southern Nablus for over two months.

Israel to establish over 3,300 new settlement units in the West Bank

Friday-23-February-2024

Hebrew media sources announced on Friday that Israeli occupation authorities intend to establish, in the next couple of weeks, more than 3,300 settlement units in the West Bank.

Settlers erect electricity poles in preparation to establish new settlement outpost in Bethlehem

Wednesday-3-January-2024

Jewish settlers erected on Wednesday a number of electricity poles near the Tuqu town, southeast of Bethlehem, in preparation for establishing a new colonial outpost.