[ 09/06/2011 – 12:04 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) mounting army tanks escorted three military bulldozers while building a huge sand barrier at the entrance to Khuza’a town, east of Khan Younis to the south of the Gaza Strip, on Thursday. Safa news agency said that the IOF troops fired smoke bombs […]
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Army builds fence around Izbat Al Tabib
23 May 2011 | International Solidarity Movement This morning at about 9am the Israeli army entered the village of Izbat Al Tabib with construction vehicles and began to build a large barbed wire fence along the side of the village separating it from highway 55 which runs parallel. The International Solidarity Movement joined with men, […]
Continue readingIsraeli settlers plan to build three settlements near O. Jerusalem
[ 20/05/2011 – 03:36 PM | PIC ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Hebrew yedioth Ahronoth newspaper has unveiled Thursday that a group of rightist Israelis announced they would build three new settlements near occupied Jerusalem. According to the paper, the group that calls itself “Youth for the sake of Yehuda and Samria” decided to carryout the […]
Continue readingForeign solidarity activists participate in building school in the Jordan Valley
[ 26/04/2011 – 06:04 PM ] JENIN, (PIC)– Foreign solidarity activists along with Palestinian citizens started on Tuesday in building a school in Ras Al-Oje southeast of Tobas in the Jordan Valley . Citizens in the area told the PIC reporter over the phone that more than 70 Palestinians and foreign solidarity activists laid down […]
Continue readingIsrael studies plan to build island off Gaza strip: report
(AFP) – 7 hours ago JERUSALEM — Israel is studying plans to create an artificial island along the Gaza Strip with sea and air ports to be controlled by the Palestinian Authority, an Israeli television channel reported Tuesday. The project, under development for three months by Transport Minister Yaakov Katz proposes building a man-made […]
Continue readingJerusalem municipality approves plan to build 14 homes in Ras al-Amoud
[ 02/03/2011 – 09:05 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli Jerusalem municipality has approved a plan to convert a deserted police station in Jerusalem’s Ras al-Amoud district into a settlement outpost. Fourteen new homes for Jewish settlers have so far been approved for construction there. The fund that bought the property has sights set […]
Continue readingSuffering There and Back: The Story of the Palestinians Who Build Illegal Settlements
22.02.11 – 15:42 Mustafa Sabri – Qalqiliya – PNN/Exclusive – Raed, an electrician, makes at least a 15 kilometer journey every day from his home city of Qalqiliya in the northern West Bank, to one of the 23 surrounding illegal Israeli settlements. One day, PNN accompanied him to witness his long hours. An illegal Israeli settlement […]
Continue reading‘Israel to build military base in al-Quds’
PressTV – Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:58AM Israeli authorities in the occupied West Bank have reportedly announced plans to build a military base inside the illegally annexed al-Quds (Jerusalem), a report says. The military base is expected to be constructed on Mount Scopus, well within the Palestinian territory and beyond the pre-1967 borders, a Press […]
Continue readingEast Jerusalem: 5 Years to Build Classrooms – International Middle East Media Center
Tuesday February 08, 2011 15:05 by David Steele – 1 of International Middle East Media Center Editorial Group Israel’s High Court of Justice has given the Education Ministry and Jerusalem Municipality 5 years to improve the provision of state education in East Jerusalem. Approximately half of East Jerusalem’s children currently attend public (state) […]
Continue readingGaza bloggers build bridges to outside world
By Catriona Davies for CNN February 4, 2011 — Updated 1033 GMT (1833 HKT) Laila El-Haddad, author of Gaza Mom, has been blogging since 2004. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Gazan bloggers come from wide range of backgrounds and experiences Some say their blogs provide a link with the rest of the world They say a growing number […]
Continue readingAbu Sha’ar slams Israel’s plan to build 32 housing units in O. Jerusalem
[ 19/01/2011 – 02:30 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian minister of religious affairs Taleb Abu Sha’ar strongly denounced the declared Israeli plan to build 32 new housing units in Pisgat Ze’ev settlement, north of occupied Jerusalem. Abu Sha’ar in a statement on Tuesday said the Israeli occupation state is accelerating its settlement and Judaization […]
Continue readingIOA to build more settlement units in OJ
[ 18/01/2011 – 11:15 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has endorsed the construction of 32 housing units in Pisgat Ze’ev north of occupied Jerusalem in line with the Jerusalem envelope plan that would be completed within a year to completely isolate the holy city from the West Bank. The […]
Continue readingJerusalem municipality to build a Jewish museum in Silwan
Thursday, 13 January, 2011 | 08:55 | Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwan, Jerusalem The entrance to the “City of David” visitors center – part of Elad’s controlled areas in Silwan Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — According to a report by Haaretz newspaper, the Jerusalem municipality and the Israeli ministry of tourism will transfer 2 million […]
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