[ 13/08/2011 - 09:29 AM ] MOSCOW, (PIC)– Russia criticized on Friday the Israeli government’s endorsement of building 1600 new settlement units in occupied Jerusalem, warning that it would lead to worsening the already “explosive Middle East peace process”. The Russian foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Ukashević said in a statement that the decision to build [...]
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Area C (which is 60% of the West Bank ) feels the effects of Israel’s power
John Lyons, Middle East correspondent | From: The Australian | August 13, 2011 12:00AM Palestinian children scramble for food rations during Ramadan in the West Bank city of Hebron. Picture: AP Source: AP ONLY 5km separates the offices of two mayors on one of the planet’s most contested pieces of land, but they may as [...]
Egyptian FM: Building new housing units in OJ “big crime”
[ 13/08/2011 - 12:16 PM ] CAIRO, (PIC)– Egyptian foreign minister Mohammed Kamel Amr said that what Israel was doing in occupied Jerusalem was provoking the feelings not only of Palestinians but of all Arabs and Muslims. He said, in a press statement on Friday night before leaving Berlin at conclusion of a visit, that [...]
Qurei slams settlement expansion as ‘recklessness’
Maan News Agency | Aug 12, 2011 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — The Israeli government’s “greed and recklessness” have reached a point that cannot be condoned or tolerated, senior PLO official Ahmed Qurei said Friday. Its plan to build 4,300 housing units “as an excuse” for solving the housing problems would expand illegal settlements in the West [...]
Envoy: World must act against ‘colonization campaign’
Maan News Agency | Aug 12, 2011 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour on Friday urged the international community to compel Israel to end its colonization campaign if it really believes in the two-state solution, reports said. In letters to the UN secretary-general and the presidents of the Security Council and [...]
Israel approves 1,600 Jerusalem settler homes
█▌ Important – Israel does not seek peace nor an end to stop the building of settlements, and thus ethnic cleansing of Palestine. On Aug 30, 2010 (this was before the peacetalks in that year, Netanyahu vowed to make NO CONCESSIONS on eretz Israel which is according to the coverage from the med to river [...]
US slams Israel for settlement expansion
PressTV - Wed Aug 10, 2011 1:56AM GMT Israeli settlements (file photo) The US administration has criticized Israel for authorizing the building of over 900 new settlement units in East al-Quds (Jerusalem). The US government stated Tuesday it is “deeply concerned” by Tel Aviv’s decision to approve the construction of 930 settler units in [...]
US ‘deeply concerned’ by settlement expansion
Related Important Notice | Map of planned Har Homa Illegal Settlement Expansion (983 units) in Bethlehem governorate -Palestine BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The US is concerned about Israel’s approval of over 900 housing units in the illegal settlement of Har Homa, built on Palestinian land in Bethlehem, an official said Tuesday. The US is “deeply concerned [...]
UK condemns Israeli settlement plan
PressTV – Sun Aug 7, 2011 11:47AM GMT The British Foreign Office has condemned Israel’s plan to build 930 new housing units in the illegal settlement of Har Homa in the southern East al-Quds (Jerusalem). “I condemn yesterday’s announcement by the Government of Israel to approve the construction of over 900 housing units which will [...]
EU slams new Israeli settlement plan
PressTV – Sat Aug 6, 2011 1:56PM GMT Israel’s illegal settlement units being constructed south of al-Quds, file photo EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton condemns Tel Aviv’s decision to build 900 settlement units in the neighborhood of Har Homa in East al-Quds (Jerusalem). “I am profoundly disappointed,” AFP reported Ashton saying on Friday. “The [...]
Map of planned Har Homa Illegal Settlement Expansion (983 units) in East Jerusalem
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Settlements imperil Palestine statehood
PressTV – Fri Aug 5, 2011 7:58AM GMT Interview with Hussein Ibish, a senior Fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine Israel has approved the construction of hundreds of new illegal residential units for Israeli settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories. Tel Aviv allowed the building of 900 settlement units in the East al-Quds [...]
Israel approves 900 settlement homes in East Jerusalem
Published today (updated) 04/08/2011 17:58 Israeli soldiers fire tear gas last Friday at Palestinians protesting against West Bank settlement expansion. [AFP/File Abbas Momani] JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israel’s interior ministry has given final approval for the construction of 900 new homes in the east Jerusalem settlement neighborhood of Har Homa, a ministry spokeswoman told AFP on [...]
Israeli MK’s Petition Netanyahu to Immediately Increase Illegal Settlement of West Bank
Thursday August 04, 2011 14:14 by Danny Johnes – IMEMC and Agencies Forty-two MK’s and cabinet members have petitioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resolve the housing crisis by building in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, according to Haaretz. An Illegal Israeli Settlement Under Construction (Archive) The petition was given to Netanyahu on Tuesday, [...]
UNRWA: Clear link between settlements and demolitions
Published yesterday (updated) 02/08/2011 22:44 Israeli soldiers and bulldozers surround Samir Younis’ home in the West Bank village of Azzun Atma near Qalqiliya on January 11, 2011. [MaanImages/Khaleel Reash] JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — The link between Israel’s settlement expansion in the West Bank and the displacement of Palestinians from their homes is now “abundantly clear,” UNRWA [...]