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This article originally appeared in Haaretz – May 22, 2014 [Photo by Mairav Zonszein] By Haaretz Editorial Staff The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee’s subcommittee on Judea and Samaria has spent several months debating illegal Palestinian construction in Area C of the West Bank, which is under full Israeli control. The minutes …

This article originally appeared in Haaretz – May 21, 2014 [Photo by Mairav Zonszein] By Amira Hass Military training in live-fire zones in the West Bank is used as a way of reducing the number of Palestinians living nearby, and serves as an important part of the campaign against Palestinian …

The following is an excerpt from a B’Tselem article on Area C, entitled, “The Bedouins around Ma’ale Adumim,” originally posted November 2013 and updated May 18, 2014. [Photo: Khan al-Ahmar School, Sept. 2011. By Anne Paq] In early 2012 the State advised that the Civil Administration had conducted a risk …

This article originally appeared in SF Gate – May 8, 2014 [Photo by Majdi Mohammed, AP] By Karin Laub West Bank (AP) — Over the course of just three weeks, Israeli forces destroyed Suleiman Qaed’s small cinderblock house and the trailer home an aid group sent him as a replacement. …

This article originally appeared in Al Jazeera – May 3, 2014 [Photo by AFP/Getty Images] By Nora Lester Murad At first, the visit by the Israeli Civil Administration (ICA) to Jabal al-Baba on April 9 seemed routine. A Bedouin community in the E1 area, Jabal al-Baba has had 18 demolition orders pending since February. …

Photo by Katja Magnusson – Swedish Radio The following is a Swedish Radio piece, on the recent demolition of EU-funded temporary structures on E-1 and subsequent discussions as to whether to call for compensation from Israel.  Originally aired on Sveriges Radio – April 16, 2014 By Katja Magnusson Enligt FN:s organ för palestinska …

Originally published by EurActiv – April 11, 2014 Israel has seized three EU-funded humanitarian aid projects on the edge of a settlement construction zone that Europe views as as a ‘red line’, spurring demands for compensation payments to Brussels at a crisis moment for John Kerry’s Mideast peace bid. The three …

Originally published in Ha’aretz – April 14, 2014 By Gideon Levy and Alex Levac Israel is continuing to destroy systematically the villages of shepherds who live in the Jordan Rift. Last week, the Civil Administration demolished Homsa, another tiny Palestinian village. In January, 160 residents of the valley were made homeless; last …

Photo by Rami Allaria Originally published by Ynet News (with reporting from AFP) – Saturday, April 12, 2014 Israel has demolished several European Union-funded humanitarian housing shelters in a highly sensitive strip of West Bank land near Jerusalem, which led European diplomats to demand financial compensation. “On April 9, three of …

Rawia Aburabia, 33, says that even though the situation of Bedouin women is bad, a trend of ‘groundbreaking women’ is taking hold. (Originally published by Ha’aretz – Friday, March 28, 2014) By Ayelett Shani You started out as a social worker. What made you decide to go into law? As a …