monitoring reports

The paper highlights the numerous Israeli violations against the Palestinian environment which begin with land confiscation policy and its illegal use of the West Bank territories, the building of illegal settlements and military bases, the destruction of infrastructure and vast areas of [...]

The paper presents different information about Jabal Al-Taweel, which is located 20 km from Jerusalem. It presents climate information related to cloudiness, rainfall, average temperature, and solar radiation. The paper then discusses the history of Pesagot colony, highlighting the colonization of Jabal [...]

The paper at hand briefly touches the geopolitical status that formed the structure of the current Palestinian land transportation system and discusses the Palestinian transportation planning dilemmas, both presently and in the future, that must be addressed by Palestinian physical planners, as [...]

The paper discusses the environmental status of Ni’lin, a Palestinian village located to the west of Ramallah. It presents the location and population of Ni’lin, the Oslo II land classification of its land, and the Israeli colonial activities there following the 1967 [...]

The Palestinian ecosystems defined here as West Bank and Gaza Strip, including East Jerusalem, are home to an estimated 23,159 hectares of forested areas. These forest environments provide a habitat for a great diversity of flora and fauna. This makes them an [...]

The paper presents the continuous Israeli activities in trying to strangulate the city of Beit Jala, which is located 1 km west of Bethlehem and 8 km southwest of Jerusalem. After giving an introduction about the location of Beit Jala, the paper [...]

The paper presents current water supply and sanitation conditions in the West Bank & Gaza. It discusses water sector policies and strategies, and current institutional development. In addition, the paper reviews major investment projects in the water sector, and major capacity building [...]