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Slow food
April 11, 2018
One of these nodes is Doha Asoos Mona, a farmer who lives in Palestine, in the West Bank. She has ... The on-going conflict here has hit farmers particularly hard, as they struggle to survive with the dignity they deserve due to the strict Israeli military occupation and the proliferation of illegal settlements.
International Middle East Media Center
April 11, 2018
Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers broke into Sebastia, north of the West Bank, to provide protection for hundreds of settlers who stormed the town's archaeological site, ... Sebastia mayor Mohammed Azem said that soldiers entered the town to facilitate entry of three busloads of fanatical Jewish settlers to theÃÂ ...
Anadolu Agency
April 5, 2018
In the West Bank city of Nablus, meanwhile, hundreds of extremist Jewish settlers -- backed by Israeli army troops -- pushed their way into a religious shrine at dawn Friday, sparking clashes with local Palestinians. Ahmed Shamekh, an official at the nearby Balata refugee camp, told Anadolu Agency that atÃÂ ...
Middle East Monitor
March 28, 2018
... family of Palestinian farmer Mahmoud Owdeh, who was shot dead by Jewish settlers, have denounced the decision of an Israeli court to acquit his killers, Quds Press reported on Tuesday. Owdeh was killed when an Israeli settler opened fire directly at him in the village of Qasra in the occupied West BankÃÂ ...
Middle East Monitor
March 28, 2018
Two years after they were evicted by the authorities, Jewish settlers occupied two more Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesday, Arab48.com has ... According to the Israeli Civil Administration in the West Bank, however, the settlers have yet to provide proof of purchase.
Palestine Chronicle
March 27, 2018
An Old Palestinian Man Injured as Israeli Violence Continues in the West Bank (VIDEOS). March 27, 2018 Blog, News, Videos. Ayseir Suliaman, 68, was brutally attacked by Israeli Jewish settlers near Nablus. (Photo: via Facebook). By Palestine Chronicle Staff. Ayseir Suliaman, 68 years old, was injured after being brutallyÃÂ ...
Xinhua
March 27, 2018
Clashes break out between Palestinian protesters and Israeli soldiers after a protest against the expanding of Jewish settlements in Kufr Qadoom village near the West Bank city of Nablus, on Oct. 27, 2017. (Xinhua/Nidal Eshtayeh). UNITED NATIONS, March 26 (Xinhua) -- A UN official said Monday thatÃÂ ...
International Middle East Media Center
March 27, 2018
A little over a year after the illegal Amona outpost was evacuated by the Israeli government, 25 Israeli settler families from Amona moved into their new homes in the illegal Amichai settlement — the first official Israeli-government sanctioned settlement to be built in the occupied West Bank in 25 years.
Deutsche Welle
March 21, 2018
The Palestinian teenager who became a protest icon after being filmed slapping Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank will serve eight months in prison ... attention to Israel's military court system used to try Palestinians in the West Bank, while Jewish settlers in the West Bank face Israeli civilian courts.
Palestine Chronicle
March 19, 2018
In the village of Hezma, Israeli settlers vandalized several Palestinian cars and sprayed hate slogans on the walls. Outpost residents have taken many violent actions over the years in order to drive farmers away from their lands.
WAFA
December 31, 1999
... March 27, 2018 (WAFA) – When the family of Mahmoud Za'al Odeh heard that the Israeli military prosecution has decided not to indict two Israeli Jewish settlers for killing Odeh in December, they were shocked. Odeh, 46, from the town of Qusra, to the south of the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank,ÃÂ ...
The Muslim News
December 31, 1999
In the West Bank city of Nablus, meanwhile, hundreds of extremist Jewish settlers — backed by Israeli army troops — pushed their way into a religious shrine at dawn Friday, sparking clashes with local Palestinians. Ahmed Shamekh, an official at the nearby Balata refugee camp, told Anadolu Agency that atÃÂ ...
WAFA
December 31, 1999
Dismissing talk about establishing a Palestinian state in Jordan, Abbas was reported in al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida stating: “In Palestine and Jordan, we are ... Al-Quds reported that dozens of Israeli Jewish settlers held provocative tours of East Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound andÃÂ ...
WAFA
December 31, 1999
... Bank to secure the area for a march for extremist Jewish settlers, according to WAFA correspondent. He said the army announced that the road is going to be closed from the morning until early afternoon when settlers are planning to march between the illegal settlements of Karni Shomron and Kedumim.
WAFA
December 31, 1999
JENIN, April 12, 2018 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces on Thursday notified the family of Ahmad Jamal Qunbu, a prisoner from Jenin city in the northern West Bank, about their intention to demolish their home in retaliation for their son's alleged partaking in the killing of an Israeli settlers earlier this year.
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
The Ibrahimi Mosque is located in Hebron's Old City district, where some 400 Jewish settlers now reside under the protection of about 1,500 Israeli soldiers. In the past, Israel has attempted to place a ban on all mosques from using loudspeakers to call worshippers to prayer. In March 2017, a bill to muffleÃÂ ...
