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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hardliners violently expel Palestinians to expand Israeli settlements in West Bank While Gaza endures a devastating war, an increasingly brutal battle is being fought over land in another ...
They want Israel to annex the West Bank and to rebuild settlements in Gaza while encouraging what they refer to as the voluntary migration of large numbers of Palestinians. Netanyahu still has ...
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 ...
Israel began to build a new settlement in the West Bank amid military escalation in the occupied territory, a Palestinian official said on Tuesday. The Nahal Hilts settlement is being built ...
JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH - Israeli security forces backed by helicopters raided the volatile West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday, killing at least eight Palestinians in what Prime Minister ...