Press and independent media
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An Israeli military jeep damaged in the village of Bil'in
05/02/2009
The Israeli military force stormed the village of Bil’in in the last night, they had set up checkpoints to search vehicles between the villages of Bil’in and Kufrn’am.
Israeli kidnaps five young men from the village of Bil'in near Ramallah
04/02/2009
[IMEMC] Five young men from the village of Bil’in located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah were kidnapped on Wednesday by the Israeli military. Troops stormed the village then raided several houses and searched them.
Barak suggests tunnel to link Gaza with the West Bank
02/02/2009
[IMEMC] In a meeting with students at Ben-Gurion University on Monday, Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, suggested digging a tunnel that would link the Gaza Strip with the West Bank in order to create what he described as “geographical contiguity”.
Secret Israeli database reveals full extent of illegal settlement
30/01/2009
[Ha’aretz] The official database, the most comprehensive one of its kind ever compiled in Israel about the territories, was recently obtained by Haaretz. Here, for the first time, information the state has been hiding for years is revealed. An analysis of the data reveals that, in the vast majority of the settlements - about 75 percent - construction, sometimes on a large scale, has been carried out without the appropriate permits or contrary to the permits that were issued. The database also shows that, in more than 30 settlements, extensive construction of buildings and infrastructure (roads, schools, synagogues, yeshivas and even police stations) has been carried out on private lands belonging to Palestinian West Bank residents.
Peace Now: Settlements expanded faster in 2008
28/01/2009
[Ynet] Jewish settlements and outposts in the West Bank expanded more rapidly in 2008 than the previous year, Peace now reported on Wednesday. The timing of the report is no coincidence, and it was released on the day US Envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell was scheduled to arrive in Israel.
