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

An ecumenical church-based body has given evidence to the European Council about the abuse of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Palestinian activists describing themselves as 'freedom riders' have been dragged by police off an Israeli bus they planned to ride into Jerusalem.

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.