Tel Rumeida is a small Palestinian neighborhood deep in the West Bank city of Hebron. Palestinian families from whom these Jewish settlers occupied lands, live directly next to these Jewish settlers and are often virtual prisoners in their homes, subject to the settlers’ violent attacks and destruction of property.
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More violations committed by Israel, building settlements at the expense of its original Arab population. How are they allowed to get away with it? It is obvious that Israel has failed to keep to their end of the bargain.
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Israel planning huge Jerusalem settlementIsrael says it plans to build 20,000 new homes for Jews in a settlement in Arab East Jerusalem, angering Palestinians who want the land for a future state.
An Israeli official said that the plan foresaw three separate Jewish neighbourhoods being set up on land Israel annexed after the 1967 Middle East war in a move that has not been recognised internationally.
Some 200,000 Jews already live in the eastern part of Jerusalem among about 230,000 Palestinians who, under an agreement forged after Israel’s capture of the city, are legal residents.
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More Jewish settlements to be set up by Israel, in contravention of international law. It seems that Israel is interested in “piece”.
Israel published construction tenders for new homes in the largest West Bank settlement.
The Housing and Construction Ministry on Monday issued the tenders for 44 new units in Ma’aleh Adumim, drawing criticism from left-wing groups.
The U.S.-led “road map†to Israel-Palestinian peace calls for a halt to settlement expansion in the West Bank.
But Ma’aleh Adumim falls within the settlement blocs that Israel, with the tacit approval of the Bush administration, has vowed to annex under any final accord.
Israel keeps on building the settlements, in contravention of international law, and nothing is being done about it. Will no one in the international community listen?
“The settlement is built on our land,” says Mr Zidane, referring to the Jewish settlement Bet El, whose red-roofed houses can be seen from his general store.
“I’m angry that my land has been stolen. How would you feel if someone came to your home and took your land?”
According to a report released late last year by the Israeli campaign group Peace Now, Mr Zidane is not alone.
Nearly 40% of the Jewish settlements in the West Bank are built on privately owned Palestinian land, the report states.
Peace Now accuses the government of building settlements on land that has been “effectively stolen”.
Under international law, all Israel’s settlements - home to about 430,000 Jews - in the West Bank and East Jerusalem are illegal, although Israel disputes this.
One of those rare occasions. Need we say any more?
U.S. criticizes Israel over settlement plans
By BARRY SCHWEID
Associated Press
Dec. 27, 2006, 3:05PMWASHINGTON — Israel’s plan to construct a new settlement on the West Bank drew rare criticism today from the Bush administration.
If Israel goes ahead, it would violate Israel’s obligations under the roadmap for peacemaking, a State Department spokesman said.
“The U.S. calls on Israel to meet its roadmap obligations and avoid taking steps that could be viewed as predetermining the outcome of future negotiations,” the spokesman, Gonzalo R. Gallegos, said.
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