As the U.S. retreats from global leadership, BRICS is emerging as a pragmatic platform for countries seeking greater autonomy ...

Israel is embarking on the largest expansion of West Bank settlements in decades, its finance minister announced Thursday, a step meant to reinforce Israeli control of the territory.

Nevertheless, the challenge that Israeli settlements in the West Bank present is that they will reduce the territory available for any future viable Palestinian state, fuel anti-American Islamist ...

May 29 (Reuters) - Israel's government has approved 22 new Jewish settlements in the occupied-West Bank, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Thursday, a move that could deepen divisions with ...

On a torn-up road near the refugee camp where she once lived, Saja Bawaqneh said she struggled to find hope 100 days after an Israeli offensive in the occupied West Bank forced her to flee.

Palestinian residents of the West Bank – an area less than half the size of Northern Ireland on the western side of the River Jordan – now number 3.3 million. They have lived at least partly ...

The map, which the passenger took a picture of, contained no borders for the 'West Bank,' the term many use to refer to Judea and Samaria, or for Gaza. The entire country of Israel was listed as ...

Meanwhile, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Israeli settler attacks tripled on olive farmers and their land during the 2024 harvest, compared with the three years prior, according OCHA.

The process of stripping the military of its powers in the West Bank and shifting control over to civilian bodies under Bezalel Smotrich’s leadership is almost complete.

A Palestinian organization released a map Friday that showed that 44.5% of the West Bank is now under Israeli control. The map, included in a report from the Palestine Liberation Organization’s ...

Why It Matters The escalation in the West Bank has come despite a ceasefire in the war in Gaza, which began in October 2023 when Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel. Israel's critics ...

JENIN, West Bank, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Israeli bulldozers have demolished large areas of the now virtually empty Jenin refugee camp and appear to be carving wide roadways through its once-crowded ...