Smotrich has also long seen abolition of the Civil Administration as a means to expand and develop settlements further, thereby extending Israeli sovereignty in the West Bank, with annexation ...

the President has stood down the past administration's condemnations of Israel's West Bank settlements – declared illegal by international authorities. And he has stocked his cabinet with ...

“Israel now has a free hand to pursue what it has wanted to in the West Bank for a long time: settlement expansion, annexation,” said Tahani Mustafa, a senior analyst at the International ...

Israeli farming outposts are mushrooming across the West Bank, enabling settlers to displace Palestinians and grab large ...

a village in the West Bank’s Jordan Valley. Within a few hours, an Israeli man from the settlement of Rotem drove his truck through the sheep, killing two. He then got out of his vehicle and drove a ...