The Etzion bloc — where Israel seized almost 1,000 acres last week for Jewish settlements — was the first area of the West Bank to be settled after the Six-Day War. Last week Israel provoked ...

Farming outposts are mushrooming across the West Bank, enabling Israeli settlers to displace Palestinians and grab large swaths of land.

JERUSALEM (JTA) — U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman will lead the joint U.S.-Israel committee that will map the ... of the West Bank, including all of the Jewish settlements and the ...

The border separating the West Bank from Israel is called the Green ... But today, with the increasing number of settlements – blue dots on the map, some far from the Green Line – it may ...

Israel has said it will pause building new settlements in the occupied West Bank for "the coming months". The move appears to be the fruit of behind-the-scenes talks by the US with Israeli and ...

Israel is getting ready to annex the occupied Palestinian West Bank. The annexation will be ... Israel to claim sovereignty over illegal settlements, the Syrian Golan Heights, and occupied East ...

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 ...

Israeli settlements and smaller outposts across the West Bank are illegal under international law. The U.N.'s top court, the International Court of Justice, ruled last summer that Israel should ...

Around 700,000 Israeli settlers live among 2.7 million Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, land Israel captured in 1967. Most countries consider Israel's settlements on ...

And US president Donald Trump’s pick for ambassador to the UN, Elise Stefanik, has told a Senate confirmation hearing that Israel has a “biblical” right to dominion over the West Bank.