A West Bank settler group says the number of people living in Israeli Jewish settlements surged at a much faster rate than the overall Israeli population last year.
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But the settler movement has long taken on a life of its own. Religious nationalists streamed into the West Bank; quite a few less fanatical Israelis, lured by relatively cheap housing prices in the settlements, followed suit. While many of these settlers live close to ...
Regardless of whether annexation comes, settler advocates envision unbridled expansion under Trump and under an Israeli government where settler leaders and supporters hold key positions. They see a presidential term where they will be able to more deeply entrenc...
Results show the total numbers of settlements in the West Bank are 173 settlements with total population equal 483thousand, which produced around 60MCM/year, this means that the wastewater generated per capita per day per each settler approximately 343liter according to the calculations ...
2. Why do Palestinians object to the Israeli settler movement? Though they are neighbors and sometimes co-workers, relations between Jews and Palestinians on the West Bank areseldom friendly. West Bank Palestinians, who are majority Muslim, see themselves as...
The West Bank has been transformed by the rapid growth of Jewish settlements since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned at the head of a far-right nationalist coalition two years ago. During that time, an explosion in settler violence that has led to US sanctions. ...
"The time has come to move from words to actions... and to start adopting the measures we can take with regard to the acts of violence against the Palestinian population in the West Bank," Borrell told reporters after the meeting in Brussels. U.N. figures show daily settler ...
The U.N. high commissioner for human rights called surging settler attacks on Palestinians “very disturbing.” ByJake Johnson Staff Writer Common Dreams A United Nations report released Thursday warned that conditions in the occupied West Bank have worsened rapidly since October, with Israeli settler...
The West Bank as a whole is in a sort-of lockdown imposed by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). I drove through much of this land, designated as occupied by the international community, and was amazed at just how much control the Israeli military ...