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18 Jan 2006, 11:13 am
[JURIST] Interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert [official profile] on Wednesday asked his defense minister to create a plan for removing 24 Jewish settler outposts, deemed illegal by the International Court of Justice [official website], from the Palestinian West Bank. [read post]
9 Dec 2005, 1:36 pm
As Melanie Kovacs found to her dismay, trying to pay off her Bank of America card was akin to running in place. [read post]
29 Nov 2005, 7:21 am
[JURIST] Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas [BBC profile] Tuesday suspended primary elections of his ruling Fatah movement [party website in Arabic] amid election fraud said to be prevalent in Gaza and the West Bank. [read post]
18 Oct 2005, 12:59 am
[JURIST] The Israeli Supreme Court [official website] has authorized the construction of the West Bank security fence [official IDF website; Wikipedia backgrounder] across Palestinian land. [read post]
15 Sep 2005, 1:00 am
[JURIST] The Israeli Supreme Court [official website] ruled Thursday that the country had a right to construct the West Bank barrier [Wikipedia backgrounder; official IDF website] across occupied Palestinian land, once again disputing a International Court of Justice advisory opinion [text; JURIST report] that found the barrier illegal. [read post]
17 Aug 2005, 12:28 am
Of the 21 Jewish settlements in the Gaza strip and four isolated West Bank settlements to be evacuated, two of them are already empty and it is estimated that half of the 8,500 settlers have already [read post]
16 Jul 2005, 7:57 am
[JURIST] A report submitted by Switzerland Friday to the UN General Assembly [official website] in its capacity as guardian of the Geneva Conventions [reference guide] called on Israel to promise disassembly of the West Bank Security Fence [official website] if and when the threat of Palestinian suicide bombings subsides. [read post]
14 Mar 2005, 4:11 am
[JURIST] After a Monday meeting with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas [BBC profile], UN Secretary General Kofi Annan announced that the UN will establish a register of property damage caused by the construction of Israel's two-year-old West Bank separation barrier [Israel MOD website]. [read post]
14 Mar 2005, 12:47 am
[JURIST] Following up on a report submitted last week to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon [JURIST report], the Israeli Cabinet Sunday agreed to remove the 24 Jewish outposts established on the Palestinian West Bank since Sharon took power in March 2001. [read post]
9 Mar 2005, 2:22 am
[JURIST] A Israeli government-commissioned study of Jewish settlements on the West Bank submitted Tuesday [Israel PMO press release] and made public Wednesday has concluded that 105 outposts are illegal, including 54 built on land not belonging to the Israeli state, of which 15 built on established Palestinian property must be removed immediately. [read post]
20 Feb 2005, 2:48 pm
Also Sunday, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon signed an order that makes it illegal for Israelis to remain in the Gaza Strip and the northern part of the West Bank after July 20. [read post]
31 Jan 2005, 9:29 am
[JURIST] Tens of thousands of Israeli settlers gathered in Jerusalem Sunday evening at the start of a scheduled 24-hour protest against a plan by Israeli Prime Minister Arial Sharon to remove all 21 Israeli settlements from Gaza and four smaller settlements from the West Bank this summer. [read post]
24 Jan 2005, 2:15 pm
[JURIST] Israel has reportedly begun seizing land in east Jerusalem land owned by Palestinians in the West Bank under a law passed in 1950. [read post]
13 Jan 2005, 9:03 am
[JURIST] Israel's High Court of Justice [official website] issued a temporary injunction Thursday instructing state workers "to refrain from all uprooting of trees or orchards and digging, paving, leveling, construction or other preparations" for the erecting of the security fence [Israeli Defence Ministry official website] between Israel and Palestinian areas of the West Bank between Jerusalem [read post]
8 Jan 2005, 5:57 am
Israel said it would keep its troops out of West Bank towns and would lift some roadblocks, but that it would not eliminate main checkpoints. [read post]
20 Dec 2004, 11:13 am
[JURIST] AP is reporting that Jewish settler leaders have endorsed a call for civil disobedience against Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's planned evacuation of Gaza Strip and West Bank settlements. [read post]
9 Dec 2004, 1:42 pm
Boim was killed by gunmen in Israel's West Bank in 1996. [read post]
26 Oct 2004, 2:50 pm
[JURIST] The Israeli Knesset has approved a bill authorizing an Israeli withdrawal from settlements in Gaza and part of the West Bank. [read post]
31 Aug 2004, 9:27 am
The documentary shows, from a Palestinian point of view, the Israeli army's invasion of a West Bank refugee camp in Jenin, which left 52 Palestinians and 23 Israelis dead. [read post]
24 Aug 2004, 11:18 am
The Israeli Justice Ministry has recommended that the government seriously consider applying the Fourth Geneva Convention to the West Bank and Gaza, which would reverse its current position that the Geneva Convention doesn't apply to the territories because there was no sovereign power before they were occupied in 1967. [read post]
