Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he would honor his commitment to build a new settlement in the occupied West Bank, the first in 18 years. The Israeli leader made the remarks hours before meeting with Jason Greenblatt, President Trump’s Middle East envoy. Netanyahu said he hoped an agreement could be reached with…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured the residents of the evacuated outpost of Amona that he would honor his commitment to them to “build a new community,” hours before a meeting with an envoy of the Trump administration. Netanyahu was scheduled to meet Thursday, for the second time this week, with Jason…
Amona settlers are hunger striking to pressure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deliver on his promise to build a new West Bank settlement. Amona, a hilltop outpost of 40 families, was evacuated in late January after the High Court ruled that it had been built on private Palestinian land. Amid outcry from his right…
Israeli police neared the end on Thursday of a days-long operation to evacuate Amona, an illegally-built outpost on the West Bank. Sitting on private Palestinian land, Amona has figured in numerous legal battles since its construction two decades ago. Israel had tried to broker a deal in which the settlers would be moved off their…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli police evacuated the synagogue at Amona in the West Bank, the last occupied building in the outpost. The synagogue, in which up to 100 people, mostly teens, were holed up, was evacuated early on Thursday afternoon, several hours after the last of the 40 homes in the outpost were emptied of…
The Israeli government approved thousands of new homes in Jewish-only settlements in the West Bank on Tuesday night, said Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman in a statement. This followed last week’s announcement of 2,500 new West Bank homes and hundreds more in East Jerusalem. “We are in a new period in which life in Judea and…
Israel’s High Court has put the brakes on West Bank construction to house settlers relocating from the controversial Amona outpost in light of claims that the relocation site was partly built on Palestinian land. Amona itself was built on private Palestinian property. In 2014 the High Court ruled that the settlers had to evacuate their…
The Israeli government will spend more than $35 million to resettle and compensate residents of Amona, the West Bank outpost slated for demolition this week, as part of a deal to peacefully relocate to other parts of the occupied West Bank, according to Israeli media reports. In order to finance the deal, the government has…
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