Settlement Construction

A senior member of Fatah's Central Committee has confirmed that the Palestinian leadership rejects any proposals for political solutions which are not based on a complete cessation of settlement...

The Israeli government has announced that it will hire foreign labour to work in the settlement construction industry and to cope with an expected increase in settlement expansion projects...

A report issued by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has confirmed that since its occupation in 1967, authorities of the Israeli occupation have...

Official data released by Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics has revealed that settlement construction in the occupied West Bank has quadrupled since the end of the partial moratorium five...

A report by Israel's Peace Now movement revealed that since the settlement construction freeze expired – more than two and a half months ago – the authorities have laid...

The Israeli government stated that plans for settlement construction and projects in Jerusalem are on-going and will continue, adding that this is in complete harmony with the policies of...

Israeli media reports say that the Israeli prime minister is considering an offer of "security facilitation" to the Palestinian Authority in return for a resumption of direct negotiations during...

Israel's Minister of Defence, Ehud Barak, has said that the Levy Report on the legalisation of settlements in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem will not boost settlement construction,...

The Israeli occupation authorities have isolated Marwan Al-Barghouti for a week in solitary confinement inside Hadarim Prison. The Fatah leader will also be subject to sanctions imposed by the...

The Speaker of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has said that the status of Jerusalem is "not negotiable". Speaking about settlement construction in Jerusalem, Reuven Rivlin asserted that Israel...

Mahmoud Abbas has suggested that Palestine could approach the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the issue of Israel's plans to build 3,000 settlement housing units in the occupied West...

A media report in Israel claims that Washington gave six European countries the green light to summon Israeli ambassadors to protest against Tel Aviv's decision to expand settlement construction...

Israel has begun the construction of 114 new housing units in the Al-Khader neighbourhood of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem. An Israeli decision to commence construction in...

Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister has said that his country's relations with Turkey will never be completely repaired to what they were before Israel's attack on the Freedom Flotilla in...

The Secretary-General of the United Nations has expressed his belief that the current situation in the occupied Palestinian territories "cannot continue" from both a political and economic perspective. In...

Israel's Palestinian citizens have rejected the proposal made by Arab League foreign ministers to agree to land swaps between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The rejection was made on...

Palestinians sources have stated that Israeli occupation forces have allowed settlers to establish a new settlement bloc in the town of Beit Sahour, east of Bethlehem. This will mean...

More than 40 extremist Israeli settlers, including senior Likud officials, invaded Al-Aqsa Mosque through the Maghrabi Gate on Tuesday morning. They said they were commemorating the 'unification' of Jerusalem....

Palestinians protesters organised a candlelight demonstration on Thursday night to protest against an Israeli court ruling allowing parts of the Separation Wall to be built in the Wadi Cremisan...

As Israeli justice minister, Tzipi Livni, met with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Rome on Wednesday, the Israel Civil Administration approved a plan to build 296 housing...

Israel has denounced a paper by the Scottish Church which denies "Jews' special claim to the land of Israel." The paper entitled "The Inheritance of Abraham," which was published...

The Israeli Peace Now movement has revealed plans by the Israeli authorities to start legalising four settlement outposts built on private land in the occupied West Bank. According to...

Israel's Attorney General, Yehuda Weinstein, on Tuesday sent a strongly worded letter to Israeli Defence Minister, Moshe Ya'alone, accusing security forces of acting wrongly in protecting illegal settlement construction...

Saeb Erekat, member of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee, stated that the Israeli government "Continues to exercise the settlement policy on the occupied Palestinian territories." During a...

Chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said on Monday that Israeli settlements are the main obstacle before efforts to revive the peace process, and that the Palestinian Authority is prepared...

Settlers from the Gush Etzion settlement have expressed outrage after discovering that they belong to the State of Palestine on the global search engine of Google, as stated on...

An Israeli official has claimed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not freeze West Bank settlements in order to facilitate the resumption of peace talks and negotiations with the...

Israel has decided to re-arm and train teams of illegal settlers in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. Hebrew media sources claim that the decision was made in the context...

Israeli settlers have begun construction of new buildings in the illegal Israeli settlement of Amona in the north of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, Israeli sources said...

Israel's Likud Party, headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has proposed a basic law with constitutional status which, if passed by the Knesset, would lead to the annexation of...

New data published by the Lands Research Centre (LRC) shows that Palestinians own only eight per cent of historic Palestine. The LRC is affiliated to the Arabic Studies Association...

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...