Posts Tagged: west bank
Israel Land Authority Planning Thousands of Homes Across Green Line
The Israel Land Authority has decided to finance the planning of tens of thousands of housing units in the West Bank, Globes reported Tuesday. The website...
Palestinian Authority Arrests Critical Journalists in Widespread Crackdown (VIDEO)
Palestinian journalists are fed up with what they perceive to be a crackdown on the press in the West Bank, and they recently took to...
France’s Hollande Calls for Ending Settlement Construction at Meeting With Abbas
At a news conference with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Monday, French President Francois Hollande called on Israel to completely stop settlement construction...
Report: Palestinian Authority Negotiators Quit Peace Talks
The Palestinian Authority team tasked with negotiating peace with Israel has resigned its role, apparently because of newly announced West Bank settlement plans, international media...
Netanyahu Freezes Planned Construction in Controversial E-1 Zone
Israel's Housing Ministry has published tenders for 20,000 new homes across the Green Line, including 1,200 in the contentious E-1 zone, which links Jerusalem and...
Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and the Right of Return
As the current negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians lurch forward, the burning question is: will Israel's withdrawal from the West Bank put an end...
Kerry Set to Arrive in Israel as PA Threatens to Walk Away from Talks
JPost - US Secretary of State John Kerry will visit next week for talks on the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, even as senior Palestinian officials...
Palestinians Celebrate Wildly as Murderers Return Home (VIDEO)
Early Wednesday, 26 Palestinian prisoners were released by Israel as part of a deal brokered between the Jewish state and the Palestinian Authority at the...
Israel Releases 26 Palestinian Convicts as Peace Gesture
JPost - Israel in the early hours of Wednesday completed the release of 26 long-serving Palestinian prisoners in the second part of a four...
Hamas Cell Planned to Detonate Remote Controlled Aircraft Bomb in Israel
A Hamas terrorist cell planned to detonate a bomb in Israel via a remote controlled aircraft, Israel's Walla News reported on Friday. The Hebron-based cell made...
Report: Billions of Dollars of Aid to Palestinian Authority Lost to Corruption
Billions of dollars in international aid granted to the Palestinian Authority may have been squandered, lost to corruption, or misspent, a new report by the...
Netanyahu to Cabinet: ‘We Have Witnessed an Increase in Terrorist Actions in Recent Weeks’
Israel has seen an uptick in terrorism in the West Bank and Gaza in recent weeks, Benjamin Netanyahu said at the start of his weekly...
Obama at UN: ‘Israel is Here to Stay’
U.S. President Barack Obama addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, chastising the international institution for the bias it exhibits towards the Jewish state...
Netanyahu Allows Jews to Return to Contentious Machpelah House
Following the recent murder of two Israeli soldiers in two separate incidents, and pressure from right-wing politicians, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a directive Sunday...
