Settlement expansion

Israel continues to expand settlements in Wadi Qana area

Friday-24-February-2017

Jewish settlers under military protection have continued to bulldoze vast tracts of land in Wadi Qana area west of Deir Istiya town in Salfit province in order to build more housing units and infrastructures for their settlements.

Israel allocates $186 million for settlement projects

Thursday-23-February-2017

The Israeli government allocated $186 million for settlement projects in occupied Jerusalem the website of the Hebrew daily Ynet said on Thursday evening.

Israeli bulldozers level Palestinian lands in Salfit

Wednesday-22-February-2017

Groups of Israeli settlers stormed Wednesday morning a number of Palestinian villages west of Salfit accompanied with a number of bulldozers and carried out razing operations.

Israeli bulldozers level Palestinian lands in Deir Estia

Tuesday-21-February-2017

Mayor of Deir Estia town in Salfit said on Tuesday that Israeli bulldozers from Yakir settlement leveled for the third day in a row large areas of Palestinians’ lands in Wadi Qana area.

IOA orders evacuation of 15 dunums in northern Occupied Jerusalem

Friday-17-February-2017

Israeli municipality ordered Palestinian families whose homes were demolished in al-Aqaba neighborhood in Beit Hanina town in northern Occupied Jerusalem to evacuate their belongings from their land lot.

Israel to establish new settlement for Amona settlers

Friday-17-February-2017

Two Israeli ministers revealed on Friday a plan to build a new illegal settlement at the expense of Palestinian lands in West Bank with the aim of hosting Israeli settlers evacuated recently from Amona outpost.

IOA plans to expand Benjamin settlement

Thursday-16-February-2017

Israeli occupation authorities declared intention to expand Benjamin settlement illegally built near Ramallah Haaretz Hebrew newspaper revealed Thursday.

Israeli plan to establish new settlement near Nablus

Friday-10-February-2017

The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has approved a plan to establish a new Israeli settlement on annexed Palestinian land in Jalud village southeast of Nablus in the West Bank.

Israeli municipality approves 46 settlement units in O.J.

Thursday-9-February-2017

Israeli municipality in occupied Jerusalem approved Wednesday evening the construction of 46 new settlement units in Gilo settlement and 112 housing units in Ramat Shlomo Haaretz Hebrew newspaper revealed.

Bishara warns of gravity of Israel’s “new annexation law”

Thursday-9-February-2017

Arab intellectual Azmi Bishara a former member of the Knesset has warned of the gravity of Israel’s recent legislation that legalized land grabs and settlement expansion in the West Bank and described it as “another annexation law.”