Middle East Monitor
February 8, 2018
Israeli settlers have attempted to abduct two Palestinian children in the village of Madma to the south of the West Bank city of Nablus, Quds Press has reported. A member of the village council Talaat Ziyadeh said that a group of settlers descended from the illegal settlement of Yitzhar, raided the village andÃÂ ...
Haaretz
February 8, 2018
The bill, sponsored by the Defense Ministry, states that the government will be able to use any withheld funds for infrastructure work “for the benefit of residents of Judea and Samaria,” as the West Bank is known in Hebrew. The bill's explanatory notes say this provision is intended “for the benefit of the entireÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
February 7, 2018
A Palestinian man was shot and killed after a stabbing attack on an Israeli guard outside an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. According to the Israeli army, Hamza Zaamara drove up on Wednesday morning to the entrance of the Karmei Tzur settlement, built on Palestinian landsÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
February 7, 2018
A spokesperson for the Israeli army told Al Jazeera it was investigating and could not confirm the reports. The Israeli settler was killed on Monday in a stabbing attack outside the illegal settlement of Ariel, in the northern West Bank. Israeli soldiers launched a manhunt for the suspect in the area early onÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
February 6, 2018
An Israeli settler has been stabbed and killed in a knife attack outside an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank. The attack in the district of Salfit on Monday afternoon, on the main road near the Ariel settlement, was reportedly carried out by a Palestinian man who fled the scene, according to IsraeliÃÂ ...
Middle East Monitor
January 31, 2018
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Transportation Minister Israel Katz inaugurated a new road on Tuesday that connects illegal settlements east of the occupied West Bank city of Qalqiliya, Israeli media reported. The road, which was given the name of Nabi Elias, is for use by Jews only.
Anadolu Agency
January 31, 2018
“The Israeli authorities are pursuing a scorched-earth policy as part of their plan to expand settlements [in the West Bank],” the report read. The scope of settler attacks on Palestinians and their property, it added, had “expanded to include farmers and olive trees throughout the West Bank”. According to theÃÂ ...
The Electronic Intifada (blog)
January 26, 2018
Zijlstra argued that since these particular activities took place within the “1967 border” they did not violate the Dutch government's policy of discouraging activities related to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The foreign minister said the embassy was aware of the Dutch government policy ofÃÂ ...
Milli Gazette
January 26, 2018
New Israeli statistics have shown that the number of Jewish settlers living in the occupied West Bank reached 435,708 living in 150 illegal settlements at the ... This number did not include the settlers living in occupied East Jerusalem, the Israeli Interior Ministry's Population Immigration and Border AuthorityÃÂ ...
Middle East Monitor
January 23, 2018
Israeli occupation authorities distributed eviction and demolition notices Monday to Palestinians in Khillat al-Nakhla village in the West Bank city of ... got a ruling by an Israeli court which stresses his ownership of the land, noting that he turned to the court after attempts by Israeli Jewish settlers to steal it.
National Catholic Reporter
January 23, 2018
Israeli security forces get orders in Bethlehem, West Bank, as Palestinians protest U.S. President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. ... All the while Israel is eating away at Palestinian land it occupies through relentless and illegal settlement activity to render the possibility of a futureÃÂ ...
Palestine News Network
January 23, 2018
New Israeli statistics have shown that the number of Jewish settlers living in the occupied West Bank reached 435,708 living in 150 illegal settlements at the start of 2018, Israeli media reported on Sunday. This number did not include the settlers living in occupied East Jerusalem, the Israeli Interior Ministry'sÃÂ ...
Middle East Monitor
January 22, 2018
New Israeli statistics have shown that the number of Jewish settlers living in the occupied West Bank reached 435,708 living in 150 illegal settlements at the start of 2018, Israeli media reported on Sunday. This number did not include the settlers living in occupied East Jerusalem, the Israeli Interior Ministry'sÃÂ ...
AMN Al-Masdar News
January 22, 2018
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (07:25 PM) – The US embassy used the occasion of Vice President Mike Pence's speech to the Israeli parliament on Monday as an excuse to send official invitations to illegal West Bank and Jewish-only settlement advocacy groups and members of messianic and religious extremistÃÂ ...
Haaretz
January 22, 2018
The Palestinian American Women's Association cited in a post on Facebook Johansson's “unapologetic support of illegal settlements in the West Bank, a human rights violation recognized by the international community whose calls only led to a reaffirmation of her position, sending a clear message thatÃÂ ...
Anadolu Agency
January 12, 2018
Germany late Friday expressed concern over Israel's approval of thousands of new housing units for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank. "We note the plans to extend Israeli settlements in the West Bank with great concern," the country's foreign ministry said in a written statement. In the statement, theÃÂ ...
Yeni Şafak English
January 11, 2018
A group of Jewish settlers used stones to attack vehicles belonging to Palestinians in Nablus city's Havara check-point in occupied West Bank on Friday. According to information by local sources, Jewish settlers' attacks also took place in some other regions of the occupied West Bank, including HamraÃÂ ...
