Israel moves to further seal off Jerusalem from West Bank
Israeli officials today approved plans for 2,612 new homes to be built on Givat HaMatos, or Airplane Hill, which is set to become the first new Jerusalem neighborhood to be built outside Israel's...
View ArticleIsrael approves new settlement between Jerusalem and Bethlehem
European diplomats criticise Givat Hamatos settlement as 'game-changer' that will endanger two-state solution Givat Hamatos, where 2,612 new homes have been approved, will be the first discrete new...
View ArticleIsrael OKs housing project near Jerusalem
Jerusalem -- Defying a wave of international condemnation, Israel on Wednesday gave final approval to a 2,610-unit housing project in a southern Jerusalem area that Palestinians claim should be part...
View ArticleIsrael gives final approval to housing project on land seized during 1967...
JERUSALEM -- Defying a wave of international condemnation, Israel on Wednesday gave final approval to a 2,610-unit housing project in a southern Jerusalem area that Palestinians claim should be part...
View ArticleIsraelis press ahead with controversial housing project near Jerusalem
JERUSALEM -- Defying a wave of international condemnation, Israel gave final approval Wednesday to a 2,610-unit housing project in a southern Jerusalem area that Palestinians say should be part of...
View ArticleIsrael says it will build settlements in East Jerusalem neighborhoods
December 20, 2012 -- Updated 1834 GMT (0234 HKT) Palestinian laborers work on a construction site in the east Jerusalem settlement of Ramat Shlomo, on December 18, 2012. Jerusalem (CNN) -- A day after...
View ArticleIsrael pushes ahead with plan to build settlements in East Jerusalem
JERUSALEM – Israel on Monday advanced a project to build hundreds of homes in East Jerusalem, pushing ahead with plans for a surge of settlement building on occupied land in response to a successful...
View ArticleIsrael pushes ahead with plan to build in East Jerusalem
Israel on Monday advanced a project to build hundreds of homes in East Jerusalem, pushing ahead with plans for a surge of settlement building on occupied land in response to a successful Palestinian...
View ArticleJ'lem okays new housing in move 'designed to eliminate chance of deal with...
The construction of 1,500 new housing units in the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, which lies outside the Green Line, received final approval from the district planning board...
View ArticleIsrael poised to build thousands of new settler homes
Israeli authorities on Tuesday rejected a plan to build around 800 new settler homes in annexed east Jerusalem, but were expected to approve more constructions elsewhere, triggering the ire of...
View ArticleIsrael to build new east Jerusalem district
JERUSALEM ' Israel has formally submitted plans for a new settlement neighbourhood in annexed east Jerusalem in what will be the first sector's first new district in 14 years, Peace Now said on Friday....
View ArticleEast Jerusalem housing plan advances
JERUSALEM -- A plan for settling thousands more Jews in a strategic part of Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem has quietly cleared a key bureaucratic hurdle, threatening to cut a link between Jerusalem and...
View ArticleIsrael plans new settlement on disputed territory
JERUSALEM • Israel is moving forward with another large housing project on territory it seized during the 1967 Mideast war, announcing plans to build 2,610 units in what critics say would be the first...
View ArticlePlan for settling thousands more Jews in Israeli-annexed part of Jerusalem...
JERUSALEM - A plan for settling thousands more Jews in a strategic part of Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem has quietly cleared a key bureaucratic hurdle, threatening to cut a link between Jerusalem and...
View ArticleIsrael plan for new Jerusalem-area housing development is revived
Reporting from Jerusalem— Israel is moving forward with another large housing project on territory it seized during the 1967 Mideast war, unveiling plans to build 2,610 units in what critics say would...
View ArticleEast Jerusalem construction scuttling two-state solution
We’re in the midst of a housing crisis, and our government has promised to build tens of thousands of new homes all over the country. So what’s wrong with the recent government decision to advance the...
View ArticleEast Jerusalem Settlement Plan Clears Hurdle, Threatens Peace Process
JERUSALEM -- A plan for settling thousands more Jews in a strategic part of Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem has quietly cleared a key bureaucratic hurdle, threatening to cut a link between Jerusalem and...
View ArticleEast Jerusalem Jewish housing plan clears hurdle
JERUSALEM -- A plan for settling thousands more Jews in a strategic part of Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem has quietly cleared a key bureaucratic hurdle, threatening to cut a link between Jerusalem and...
View ArticleGovernment planning thousands of new homes in East Jerusalem neighborhoods
For the first time since Har Homa was established, during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's first term, in the late 1990s, a new Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem is slated for building. On...
View ArticleIsrael to build housing on disputed Jerusalem land
JERUSALEM - Israel is moving forward with another large housing project on territory it seized during the 1967 Mideast war, unveiling plans to build 2,610 units in what critics say would be the first...
View ArticleArabs squeezed as Jerusalem expands
"We need a solution for the people living here, especially young couples. A home with two rooms costs $1,000 a month, and it is very difficult to get a permit to build." Since the 1948 war that gave...
View ArticleJerusalem Arab residents contest highway route
Click photo to enlarge In this Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013 photo, the construction site of route 4 is seen in the Arab neighborhood of Beit Safafa in Jerusalem. A new Israeli highway project is...
View ArticleUnprecedented east Jerusalem building in pipeline
Click photo to enlarge FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2011 file photo, a construction worker works on a new housing unit in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa. Israel is planning its biggest...
View Article>Jerusalem Arab residents contest highway route
JERUSALEM (AP) — A new Israeli highway project is threatening to add to tensions in Jerusalem by cutting through a quiet, middleclass Arab neighborhood to link a large bloc of Jewish settlements to the...
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