Tag: Settlement

  • European Union: Israel annexing East Jerusalem

    Rory McCarthy | The Guardian 7 March 2009 A confidential EU report accuses the Israeli government of using settlement expansion, house demolitions, discriminatory housing policies and the West Bank barrier as a way of “actively pursuing the illegal annexation” of East Jerusalem. The document says Israel has accelerated its plans for East Jerusalem, and is…

  • Carmel blockaded in Jayyous solidarity action

    8th February 2009 At around 6:30 this morning a group of students from Brighton locked themselves to Carmel Agrexco, the Israeli state owned export company, to protest against their complicity in the illegal annexation of the West Bank and the repression of students in the Palestinian village of Jayyous. Carmel Agrexco grows and imports agricultural…

  • Settlers confiscate more land from Yasuf village

    On February 4th, settlers from the illegal Israeli settlement of Kfar Tappuah began clearing land for building outposts, despite the fact that this land legally belongs to the Palestinian village of Yasuf. The settlers brought a bulldozer with them to clear village fields, and it is expected that extensions of Kfar Tappuah in the form…

  • E1 settlement project ongoing, Israel invested 200 million NIS for settlement construction

    Saed Bannoura | IMEMC Israel is ongoing with the infrastructure work, which includes roads and homes in the so-called E1 area, in east Jerusalem in order to impose its own vision of any future peace deal by disconnecting geographical contiguity of the Palestinian territories and linking Maali Adumim illegal settlement with East Jerusalem and other…

  • Peace Now: Settlements expanded faster in 2008

    On day US Mideast envoy arrives in Israel, Peace Now movement publishes report on settlement expansion activity last year. Yesha Council pleased with ‘documentation of Zionist enterprise’ Efrat Weiss | Ynet Jewish settlements and outposts in the West Bank expanded more rapidly in 2008 than the previous year, Peace now reported on Wednesday. The timing…