Tag: Jerusalem

  • New Settlement Puts Pressure on Jerusalem Palestinians

    by Jon Elmer The New Standard Situated on a hill overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem, the new Israeli housing development looks like it could be an upscale planned community in suburban North America: a billboard solicits buyers for “phase one” housing units; another shows the blueprint of the future community, complete with a daycare,…

  • Israeli troops say they were given shoot-to-kill order

    by Conal Urquhart The Guardian Israeli military prosecutors have opened criminal investigations following allegations by soldiers that they carried out illegal shoot-to-kill orders against unarmed Palestinians. The 17 separate investigations were prompted by the testimony of dozens of troops collected by Breaking the Silence, a pressure group of former Israeli soldiers committed to exposing human…

  • ICAHD and other Israeli Peace Groups call for the cancellation of a planned Muslim Quarter new settlement

    Another illegal act in East Jerusalem undertaken by the Israeli Government and the Municipality of Jerusalem has recently been uncovered: a plan to build a new Jewish settlement in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City near Herod’s Gate. Recently the Sub-committee of the Local Committee for Planning and Construction in Jerusalem has confirmed a…