European NGOs and faith groups have strongly criticised Israel's publication of tenders to build nearly 1,300 new homes in occupied territory.

Asira Al-Qibliya residents are experiencing increased, organized attacks by Jewish settlers on their West Bank village, say Ecumenical accompaniers.

Several masked Israeli settlers from Havat Ma'on have harassed Palestinian shepherds and attacked two international observers, CPT reports.

The Church of Scotland General Assembly agreed, under threat, to withdraw a resolution calling for a UK ban on goods from Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Paraic Reamonn says that the ethnically-defined nature of the current Israeli state, its treatment of Palestinians and what its policies are doing to the identity of Jewish people should be a matter of priority concern to Christians and others of goodwill.