Welcome to FMEP’s Weekly Settlement Report, covering everything you need to know about Israeli settlement activity this week. To receive this report via email, please…

Welcome to FMEP’s Weekly Settlement Report, covering everything you need to know about Israeli settlement activity this week. To receive this report via email, please…

Welcome to FMEP’s Weekly Settlement Report, covering everything you need to know about Israeli settlement activity this week. To receive this report via email, please…

A weekly report on Israeli settlement activity by the Foundation for Middle East Peace. This week covering: Following Trump’s Jerusalem proclamation, Israel hints new plans for the East Jerusalem settlements of Atarot and Pisgat Ze’ev; a special committee fast tracks approval of a Jerusalem cable car project; the Knesset expedited funds earmarked in 2018 to immediately purchase armored buses for settlers; the 100+ settlers illegally squatting in a Hebron home have given conditions for their self-evacuation; a bill to annex schools inside of settlements gets government backing; a Knesset committee strips a non profit operating in an outpost of its tax benefits.

A weekly report on Israeli settlement activity by the Foundation for Middle East Peace. This week covering: Israel’s High Court orders the state to defend the Regulation Law a second time; Yesh Din petitions to rehear the Amona outpost case given recently revealed implications of the ruling; the Ofra settlement moves to retroactively legalize a sewage treatment plant; B’Tselem released a new report documenting Israel’s waste and sewage policies that harm Palestinians; the United Nations prepares to release a database of companies conducting business with Israeli settlements; an official says the U.S. announcement on Jerusalem has nothing to do with East Jerusalem settlements; Jared Kushner’s ties to pro-settlement activity continue to deepen.

Welcome to FMEP’s Weekly Settlement Report, covering everything you need to know about Israeli settlement activity this week. To receive this report via email, please…

A weekly report on Israeli settlement activity by the Foundation for Middle East Peace. This week covering: two legal opinions issued by Israeli Attorney General defending the retroactive legalization of outposts via the expropriation of privately owned Palestinian land; Israel fast-tracks a Jerusalem cable car line despite growing opposition and serious consequences for Palestinians in Silwan; another bedouin community in the E-1 settlement area faces eviction; and, settlers fight for their “right of return” to inaccessible settlements.

A weekly report on Israeli settlement activity by the Foundation for Middle East Peace. This week covering: 240 building permits issued for settlement units in East Jerusalem; the Supreme Court and Attorney General justify land theft for Israeli settlers because they are part of the “local population”; Israel moves to evict Palestinians in the Jordan Valley and West Bank to make way for settlement expansion; Ir Amim and Peace Now put out essential new reports on 2017 settlement activity.

A weekly report on Israeli settlement activity by the Foundation for Middle East Peace. This week covering: the construction of new settler-only bypass roads; Israel is, for the first time, clearing landmines from the West Bank – and doing so for the expansion of a settlement; a state-funded NGO is petitioning to retroactively legalize an outpost; Bibi says evacuating settlements would be “ethnic cleansing,” FMEP’s Lara Friedman dismisses the notion; and more.

A weekly report on Israeli settlement activity by the Foundation for Middle East Peace. This week covering: U.S. pressure leads to the delay of the Greater Jerusalem Annexation bill; plans for Ramat Shlomo and Ramot advance; injunction on the Regulation Law does not stop appointment of a settler advocate to lead committee tasked with retroactively authorizing outposts; more information on the new and improved bypass roads Netanyahu has promised for settlers.