A widely condemned Israeli settlement plan that would cut across land that the Palestinians seek for a state received final approval on Wednesday.

The project, located in a tract of land known as E1 just east of Jerusalem, has been under discussion for more than two ...

The long-stalled project near Jerusalem, known as E1, further fragments West Bank lands envisioned as part of a Palestinian ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel gave final approval Wednesday for a controversial settlement project in the occupied West Bank ...

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Palestinian Authority local official Mohamed Mattar stands before the West Bank town of Al-Eizariya, which is set to be razed ...

Location of E1 is significant because it is one of the last geographical links between Bethlehem and Ramallah.

The global community generally considers such settlements to be illegal and a hindrance to a peace deal between Israel and ...

Israel has greenlit the E1 settlement project in the West Bank, a move criticized for potentially bisecting Palestinian territories and obstructing a future state. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich ...

At the heart of the controversy is the viability of a Palestinian state. Israeli construction in E1 would cut the West Bank into two separate parts, rendering it impossible to establish a contiguous ...

If implemented, it would divide a Palestinian state in two, mark a flagrant breach of international law and critically ...

Settlement development in E1, an open tract of land east of Jerusalem, has been under consideration for more than two decades ...