The Security Council adopted resolution 2334 (2016), last week, reiterating its demand that Israel immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including East Jerusalem. The vote on the resolution was 14 in favor, with one member, the United States, abstaining.

Palestinians Urge Security Council to Take Steps to Follow Up 2334

Palestine’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, called Friday, December 30, on the Security Council to take immediate follow-up steps to insure tangible results from its anti-settlement resolution 2334. The resolution, which condemns Israeli settlement activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) and calls upon Israel to halt all such activities, was adopted…

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…