Illegal palestinian settlements

EU envoy: ‘IDF razing in Area C fueling Israeli-EU tensions’

Such demolitions are “unacceptable,” the envoy said, as he discussed the sharp disagreement between the EU and Israel on this issue and indeed on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in general.

 SVEN KOOPMANS, the European Union’s special representative for the Middle East peace process
 Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly government conference at the PM's office in Jerusalem on January 22, 2023.

Netanyahu: Illegal construction is not allowed - not from Palestinians or settlers

 Likud MKs Yuli Edelstein and Danny Danon visit the Bedouin village Khan al-Ahmar, in the West Bank on January 23, 2023.

Netanyahu must raze Khan al-Ahmar despite int'l pressure, Likud MKs say

 A MAP FROM the British Mandate era (1935) shows a desolate Masafer Yatta area.

The fact and fiction of Masafer Yatta - opinion


Nides: Israeli settlement growth infuriates me, calls it 'stupid things'

It is impossible to avert "every single house" built in the West Bank, US ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides explains to Peace Now.

 US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides on December 2, 2021

The Palestinian land grab of Judea and Samaria

The startling statistics show that in just the past two years, from 2019 to 2021, the Palestinians have built a whopping 5,907 illegal structures in Area C.

 MARCHING WITH signs reading ‘preserving and saving the Israeli land,’ in Bat Ayin and Gush Etzion junction, June 21.

Israeli settlers push Palestinians out of West Bank playground

On the day that Israelis from a nearby settlement pushed Palestinians out of a playground in Susiya, for the second time in a month, others stoned houses in the Palestinian village of Burin.

 Israeli settlers clash with Palestinians after throwing stones at houses on the edge of the Palestinian village of Burin, November 6, 2021

Israel to authorize 900 Palestinian homes amid fight over Area C

The Civil Administration rarely grants Palestinians approval to build in the West Bank's Area C, which is under IDF military and civil control.

View of the Israeli settlement of Ariel, in the West Bank on July 2, 2020. Photo by Sraya Diamant/Flash90

UN warns IDF Wadi Hummus home razings risks forced Palestinian transfer

One Palestinian resident who sat on a plastic chair in his living room told the Border Police that he would rather they destroy the home on top of his head than take him out by force.

Israeli machinery demolishes a Palestinian building on the outskirts of Jerusalem

EU concerned by pending Palestinian home demolitions near Jerusalem

While the IDF does not usually carry out enforcement in Areas A and B, in this case the buildings were constructed too close to the security barrier.

IDF demolition of terrorists' houses, August 9, 2017.

EU to Israel: Halt razing of Palestinian structures

The EU took particular issue with a new IDF tool to evacuate illegal Palestinian villages, which it adapted from a measure initiated to help destroy settler outposts.

An EU-funded structure in the West Bank

EU demands Israel rebuild illegal Palestinian school structures

In their statement, the EU also urged Israel to halt settlement construction, while encouraging the rebuilding of illegal Palestinian schools.

Palestinian schoolchildren play outside a tent where they attend lessons after Israeli troops razed their school building in the West Bank village of Jubbet ad-Dib, near Bethlehem August 24, 2017

Israel advancing 14,000 Palestinian homes in Area C, right-wing warns

The Council and right-wing politicians are concerned the move will allow that territory to become part of a Palestinian state in any final-status agreement for a two-state solution.

A Palestinian laborer works on a construction site in the new Palestinian town dubbed Rawabi or "The Hills", near the West Bank city of Ramallah

Leaks From PM Netanyahu, Abbas & President Trump's Secret Discussions on Peace & Jerusalem

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Cabinet endorses plan to fund Beduin townships, increase 'law enforcement'

Ten new industrial zones are to be set up to combat unemployment in the sector, which is currently the highest in the country, the statement said.

Beduin women in Rahat, Israel.