Illegal settler population has tripled in West Bank since 1995, reaching 740,000 in 2024, according to Palestine Liberation ...

A new PLO report shows that 44.5% of the West Bank is now under Israeli control, with settlements expanding at an alarming ...

"This is the first time that I expose this map to the media," he tells the filmmakers. It shows, in detail, the territory which Olmert proposed to annexe to Israel - 4.9% of the West Bank. That would ...

Israel’s Knesset is set to approve a bill on Sunday that would allow the annexation of illegal Jewish settlements in the ...

Since the late 1970s, the future of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank has been the country’s most divisive debate. Yet the once-fringe settler movement has arguably become the most influential ...

Since Israel captured the West Bank, around half a million Jewish Israelis have built homes in towns known as “settlements.” Because the West Bank is considered to be occupied under ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has issued a tender for the construction of nearly 1,000 additional settler homes in the occupied West Bank, an anti-settlement watchdog said Monday. Israelis and ...

Settlement in the West Bank is being pushed by Israeli hardliners and backed by the Israeli government but is viewed as a major obstacle to peace by Palestinians and by many internationally.

Israel captured the West Bank, along with the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians want all three territories for their future state and view the settlements as ...