West Bank Settlements

A study conducted by Israel's Macro Centre for Political Economics has revealed details about the economic cost of Jewish settlement programmes in the West Bank. The study, begun in...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the formation of a legal panel to examine ways to legalise settlement-outposts in the Occupied West Bank and Jerusalem. Media reports in...

Israel's Interior Minister has called on the government to start building 5000 new settlement units in the occupied West Bank. Eli Yishai says that this will be 1000 units...

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 Hebrew-language newspaper in Israel claims that the Israeli government has instructed its embassy in Washington to boycott Jewish organisations in America which oppose Israel's official policies, particularly with...

Media reports in Israel have revealed plans for a new scheme to link a number of illegal settlements in the West Bank with the city of Petah Tikva in...

Israel's Minister of Information and Diaspora has denied media claims that his ministry plans to withdraw the recent Levy Report. The controversial report calls for settlement outposts across the...

In a series of attacks against Palestinian-owned properties, illegal Jewish settlers torched and vandalised a West Bank mosque in the village of Jabaa, five miles from Jerusalem and Ramallah,...

Mustafa El-Barghouthi, the Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative movement and an elected legislator, has reiterated that Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Palestinian people. "All of...

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...