World Zionist Organization to Invest 30m Shekels to Ready Settlements for Legalization

The World Zionist Organization Settlement Division is set to invest 29.5 million shekels ($8.5 million) to connect “unauthorized” occupied West Bank settlements (called “outposts” by officials) to the electricity grid and prepare master plans ahead of authorizing them as proper settlements. Peace Now led on May 30, 2022 a landmark protest which called upon Israel…

Masked Jewish settlers escorted by Israeli occupation troops assault a Palestinian man in the West Bank in a video released on April 3, 2021.

B’Tselem: Israel Exploiting Settler Violence to Steal Palestinian Lands

Israel systematically uses settler violence as a “major informal tool” to intimidate and drive Palestinians from farming and pasture lands in the West Bank, the Israeli rights group B’Tselem contended on Sunday, November 14. B’Tselem also challenged repeated claims by the government that violence against Palestinians is perpetrated by a small number of extremist settlers…

NGOs: Israel’s Development of E1 Zone Will Thwart Palestinian State

The construction of 3,500 settler homes in E1 zone between Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley is designed to thwart Palestinian state, architect Uri Reicher testified this week at the Higher Planning Council of the Israeli occupation Civil Administration hearing on the project. “Israeli construction on E1 harms Palestine’s future growth potential and therefore closes the…