Topic - Peace Now

Peace Now (Hebrew: שלום עכשיו - Shalom Akhshav) is a non-governmental organization in Israel with the agenda of "swaying popular opinion and convincing the Israeli government of the need and possibility for achieving a just peace and a historic conciliation with the Palestinian people and neighboring Arab countries; this in exchange for a territorial settlement based on the formula of 'land for peace'". - Source: Wikipedia

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Mourners carry the bodies of four Palestinians, killed by an Israeli airstrike late Tuesday, during their funeral in the West Bank refugee camp of Nur Shams, near Tulkarem, Wednesday, July 3, 2024. Palestinian health officials say four Palestinians were killed by an Israeli airstrike in a refugee camp in the northern West Bank late Tuesday. Israel's military said an aircraft struck a group of militants who were planting explosives in Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarem. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

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By Julia Frankel - Associated Press

Sunlight peeks through clouds over a section of the West Bank Jewish settlement of Efrat, March 12, 2021. Israel went on an aggressive settlement spree during the Trump era, according to an AP investigation, pushing deeper into the occupied West Bank than ever before and putting the Biden administration into a bind as it seeks to revive Mideast peace efforts. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Trump-era spike in Israeli settlement growth has only begun

By JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

FILE - This Nov. 15, 2020 file photo, shows a general view of the Givat Hamatos Israeli settlement in east Jerusalem. Israeli authorities on Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021, advanced plans to build an additional 780 homes in West Bank settlements, an anti-settlement monitoring group said, in a last-minute surge of approvals before the friendly Trump administration leaves office later this week. Peace Now said that over 90% of the homes lay deep inside the West Bank, which the Palestinians seek as the heartland of a future independent state. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Israel OKs hundreds of settlement homes in last-minute push

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2017 file photo, Palestinian laborers work at a construction site in the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, near Jerusalem. Israeli authorities have advanced plans to build over 2,100 new settlement homes in the occupied West Bank. Wednesday's development indicates they are pressing ahead with a building boom that has gained steam during the presidency of Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

Israel OKs more than 3,000 West Bank settlement homes

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020 photo, a view of the West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Efraim on the hills of the Jordan Valley. An Israeli watchdog group tells The Associated Press that Israel's settlement activity in the West Bank surged ahead in 2019, maintaining a rapid pace that has drawn strength from the friendly policies of the Trump administration. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Watchdog says Israel’s West Bank settlements surged in 2019

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

This Tuesday, July 7, 2019 photo shows the general view of a a settlement outpost Neve Achi, named by Peace Now as one of the dozens of outpost Israeli authorities have retroactively legalized dozens in the West Bank, a growing number of which have been founded since President Donald Trump entered office. (AP Photo/Ilan Ben Zion)

Israeli group says West Bank outposts boom under Trump

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

This Jan. 10, 2019, file photo shows a newly opened segregated West Bank highway near Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Donald Trump’s election boosted Israeli settlement construction

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An Israeli settler enters a building that was taken over after Palestinian families were evicted, in the Silwan neighborhood of east Jerusalem, in this Oct. 19, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

New evictions of Arab families part of battle for Jerusalem

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