Israel gave final approval for a settlement project in the occupied West Bank that would effectively cut the territory in two ...

Israel’s approval of a settlement project delayed for decades shows how far Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has gone in ...

E1 project aims to split West Bank into 2 parts, cutting off northern cities of Ramallah and Nablus from Bethlehem and Hebron ...

The Palestinian Authority says the decision is illegal and will "destroy" the prospects for a two-state solution.

The E1 plan is expected to receive final approval on Aug. 20, capping off 20 years of bureaucratic wrangling. The planning ...

TEL AVIV, (Reuters) -Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich approved plans overnight for a settlement that would ...

Israel said Thursday it was moving forward with controversial plans to build thousands of new housing units in the occupied West Bank, a development far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said ...

Ministers in the Israeli government have in recent months pushed for more rapid development of these settlements, explicitly as a rebuke to claims of Palestinian sovereignty.

(Reuters) -Israeli settlement building, a point of contention at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has come back ...

Israel approved a major settlement project on Wednesday in an area of the occupied West Bank that the international community ...

The project, located in a tract of land known as E1 just east of Jerusalem, has been under discussion for more than two ...