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- Written by Amira Hass
- Category: Cisgiordania
Haaretz, Jul. 13, 2016
Ofer Prison is around seven kilometers from central Ramallah, a 10-minute drive, with the lights and heavy traffic. Ofer — a prison, army camp and military court — is in the West Bank, on the land of the Palestinian town of Bitunia, next to Route 443. But Israel has skillfully created the impression that Ofer is in its territory. The expanse alongside Route 443 and surrounding the settlement bloc of Givat Ze’ev was de facto annexed to Israel long ago. It’s beyond the pale for Palestinians, except for laborers in the settlements and visitors to the prison.
Read more: Why humiliation became a routine tactic in Israeli prisons
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- Written by Amira Hass
- Category: Cisgiordania
Haaretz, Jul. 9, 2016
According to data presented by Alexander Kushnir, the Water Authority’s director general, the large expansion in agriculture in the settlements has led to a rise in consumption this year.
Read more: Israel blocking plan to double water supply to West Bank
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- Written by Nicolas Ropert
- Category: Cisgiordania
RFI, 20.01.2016
Les autorités israéliennes ont annoncé mercredi 20 janvier la plus grande confiscation de terres en Cisjordanie depuis l'été 2014. Près de 150 hectares de terrains en Cisjordanie seront déclarés « terrains d'Etat israélien ». [...] Ces terres agricoles dans la vallée du Jourdain sont très convoitées par les colons israéliens. Cette décision pourrait attiser encore un peu plus les tensions entre la communauté internationale et le gouvernement israélien.
Read more: Israël va annexer 150 hectares de terres en Cisjordanie
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- Written by Ori Lewis and Ali Sawafta, Jeffrey Heller, Hugh Lawson and Chizu Nomiyama
- Category: Cisgiordania
Reuters, Mar. 15, 2016
Israel has appropriated large tracts of land in the occupied West Bank near the Dead Sea and the Palestinian city of Jericho, Israeli Army Radio said on Tuesday.
Read more: Israel seizes large tracts of land in occupied West Bank: Army Radio
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- Written by Sheren Khalel
- Category: Cisgiordania
Al Jazeera, 23 June 2016
Salfit, occupied West Bank - Salfit sits atop an underground wealth of water, but the city's residents are forbidden from accessing it - and they are now in crisis, as Israel's national water company, Mekorot, has reduced water supply to the northern West Bank.
Read more: Israel's water cuts: West Bank 'in full crisis mode'
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