Voice of America
A new report shows that Israeli has stepped up settlement expansion, despite international pressure. Israeli settlement construction increased by 20 percent last year compared to 2010, according to the annual report of Israel's Peace Now movement.
Palestine Chronicle
28 01/10/2012 I have such a problem with Zionism today, some kind of distorted incarnation of what was once created from the ashes of the Holocaust to be a safe haven for Jews within a model of a secular nation state. I rage against attempts to blur...
Jerusalem Post
As an expert in occupation law and the legal status of Gaza, I read with interest Hillel Neuer's op-ed (Hamas says Gaza not occupied'; UN disagrees, January 5) equating continued recognition of the occupation of Gaza with what he terms Palestinian...
Zee News
A government spokesman said Israel was exercising restraint in settlement building and pointed to a 10-month building freeze in 2010. "The current Israeli government has been attacked by the political leadership of the settler movement for being the...
Jerusalem Post
East J'lem construction increased 7-fold in 2011' 01/10/2012 18:07 Peace Now says number of apartment units in e. J'lem which received final approval increased from 495 units to 3,690 units. Peace Now slammed a large increase in construction...
Ynet News
Lowshot.com NGO's report says government authorized 1,850 building starts for West Bank housing units in past year. Director: Current pace endangers two-state solution Yair Altman The past year has seen a 20% rise in construction starts in the West...
Reuters
Topics A mosque in the Palestinian West Bank village of Abdullah Ibrahim (rear) is seen behind houses in West Bank Jewish settlement of Efrat, near Bethlehem December 22, 2011. Israel's government broke all its settlement-building records in 2011,...
Haaretz
Israel started construction work on 1,850 new housing units in the West Bank in 2011, a 19 percent rise from a year earlier, an Israeli settlement watchdog said Tuesday. Peace Now attributed the rise to a partial, 10-month moratorium on new...