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Breaking News Israel Approves More Settlements Near Jerusalem
Israel on Thursday issued a detailed plan for the building of some 800 new homes on annexed land in the West Bank that is certain to attract further international condemnation of its settlement policies. A planning committee issued a call for bids from contractors to start building 797 housing units on the western slopes of…
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Breaking News Palestinians Hold Local Elections in West Bank
Palestinians in the West Bank go to the polls on Saturday in long-delayed municipal elections that have already highlighted deep divisions in the occupied territory and stoked complaints about a lack of leadership. The Oct. 20 ballot will hold up a cracked mirror to a political landscape clouded by financial crises, failure to reconcile the…
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Breaking News Netanyahu Backs Parts of ‘No Occupation’ Report
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will ask his Cabinet to approve some of the conclusions of a report that says that West Bank settlements are legal under international law. A resolution to adopt some of the findings of the Levy Committee’s report could come in the next week or two, Israel Radio reported. The Levy…
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Breaking News S. Africa Pushes Labels for Settlement Products
The South African Trade Ministry has published a second notice concerning the labeling of products from Jewish settlements, despite working with the Jewish community on a compromise. Contrary to the more restricted proposal issued in May, the notice published Oct. 12 in the Government Gazette refers to all products originating from the West Bank, the…
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Breaking News Barak: Israel Should Pull Out of Some Settlements
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak proposed in a newspaper interview that Israel unilaterally withdraw from outlying West Bank settlements and outposts. Under the plan that Barak outlined in a pre-Yom Kippur interview with Israel Hayom, any Jewish settlers who want to remain in their West Bank homes after the withdrawal could do so under Palestinian…
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News Settlements Keep Growing Despite Migron Setback
Three years after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that he had “no intention of building new settlements,” contractors paid by Israel’s government have constructed a brand-new, exclusively Jewish neighborhood in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. As in the past, the government is portraying it as simply the expansion of an existing settlement. But in this case,…
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Breaking News Settlers Vandalize West Bank Mosque
A mosque near Hebron was spray painted with graffiti referring to a West Bank outpost. “Price Tag Migron” was painted on the wall of a mosque in Dura, a village located southwest of Hebron. Palestinian residents informed West Bank police on Tuesday evening. Price tag refers to the strategy that extremists have adopted to exact…
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Breaking News Palestinians Aim To Ease Hardship Amid Protests
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayad announced measures to ease economic hardship following stepped up Palestinian protests in the West Bank. Fayad on Tuesday announced that the value added tax will be reduced by two percent to 15 percent and he lowered prices on diesel, gas and kerosene, following a meeting with ministers to discuss…
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