A new bill seeks to turn the controversial Prawer Plan into Israeli law. If the Knesset passes the legislation, it will pave the way for Israel to step up its efforts to disposess the Negev's Bedouin and relocate them to impoverished townships. This bill has gone totally ignored by both local and international media

Bedouin protest the Prawer Plan, which will see 30,000 to 40,000 Bedouins transferred from their lands and relocated into townships. The Israeli cabinet approved the Prawer Plan in September of 2011. The Hebrew sign reads, "Yes to recognition; no to transfer.

A Palestinian woman was seriously injured Wednesday after a number of Israeli settlers hurled stones at a vehicle on the Yitzhar-Nablus road, in the northern part of the West Bank.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -- UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said Thursday Israel and the Palestinians were running out of time to solve their conflict and ought to give "highest priority" to resuming stalled peace talks.

On Tuesday, dozens of Jerusalemites were injured in confrontations with the Israeli soldiers who raided al-Issawiyah village, northeast of Jerusalem.
Eyewitnesses said to our reporter that whilst two Israeli soldiers obtained injuries; one to the foot and another to the shoulder, a Palestinian Youth was shot by a rubber bullet to his head, and dozens more Palestinians were hit by sound bombs and gas canisters, as well as rubber bullets.
Our reporter said that the confrontations started after the Israeli forces raided the village, and arrested Ayoub Baha' Obeid al-Omur, 20, after they attacked his house under the pretext that he threw stones towards Israeli soldiers.

On Thursday, Israeli forces notified several Palestinians from Nahalin village, west of Bethlehem that the Israeli authorities issued an order to confiscate their agricultural lands near Beitar Illit settlement, which was built on the lands of Husan, Wadi Fukin and Nahalin villages.

The European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, and the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Filippo Grandi, signed today at UNRWA’s Gaza Training Centre a € 55.4 million financing agreement towards the Agency’s General Fund.

10 December was International Human Rights Day, the day the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted. To mark the day, OHCHR (oPT) and UNRWA are putting the spotlight on human rights stories and rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territory. In this series, we look at how the occupation and its associated regime affect the daily lives of ordinary Palestinians, raising questions about the protection of their human rights.

A small but spirited group of Bedouin and Israelis demonstrated outside of the Jewish National Fund's Jerusalem offices on Sunday. The protesters, who numbered in the dozens, called for the JNF, a quasi-governmental organization, and the state of Israel to end discriminatory policies towards Bedouin residents of the Negev, including home demolitions and relocations.

Almost 1,100 Palestinians, over half of them children, were displaced due to home demolitions in the West Bank by Israeli forces in 2011 – over 80 per cent more than in the previous year – according to a United Nations report released today.

Three Palestinian students at the College of Engineering in Jerusalem (JCE) have been put under house arrest for a week and instructed not to contact any of their peers for using the social media website Facebook to urge a boycott of a speech by Israeli President Shimon Peres.