The New Arab
January 4, 2018
The non-binding vote by the decision-making committee of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud party called on its MPs "to spread Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria (the occupied West Bank)". Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas strongly condemned the vote and criticised the UnitedÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
January 1, 2018
Members of the Likud Central Committee voted on Sunday in favour of imposing Israeli sovereignty over illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. The resolution is non-binding for cabinet ministers but carries some political force within the party of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister.
Aljazeera.com
December 30, 2017
The general media narrative will have you believe that Gilo, the Israeli settlement in East Jerusalem, and other illegal colonies in Palestine are simply "neighbourhoods" and that the West Bank is not occupied, but "contested" or "disputed". Palestinians with Israeli citizenship are simply "Israeli Arabs".
Aljazeera.com
December 25, 2017
Israel's Channel 10 said the planned construction was part of the so-called "Greater Jerusalem Bill", which aims to annex illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank to the Israeli-defined boundaries of the city of Jerusalem. The bill was meant to be voted on in October by a ministerial committee beforeÃÂ ...
CityLab
December 22, 2017
More than half a million Jewish settlers inhabit the West Bank as a whole. “The West Bank would be severed in half, making a contiguous Palestinian state impossible.” To understand why East Jerusalem and its environs are so critical to the fate of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, some background:ÃÂ ...
Haaretz
December 14, 2017
'They Took Over Like ISIS': Religious War in West Bank Town Shows Not All Jewish Settlers Were Created Equal .... December 2, when a group of so-called hilltop youths from other locales arrived outside Migdalim with the intention of provoking the residents of Qusra, and confronted Israeli soldiers there.
Newsweek
December 3, 2017
Jared Kushner Failed to Disclose He Led a Foundation Funding Illegal Israeli Settlements Before U.N. Vote ... to sway a United Nations Security Council vote against an anti-settlement resolution passed just before Donald Trump took office, which condemned the structure of West Bank settlements.
WAFA
December 31, 1999
The dailies reported that Hamzeh Yousef Zamaareh, 19, from Halhoul, north of Hebron, was killed by an Israeli security guard following an alleged ... Al-Quds and al-Ayyam said Palestinians foiled Israeli Jewish settlers' attempt to kidnap two Palestinian children from Madama village, southwest of Nablus.
WAFA
December 31, 1999
Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida added that Israeli forces launched large-scale manhunt for the alleged assailant. According to al-Quds and al-Hayat al-Jadida, Israeli Jewish settlers hurled stones at Palestinian vehicles in the northern West Bank, injuring several people. They added that Israeli forcesÃÂ ...
WAFA
December 31, 1999
JERUSALEM, January 26, 2018 (WAFA) – Israeli Jewish settlers overnight spray-painted anti-Palestinian graffiti on walls and torched a Palestinian-owned vehicle after raiding East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Safafa. Settlers reportedly spray-painted “death to the Arabs” and “price tag” graffiti inÃÂ ...
WAFA
December 31, 1999
RAMALLAH, January 22, 2018 (WAFA) – Israeli forces and Jewish settlers' raids across the West Bank and President Mahmoud Abbas' visit to the European ... Member of the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) Executive Committee Zakaria al-Agha was reported in al-Hayat al-Jadida describing theÃÂ ...
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
Updated | U.S. ambassador to Israel David Friedman requested that the State Department no longer refer to the West Bank as “occupied” by Israel, ... However, the department said the Israeli report was incorrect and attempting to divert from the Trump administration's efforts to broker peace in the region.
Daily Sabah
December 31, 1999
Jewish settlers stormed a Palestinian school in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Thursday morning and assaulted students and teachers, according to a prominent Palestinian official. Ghassan Daghlas, the Palestinian Authority official in charge of tracking Israeli settlement expansion in the northern WestÃÂ ...
Middle East Monitor
December 31, 1999
Israel yesterday approved a budget of $11 million to fund illegal Jewish only settlements in the occupied West Bank, Haaretz reported. The Cabinet's decision came one day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with a group of extremist rabbis who requested settlements be given priority.
Truth-Out
December 3, 2017
A bulldozer belonging to Israeli authority demolishes three building of Palestinians in the Masafer Yatta neighbourhood of southern Hebron, West Bank, .... a senior Palestinian official, said the forthcoming UNHRC list of companies is an "important step" in the campaign against the illegal settlements.
International Middle East Media Center
December 3, 2017
Fasfous pointed out that the gate is located in the middle of the wall that runs through Anata, and separates it from the nearby illegal settlement of ... sovereignty over Area C — the more than 60 percent of the occupied West Bank under full Israeli control — where all of Israel's illegal settlements are built or ...
Palestine News Network
December 3, 2017
Bringing these settlements together means including all the areas between them, where it had previously been impossible to construct. Practically, this means expanding these illegal settlements, the Israeli website commented, noting that up to $30m will be invested in the development of the new 'city'.
