FMEP’s Weekly Settlement Report covers everything you need to know about Israeli settlement activity this week.

A weekly run-down of Middle East-related developments on Capitol Hill.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Tuesday the timing of a long-awaited U.S. Middle East peace initiative depends on the return of Palestinians to negotiations.

Palestinian Christians say US Vice President Mike Pence’s brand of evangelical Christianity, with its fervent embrace of modern-day Israel as the fulfillment of biblical prophecy, lacks their faith’s compassion and justice, including for those who have lived under Israeli occupation for half a century.

At the behest of Fatah, Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank kept their shops closed on Tuesday to protest the US vice president’s trip to Israel.

Palestinians fear that halting UNRWA’s aid might be the beginning of a US-Israeli plan to settle the refugees affair.

The Israeli right is poised to annex much or all of the West Bank while continuing to isolate Gaza. Is Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian people apartheid? Al-Shabaka experts weigh in.

“If there’s an endpoint to the terrible logic of an occupation driven in part by a fanatical settler movement abetted by the state of Israel, that place is the historic center of Hebron. Once home to the souk and jewelry market, a bustling maze of commerce, it is now a stretch of apocalyptic real estate,” writes Roger Cohen.

European Union Foreign Policy chief Federica Mogherini is ready to take a “central role,” alongside the United States, expanding the international role in mediating between Israel and the Palestinians, she said on Monday, in Brussels.

As internet freedoms are facing a global decline1 , Palestinians are no exception. This report aims to present an assessment of the current status of internet freedoms in the Palestinian Territories, through mapping recent developments in restrictions or violations of Palestinian rights on the internet by governments and private tech companies.

A senior Al-Qaeda leader has called on Muslims “everywhere” to rise up and kill Jews and Americans in response to US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.