Settlement expansion

Israeli gov’t pledges to continue settlement expansion

Sunday-4-July-2021

A Hebrew newspaper on Sunday revealed that the Israeli government agreed during a recent meeting with leaders of Jewish settlements to retain and increase settlement construction in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

Hamas calls for confronting Israel’s settlement activity in W. Bank

Saturday-26-June-2021

The Hamas Movement has called for escalating the popular resistance against the Israeli occupation in the West Bank to confront and curb its settlement expansion projects.

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.

Israel plans to expand settlement fivefold in southern Nablus

Monday-14-June-2021

Ghassan Daghlas an official monitoring the settlement activity in the northern West Bank said on Sunday that the Israeli occupation authorities funded a plan to expand the Shvut Rachel settlement by adding 534 new housing units on the Palestinian citizens’ lands in Jalud and Turmusaya south of Nablus.

Extremist settlers seize land set up outpost in Khirbet Zanuta

Saturday-5-June-2021

Extremist Jewish settlers on Saturday deployed four prefabricated houses on Palestinian-owned swaths of land in Khirbet Zanuta east of al-Dhahiriya town in al-Khalil.

Israeli bulldozers level lands east of Yatta

Tuesday-1-June-2021

The Israeli occupation bulldozers razed on Tuesday Palestinian lands east of Yatta south of al-Khalil.

IOA okays establishment of 560 new settlement units east of Bethlehem

Friday-28-May-2021

The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) on Thursday approved the construction of hundreds of settler houses in southeast Bethlehem.

Israeli army bulldozes W. Bank land to expand Bruchin settlement

Tuesday-27-April-2021

The Israeli occupation army on Monday carried out a large-scale bulldozing activity on Palestinian-owned land in Bruqin town in the west of Salfit in order to expand the illegal settlement of Bruchin.

Israeli army seizes 147 dunums of land in Bethlehem

Thursday-22-April-2021

The Israeli occupation army has approved a plan to seize 147 dunums of Palestinian-owned land in the West Bank towns of Husan and Nahalin west of Bethlehem.