Israel razes houses built illegally
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The one-story house Amer Abu Diab built on a steep east Jerusalem hillside last year had a low fence, two bedrooms, a living room and an asphalt driveway, so the paraplegic 40-year-old could easily drive up to the door. The house had everything he needed &#151; except a building permit.
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By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent and The Associated Press. Israel Defense Forces troops moved into a Palestinian refugee camp early Tuesday, demolishing at least five homes in an area that has been used
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Israeli troops moved into a Palestinian refugee camp early Tuesday, demolishing at least five homes in an area that has been used to stage attacks on nearby Jewish settlements in recent days.
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Bulldozers carried out preparatory clearing work on Sunday around the village of Beit Awwa near Hebron. The activity comes just five days after suicide bombings in the southern city of Beersheva, but officials
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Israeli army bulldozers have torn down the homes of more than 200 Palestinians in the Gaza refugee camp of Khan Yunis, United Nations aid officials say.
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NURIA, Gaza Strip  - Israeli forces blew up two  large apartment blocks in the Gaza Strip Thursday, making  scores of Palestinians homeless after suicide bombers killed 16  people in Israel.
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Israeli forces Thursday blew up two Palestinian housing blocs in a Gaza refugee camp that the army said were used by Palestinian militants to launch attacks against soldiers and settlers.
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Israel has plans to build an additional 740 apartments in disputed east Jerusalem and the West Bank in 2008, a Cabinet minister said Sunday, a move sure to enrage Palestinians who say such construction undermines nascent peace talks.
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NURIA, Gaza Strip  - Israeli forces blew up two  large apartment blocks in the Gaza Strip on Thursday,  destroying the homes of hundreds of Palestinians, two days  after suicide bombers killed 16 people in Israel.
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JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approved the construction of 1,000 more homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, officials said Tuesday, violating a U.S.-backed peace plan that calls for a building freeze.    Sharon's aides said they had Washington's tacit approval for the construction, because the houses would be built inside existing settlements that are among the enclaves Israel insists on keeping under any peace settlement with the Palestinians...
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Israel has quietly seized large tracts of Jerusalem land owned by Palestinian residents of the West Bank after they were cut off from their property by Israel's separation barrier, lawyers of the landowners said.
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Israeli troops and armored vehicles raided  a Palestinan refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on  Wednesday in what the army called an operation to halt mortar  bomb and rocket attacks on Jewish settlements.
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Israeli army bulldozers razed 35 homes in a Palestinian refugee camp Saturday, a UN official said, a day after a resident of a nearby Jewish settlement was killed by mortar fire from the area.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approved construction of 1,000 more homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, officials said Tuesday, violating a U.S.-backed peace plan that calls for a building freeze.
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Israel unveiled plans on Sunday to build hundreds of new homes on occupied land near Jerusalem next year, drawing protests from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the eve of renewed peace talks.
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Palestinians walk in the ruins of a house that was destroyed in an ongoing Israeli army operation in the Jebaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Saturday Oct. 9, 2004.
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Israeli troops have destroyed hundreds of houses and left thousands of Palestinians homeless in the southern Gaza Strip in operations that far exceeded military security