Israeli settlements

A Palestinian grandmother or mom and her children protecting their olive trees from demolition

All Settlements built in occupied East Jerusalem and West Bank violate Palestinian human rights and confiscate lands, destroy ancient olive groves and orchards, International Law and UN Resolution 242!

Japanese Government: "Settlements violate International Law"

Vandals spray paint grafiti on Church in Bir'em
International Law on Occupied Palestinian territories

For the Land and the Lord: Jewish fundamentalism in Israel

Raw sewage from illegal settlemnts affecting environment in occupied WEst Bank
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Wikipedia has an excellent albeit long article on the Israeli settlements built in the 41-year-old occupied Palestinian West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip since 1967. It claims to be unbiased when it comes to Israel-Palestine to avoid controversy. While claiming to be unbiased, Wikipedia does not view East Jerusalem or West Bank as occupied territories as most of the world does, but views the territories as "partially under Israeli military administration." East Jerusalem is "is incorporated into the Jerusalem municipality and annexed to Israel proper though its not recognized Internationally." The settlements are not even considered illegal and are called villages, cities, towns and neighborhoods. Even the Apartheid or Separation wall is normalized as an indirect security necessity. Israel deserves security given the long history of terrorism and hatred Israelis and the wider Jewish world have experience for centuries. However, building a concrete wall in occupied Palestine that segregates not only Palestinians from their own private land but literally severs them from their towns, cities, livelihoods and families in the name of fighting terrorism and security can not never be justified \ in order to violate ordinary peoples' human rights. There is no mention of the fact that all the settlements are built and constructed on privately owned Palestinian lands ontop of hilltops overlooking Palestinian towns and cities, crisscrossing the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem continual settler violence, Israeli forces demolishing Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem and West Bank, destruction of olive orchards and trees, confiscation of privately owned Palestinian lands for more illegal settlements, the fact that the settlements uses most of the resources of the West Bank and East Jerusalem especially water, arable lands and receiving help from Israeli military when they attack Palestinians and receive little punishment. The continual construction and near completion of the Apartheid Wall snaking in and out of the West Bank separating and Palestinians, towns and cities from one another in East Jerusalem. Turning bordering towns into bantustans and ghettos. The continual construction of new settlements, Israel's insistence to keep its major settlement blocs ringed around occupied East Jerusalem and the near completion of the Apartheid Wall makes a free, Democratic and independent Palestine with its 1967 green line borders in occupied Gaza, West Bank and East Jerusalem impossible. The emerging popular alternative to independence for Palestine because of the continual Israeli occupation architecture and violence is a single Democratic state for all citizens and return of all 1948, 1967,etc Palestinian refugees to their original homes inside what was once known as historical Palestine as UN Resolution 194 has reinstated for 60 years.
All of these consequences are not mentioned because Wikipedia does not want to be unbiased or deal with controversy. To add insult to injury, Wikipedia has also listed articles for the region councils for the settlements! And the regional councils can describe the West Bank as Judea and Samaria or add it as a district of Israel so these councils are normalized and appear to be a natural part of the West Bank and not a contradiction to International Law nor a violation of several UN resolutions.

An illegal settlement in occupied West Bank, Palestine. Many of the newer settlements that Israeli government is hurriedly rushing to build to support their "facts on the ground" (justifying their illegal colonies and land grabs of what remains of Palestinian land) are often left vacant after completion. In a cruel twist of fate, Palestinians (working peoples and families) who have faced economic depression and have no other means of income due to the Israeli military occupation's miltiary closures and land confiscations are often recruited by housing companies to build the very same settlements that have displaced Palestinians, olive trees, led to numerous home demolitions and effectively separated Palestinian towns and cities from one another.

The Iron Wall: Doc about the West Bank Aparthied/Seperation Barrier and its history

The Settlers (2002)

Hebron: One City-Two Nations Palestine/Israel

Israeli settlers in Hebron (Al Khalil)

Israel is Detroying Itself with the (Illegal) Settlement Policy

The actions of settlers in Hebron (Tel Rumedia colony)

Learning to Hate: Israeli Settler Children

Israeli settler children throw stones at both Palestinians and international activists monitoring the violence in Occupied Palestine carried out by both the Israeli military and illegal settlers who are given a carte blanche to harrass and taunt Palestinians living in their homes on their lands who are going about their business to school, work or visiting friends and family. The settlers are part of the larger colonial project by Israeli government to keep illegal settlements which violate Genva Convention and Internaitonal Law in any final agreement despite the violation.

Holy Land Grab

Israel alongisde the Jerusalem Municipality uses archeology and brutal eviction notices to remove Palestinian Jerusalemites from their homes and city to expand illegal settlements, increase the Jewish presence and violate International Law in Occupied East Jerusalem. Many Palestinians see it as a form of ethnic cleansing in Israel's quest to make occupied East Jerusalem part of the "eternal, undivided capital of Israel."

Evicting Palestinian Bedouins in Negev Israel
In Pictures the illegal Israeli settlements
Occupied East Jerusalem
Israeli Settlement/Colonies Factsheet
Bush's 2004 Secret Document to Sharon allowing Israel to keep its large settlement blocs in a final peace deal
The Wall and the eye
A magnum Opus alast controversial book to Israeli policy supporters, "A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture" by Eyal Weizmann examines the role of Israeli architecture, urban design, archaeology and politics in relations to settlements in occupied territories namely West Bank and East Jerusalem where settlements are built on hilltops and ringed around Palestinian cities and towns. It also questions the role of topography, geography and hilltop constructions of new settlements and "neighborhoods" that ignores the existence of older and ancient Palestinian cities, towns and orchards but allows for continual expansions and growth of settlers.