Israel to withhold $6M in U.N. dues after settlement resolution

 Israel announced it will withhold $6 million from its annual United Nations dues in protest of a resolution condemning Israeli settlements built on land disputed with the Palestinians.

UN resolution against Israeli settlements rescues two-state solution: Arab League

A recent United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution against Israeli settlement expansion has rescued the two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Arab League (AL) Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit said in a statement Wednesday.

UN passes resolution on ending Israeli settlements

The UN Security Council has voted in favour of a resolution demanding the halt of settlement activity by Israel on occupied Palestinian territory with the United States notably abstaining.

Israeli court postpones Amona demolition for 45 days

Israel's High Court of Justice has postponed the scheduled demolition and evacuation of the Amona settlement on Palestinian lands in the West Bank for 45 days.

Israeli parliament moves forward bill to expropriate private Palestinian lands

The Israeli parliament on Monday night gave preliminary approval to a bill to allow the State to expropriate private Palestinian lands in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Egypt rejects Israeli approval of bill legalizing West Bank outposts

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry rejected Tuesday Israel's recent approval of a draft law that legalizes Israeli outposts in the West Bank.

Israeli ministers okay draft bill to legalize Jewish settlements on private Palestinian land

An Israeli ministerial committee has approved a draft bill to allow settlers in the occupied West Bank to remain in homes built on private Palestinian land. The country’s attorney-general said the bill is legally flawed.

UN chief: Netanyahu ethnic cleansing remark 'unacceptable and outrageous'

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday took a swipe at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying it was "unacceptable and outrageous" to claim that opposition to settlements was tantamount to ethnic cleansing.

Israeli demolitions make more Palestinians homeless

Approximately 740 Palestinians, including 384 children, were made homeless during the first six months of 2016 after the Israeli military tore down their housing structures in the occupied West Bank, according to new figures.

Israel approves millions for West Bank settlements

The Israeli government has approved nearly $13m in financing for the occupied West Bank settlements of Kiryat Arba and Hebron, according to officials.

Israel to grant working permits for Palestinians in West Bank

Head of Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions, Shaher Saad, said Wednesday that Israel informed them that it will grant 10,000 working permits for Palestinian workers of the West Bank into Israel.

UN agency condemns large-scale home demolitions in West Bank

 UN, 6 April 2016 – The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has condemned today’s large scale home demolitions by Israeli authorities in the Bedouin refugee community of Um al Khayr in the South Hebron Hills.

Palestinians want to join world to end conflict with Israel

The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Amman Sunday and told him the Palestinian leadership is working with the international community to hold an international peace conference to find a 5+1 formula and end the conflict with Israel.

EU calls on Israel to halt demolition of Palestinian housing

The European Union on Saturday called on Israel to halt the demolition of Palestinian housing, some of which was EU-funded, and reiterated its opposition to expanding the illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Israel legalises hundreds of settler homes in West Bank

Israel has retroactively legalised about 800 homes in four settlements in the West Bank, the Palestinian occupied territory, the interior ministry said.

Israel destroys Jerusalem homes as clashes intensify

Israel destroyed the homes of two Palestinians involved in attacks on Israelis more than a year ago.

Fresh clashes at break out at Aqsa compound

New clashes broke out on Monday morning between Israeli border police and Palestinians at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, an Agence France-Presse journalist reported, with further trouble feared in the week ahead.

Settlers storm W. Bank holy site, clash with Palestinians

Hundreds of Jewish settlers forced their way into a Muslim shrine in the West Bank city of Nablus in the early hours of Monday, triggering clashes with Palestinian youths, according to eyewitnesses.

Thousands of Palestinian structures under Israeli demolition orders (UN)

Some 13,000 Palestinian structures in the West Bank are currently under Israeli demolition orders, leaving residents and homes "in a state of chronic uncertainty and threat", the UN said on Sept.7.

Jewish extremists raise Israeli flags outside Al-Aqsa

Several Jewish extremists on Sunday raised Israeli flags outside the gates of occupied East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, according to the mosque’s Palestinian director.