Israeli settlers

Israeli occupation forces have detained a further 12 Palestinians from Hebron and Bethlehem in raids which took place in the early hours of Monday morning. Local sources confirmed that...

In the first bill to be proposed in support of Israeli settlers in the West Bank, a Member of the Knesset for the Jewish Home Party –...

On Tuesday, Israeli settlers destroyed around 80 old trees in the Jamjoum neighbourhood of southern Bethlehem, eye witnesses said. Palestinian citizens from the Nahaleen village in Bethlehem reported that...

The Israeli High Court of Justice is to decide on Wednesday the ownership of 1,000 dunams of Palestinian land near the illegal settlement of Efrat on the southern outskirts...

Israeli settlers have recently uprooted around 1,000 trees from several farms around the West Bank cities of Nablus and Bethlehem, the Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds reported. When Palestinian farmer, Ahmed...

A former prisoner of the Israelis was shot and killed by security forces on Tuesday evening during a protest in Al-Fawwar refugee camp near Hebron. Mahmoud Al-Titi, aged 25,...

The Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) demanded on Sunday that the ICC investigate crimes against humanity being committed by Israel in the Palestinian occupied territories. The Russell Tribunal on...

As today marks the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords between the Israeli occupation and a group of Palestinians, pro-justice rights activists have assembled some...

Israeli settlers cut down dozens of olive trees and destroyed two rooms on Monday in Qusra Village southeast of Nablus city. Village eyewitnesses told Resala.net that dozens of settlers...

An extremist Jewish group has sent a letter to the Israeli government asking for the occupation forces to allow Israeli Jews and foreign tourists access to all gates leading...

VIDEO The Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, known as B'Tselem, has released a videotape of Israeli occupation soldiers providing support and protection to settlers...

US officials preparing for President Barack Obama's visit to Israel have told their Israeli counterparts that the visit will be cancelled if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fails to form...

Jerusalem's troublesome sheikhRa'ed Salah is mobilising opposition to the undermining of the Islamic presence in the city. His actions play to a wider audience, A subtle shift in power...

The Arab Organisation for Human Rights (AOHR) in the UK has accused the Jewish National Fund (JNF), a registered charity, of being involved in activities in Israel and the...

EU Foreign Affairs Chief Catherine Ashton has said that Europe is "very disappointed" by Israel's settlement policy. Speaking to Turkey's Okaz newspaper, Ashton stressed that it is the EU's...

The tourists heading to Bethlehem this festive season will come from far and wide – but all of them will enjoy more freedom of movement than the city's residents...

Expressions of racial discrimination are multiple and widespread across Israeli society, and are particularly evident between Jews and Arabs. There is also evidence of racism between Jews themselves. May...

In their 63 year struggle against the occupation and colonisation of their homeland, the Palestinians have been short of friends and allies.  The main world powers have taken Israel's...

In recent months, there have been repeated attacks by Israeli settlers against mosques across the West Bank. They were carried out with the complicity of Israel's occupation army and...

A strange affliction seems to be affecting settlers in the West Bank. It seems that as soon as they are granted settler status (a badge of dishonour in the...

Criminal demolition in the OPTs Within the catalogue of criminality that is Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, the destruction of Palestinian homes must rank as one...

A leaked report commissioned by the European Union (EU) has concluded that Israeli settlement construction "remains the single biggest threat" to peace in the Middle East. The confidential, 15-page report...

Al-Quds Opinion You would think that the half million Israeli settlers spread across the occupied West Bank would have little to complain about. After all, they enjoy control of...