Tasnim Irans Foreign Ministry called on international organizations and the world countries to take action against the Zionist regimes plans to expand Israeli settlements and annex parts of the occupied West Bank. In a statement on Sunday, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi strongly condemned the Zionist regimes plans to expand the ...

Press TV - Evangelical Christian groups have reportedly raised tens of millions of dollars over the past decade to fund settlement projects in the occupied West Bank as the Israeli regime presses ahead with itsland expropriationpolicies in the occupied territories irrespective of greatinternational outcry. According to a report published by ...

Press TV - Human RightsWatch (HRW) says Israeli banks are financing the regimes unlawful settlement construction activities on the occupied territories,contributing to serious human rights violations and war crimes against Palestinians. In a 41-page report published on Tuesday, the New York-based rights group said Israels seven largest banks ...

Press TV - The UN's Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov has slammed the expansion of Israeli settlements on Palestinian territories "Throughout the reporting period Israel's illegal settlement-related activities continued unabated," said Mladenov during his monthly report to the Security Council on Tuesday. "I reiterate the long-standing ...

Press TV- Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres is disappointed and alarmed by Israel's approval of the construction of its first completely new settlement in the occupied Palestinian territory of West Bank in 25 years. The secretary general has consistently stressed that there is no Plan B for Israelis and Palestinians to live ...

Press TV- Cairo says it agreed to delay a UN Security Council resolution it has drafted against illegal Israeli settlements after US president-elect Donald Trump called the Egyptian leader to make Washingtons opposition clear. The phone call touched on the draft resolution before the United Nations Security Council on Israeli settlements, a statement ...

Press TV- The United Nations Security Council is due to vote on a resolution on Thursday,demanding that Israel put an immediate end to its settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian territories. The Egyptian-drafted resolution demands that Israel immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory,...

Press TV- The Iranian Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned a recent Israeli bill to legalize some 4,000 settler units in the occupied West Bank, saying the Tel Aviv regimes settlements are amass and blatant violation of international law. The illegitimate natureof the Israeli regime is based on the occupation of Palestinian lands, Iranian ...

Belgium has expressed concern over Israels persistent expansion of illegal settlements in the occupied territories, which erodes the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state. Belgian Foreign MinisterDidier Reynders embarked on a three-day visit to the Middle East on Sunday, visitingthe West Bank city of Ramallah where he methis Palestinian ...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says Israel should continue construction of illegal settlements across the occupied West Bank. Asked in an interview with the British paper Daily Mail whether there should be a pause in settlement construction in the occupied territories, Trump responded: No, I don't think there should be a pause....

Tehran, December 24, The Iran Project- The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called Israel an apartheid regime which killed the prospect of peace, heavily criticized it for its illegal settlements and separation barriers acrossthe occupied territories. In a message on the occasion of Christmas that released on Wednesday, Abbas slammedIsraeli governmentas ...

Israels request that Washington should recognize its illegal settlements is itself illegal, says a New York-based author and lecturer. The settlements, all of them, are illegal under international law, Norman Gary Finkelstein told Press TV on Wednesday, while commenting on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus repeated calls for the international ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Israeli settlement farmers in the occupied West Bank are using Palestinian child laborers in dangerous conditions in violation of international laws. The New York-based groupsaid in a report released on Monday that Palestinian children as young as 11 years old work on Israeli settlement farms to grow, harvest and pack ...

Israeli settlers and extremists have once again stormed the compound of theal-Aqsa Mosque in East al-Quds (Jerusalem). According to the Palestinian Foundation for Islamic Waqf, over a dozen settlers, accompanied by a group of Israeli intelligence agents, raided the site on Monday. The Palestinian worshipers reportedly confronted the settlers,...

A group of Israeli settlers have attacked a Palestinian worker in occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem), landing him in hospital with a broken hand and a number of other injuries. The Palestinian man, identified as 31-year-old Loay Bakri, was repairing a traffic light in the settlement of Pisgat Zeev, which is located in the northern part of East al-...

Congressional efforts to extend anti-BDS fight to occupied territories show pro-Israel lobby the perils of biting off more than one can chew. The U.S. State Department on Tuesday punched a big hole in Israel-led efforts to induce the Obama administration to regard boycotts of settlements as identical to boycott of Israel proper. In doing so, it ...

Israeli authorities are reportedly planning to construct more settler units in the occupied Palestinian territories, offering tenders for the construction of 77 homes. Peace Now, an Israeli activist group,said on Monday that 36 of the units are being offered in the settlement neighborhood of Neve Yaakov and another 41 in Pisgat Zee, which are both ...

The European Union has recommended that sanctions be imposed on the Israeli regime over its settlement expansion policies in the occupied Palestinian territories and its strict security measures in East al-Quds (Jerusalem). In a recently-released report prepared by heads of diplomatic missions of EU member states in the Palestinian Authority, the ...

[caption id="attachment_117095" align="alignright" width="223"] A file photo of illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.[/caption] With politicians around the globe calling on Israel to take action against illegal settlements in the West Bank, the Jewish state has finally taken action. Not against its own communities, but against an EU-funded ...

[caption id="attachment_117095" align="alignright" width="190"] A file photo of illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.[/caption] Israel has ordered several Palestinian families in the occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem) to destroy their houses as part of the regimes settlement expansion policies. The Israeli Civil Administration has told ...