Illegal Settlements

Central EU states are planning to support Palestinian efforts against Israel in The Hague should the latter thwarted US Secretary of State John Kerry's efforts to revive the peace...

Bedouins in the Jordan Valley live under extremely difficult conditions because two thirds of villages suffer from complete water shortage, Al-Maleh Village Council has said. The head of the...

Jewish settlers have escalated their attacks against Palestinians in Nablus, throwing stones and petrol bombs at Palestinian-owned cars and properties on Wednesday night. Witnesses said that settlers from the...

The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, met the Palestinian ambassador to Saudi Arabia on Monday. The OIC chief discussed Israeli threats to Al-Aqsa...

A UN organisation has highlighted the plight of small Palestinian farming communities in the hills to the east of Jerusalem which are at risk of forced displacement due to...

The Israeli cabinet decided on Sunday not to designate as terrorists the extremist "Price Tag" settlers' group, reported Haaretz. The group is responsible for many attacks against Palestinians, their...

The Israeli water company Mekerot announced on Monday its plan to carry out a joint project with the Israeli municipality of Jerusalem to construct a new artisan well on...

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS EU foreign policy Chief Catharine Ashton visited the Gaza Strip on Thursday. During a press conference, she said that she had planned to make her visit on...

Israel's Housing Minister said on Thursday that the idea of the two-state solution has reached a dead-end and the search for an alternative is a "must". Uri Ariel, a...

A senior officer in the Israeli police force has admitted that he and his colleagues are unable to prevent the attacks carried out by Jewish settlers against Palestinians in...

Jewish settlers have damaged a number of cars in a Palestinian village to the west of Jerusalem and scrawled racist graffiti on houses. The tyres of 28 vehicles were...

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has denounced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for asking EU Foreign Policy chief Catherine Ashton not to issue a statement which is critical of settlements....

Israeli jets bombed targets in the Gaza Strip overnight after rockets were fired from the besieged territory. Witnesses said that most of the targets were open spaces used as...

President Mahmoud Abbas is ready to drop his insistence on preconditions for talks with the Israelis even though chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Tuesday that the leadership of...

McDonald's Israel has refused to open a branch in the settlement of Ariel which is built on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. The company was offered space...

Sources in the prime minister's office say that Benjamin Netanyahu denies that he has agreed to freeze construction in settlements and release Palestinian prisoners in order to enter into...

The EU decision to boycott Israeli settlements is expected to take effect on the ground on Friday and has aroused outrageous comments by Israeli officials. According to the decision,...

Israel's Planning and Construction Committee has issued licences for 165 settlement units in Nafea Yacob Settlement in occupied Jerusalem. In a press release, researcher in settlement issues Ahmed Soblaban...

The biggest clothing chain in Israel, Fox Network, has unveiled its new branch in the occupied West Bank. Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, which reported the opening of the store in...

A report issued by the Israeli Peace Now movement has revealed that since Netanyahu's third term in office began in March more than 5,000 new settlement housing units have...

VIDEO Israeli TV channel 10 broadcasted on Tuesday a video showing an Israeli soldier violently attacking Palestinian workers without any reason. The video shows the Israeli soldier out of...

Israel expects to retain about 85 per cent of settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories at the end of the negotiations, Yedioth Ahronoth said on Thursday. Citing sources in...

Israeli newspaper Maariv reported on Wednesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to continue settlement building in return for support from coalition partners for the prisoner release deal. It...

Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni has told Israeli Radio that she prefers a prisoner release deal rather than the possibility of resuming peace talks based on the June 1967...

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat has said that he remains optimistic about the second round of peace talks despite the Israeli government's approval of 1,200 new settlement units in the...

The number of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank has increased by 2.12 per cent during the first half of this year the Israel Today newspaper reported. According...

Prominent Hamas leader, Mahmoud al-Zahar, has said that his movement strongly opposes the Palestinian Authority's return to negotiations, describing the move as "absurd." In a press conference in Gaza,...

Ofer Shelah, member of the Yesh Atid party in Israel, estimates that a peaceful settlement with the Palestinians is only possible with East Jerusalem as the future capital of...

A spokesman for Fatah has claimed that the Egyptian coup, which he called a "revolution", has "downed the establishment of a mini-state in Gaza and Sinai". Osama Qawasmi referred...

The Israeli cabinet has approved a plan by the Minister of Housing, Silvan Shalom, for the development of the Negev and Galilee to attract 300,000 Israeli Jews to the...

Secretary of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Yasser Abed Rabbo said that the chances of the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations succeeding are "non-existent". He warned that if the negotiations continue as...

Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister appears to be waging a campaign against the creation of a Palestinian state on land occupied by Israel since 1967. Zeev Elkin has expressed his...