Indeed, while settlement building in the West Bank has slackened, it continues.

The Committee noted that settlement construction and expansion in the West Bank continued apace.

(d) Inter bank payment systems, inter bank payment agreements or clearance and settlement systems relating to securities or other financial assets or instruments

The US offered various sweeteners to induce Israel to freeze its West Bank settlement construction for another 90 days.

Israel s settlement policy in the West Bank would then have a different foundation and take on new political significance.

It expresses particular concern about the intention of the Israeli Government to expand large settlement blocks in the West Bank, isolating East Jerusalem from the West Bank and separating the southern West Bank from its northern part.

It is particularly alarmed by the intention of the Israeli Government to expand large settlement blocks in the West Bank, which would separate East Jerusalem from the West Bank and the southern West Bank from its northern part.

In the West Bank settlement of Shiloh , a settler fired at a group of Palestinians, killing four and wounding two others.

The Arab position is that no proximity talks can be held until Israel freezes its settlement activity in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Some Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza objected to the Accords failure to call explicitly for the end of illegal Israeli settlement building.

Furthermore, as the report of the Committee illustrates, settlement construction and expansion in the West Bank has continued apace over the past 12 months.

The report of the Secretary General also expresses concern over Israel's continued settlement expansion and unilateral construction of the wall in the West Bank.

The decision to extend the wall to the settlement at Ariel, about 22 km into the West Bank, meant that about 16 percent of the West Bank would end up between the wall and the Green Line.

According to the road map, Israel is obliged to freeze its settlement activities and to dismantle outposts in the West Bank constructed since March 2001.

Immediately after the West Bank was occupied in 1967, the occupation government established the first settlement on the Hebron citizens' land, which was called Qiriat Arbaa.

Settlement activities have been accompanied by disturbing information concerning plans to establish permanent links between several West Bank settlements, particularly in East Jerusalem and its environs.

We observe with concern the division of the territory of the West Bank as a result of the construction of the barrier, continued settlement expansion and the increasing isolation of East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank.

On the other hand, on 10 July, buildings in the West Bank settlement outpost of Amuna were evacuated voluntarily after a petition against the settlers living there.

There were just a few hundred settlers in the West Bank and Gaza when I became president, but the Likud government expanded settlement activity after I left office.

It is important that the international community not permit Israel to use prevarication and procrastination to distract it while completing its colonial settlement plan for the West Bank.

In addition, the Israeli Lands Authority announced on 18 April that it was inviting bids for the construction of 50 housing units in the West Bank settlement of Elkana.

This week, the occupying Power resumed construction of a section of the Wall by the illegal settlement of Ariel, which is located 12 miles deep into the West Bank.

Nine thousand new Israeli settlement housing units have been announced in Palestine, the number of roadblocks within the West bank has increased, and the stranglehold on Gaza has been tightened.

The hopes raised by the announcement of Israel's withdrawal from Gaza were disappointed by its continuing policies concerning the settlement of the West Bank and the construction of the wall.

On 18 April 2005, the Israel Lands Authority announced that tenders had been issued for the construction of 50 homes in the West Bank settlement of Elkana , south of Qalqilya.

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When Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was preparing for his historic visit to Jerusalem, a group of settlers created the settlement of Elon Moreh near Nablus, the most populated West Bank city.

On Monday, 16 May, the Israeli High Court of Justice rescinded the temporary injunctions it had previously imposed on the construction of the barrier around the West Bank settlement of Ariel.

In that connection, we take note with regret of the publication on 2 June of tenders for the construction of 22 housing units in the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim.

Even worse, given that Obama s effort to enforce a permanent moratorium on new settlement construction in the West Bank has failed, is that direct negotiations between the conflicting parties have run aground.

Few of them are democracies, and not one of them holds Israel to task for its settlement policies in the West Bank or cares, like the United States, about Middle East peace.

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Of particular concern was Israel's illegal plan to slice the West Bank in half by constructing thousands of housing units in a corridor between Jerusalem and a West Bank settlement that would effectively clamp down on Palestinian movement while isolating East Jerusalem from the rest of the Palestinian territory.

It is clear that for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu s right wing government, the start of indirect talks without freezing settlement activities in the West Bank and Jerusalem is a sort of victory.

The cumulative number of treaty based cases brought before the World Bank Group's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) rose from three at year end 1994 to 106 in November 2004.

My delegation is therefore alarmed at news of increasing settlement activities in the West Bank and, even worse, Israel's revision of the route of the wall and the acceleration of its construction around Jerusalem.

Furthermore, the Committee remains profoundly concerned about the intensified expansion of settlement activity in the West Bank, including in East Jerusalem, and the accelerated construction of the illegal wall in the occupied Palestinian territory.

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