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April 25, 2025
East Jerusalem Settlement News
- “Israel Advances Two Settlement Plans along East Jerusalem’s Southern Flank” (Ir Amim, 4/22/25)
- “Israel to use Absentee Property Law to approve 1,900 settlement units in Jerusalem” (MEMO, 4/22/25)
- “Israeli forces demolish Palestinian house in Jerusalem” (Wafa News, 4/23/25)
West Bank Settlement & Annexation News
- “Humanitarian Situation Update #283 | West Bank” (OCHA, 4/24/25)
- In the northern West Bank:
- “Settlers accused of attacking Palestinians, torching buildings in West Bank village” (The Times of Israel, 4/24/25)
- “Israeli forces shoot dead 12-year-old Palestinian boy near Jenin” (DCI-P, 4/23/25)
- “Allow Residents of the Northern West Bank to Return to their Homes” (ACRI, 4/15/25)
- “Israel’s designs for Jenin refugee camp are about more than just destruction” (+972 Magazine, 4/16/25)
- “West Bank campus a dystopian shelter for Palestinians uprooted again” (Al-Monitor, 4/20/25)
- In the Nablus area:
- “Israeli settlers kidnap two Palestinian children, tie them to a tree” (Middle East Eye, 4/20/25)
- “Israel conducting extensive land-leveling operations on Palestinian lands near Qalqilya” (Wafa News, 4/23/25)
- In/near Turmusaya:
- “Israeli forces forcibly remove family in Turmus Ayya, convert their home into outpost” (Wafa News, 4/20/25)
- “Settlers filmed establishing new illegal outpost in West Bank under IDF protection” (The Times of Israel, 4/19/25)
- “Palestinian Dies of Heart Attack After Settlers Burn Home, Soldiers Fire Tear Gas at Him” (Haaretz, 4/22/25)
- Near Ramallah:
- Near Bethlehem:
- “IDF to allow rare visit to ‘Solomon’s Pools’ archaeological site in West Bank” (The Times of Israel, 4/11/25)
- “Field Focus: Strategic Land Theft and Forced Displacement in Al-Makhrour – UNESCO
- Site Under Threat (pdf)” (Al-Haq, 4/18/25)
- In the South Hebron Hills:
- “A settler shot a Palestinian father in the leg. Soldiers arrived to detain his son” (+972 Magazine, 4/22/25)
- “Between Settlers and Israeli State Power, Palestinian Shepherds in the West Bank Feel Like They’re Living in a Prison” (Haaretz, 4/17/25)
- “Israeli colonists set up tents on Palestinian lands for colonial expansion” (Wafa News, 4/23/25)
- “Israeli colonists set fire to crops, attempt to steal livestock south of Hebron” (Wafa News, 4/19/25)
- “My Oscar for ‘No Other Land’ Didn’t Protect Me From Violence” (New York Times, 4/25/25)
- On Annexation
- “Editorial | Don’t Look Away: Israel’s Annexation of the West Bank Is Already Here” (Haaretz, 4/22/25)
- “Legislation, Land Grabs Point to Expedited Israeli Annexation in the West Bank” (Haaretz, 4/20/25)
- “Israeli Policies and Settler Violence Are Driving Palestinians from the Jordan Valley” (Drop Site, 4/14/25)
- “Israel’s escalating West Bank assault is part of a larger plan to split the territory in two” (Mondowess, 4/14/25)
U.S. Politics
- “Ben-Gvir to Bring Far-right Settler, Once Jailed for Spying on the Israeli Army, to U.S. Delegation” (Haaretz, 4/15/25)
- “Itamar Ben-Gvir is coming to America, with stops at Yale and in New York City already set” (JTA, 4/17/25)
- “New U.S. Ambassador to Israel Huckabee Says Taking on Role Is ‘A Calling From God Himself‘” (Haaretz, 4/21/25)
- “Trump’s NSC Director for Israel and Iran Previously Worked for Israeli Ministry of Defense” (Drop Site, 4/21/25)
- “Time for Congress to ditch ‘West Bank,’ call it Judea and Samaria – opinion” (Jerusalem Post, 4/23/25)