Settlement expansion

Iran calls for int’l action against Israel’s settlement plans

Monday-27-April-2020

The Iranian foreign ministry has condemned Israel’s new plans to expand illegal settlements and annex parts of the occupied West Bank describing such steps as “part of US president Donald Trump’s fateful deal of the century.”

Iran condemns expansion of Israeli settlements in West Bank

Sunday-26-April-2020

Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday strongly condemned Israel’s recent moves to expand settlements and annex parts of the West Bank to the territories occupied in 1948.

Israel to expand rail system in J’lem link it with settlements

Saturday-11-April-2020

The Israeli occupation government intends to expand the light rail lines in Jerusalem and connect Jewish settlements with the Palestinian holy city and its old neighborhoods.

US Israel to finalize W. Bank annexation maps

Saturday-11-April-2020

While the whole world is preoccupied battling the coronavirus the US administration and the Israeli government has almost put the final touches to the maps of Palestinian areas in the occupied West Bank before approving them for annexation to the Jewish state.

Land Day: Palestinians never forget

Wednesday-1-April-2020

The Palestinians in Occupied Palestine and the diaspora every year on 30 March commemorate the Land Day when Israeli forces in 1976 killed six Palestinians protesting against land confiscation in the Galilee.

Germany voices concern over Israel’s new settlement plans

Friday-28-February-2020

Germany has expressed grave concern about the Israeli government’s announced intents to build new settler units in the occupied Palestinian territories of Jerusalem and the West Bank as well as a settlement in the strategically important E1 area east of the holy city.

Netanyahu okays plan for 3500 settlement units near Jerusalem

Tuesday-25-February-2020

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday approved a plan to build 3500 new settlement units east of Occupied Jerusalem.

IOA to build settler homes in J’lem despite European condemnation

Tuesday-25-February-2020

The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) on Monday issued tenders for the construction of 1077 housing units in the Jewish settlement of Givat Hamatos near Beit Safafa in southern Jerusalem.

Israel to build 9000 settler homes on ruins of Qalandiya airport

Wednesday-19-February-2020

The Israeli housing ministry has begun advancing a master plan to build a massive Jewish neighborhood in an east Jerusalem area that appears to be earmarked in the US administration’s peace plan for a Palestinian tourism center according to different news reports.

Israeli bulldozers resume razing vast tract of land in western Salfit

Wednesday-12-February-2020

Israeli bulldozers on Tuesday continued to level dozens of dunums of Palestinian land in Hares village west of Salfit in the occupied West Bank to prepare the area for the expansion of the illegal settlement of Ariel and the construction of new factories.