The Obama administration slammed U.N. special rapporteur Richard Falk\’s call for a boycott of private companies that are profiting from the Israeli settlement enterprise.
Israel on Thursday issued a detailed plan for the building of some 800 new homes on annexed land in the West Bank that is certain to attract further international condemnation of its settlement policies.
Canada\’s largest Protestant church stands poised to approve a boycott of products made in Israeli settlements.
The European Union has included parts of the central Israel municipality of Modi\’in on its list of settlements.
Israel’s Supreme Court said that the evacuation of an illegal West Bank settlement must take place by Aug. 21.
Activists threw rocks at contractors inspecting the Ulpana neighborhood in preparation for the evacuation of five apartment buildings there.\n
Israel shrugged off on Thursday U.S. criticism of its plans to erect 851 more settler homes in the occupied West Bank, projects that appeared aimed at placating settlers angry with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Hundreds of settlement activists began marching Monday from the Ulpana neighborhood on the outskirts of the Beit El settlement in the West Bank toward Jerusalem.
The Knesset passed a bill that provides tax benefits to Israelis who donate to West Bank settlements.
Palestinian leaders reportedly have rejected the contents of a letter delivered by Benjamin Netanyahu\’s personal envoy Isaac Molho to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah.
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