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 ...

Israel issued a tender for the construction of nearly 1,000 additional settler homes in the occupied West Bank, an anti-settlement watchdog said Monday. Peace Now says the ...

Today, roughly 10 percent of Israel’s Jewish population, totalling between 600,000 and 750,000 people, live in about 250 settlements and outposts dispersed throughout the occupied West Bank and ...

Today, their pastures cover almost twice as much land as built-up settlements, he adds. Settler farms are now proliferating throughout the West Bank. Since October 7, at least 40 pastoral outposts ...

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 ...