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Israel said it would build 3000 more settler homes in the WestBank and East Jerualem. It also announced it would expidite planning for the controversial E1 site near the holy city. Source: Reuters, Peace Now.

Hebron (known as Khalil in Arabic), home to 300,000 Palestinians, is a city split in two. In 1997, the city was divided into the H1 area, under Palestinian control, and H2, under Israeli control. Hebron’s old city, the place where H1 meets H2, is ground zero for Israeli Apartheid.

These are the alternative plans worked out by architect Yousef Jabareen, together with the Al-Bustan community, in opposition to the King's Garden Plans designed by Arieh Rahamimov promoted by the Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat, involving wholesale illegal demolitions of Silwan homes.

Here are few new photos from "Rafah Iron Wall" project, which is being built by the Egyptian authorities on their side of Gaza borders. Egyptian government first denied such project and Americans said they have no part in it. More and more on-ground evidences are confirming that the project is in progress despite all calls to stop the construction due to its direct fatal impact on Gazans sensitive supplies such as medicines, food and some basic elements that keeps Gaza alive.

This shows that the majority of the land in Palestine was owned by Palestinian Arabs in the various districts.After the 1948 war, 93% of land ownership was taken over by Israel, in particular the Jewish National Fund which expropriated almost all the land belonging to the 560 destroyed Palestinian villages and towns.

This map shows the location of the unrecognised Bedouin villages in the Negev, where Israel does not recognise any part of the Arab ownershipof their ancestral land, as the British mandatory government did. Today the Jewish National Fund is evicting Bedouin and planting forests on these lands to make it impossible for them to be reclaimed

This map shows Israel's agenda for an 'undivided city', whose illegal annexation is not recognised by the international community, but which Israel continues to expand and expropriate from Palestinian citizens.The ring road excludes Palestinian areas from the expanded city.The blacl line shows the extent of Israel's (illegal) version of Metropolitan Jerusalem, which includes E1 and Maaleh Adumim.

This map shows the distribution of the illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, that, together with the matrix of roads, checkpoints and the Apartheid Wall take up over 60 % of the West Bank.

Israeli forces ended their offensive against Hamas in Gaza on Saturday, 17 January, following the declaration of ceasefires by Hamas and Israel. Highlighted below are some of the main buildings identified as destroyed or damaged in Gaza City and the surrounding area based on analysis by Unosat of satellite imagery taken on 19 January. The image, taken for Unosat at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, has helped researchers identify at least 1,008 destroyed or damaged buildings. According to B'Tselem, 1,387 Palestinians were killed during the three weeks of Operation Cast Lead, of whom 773 were noncombatants and only 330 were combatants. Israel says 13 Israelis died, including 10 soldiers in the campaign and three civilians killed as a result of rocket fire from Gaza. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7812136.stm

This map shows the settler-only roads that link the illegal settlements to each other and to the Israeli side, with together with over 600 checkpoints, forms the Matrix of Control.

These pictures by Angela Godfrey Goldstein of ICAHD show the ruins of the Palestinian village in Jerusalem evacuated in 1947, within the Green Line which has a real estate plan exlusively for Jewish residents, even though internal refugee Liftawis live nearby.FAST is proposing a new concept for planning this village to include the memory of the villages original residents.

Palestinian loss of land 1946 to 2000

This map shows how the extremist religious settler groups like El Ad and Ateret Hacohanim are infiltrating and taking over Palestinian property in the Old City, and illegally tunnelling towards the Temple Mount or the Haram El Sharif.Palestinians are deliberately being displaced and dispossessed.

This ancient and historic Arab cemetery in Mamilla has been expropriated by the Jerusalem Municipality to build the "Museum of Tolerance", designed by US architect Frank Gehry, and funded by the Wiesenthal Centre. It is being challenged by the Israeli Islamic Party and Arab scholars and religious leaders. (photos by Gary Anderson)

These excavations are illegal, with no care against damage to Silwan residents' houses

""We'll make a pastrami sandwich of them. We'll insert a strip of Jewish settlements in between thePalestinians, and then another strip of Jewish settlements right across the West Bank, so that in 25 years, neither the United Nations, nor the U.S.A, nobody, will be able to tear it apart." Ariel Sharon to Winston S. Churchill III in 1973.