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Report: Number of illegal settlers up 42% since 2010
Palestinians block a road to stop Israeli settlers from passing during a demonstration against Jewish settlements in the village Kafr Malik in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on November 20, 2020 [ABBAS MOMANI/AFP via Getty Images] March 10, 2021 at 10:48 am
The Israeli Jewish settler population in the occupied West Bank has risen 42 per cent since 2010, a new report issued by Israeli human rights groups B Tselem and Kerem Navot revealed yesterday.
There are now 440,000 settlers in the illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, excluding those in the occupied East Jerusalem. Various state authorities encourage Jews to move to settlements and develop financial ventures in and around them, the report said.
Anti-Israel NGO Adalah s General Director Hassan Jabareen.
According to an NGO Monitor report issued on Monday, between 2017 and 2019, 35 anti-Israel NGOs received a total of NIS 319,466,917 ($95.7 million) in donations, 58% of which ($55.5 million) came from foreign governments through direct and indirect funding, and 42% ($40.1 million) from private donors.
Given the central role played by politicized NGOs in the public human rights discourse, transparency in NGO funding is required in order to support an informed debate (
Analysis of NIS 320 million in grants to Israeli NGOs, annual reports 2017-2019). The group’s analysis presents all grants reported by the 35 Israeli NGOs receiving foreign government funding and involved in political advocacy, according to their annual financial reports for 2017-2019, which are the latest available. The data are listed according to the amount of the grant, the identity of the donor, and the source of the grant (private, governmental, or non
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Jan. 25, 2021
The Israeli Civil Administration in the West Bank uprooted some 3,000 olive trees near the Palestinian village of Dir Balut in the northern West Bank this month, although the Palestinian residents had filed an appeal of the order evicting them from the land. The eviction was ordered in August based on the government’s stance that the trees were planted on state-owned land.
A private lawyer representing the government on the appeal filed a response in the case six days after the trees were uprooted, but a source at the Civil Administration told Haaretz that Civil Administration inspectors only learned of the appeal after the trees had been removed. In a response for this article, the Civil Administration said the action was done in accordance with the law against individuals who were trespassing on state land.
The Separate Regimes Delusion - Last April, Haaretz ran a statement warning the Israeli government against formally annexing its settlements in the occupied West Bank. Opinion polls showed that the public didn’t care much about the issue, but political elites were debating it fiercely. Both proponents and opponents of annexation claimed that the future of Israel and Zionism was at stake. The statement argued that ‘annexation would mean a fatal blow to the possibility of peace and would be the establishment of an apartheid state.’ It was signed by 56 former members of the Knesset, among them former ministers of the interior, foreign affairs,