Israel Denies West Bank Settlement Construction Plans

The housing ministry spokeswoman could not be immediately reached for comment on Monday.

One thousand units for the Jahalin Bedouin are also being planned, so that the tribe can be evicted them from the area of the illegal Maale Adumim settlement and E1 and moved to the planned village, the group reported.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has voiced concern over “extrajudicial killing” of Palestinians by Israeli forces.

The incident took place near Huwara south of Nablus on Thursday, leaving a soldier injured, a military statement said.

US-backed peace talks between the Palestinians and Israel collapsed in April 2014 amid bitter mutual recriminations. “These include security reasons, a lack of building licences, being built near the settlements or across the settlement roads, being built on state lands or being built on green areas”. When confronted, the Palestinian man pulled out a knife and tried to stab one of the policemen, prompting other officers to open fire and kill the assailant, Samri said.

The cell is evidence to “an increased effort to exploit the escalation of violence in the West Bank to promote bombings and suicide bombings against targets in Israel and the West Bank”, the Shin Bet said.

The Palestinians connect this wave of violence with diminishing hope among Palestinians for a future state, following almost fifty years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip territories, home to over five million Palestinians, where they wish to establish a Palestinian state, in accordance with the two-state solution.

The attacks have claimed 21 lives on the Israeli side and at least 130 Palestinian lives, 89 of them said by Israel to be attackers.

For over three months Palestinians have carried out near daily attacks on Israeli civilians and security forces including stabbings, shootings, and auto ramming attacks.