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Settlements

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Settler violence September-OctoberShazia Arshad - Middle East Monitor - Illegal settlements continue to be built across the West Bank and bring with them even more problems, including increasing incidents of settler violence. The illegal settlers colonising the West Bank attack Palestinian people, land, schools, mosques and agriculture. A problem that has existed for some time is worsening, and the Israeli military generally turns a blind eye. 28/10/2010
Settler leaders warn of ‘silent building freeze’ TOVAH LAZAROFF - J-Post - "Under the “Save the Cities” campaign, the settler council is pushing for building permits to be issued in nine settlements for projects that need only a political okay, since the technical details have all been worked out." 27/10/2010
Netanyahu Considering Three Months Freeze On Settlements Saed Bannoura - IMEMC - Netanyahu preparing a plan and intendsing to submit it to Obama, next month. The P.A is also demanding that Israel stop its invasions and arrest campaigns in the occupied territories. bz 26/10/2010
Profitable OccupationSusan Lourenco - Machsomwatch - Only lately have the media begun to call attention to the settlements as "the front line" of the Occupation. It`s a complex system – profitable too – what with all the barriers, barbed wire and checkpoints built, rebuilt and taken down, invariably at or below settlements; segregated roads, constructed and constantly reasphalted, tunnels shaped under them for those who should never be allowed above ground, the Separation Barrier and/or Wall punching its way through Palestinian fields and olive groves. But at no time of year is the presence of settlements and settlers, their numbers exponentially multiplied since the Oslo agreement, so much in evidence as during the olive harvest when recurrent and systematic violence is heightened in the context of the olive harvest, and intimidation and denial of access become the purview of settlers as well as the army.21/10/2010
High court demands state explain why it has failed to demolish outpostsChaim Levinson - Haaretz - "The justices gave the state 15 days to respond to their request for clarifications and explanations." id20/10/2010
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Settlers Escalate Attacks Against Olive Orchards. 2500 Trees Torched In One WeekSaed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies - Witnesses said that soldiers stood idle while the settlers were attacking the villagers and the orchards yet they prevented Palestinian firefighters from reaching the torched orchards under the pretext of waiting for proper security coordination, which leads to further losses as the fire continues to consume the trees. 21/10/2010
Israeli police recruiting from settlements for first time Jonathan Cook - The Electronic Intifada - As US-sponsored peace talks have stalled over the issue of settlements, Israel`s national police force has revealed that it is turning to the very same illegal communities in its first-ever drive to recruit officers from among the settlers. The special officer training course, which is chiefly aimed at discharged combat soldiers, includes seven months of religious studies in an extremist settlement in the occupied West Bank. The program has provoked widespread concern among Israel`s 1.3 million Palestinian citizens, a fifth of the population. 20/10/2010
`Israel`s new housing units decision violates int`l law` says assistant UN secretary general Jerusalem Post - "The UN secretary general believes that, if the door to peace closes, it will be very hard to reopen" [Oscar Fernandez Taranco at Security Council session]. 19/10/2010
Israel begins expanding settlement near JeninResidents of the Ya`bad village, on which the Shaqed settlement is built, said bulldozers entered on Saturday and began razing village land to make way for several new housing units. 16/10/2010
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Postcard From Palestine Christopher Hayes - The Nation - "Around the corner, on Shuhada Street, are the last Palestinian holdouts in the neighborhood. They occupy second-floor apartments with balconies covered in metal braces and chicken wire. Because the street is closed to Palestinians, the residents of these caged apartments are not allowed to use their front doors; at those rare times when they leave to get provisions they must go out via the roof or makeshift doors"18/10/2010
New Settlement Activity in Southern Bethlehem AreaTania Kepler - AIC - "On the afternoon of Monday, 11 October, an Israeli army bulldozer damaged land belonging to Palestinian farmer Raed Taqatqa of the Bait Fajjar village, south of Bethlehem. Immediately after leveling the land, the soldiers brought and set up one mobile home, apparently to be used by settlers"18/10/2010
