Jordan Valley

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The people of Nablus in the occupied West Bank have finally been able to bury a Palestinian man whose body has been held by Israel for 35...

A conference in Jericho and the Jordan Valley has been told that the water situation in Palestine is "catastrophic". Delegates at the "Water is a Human Right" conference include...

According to reports by a Kuwaiti daily made on Wednesday, July 27, King Abdullah II of Jordan recently declined a secret meeting with Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu. 'Well...

Israel's Minister of Defence looks set to approve the master plans for the development of four West Bank settlements. Israeli Army radio said that Ehud Barak is going to...

A report issued by the Arab League says that the Israeli occupation forces have increased the restrictions placed on Palestinians in the Jordan Valley. The Palestine and Arab Territories...

The Israeli occupation authorities have issued eviction notices to five more families in Wadi al-Maleh in the North of the Jordan Valley. The head of the village council, Aref...

A Palestinian expert in international law has revealed that the number of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is now 469, of which 29 are in Jerusalem. The...

The Israeli occupation authorities have completed the apartheid wall around Jerusalem, cutting it off from its West Bank hinterland. The final 130km section brings the total length of the...

The Israeli occupation authorities have issued demolition notices to Palestinians in the northern Jordan Valley area, informing them that their homes and farms are going to be knocked-down. According...

Farmers in Jordan have hinted that they may escalate their protests against frequent fires started in occupied Palestinian territory and sue the Israeli government, which they hold responsible for...

Israel's Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper has reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is threatening to "act independently" if negotiations between the West and Iran fail. The newspaper quoted Netanyahu as...

Media sources in Israel have revealed that the Israeli Transport Minister and Railway Authority have prepared a blueprint for the extension of the country's railway network to service the...

A spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister has denied claims that Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to hand back control of the Jordan Valley to the Palestinians. A report in Israel's...

Israeli occupation forces have started to dig a trench in the Jordan Valley, east of Tammun in the northern West Bank, as part of a strategy to exercise more...

The residents of an entire Palestinian district in Jerusalem have been served demolition orders by the Israeli occupation authorities. According to local sources, the Palestinians living in Al-Fohaidat were...

The Israeli army is planning to expel 1,000 Palestinians from their homes in the occupied Jordan Valley, the leader of the council of Al-Maleh village revealed on Monday. The...

The former director of Israel's Lands Administration (ILA) has confirmed that privately-owned Palestinian lands in the northern Jordan Valley area have been transferred to a kibbutz, Merav, inside Israel,...

Israel's Economy and Commerce Minister has told the Canadian Foreign Minister that a future state of Palestine will not be based on the borders of 1967. Right-wing politician Naftali...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has, it is claimed, rejected a request from Mahmoud Abbas to provide a map of the proposed border between Israel and a future State of...

Israeli media sources reported on Monday May 13, that the Israeli government plans to construct a city in the West Bank's Jordan Valley for Palestinian Bedouins. Palestinians are of...

The Palestinian Authority has rejected Israel's plan to build a new village for the Bedouin population in the Jordan Valley region. The Minister of Housing and Public Works in...

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...

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...

Israel's Civil Administration in the occupied West Bank has approved plans to build a railway line in between Palestinian cities, ignoring popular and official local objections. With 30 stations,...

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat threatened on Thursday to suspend negotiations with the Israeli occupation if the latter continued targeting Palestinians and promoting settlement activities. During his visit to...

Palestinian negotiator Mohammad Shtayyeh said that the Palestinian negotiating team has rejected a new interim agreement that Israel proposed during their recent talks. Following his meeting with Belgian Foreign...

A spokesman for the Palestinian president has condemned Israel's decision to approve 800 new housing units in settlements in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem. Nabil Abu Rudaineh said...

Israel's Minister of Economy, Naftali Bennett, who heads the Bayit Yehudi party, said that there was no point in reaching any agreement with the Palestinian Authority as long as...

Deputy Israeli Defence Minister Danny Danon ruled out the possibility of a Palestinian presence in the occupied Jordan Valley, Israeli media reported on Wednesday. Danon, who is a member...

Israeli Radio has revealed that the US has accepted all of the Israeli government's demands regarding future security arrangements in the Jordan Valley as part of a potential framework...

The Israeli Ministerial Legislative Committee approved on Sunday a bill to annex the Jordan Valley to Israel. The bill was endorsed by a vote of eight to three and...

Israel is preparing to announce a plan to build 1,400 settlement units by the time the third batch of Palestinian prisoners are released. Their release is part of US...