Iran has condemned a visit by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to the Israeli-occupied territories, saying his doctrine includes formalizing the regimes occupation and whitewashing its crimes. In a post on his twitter account, Irans Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said Pompeo prioritizes the interests of Israeli prime minister Benjamin ...

MNA Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi strongly condemned US administrations stance on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. On Monday, Pompeo renounced the USs previous position on Israeli settlements in the West Bank, which was that the settlements were occupied territories, and a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention,...

TASS - Washingtons decision to stop viewing Israeli settlements on the West Bank as illegal and violating international law is obviously meant to demonstrate Iran and Turkey that it doesnt abandon its allies in the region, a Russian expert told TASS on Tuesday. "It will not tell on the prospects for the Palestinian-Israeli settlement. It can be ...

MNA Japan has strongly deplored the continued settlement activities by the Israeli regime in occupied Palestinian territories as in violation of international law. The Israeli regime has approval of plans to build around 2,000 new settlement units in the occupied West Bank in October, raising strong criticism against the move from the international ...

Press TV- Israel plans to impose financial sanctions on Amnesty International over the human rights groups call for the boycott of products made in Israeli settlements. Israel Hayom newspaper said in a reporton Tuesday that the Israeli Finance Ministry was poised to impose the sanctions on Amnesty Internationals Israel branch for upholding the ...

Press TV - A newly published report shows that the scale of the Israeli settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories has increased by almost three times in the first half of 2017, compared to the same period last year. The Palestinian national office for the defense of land and resistance of settlement released the figure in ...

Press TV- Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has flaunted a record rate of settlement expansion on the occupied Palestinian land during his term. No other government has done as much for settlement in the land of Israel as the government which I lead, he said of the occupied territories belonging to Palestinians. He made the comments ...

Press TV- A newly released report says Israeli attorney general Avichai Mendelblit approved last year the use of a controversial 1967 order to legalize settler units built on private Palestinian land. During a meeting attended by several Israeli judicial officials, Mendelblit said the Order Concerning Government Property, which was issued in ...

Press TV - An Israeli commander has ordered the construction of a new settlement north of the occupied West Bank for settlers of a former unauthorized outpost. The chief of the Israeli militarys central command, Maj. Gen. Roni Numa, issued the order for the residents of the Amona outposton Sunday, Israeli paper Haaretz reported. The settlers ...

FNA- The Iranian foreign ministry condemned the construction of new Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories, and called for an immediate stop to the building operations. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi described continued building of Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories as against the international laws, and deplored ...

American Herald Tribune|Don Liebich: The adoption by the UN Security Council on December 23, 2016, of Resolution 2334 addressing the situation in Israel and Palestine was, as a symbolic gesture, a game-changing and groundbreaking event. The resolution passed by a vote of 14-0, with the United States abstaining. The U.S. abstention was a break with ...

AP -- Israel's prime minister decried Secretary of State John Kerry's Mideast policy speech as a "deep disappointment" on Wednesday and vowed to work with the incoming Trump administration to contain the fallout from last week's U.N. resolution calling Israeli settlements illegal. Netanyahu's angry statement, delivered at a late-night news conference ...

Press TV- US President-elect Donald Trump paid money to the Israelis in 2003 to support constructions in an illegal settlement, located in the occupied land of Palestine. The New York billionaire donated $10,000 to the illegal Beit El settlement in the occupied West Bank, various sources reported on Sunday. The money was transferred by the ...

Press TV- The Israeli authorities have given the go-ahead for plans to build 181 illegal settler units in EastJerusalemal-Quds. Local Israeli municipal officialBrachie Sprungsaid that the initial plans for the construction ofthe settlement units in the Gilo area were made in 2012. She added that the Wednesday approval was for the"technical ...

Alwaght- The Israeli regime needs income sources to ensure its security and gain global prestige, something it tries to guarantee by exporting its products. The policy of building settlements and settling the Jewry in them has led them to seize the Palestinian lands as well as their natural resources, and at the same time damage unity of the Palestinian ...

The Israeli regime has drawn up a plan to build 2,500 illegal settler units in the occupied West Bank in defiance of widespread calls to halt such unauthorized construction activities in the Palestinian lands. Israeli media reported on Monday that the settler units will be erected in the neighborhood of Gilo situated in East Jerusalem al-Quds ...

At least two Palestinians have sustained injuries in clashes with Israeli military forces who were escorting hundreds of illegal settlers to Prophet Josephs Tomb in the West Bank city of Nablus. Hundreds of extremist settlers stormed the site, which is venerated by Jews, Christians and Muslims, amid protection by Israeli soldiers and under the ...

Tehran, January 20, The Iran Project A leading international rights group on Tuesday called Israeli and International businesses to stop business ties with Jewish-only settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory and to avoid contributing Israeli violation of Palestinians' rights. Human Rights Watch, issued a statement on Tuesday, demanded ...