Outposts built despite Israeli vow, report says
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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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JERUSALEM -- Israeli security forces frequently beat Palestinians working illegally in the country, sometimes severely, and detain them for hours without food and water, an Israeli human rights group said in a report published yesterday. Security officials said in response to the report by the B'Tselem human rights group that the troops are operating under tough conditions to prevent Palestinian ...
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Israel is determined to go ahead with its unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip - regardless of the death of Yasser Arafat and even if settlers resist - a top Israeli general who helped design the plan says.
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Israel holds the preemptive wildcard, but experts doubt Osirak-style repeat.
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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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Israel says it is considering plans to include two small settlements within the route of the West Bank barrier.
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JERUSALEM - The Israeli government issued bids Tuesday for 1,000 new homes in Jewish West Bank settlements, insisting the construction has Washington's tacit approval even though it violates a U.S.-backed peace plan.    U.S...
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Israel is suggesting leaving a Gaza settlement intact after its planned pullout next year for Palestinian residents of Gaza to use as a hospital, as well as selling an industrial zone at a crossing point to international bodies, Israeli officials said.
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The Israeli government does not intend to honour the US-backed road map to peace in the Middle East once it has completed a planned pullout from Gaza, an Israeli newspaper reported today.
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Israel says it is committed to acting 'expeditiously' to dismantle unauthorised West Bank settlements
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Israel's PM appears to come close to admitting it has nuclear arms, but officials deny a change of policy.
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Israeli intelligence is struggling to get to grips with highly sophisticated Hamas in West Bank bastion. By Majeda El-Batsh - HEBRON, West Bank.
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JERUSALEM  - A large-scale Israeli army incursion was still going on before dawn in Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip, an Israeli military source told AFP.
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Israel has proposed leaving a Gaza settlement intact to be used as a hospital after an Israeli pullout, and wants to sell an industrial zone on the edge of the coastal strip to international bodies, Israeli officials said.
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A report says that 90 percent of the settlements in the West Bank sprawl beyond their official boundaries.
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The United States withheld judgment Tuesday on whether Israel's plans to build 1,000 new homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank violate the U.S-led Middle East peace plan.
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JERUSALEM : The Israeli government was accelerating its settlement program with plans to build hundreds of new homes in the West Bank, bolstered by a US softening of opposition to new construction projects.