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Breaking News Jewish Settlement Construction Up by 70% This Year, Says Peace Now Report
Housing starts in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank are up by 70 percent this year, the anti-settlement Peace Now group said on Thursday, despite reports Israel has been quietly delaying new construction. The figure related to the first six months of 2013 – before Israeli-Palestinian peace talks resumed in July – and was…
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Breaking News Jewish Settler Bludgeoned With Ax Near West Bank Home
Israeli police are searching for two Palestinians who are believed to have killed a Israeli army colonel outside his West Bank home. The man, reserve colonel Sariya Ofer, was bludgeoned to death Thursday night by the two men who waited outside his home in Shadmot Mehola, a West Bank settlement, wielding an axe and metal…
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Opinion Handshake to Hate — Caught on Video
It was almost a moving moment. A Palestinian child, only 6 years old, goes up to a Jewish child of Israeli settlers and offers him a handshake. The Palestinian boy isn’t even supposed to be there. The Israel Defense Forces closed off this area of the restive West Bank a few months ago to avoid…
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Breaking News Jewish Girl, 9, Stabbed by West Bank Intruder
A nine-year-old girl was injured in a suspected terrorist attack in a West Bank settlement. The girl was injured Saturday night on the porch outside of her home in Psagot, located north of Jerusalem and adjacent to Ramallah. Although shots were fired, it is believed that the girl, Noam Glick, was stabbed, according to reports….
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Opinion It’s Olive War Time in West Bank
It’s Olive War season. Unfortunately, we’re not talking about a gourmet reality television show, but rather a several-week period of clashes where Palestinians and settlers try to hit each other in their pockets, via their olive groves. In recent years, attacks by Palestinians on settler groves and vice-versa have increased significantly. Of course, it’s more…
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Breaking News Netanyahu Pledges To ‘Strengthen Settlement’ in West Bank
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the Civil Administration on Sunday night to take the necessary action to allow Jewish settlers back into a contested house in the West Bank city of Hebron. In April 2012, a group of settlers moved into the house, claiming that they had purchased the property, which is located not…
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Breaking News Fifteen Former EU Leaders Urge Officials To Not Soften on Settlement Guidelines
A group of 15 former senior European officials has urged the European Union not to soften or delay new settlement guidelines slated to take effect on January 1, and in particular to ensure they apply to the Horizon 2020 scientific cooperation program. The letter, dated September 16, was sent to all EU foreign ministers by…
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Breaking News WZO Allocates 1000 Acres of Palestinian Land to Settlers in Jordan Valley
An internal Civil Administration document confirms a Haaretz report that the World Zionist Organization has allocated to settlers in the Jordan Valley more than 5,000 dunams (1,235 acres) of private Palestinian land located east of the border fence, namely, between that fence and the actual border with the Kingdom of Jordan. This area between the…
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