Tag: Judea and Samaria
Israeli MK indicted for assaulting police during 2022 protest
Israel’s Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara has filed an indictment against lawmaker Ofer Cassif (Hadash-Ta’al) for assaulting a police officer two years ago, Hebrew media reported Thursday.
The lawmaker is alleged to have struck an officer...
IDF-Shin Bet-IAF nab one terrorist, kill another in Jenin op
In Jenin, in northernmost Samaria, IDF troops arrested a wanted terrorist under the guidance of the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and located explosives intended to harm soldiers overnight Tuesday. In addition, an IAF...
Blinken: New Israeli housing units ‘inconsistent with international law’
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday that Israel’s approval of 3,000 new housing units in Judea—announced after one Israeli was killed and six wounded in a terrorist attack near Jerusalem—is “contrary to international law.”
That declaration...
US opposes calls at ICJ for immediate Israeli withdrawal
The United States on Wednesday called on the International Court of Justice not to issue an advisory opinion that Israel must immediately withdraw from Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem.
Instead, Richard Visek, acting legal adviser at the...
How the ‘settler violence’ campaign works
This past Last Saturday afternoon, 71-year-old Hagar Gefen was driving through the Jordan Valley when she was waylaid by Palestinian assailants. They pulled her from her car, beat her and stole her vehicle.
Gefen is...
UN court opens hearings on Israel’s ‘ongoing occupation’
Public hearings opened at the International Court of Justice in the Hague (ICJ) on Monday regarding the legal repercussions of Israel’s “ongoing occupation” of Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem.
The court is hearing arguments due...
What exactly is Biden’s issue with Israeli law enforcement?
President Joe Biden’s Executive Order targeting four “violent, radical settlers” is not a legal move, but a political one. Yet Israel has a fairly strong hand to play against it, if it has the...
Judea and Samaria Jewish population up 15,000 in 2023
The Jewish population in Judea and Samaria grew by almost 15,000 people last year, according to an annual report compiled by former Israeli lawmaker Ya’akov Katz and based on Interior Ministry data.
As of Jan....
IDF slammed for simulating kidnapping of Arabs by Jews
Judea and Samaria leaders are demanding the dismissal of the author of a training exercise conducted by the Israel Defense Forces on Monday that simulated the kidnapping of Palestinian Arabs by Israeli Jews.
The leaders...
Biden sanctions ‘violent’ Israelis in Judea and Samaria
U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday signed an executive order that imposes additional sanctions on Israeli residents of Judea and Samaria involved in alleged violence against Palestinians.
Biden's order targets four Israeli citizens who Washington...