settlement activity

A senior figure in Fatah has accused the Israeli government of escalating military activity against Gaza as a cover-up of continued illegal settlement expansion and building. Azzam El Ahmad...

A Palestinian specialist in settlement affairs has claimed that America's use of its veto in the UN Security Council last month has led to a rise in the rate...

Meretz, the Israeli left-wing party, has announced a five-year peace plan with the Palestinians to replace the Oslo agreement. Under the plan, Israel would help Palestine to be accepted...

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...

A senior member of the executive committee of the PLO has called a statement made by Israel's first Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz an "unfounded red herring". Saeb Erekat...

Elected Palestinian legislator Mustafa Barghouti has expressed his belief that the meeting held in Amman between Palestinians and Israelis will not have any benefits. The General Secretary of the...

A member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation has set out his view of the meeting to be held between Israel and the Palestinians in Amman...

Dozens of settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque again on Wednesday. The Muslim sanctuary in Jerusalem has now witnessed clashes with police officers protecting the Jewish extremists for several days. Eyewitnesses...

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has issued a warning to the Israeli government of the repercussions of its continued settlement activity in occupied Jerusalem, saying that settlement construction "aims at...

Russia's permanent delegate at the United Nations has called the continued construction of illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories "the biggest obstacle to the two-state solution". Vitaly...

Some Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have called on the EU Commission's Foreign Affairs chief, Catherine Ashton, to partially suspend the Association Agreement with Israel on the grounds...

With the approach of the 2012 U.S. presidential elections scheduled for November, difficult questions have arisen about the significance of the Jewish lobby in those elections on the one...