Israel has cleared the final hurdle before starting construction on a controversial settlement project near Jerusalem that ...

Israel said Thursday it would establish 22 Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, including the legalization of outposts already built without government authorization. Neighboring Jordan and ...

Muhammad Jaradat would never have imagined that 2025 would be the last year he got to visit the hills of the northern West ...

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced that "22 new settlements" will be established in the West Bank. Some already exist as outputs, but will be made legal under Israeli law, whilst ...

A soldier stands guard at Gush Etzion Junction in the Gush Etzion settlements compound, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank February 2, 2023 [File: Dedi Hayun/Reuters] Israel’s international allies are ...

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel gave final approval Wednesday for a controversial settlement project in the occupied West Bank that would effectively cut the territory in two, and that Palestinians and ...

The long-stalled project near Jerusalem, known as E1, further fragments West Bank lands envisioned as part of a Palestinian state, advancing a goal of Israeli hard-liners. By Aaron Boxerman Reporting ...

In another major expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli cabinet approved on Thursday the legalization and establishment of numerous settler outposts, according to an ...

Israeli Army personnel on duty in Hebron, West Bank, guarding Israeli settlers on May 24, 2025. Reporter Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced that "22 new settlements" will be ...