Settlement expansion

Barghouthi: Israel’s intent to legalize 120 outposts “serious crime”

Tuesday-15-November-2016

Secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative Mustafa al-Barghouthi has condemned the Israeli government’s decision to legalize 120 settler outposts in the West Bank as “a serious crime” and called for confronting it.

U.S. slams Israeli bill to legalize West Bank outposts

Tuesday-15-November-2016

The U.S. State Department expressed late Monday deep concern by Israeli bill that legalizes outposts built on Palestinian private lands.

Israeli court rejects appeal to postpone Amona eviction

Monday-14-November-2016

The Israeli Supreme Court rejected Monday an Israeli government’s appeal to postpone the eviction of Amona illegal settlement in West Bank.

Israeli MK calls for resumption of settlement construction

Saturday-12-November-2016

The chairman of the Israeli Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee MK Avi Dichter (Likud) said Saturday that freezing settlement construction in occupied Jerusalem and West Bank is “a waste of time.”

PLO report: Israeli gov’t to escalate settlement construction

Saturday-12-November-2016

The PLO National Bureau to Defend Land and Confront Settlement Construction warned in a new report issued Saturday that the Israeli right-wing government would exploit Donald Trump’s election as US President to escalate settlement construction.

Israeli plan to approve 7100 new housing units in O. J’lem

Friday-11-November-2016

Israeli municipality in occupied Jerusalem declared intention to authorize the construction of thousands of new housing units Israeli media sources revealed Thursday evening.

Trump’s top adviser on Israel to become ambassador to Tel Aviv

Friday-11-November-2016

Maariv newspaper has said that David Friedman Donald Trump’s top adviser on Israeli affairs is a prime candidate to take over the post of the US ambassador to Israel.

Unauthorized Israeli settlement outpost sprouts in Jordan Valley

Sunday-6-November-2016

A new unauthorized West Bank settlement outpost has been under construction in recent days near an Israeli military training camp in the northern Jordan Valley five kilometers away from Ro’i settlement Haaretz reported Sunday.

Report: Israel seeks to obliterate the green line

Saturday-5-November-2016

A Palestinian official report has accused the Israeli government of taking steps to erase the green line through establishing settlement projects on its both sides.

Haaretz: Israeli settlement Ariel expands onto Palestinian land

Wednesday-2-November-2016

Sixteen buildings in Israeli settlement of Ariel have been built at the expense of a private Palestinian land in Salfit Haaretz Hebrew newspaper revealed.