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The West Bank settlements at the heart of the Middle East conflict

Israeli settlement building, a point of contention at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has come back into focus ...

Israel endorses West Bank settlement to 'bury' idea of Palestinian state

A Israeli housing project in the West Bank mothballed since 2012 was revived by the finance minister in a quest to prevent ...

Israel announces a settlement project that critics say will effectively cut the West Bank in two

Israel’s far-right finance minister said Thursday that a contentious new settlement construction in the Israeli-occupied West ...

Israel’s West Bank settlement plan could ‘bury’ the prospect of a Palestinian state. Here’s why

Israel said Thursday it was moving forward with controversial plans to build thousands of new housing units in the occupied ...

Israel announces a settlement that critics say will effectively sever the West Bank in two

Israel Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich boasted that the construction could thwart Palestinian statehood plans ...

Israel's Smotrich approves settlement splitting East Jerusalem from West Bank

TEL AVIV, (Reuters) -Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich approved plans overnight for a settlement that would ...

West Bank settlements: Germany tells Israel to change course

The German government has said Israel should not implement a plan to build thousands of new housing units at a settlement in the occupied West Bank. The Foreign Ministry has said the move violates ...