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By Tugcenur Akgun NEW YORK (AA) The US is “deeply troubled” by the Israeli government’s announcement of plans to approve over 4,000 new illegal settlement units in the West Bank, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said on Sunday. “The US is deeply troubled by the Israeli government’s announcement of plans to advance over 4,000 new […]

2nd Jan 2023

Palestine: Israeli soldiers kill 2 Palestinians, injure 8 in West Bank

Imemc.org: On Monday dawn, dozens of armored Israeli military vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded Kafr Dan town, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, demolished the homes of two slain Palestinians, killed two young men, and injured at least eight others, one seriously. Samer Atiya, the head of the Ibn Sina Specialized Hospital in […]

1st Nov 2022

Palestine: Israel demolishes 2 Palestinian homes in West Bank, amid Israeli settler attacks

By Awad al-Rujoub RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): The Israeli army demolished two Palestinian-owned homes in the West Bank on Monday, in the latest demolitions in the occupied territory. Azzam Jaber said Israeli bulldozers razed his three-storey house in al-Baqaa town, east of Hebron, citing lack of a building permit. An under-construction house was also demolished […]

29th Jul 2022

Palestine: Israeli settlers seize Palestinian home in Hebron

By Qais Abu Samra HEBRON, Palestine (AA): Israeli settlers on Thursday seized a Palestinian-owned home in Hebron in the occupied West Bank, according to a local Palestinian official. The home of Jraiwi family south of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron’s Old City was taken by settlers, Emad Hamdan, the head of Hebron Reconstruction Committee, said […]

6th Nov 2021

Palestinian child killed by Israeli forces in occupied West Bank

By Esat Firat JERUSALEM (AA): A Palestinian child was shot dead Friday by Israeli forces during an anti-settlement demonstration in the occupied West Bank, according to a written statement by the Palestinian Health Ministry on Friday. Meanwhile, Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian homes Friday in the town of Surif, near the occupied West Bank city […]

6th Oct 2021

Palestine: Israel plans to build 10,000 settlement units in East Jerusalem

JERUSALEM (AA): The Israeli government plans to build new 10,000 settlement units near Qalandia area in occupied East Jerusalem, according to Israeli media. Israeli Channel 13 reported that the Israeli-controlled Jerusalem Municipality plans to build the new settlement units on the land of the abandoned Jerusalem International Airport in Qalandia near the Israeli industrial zone […]

11th Aug 2021

Palestine: Israel demolishes Palestinian home in East Jerusalem’s Silwan

By Abdelraouf Arna’out JERUSALEM (AA): Israeli forces on Tuesday tore down a Palestinian house in Silwan town in occupied East Jerusalem, according to a local official. “Israeli bulldozers backed by police forces demolished the two-apartment house,” Fakhri Abu Diab, a member of a local land committee in Silwan, told Anadolu Agency. The Wadi Hilweh […]

9th Dec 2020

Palestine: Israel demolishes Palestinian homes in West Bank

By Awad al-Rajoub RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA):Israeli forces have demolished a number of Palestinian homes and detained 16 people in the occupied West Bank, an official said on Tuesday. “The [Israeli] occupation army demolished five homes in the town of Ras Al-Auja in the Jordan Valley,” mayor Salah Freijat told Anadolu Agency. He said the demolition […]

26th Nov 2020

Palestine: Israel tears down Palestinian homes in West Bank

By Qais Abu Samra HEBRON CITY, Palestine (AA):- Israeli authorities on Wednesday demolished a number of Palestinian homes in the southern occupied West Bank. Meanwhile, Israeli authorities have transferred ownership of two Palestinian homes in Silwan district in the outskirts of the old city of Jerusalem to Israeli settlers. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, the […]

6th Nov 2020

UN: West Bank witnessing largest demolition in years by Israel

By Zehra Nur Duz (AA): In 2020, the occupied West Bank has been dealt with more destruction than it has seen in years, according to a UN official. “So far in 2020, 689 structures have been demolished across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, more than in any full year since 2016,” Yvonne Helle, the […]

26th Aug 2020

Palestine: Israeli army demolishes 10 Palestinian homes

By Qais Abu Samra RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): The Israeli army on Tuesday demolished two Palestinian homes in occupied East Jerusalem and eight east of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, In Silwan neighborhood, in East Jerusalem, the Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem knocked down a house owned by Khaled al-Khales, witnesses said. Israeli authorities […]

12th Mar 2019

Palestine: Israel to construct 23,000 illegal buildings in East Jerusalem

By Afra Aksoy and Hamdi Yildiz JERUSALEM (AA): Israel will construct more than 20,000 new illegal houses in occupied East Jerusalem in the next five years, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday. “We signed an agreement in the framework of construction of 23,000 new housing units in Jerusalem with an investment […]

27th Dec 2018

Palestine: Israel approve Jewish-only West Bank illegal housing units

JERUSALEM (AA): The Israeli authorities on Wednesday announced plans to build illegal hundreds of new Jewish-only housing units in the occupied West Bank, according to Israeli media reports. According to the Times of Israel website, a Defense Ministry-appointed committee responsible for authorizing settlement construction has announced plans to build almost 1,300 new West Bank housing […]

9th Dec 2018

Palestine: Jerusalem Palestinian family forced to demolish house

JERUSALEM (AA): Israeli authorities on Saturday forced a Palestinian family to demolish its own house in occupied East Jerusalem, the family members told Anadolu Agency. Israel had issued an order to demolish the two-apartment house in the Silwan neighborhood, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. “Israeli authorities gave us until Dec. 10 to demolish our house,” […]

1st Jun 2018

Palestine: Israel approves 1,500 new West Bank illegal Jewish settlement units

JERUSALEM (AA): The Israeli authorities late Wednesday approved construction of hundreds of new settlement units in the West Bank, Israeli media has reported. According to the Walla news website, Israel’s Supreme Planning Council on Wednesday approved the construction of 1,500 new housing units throughout the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. It went on to […]

31st May 2018

Palestine: Israeli gov’t approves new West Bank illegal settlement units

RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli government on Wednesday approved construction of 450 new Jewish-only illegal settlement units in the occupied West Bank. According to Israel’s Channel 7, the government’s planning and building committee approved construction of the new housing units in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc south of Jerusalem. The new units will […]

25th Jan 2016

Palestine: Israel to allow settlers takeover of Palestinian homes

By Kaamil Ahmed JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday gave his support to a group of Jewish settlers who were filmed forcefully taking over Palestinian homes in the city of Hebron (Al-Khalil) in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Though Israeli border police removed the settlers from the homes on Friday, Netanyahu […]

6th Aug 2015

Palestine: Israeli settler violence increase: homes stoned, tagged with racist graffiti

IMEMC News & Agencies: Israeli Jewish settlers last night attacked Palestinian homes with stones as they provocatively approached the outskirts of Silat ad-Daher, some 20 kilometers to the south of Jenin in northern West Bank, security sources told WAFA. The settlers, who also chanted racist slogans against Arabs and Palestinians, provoked a scuffle with angry […]

21st Jun 2015

Palestine: Israeli soldiers detain 2 children in Hebron

[File: Still image from YouTube Video] IMEMC & Agencies: Israeli soldiers kidnapped, late on Saturday, two Palestinian children in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Israeli settlers hurled stones on Palestinians and their property, in Hebron’s Old city. Media sources in Hebron said the soldiers kidnapped Fadi Nader an-Natsha, […]

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