Ministers unfazed by global condemnation Attila Somfalvi--Senior government member says statements issued against Israeli decision to approve new homes in Jerusalem neighborhoods `not serious` 17/10/2010
Right blasts Netanyahu for offer to extend freezeGIL HOFFMAN - J-Post - "Ehud Olmert blamed Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman for the deterioration of Israel’s image internationally." 13/10/2010
Israeli settlers attack peace activists attempting to harvest olives in HebronSandy Khair - IMEMC & Agencies - "Naser al-Nawaj`a, a local activist, stated that dozens of settlers, along with the Israeli military, attacked Arabs and Israeli solidarity activists while they were on their way to cultivate lands in Hebron"11/10/2010
Report: IDF kills two Hamas militants in Hebron shootout By Haaretz Service - Haaretz "Two Palestinian militants were killed Friday in an exchange of fire with Israel Defense Forces who surrounded a house in Hebron in which the militants were hiding, Channel 2 News reported. " 8/10/2010
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The mendacity of "restraint" Richard Irvine - The Electronic Intifada - A quick look at the division of the West Bank under the Oslo process into Areas "A," "B" and "C" shows clearly how in Area C, the area remaining under full Israeli control, this vision of annexation and expropriation has been put into practice. Area C comprises 59 percent of the West Bank but only 4 percent of its Palestinian population -- it is the sector containing all of Israel`s settlements. Those unfortunates who live there are subject to all kinds of discriminatory laws and practices. 7/10/2010
The dangers of tolerating Jewish terrorism ROI MAOR - The Jerusalem Post - According to news reports, Israel Police is investigating testimony by Palestinians that a group of settlers arrived at the mosque in the middle of the night early Monday and set it on fire. If that is the case, it is another demonstration of growing boldness among settler extremists. Such events can no longer be characterized as isolated incidents. Increasingly, we can see organized activities using violence as a tool for achieving political purposes.7/10/2010
10 days after settlement freeze expires, 350 new units under constructionChaim Levinson - Haaretz - As the end of the freeze approached, the settlements have made great efforts to launch a massive building campaign in response. The Yesha Council has expressed satisfaction at the large amount of construction that has taken place so far. 6/10/2010
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Settlers Torch Mosque, Copies of the Holy Quran, Near BethlehemSaed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies - "The mosque was badly burnt and the settlers also wrote graffiti on its inner walls. The incident is the latest in a series of attacks carried out by the settlers against mosques in the occupied West Bank"4/10/2010
Future of vast Jewish enclave in West Bank far from settledEdmund Sanders - Los Angeles Times - Ariel, established in 1978, is Israel`s fourth-largest settlement. It is also deep inside the West Bank, and there is no consensus about whether it should be part of Israel or absorbed into a Palestinian state4/10/2010
Settlers expand settlement, burn, bulldoze fieldsSettlers began bulldozing Palestinian farmland to build a new settlement in the northern West Bank on Friday...Near Awarta village, also in the northern West Bank, settlers from the Itamar colony set fire to fields belonging to Palestinians2/10/2010
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Israeli Military`s negligence exposes schoolchildren to Israeli settler threats CPTHebron - At Tuwani Release - After waiting for the military for over an hour, the children were forced to take a longer route on which masked Israeli settlers have attacked Palestinians and Internationals on three separate occasions over the past two weeks (see release, http://www.operationdove.org/?p=417). Internationals from the Christian Peacemaker Teams accompanied the children home and were present to observe the four Israeli settlers leave a house on a ridge above the path and begin to run towards the children and Internationals. The schoolchildren immediately began to run away, at which point the settlers slowed to a brisk walk but continued to follow the running children for a few more minutes until all were safely out of sight. 27/10/2010
10 days after settlement freeze expires, 350 new units under constructionChaim Levinson - Haaretz - "The Yesha Council has expressed satisfaction at the large amount of construction that has taken place so far." id 6/10/2010
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Netanyahu approves tenders for 240 new homes in East JerusalemBy Haaretz Service Neighborhoods of Pisgat Ze`ev and Ramot included in nation-wide building olan despite contentious location east of Green Line." "15/10/2010
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