Welcome to FMEP’s Weekly Settlement Report, covering everything you need to know about Israeli settlement activity this week.
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**The settlement report is on a two-week break, and is planned to return the week of October 18th. In the meantime, we are pleased to offer you links to the main settlement-related stories of the past week**
October 8, 2021
- Settler Pogrom in the South Hebron Hills
- Smear Campaign Targeting Palestinian Who Filmed Settler Pogrom
- Sheikh Jarrah “Compromise” & E-1 on the Agenda
- Settlements & US-Israel Relations
- Other Settlement News – West Bank & Jerusalem
- Reports/Analysis/Commentary
Settler Pogrom in the South Hebron Hills
- Associated Press 9/29: Israeli settlers attack Palestinian village, wound toddler
- Times of Israel 9/29: ‘This is terror’: Lapid slams settler stone-throwing attack on Palestinians
- Haaretz 9/29: Settler Attack on Palestinians in Hebron Hills Serves Israeli Policy
- Haaretz 9/30: A Pogrom, and Silence
- Haaretz 9/30: Palestinian Villagers Stunned by ‘Worst Ever’ Settler Attack Fear They’ll Be Back
- +972 Magazine 10/2: Scenes from a Jewish pogrom
- Jerusalem Post 10/2: US, EU condemns settler attack on Palestinian village in Hebron Hills
- Haaretz 10/2: Hundreds March in West Bank to Demand Water for Palestinian Village After Settler Attack
- Haaretz 10/3: Violence Against Palestinians on the Rise Amid Israel’s ‘Hands-off’ Approach in West Bank
- Haaretz 10/4: Editorial | Israel Needs to Deal With Its Jewish Terrorists
- Middle East Eye 10/4: Israel-Palestine: Settler attacks on Palestinians more than double in two years, says report
- Haaretz 10/4: Israeli Bus Companies Remove Ad on Settler Violence Amid Right-wing Pressure
- Middle East Eye 10/5: ‘He wakes up crying’: Palestinian families traumatised after Israeli settlers attack village
- Haaretz 10/6: Assailants Tried to Attack Wounded Palestinian Child Inside Ambulance, Israeli Police Say
- Associated Press 10/6: In brazen attack by settlers, Palestinians see larger threat
- Haaretz 10/6: Editorial |Israeli Bus Companies’ Embarrassing Capitulation to the Right
Smear Campaign Targeting Palestinian Who Filmed Settler Pogrom
- +972 Magazine 10/7: Israel’s top news show falsely accuses +972 writer of framing settlers for arson
- +972 Magazine 10/6: I filmed a settler pogrom. Now the Israeli media is smearing me
- See more on Twitter: Sarit Michaeli (Btselem), +972 Magazine
- Also see: FMEP’s Occupied Thoughts podcast 10/7: Pogrom in Mufagara and ‘Fighting for our justice’
Sheikh Jarrah “Compromise” & E-1 on the Agenda
Sheikh Jarrah
- Jerusalem Post 10/4: Sheikh Jarrah Court deal to keep families in homes for 15 years
- Haaretz 10/4: Israel’s Top Court Proposes Compromise to Prevent Sheikh Jarrah Eviction
- Haaretz 10/5: Palestinians Residents of Sheikh Jarrah Can Breathe Easier Now – for a Price
- Twitter thread 10/5 from Mohammed El-Kurd: Opening with – “Update regarding #SheikhJarrah: the so-called Israeli Supreme Court ruled that both the settler organization Nahalat Shimon and the affected Palestinian families (4 families in this particular case) must agree to a “compromise” by Nov. 2. Here is some key information:”
- See more on Twitter: Danny Seidemann (Terrestrial Jerusalem) and Hagit Ofran (Peace Now)
E-1
- Jerusalem post 10/3: IDF to hold hearing on contentious E1 settler building project
- Haaretz 10/4: Israel Holds Hearing on E1 Construction Plan Without Palestinians Objectors
- Jerusalem Post 10/4: Attorney, NGOs boycott E1 hearing over lack of access for Palestinians
Settlements & US-Israel Relations
- Times of Israel 9/27: Bennett tells settlers he said no 3 times to Biden, on Iran, consulate, [settlement] building
- Axios 10/6: Biden quietly puts pressure on Israel over West Bank settlements [“The Biden administration has been privately pressuring the Israeli government to show restraint ahead of a key decision on settlement building in the West Bank, Israeli and U.S. officials tell Axios.”]
- Times of Israel 10/7: US discreetly pressing Israel to ease off settlement construction — report
- Department of State Press briefing 10/7: “suffice to say we have made our position very clear, and when it comes to unilateral action like settlement activity, we have also made that very clear. And in fact, I just reiterated where the United States stands on settlement activity. There should be no question about that.”
Other Settlement News – West Bank & Jerusalem
West Bank
- Haaretz: 9/27: Jewish National Fund Approves $34,000 Deposit to Keep Settler in Hebron Home
- Haaretz 9/30: Israel’s Top Court to Postpone West Bank Settlement Eviction Based on Jewish Farming Sabbatical
- WAFA 10/4: Israel to demolish Palestinian structures in Masafer Yatta in the south of the West Bank
- Sarit Michael (Btselem) on Twitter 10/5: thread – “This morning, Palestinian farmers in Qaryut, Nablus District, discovered settlers felled 12 ancient olive trees. The nearest settlement in the area is Eli and its outposts. The olive harvest season officially opens in 10 days.” [with photos]. Also see tweets from Dror Etkes (Kerem Navot, in Hebrew)
- Btselem 10/5: Twitter thread (with video) – “Video: Settlers drive out a family that went out to graze with its flock On Sunday morning, 3 October 2021, a family from Khirbet Lasefar in the South Hebron Hills came to graze its flock in pastureland that remained on the other side of the Separation Barrier >”…
- WAFA 10/6: Israeli settlers expel shepherds from pastures in northern Jordan Valley
- The New Arab 10/6: Israeli settlers burn olive crops as Palestinians mark harvesting season
- Middle East Monitor 10/6: Israel settlers burn Palestinian land in West Bank
- Haaretz 10/7: Israeli Army Identified Settler Who Shot at Palestinians With Soldier’s Gun, but Did Nothing
Jerusalem
- Jordan Times 10/6: Jordan deplores Israeli court decision granting Jewish extremists right to pray at Aqsa
- Israel Hayom 10/7: In first, court backs ‘silent’ Jewish prayer on Temple Mount
- Jerusalem Post 10/7: Palestinians outraged over court ruling allowing Jewish prayer on Temple Mount
- Middle East Monitor 10/7: Jewish settler organisation takes over Palestinian apartment in Jerusalem
- Al Jazeera 10/7: Israeli settlers take over home in Jerusalem’s Silwan
Reports/Analysis/Commentary
- France 24 9/29: Report lists 670 European firms with links to Israel settlements
- Middle East Monitor 9/29: Israel: settlement plan will take thousands of dunams of Palestinian land
- Haaretz 9/30: ‘Cleansed by the Torah’: Why These Afrikaners Converted to Judaism and Moved to Israel
- MIFTAH 10/2: Analysts and experts: The registration of Palestinian properties is aimed at transferring them to Israeli authorities