Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited a Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Sunday and said that he had fulfilled a promise to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state that he made to the settlers 25 years ago. According to The...
Smotrich Announces Major West Bank Settlement Expansion To ‘Bury the Idea of a Palestinian State’
The Israeli government is moving forward with a plan for the massive expansion of illegal Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank that would cut off the northern part of the Palestinian territory from its southern regions, a plan Israeli Finance Minister...
Israeli Knesset Passes Non-Binding Resolution Calling for the Annexation of the West Bank
The Israeli Knesset on Wednesday passed a non-binding resolution that calls for the annexation of the occupied West Bank, a symbolic show of support for the total takeover of the Palestinian territory. The motion passed in a vote of 71-13, with two opposition parties...
Israel Transfers Important West Bank Mosque to Settler Control
The Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank is incredibly important to Muslims dating back over 2,000 years. Israel occupied the mosque in 1967 and converted half of it to an important Jewish shrine called the Cave of the Patriarchs. The site has been a source of tension in...
Church Leaders Visit Christian West Bank Village Under Israeli Settler Attack
The leaders of Christian churches in the Holy Land visited the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Monday to show support amid increasing settler attacks. The Council of Patriarchs and Heads of Churches of Jerusalem said in a...
Israel Receives D-9 Bulldozers From the US That Will be Used To Demolish Palestinian Homes
A US shipment of Caterpillar D9 bulldozers arrived in the Israeli port of Haifa on Wednesday as Israel is conducting a record number of demolitions of Palestinian homes and structures in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza. According to Israeli media, the...
Three Palestinians Killed During Israeli Settler Rampage in Occupied West Bank Town
On Wednesday night, Jewish settlers attacked the town of Kafr Malik east of Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, resulting in the killing of three Palestinians by the Israeli military. According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, dozens of settlers rampaged...
Israeli Minister Calls for Israeli Control Over Syria and Lebanon
Unusually far-right even in the generally far-right Israeli cabinet, Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu has sparked some new controversy today in a speech to an ultra-nationalist youth conference, where he called for Israel to have full control over both Syria and...
Israeli Defense Minister: ‘We Will Build a Jewish Israeli State’ in the West Bank
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz declared on Friday that Israel would build a "Jewish Israeli state" in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Katz's comments came a day after the Israeli government approved 22 additional West Bank settlements, which are illegal under...
Israel Approves Biggest West Bank Settlement Expansion in Over 30 Years
Israel has approved the establishment of 22 Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank as it continues its policy of the de facto annexation of the Palestinian territory. Peace Now, an Israeli settlement watchdog, said the approval marks the biggest...