A picture taken on May 17, 2013 shows a house belonging to Palestinians in front of houses in the Mitzpe Lachish Israeli settlement outpost (background) in the West Bank village of Beit Awwa. Israeli settlement watchdog Peace Now said on May 16, 2013 that the government wants to give retroactive approval to four West Bank settlement outposts it had previously pledged to at least partially demolish. Givat Assaf, Givat HaRoeh, Maaleh Rehavam and Mitzpe Lachish outposts are among six listed in a 2005 government report as deserving immediate eviction and later ordered shut by a court order.
A file photo taken on June 12, 2012 shows an Israeli settler pushing a stroller in the Jewish Ulpana neighbourhood, which is built on private Palestinian land within the Beit El settlement, near Ramallah. Israel has given final approval on February 11, 2013, for 90 new homes in Beit El settlement near Ramallah in a move likely to spark tension ahead of a top-level visit by US President Barack Obama, Hagit Ofran of the Peace Now said.
An Aerial view of the new Jewish settlement Haresha near the West Bank town of Ramallah 12 April, 1999. According to the Israeli anti-settlements group Peace Now, Israelis have established 16 new enclaves comprising a few mobile homes and water tanks since Israel and the Palestinians signed the Wye River peace agreement in October 1998. The settlers are rushing to take control over more West Bank land before national elections in May 17, in a bid to prevent the newly elected government from agreeing to withdraw from the Palestinian territories.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak waves at an activist from the Israel pacifist organization Peace Now 24 May 2000 in Jerusalem as he is handed flowers and thanked for preventing unnecessary deaths in Lebanon. Israel completed its pullout from south Lebanon overnight, more than a month ahead of the 07 July deadline set by the Israeli prime minister.
An Israeli demonstrator (L) holds up a placard that reads 'I'm not quiet be cause my country change its faith' and ' Peace Now', during a rally to mark the 15th anniversary of the assassination of former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin at the Tel Aviv plaza where he was shot, on October 30, 2010. Rabin is revered as a national hero in Israel, both for his legendary military career and for his peace efforts in the 1990s that earned him a Nobel peace prize, shared with current President Shimon Peres and the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
Caravans are seen in the Israeli Tzufim outpost near the Palestinian town of Qalqilya in the West Bank on October 31, 2012. Two new Jewish settlement outposts have recently been created in the West Bank in the first such development since 2005, Israel's Peace Now settlement watchdog said.
