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A Childhood Denied
Posted on 21/04/2013 | 21/04/2013“A Childhood Denied” highlights the phenomenon of Palestinian children working in Israeli agricultural settlements in the Jordan Valley. These children work under harsh conditions and are paid about 50-75 NIS... -
Just 0.7% of state land in the West Bank has been allocated to Palestinians, Israel admits
Posted on 03/04/2013 | 03/04/2013Haaretz Just 0.7% of state land in the West Bank has been allocated to Palestinians, Israel admits Jewish settlements in West Bank have been allocated 38 percent of 1.3 million... -
UNHRC fact-finding mission on settlements
Posted on 03/02/2013 | 03/02/2013UNHRC’s “Independent international fact-finding mission to investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements” report has been published. Press release: http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/RegularSession/Session19/FFM/PR_FFM_31012013_en.pdf Full report: http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/RegularSession/Session19/FFM/FFMSettlements.pdf -
Israeli settler leader laments growing impact of boycott
Posted on 03/09/2012 | 03/09/2012EI A growing trend in multinational factories pulling out of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank has settler leaders aggrieved, according to a report by Israel National News, a leading settler media... -
If settlements are ‘legal’, the ground is laid for annexation
Posted on 20/07/2012 | 20/07/2012The National Jonathan Cook Jul 18, 2012 The recently published report by an Israeli judge concluding that Israel is not in fact occupying the Palestinian territories – despite an international... -
Across the Wall: Israeli Settlement Bus Routes
Posted on 13/07/2012 | 13/07/2012Visualising Palestine <— Click URL for brilliant map. Obvious for all to see the bus routes are for illegal Zionist Israeli Settlers and not Palestinians. Some great comments beneath the... -
Foreign Secretary condemns Israel’s settlement announcement
Posted on 09/06/2012 | 09/06/2012UK in Jerusalem Foreign Secretary William Hague has condemned Israel’s announcement authorising new settlement units across the West Bank and urges the Israeli Government to change its approach. Foreign Secretary... -
Israel Plots an Endgame
Posted on 05/05/2012 | 05/05/2012Counterpunch Illegal Settlements Bonanza Israel Plots an Endgame by RAMZY BAROUD Israel’s colonization policies are entering an alarming new phase, comparable in historic magnitude to the original plans to colonize... -
Co-op boycotts exports from Israel’s West Bank settlements
Posted on 30/04/2012 | 30/04/2012Guardian/ Observer UK’s largest mutual takes lead among European supermarkets The Co-operative Group has become the first major European supermarket group to end trade with companies that export produce from... -
Video: Israelis violently attack Palestinians in Al Khalil home invasion
Posted on 06/04/2012 | 06/04/2012ISM For Video click *here* 2 April 2012 | Youth Against Settlements About 30 Palestinians and international ISM activists from Canada, Finland, United States and the Netherlands entered a Palestinian... -
Israeli settlers attack Israeli activists & journalists; 19 injured, 3 hospitalized
Posted on 03/10/2011 | 03/10/2011Mondoweiss This morning (9/30) Israeli activists and Palestinians were attacked by settlers near the settlement of Anatot. The landowner of the plot to which the activists came in order to... -
Jerusalem’s long-awaited light railway splits opinion
Posted on 17/08/2011 | 17/08/2011Guardian. Some critics say project’s completion is latest example of tightening Israeli grip on Arab east of city. After a decade of disruption, missed deadlines, bust budgets and a clamour... -
Quartet alarmed by Israel’s settlement plans
Posted on 17/08/2011 | 17/08/2011Al Jazeera. Mediating group says it is ‘greatly concerned’ by recent announcement to advance planning for new housing units. The Middle East Quartet, consisting of the US, Russia, the EU and... -
Israel approves 1,600 new homes in East Jerusalem
Posted on 11/08/2011 | 11/08/2011Guardian. Palestinians and Israeli anti-settlement group condemn construction in disputed area. Israel has authorised the construction of 1,600 flats in disputed East Jerusalem and will approve 2,700 more in the next... -
Settlers torch 150 dunams of farmland to the south of Nablus
Posted on 02/08/2011 | 02/08/2011MEM. On Sunday a group of Israeli settlers set ablaze 150 Dunams of farmland belonging to the village of Jaloud in Nablus (to the north of the Occupied West Bank),...