Jewish settlement

BEIT IJZA, West Bank — Sabri Mohammed Ghraieb has seen the olive groves that once fringed his West Bank home turn into a Jewish settlement and prison-like walls but...

A Jewish settlement movement has said that it plans to speed up construction of settlements in East Jerusalem in such a way that it will not be feasible to...

Anger and worry prevails amongst the people of Umm Al-Hayran, a Palestinian village in the Negev Desert following a decision by the Israeli Building Council to expel villagers in...

The Knesset (Israeli parliament) has passed a law offering tax breaks on donations to NGOs which encourage illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. The new law was endorsed...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the Jewish settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank will remain under Israeli control forever. "I want to reassure the...

The Israeli-led Jerusalem Municipality has approved a scheme to build more than 2,600 new housing units in the Jewish settlement of Givat Hmreis, south of the Old City of...

Adalah, the legal centre for Arab minority rights in Israel, has called the Israeli government's decision to withdraw the Prawer Plan bill a "major achievement in the history of...

Hebrew media sources have confirmed that Britain and France are looking into the possibility of withdrawing their ambassadors to Israel, among other steps, in protest against its decision to...

It now seems possible that the already infamous "Itamar massacre" last week may not have been the work of a Palestinian but could have been the act of a...

The Israeli government has adopted a new plan to "resettle" the Bedouin residents of unrecognised villages in the Negev Desert into larger recognised settlements.  This plan will affect tens...

On Friday morning, only hours after a seemingly relentless storm let up, Palestinian activists snatched international headlines when they set up some 25 tents in the E1 area of...