Ministers in the Israeli government have in recent months pushed for more rapid development of these settlements, explicitly ...

Israel's far-right finance minister announced approval of the construction of a contentious settlement in the ...

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

Palestinians and world powers have said the long-frozen E1 scheme would effectively chop the occupied West Bank in two.

There is a revealing back story to Israel’s so-called E1 Plan, a massive settlement project that includes the building of many thousands of new homes. The plan’s goal is to irreversibly sever the ...

Smotrich’s settlement plans come as the international spotlight on Israel intensifies, with growing calls for a cease-fire in ...

"The plan is the 'final nail in the coffin' for the concept of a Palestinian state," Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich ...

This comes after Smotrich announced his approval for settlements in the E1 area. Germany on Friday called on the Israeli ...

Bezalel Smotrich, who is sanctioned by Australia and the UK, says a controversial new development "definitively buries the ...

France on Saturday condemned Israel's decision to build thousands of new homes in the West Bank and called on Israel to drop ...

France calls on Israel to abandon this project, which constitutes a serious violation of international law,' says Foreign ...

A far-right Israeli minister has backed controversial settlement plans in order to ensure there is “nothing left to recognise ...