One settler said that police from Askeran regularly patrolled the city.

It condemned terrorism exercised by settler gangs against Palestinian civilians and peace activists.

It condemns terrorism exercised by settler gangs against Palestinian civilians and peace activists.

Settler planning zones had absorbed 41.9 per cent of land in the West Bank.

Another yearround settler said that land and weather were better in Agdam than back home.

On 3 May, a settler from Kedumim chemically contaminated agricultural wells belonging to Palestinian farmers from Qalqilya.

In the yard of another settler, the FFM observed several piles of pipes and other scrap metals.

An Israeli soldier was stabbed to death at the Qalandia checkpoint, and militants killed an Israeli settler near Hebron.

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

There were also numerous Israeli arrest campaigns and worrying reports of increased settler vigilante attacks against Palestinian civilians in West Bank villages.

In August 2004, the Israeli Government had granted over 2,000 construction permits to Israeli settlers, inevitably giving rise to increased settler violence against Palestinians.

As a result, the settler population had increased by 5.3 per cent in the past year, while population growth in Israel itself was only 1.4 per cent.

Two Palestinians were killed instantaneously, and a third wounded Palestinian was taken by the illegal settler to another area where he shot him dead at point blank range.

The latest attack by an illegal settler occurred against the backdrop of the highly anticipated and long awaited Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and parts of the northern West Bank, after 38 consecutive years of brutal occupation.

There was never enough land to satisfy the passionate possessiveness of all those with claims to it. And, over time, Israeli settler disengagement from the West Bank and East Jerusalem has become just as impossible as any attempt by Israel to expel its remaining Arabs.

Gravely concerned in particular about the dangerous situation resulting from actions taken by the illegal armed Israeli settlers in the occupied territory, as illustrated by the massacre of Palestinian worshippers by an illegal Israeli settler in Al Khalil on 25 February 1994, and during recent weeks,

Gravely concerned in particular about the dangerous situation resulting from actions taken by the illegal armed Israeli settlers in the occupied territory, as illustrated by the massacre of Palestinian worshippers by an illegal Israeli settler in Al Khalil on 25 February 1994, and during the past year,

I believe that the chances for a political breakthrough in our region have never been better. On the Israeli side, your faith in the political process was demonstrated recently when you and Sharon decided unilaterally to go against your own ideology and take on the powerful settler movement.

Gravely concerned about the dangerous situation resulting from actions taken by the illegal armed Israeli settlers in the occupied territory, as illustrated in the recent period and earlier by the massacre of Palestinian worshippers by an illegal Israeli settler in Al Khalil on 25 February 1994, and during the past year,

The Shamir government would be defeated at the polls, and the incoming Labor government would declare a freeze on all settlement construction, even on buildings that had already been started. But, despite the decrees, ways were found to continue building, to absorb new residents, and to increase the settler population.

The attack occurred yesterday, Wednesday, 17 August 2005, in the northern West Bank near the illegal Israeli settlement of Shilo , when an illegal settler grabbed a gun from an Israeli security guard at knifepoint and then opened fire from close range, brutally killing four innocent Palestinian civilians with absolute impunity.

Likewise, there are hard line Jews, such as the settler groups who drive Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem and Hebron, who have forgotten the early teachings of Jewish scholars who argued that strangers should be treated like your own people. And there are Muslims who ignore the Koran s commands of pluralism, tolerance, and peace.