Statistics for 2016 Include Record Number of Demolitions in the OPT

Preliminary analysis of data collected by OCHA (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) indicates that, during 2016, the Israeli authorities demolished or seized 1,089 Palestinian-owned structures throughout the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, displacing 1,593 Palestinians and affecting the livelihoods of another 7,101. These are the highest…

Israeli Border Police in the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem

Israel Approves Construction of New Settlement Building in Silwan

Hours after Israel’s Jerusalem municipality cancelled plans to vote on approving construction of hundreds of new Israeli settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem, Jerusalem’s city planning commission approved a plan to build a three-story building for Jewish settlers in the neighborhood of Batan al-Hawa, in the heart of the occupied Palestinian village of Silwan, just south of…

Photomontage released by Peace Now: Netanyahu: "Israel to the International Court in the Hague", Education Minister Naphtali Bennet: "Boycott Israel"

Israel Reducing Diplomatic Ties with Countries that Supported UNSC Resolution 2334

Israeli Primer Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly began on Sunday, December 26, the process of limiting diplomatic relations with countries that voted in favor of the resolution passed by the UN Security Council last week.against Israeli settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territories. According to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Netanyahu ordered Israel’s Foreign Ministry to limit diplomatic…

A Breaking the Silence event in Tel-Aviv

Bennett Promotes Bill to Ban Anti- Occupation Group from Schools

Far-right Education Minister Naphtali Bennett is ratcheting up his fight against the anti-occupation group Breaking the Silence. Bennett is now promoting a bill that will forbid inviting representatives of the group, which collects and publishes critical testimonies from soldiers about serving in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, following the ignoring by three high school principals of…