Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, himself a settler in the Palestinian territory, said recently that 2025 would be "the year of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria", referring to the biblical ...

Israel cannot expropriate private West Bank land at the moment, but "once annexed, Israeli law would allow it. That's a major change", said Aviv Tatarsky, from the Israeli anti-settlement ...

The cost of building new homes has skyrocketed since October 7, 2023, after Israel barred the West Bank Palestinians who have traditionally comprised most of the construction labor force.

After a lengthy debate that stretched past midnight ... with his government freeing Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank who have been accused of attacking Palestinians and detained by ...

The first three hostages to be released on Sunday will be civilian women on the list of 33 hostages to be freed in the 42-day first phase of the Israel ... and not to the West Bank.