Settling Israeli Settlements
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Palestinian officials have called on the Bush administration to clarify its position on the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
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First, Israel was allowed to hold on to some West Bank territory, a clear U-turn in American policy. Now Israel can also build more West Bank settlements, a clear breach of the American-sponsored road map.
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Approval was expected and would mark the first time the Knesset agreed to the uprooting of Jewish settlements in lands claimed by the Palestinians for a state.
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Twenty families in a small Israeli farming community deep in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday became the first Jewish settlement to agree to move inside Israel under Ariel Sharon&#39;s disengagement plan.
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A third of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are built on private Palestinian land, an anti-settlement group said in a report on Wednesday.
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HAR GILO, West Bank  - Israel plans to build 530  new settler homes in the occupied West Bank after Washington  softened its opposition to growth in Jewish enclaves, a policy  shift Palestinians say will make peace impossible.
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Israel is building more than 3,000 homes in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank despite a commitment under a U.S.-backed peace plan to stop such expansion, the Peace Now group said in a report on Wednesday.
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Israel says it is considering plans to include two small settlements within the route of the West Bank barrier.
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Israel intends to build a new  settlement in the West Bank that could take in settlers  uprooted from Gaza, officials said on Tuesday, drawing swift  protest from Palestinians who fear losing land for a state they  seek.
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Israel&#39;s housing ministry has approved tenders for the construction of about a thousand new homes in West Bank settlements.
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PISGAT ZEEV, West Bank, Oct 11  - Israel&#39;s settler movement unveiled plans Monday for a massive campaign to force Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to submit his plan to uproot thousands of Jews from parts of the Palestinian territories to a national
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Reports say Israeli PM Ariel Sharon has given the green light to new homes in West Bank settlements.
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Israel plans to build a new Jewish  settlement in the West Bank that could house settlers evacuated  from the Gaza Strip, Israel Radio said Tuesday.
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Residents of a small Jewish settlement said Sunday they reached a deal to move to a village inside Israel, becoming the first community to agree to be evacuated under the government's Gaza withdrawal plan.
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TEKOA D OUTPOST, West Bank -- Israelis built four new settlement outposts in the West Bank last year and significantly expanded 12 others, according to an Israeli watchdog group, despite the government's pledge nearly two years ago to dismantle such unauthorized communities and freeze settlement expansion.
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SHAVEI SHOMRON, West Bank -- A year ago, Bechor Gan was convinced his settlement's days were numbered. A remote Jewish enclave nestled deep in the northern West Bank, Shavei Shomron was at the top of the list for an Israeli withdrawal on the heels of its pullout from the Gaza Strip.
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MUSCAT, 31 August 2004 - It was expected that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon would surprise the world with a decision to expand the settlements by building more housing units in the West Bank.