Smotrich’s settlement plans come as the international spotlight on Israel intensifies, with growing calls for a cease-fire in ...

Bezalel Smotrich, who is sanctioned by Australia and the UK, says a controversial new development "definitively buries the ...

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

The EU’s top diplomat urged Israel on Thursday “to desist” from a plan to build homes in a particularly contentious area of ...

Israel has announced it will build an enormous settlement in the West Bank to effectively “bury the idea of a Palestinian ...

CAIRO, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Egypt on Thursday condemned Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's approval of plans to build 3,401 new housing units for settlers in the occupied West Bank.

Israel appears poised to grant formal planning approval for the long-stalled E1 settlement project — a highly contentious ...

Israel said Thursday it was moving forward with controversial plans to build thousands of new housing units in the occupied West Bank, a development far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said ...

The E1 settlement project would effectively make it impossible to create a future Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem.

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