Jun 29, 2023 · The right-wing government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken steps to increase the number of homes in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, prompting international...

Aug 14, 2024 · Israel has published plans for a new settlement in the occupied West Bank, the country's finance minister announced Wednesday, a month after the United Nation's top court deemed Israeli...

In March 2024 and during the Israel-Hamas war, it was announced that Israel was planning on building more than 3,300 new homes in the Kedar and Ma'ale Adumim settlement in the West Bank. The settlement expansion was announced by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich after three Palestinians opened fire near the Ma'ale Adumim settlement ...

Jun 27, 2023 · The Israeli government has advanced plans for some 5,700 new homes in the occupied West Bank. The announcement comes despite US pressure to stop settlement expansion, which it sees as an...

Jul 5, 2024 · Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades and advanced plans to build thousands of new settlement homes, according to Peace Now, an Israeli anti-settlement monitoring group.

Jul 19, 2024 · Settlers have been particularly emboldened by far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, both of whom have pushed to expand...

Jul 3, 2024 · JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades, a settlement tracking group said Wednesday, a move that is likely to worsen already soaring tensions linked to the war in Gaza.

Jul 4, 2024 · JERUSALEM — Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades, a settlement tracking group said Wednesday, a move that is likely to worsen...

Mar 22, 2024 · Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Friday declared 800 hectares in the occupied West Bank as state land, in a move that will facilitate the use of the ground for settlement building.

Jun 18, 2023 · Nearly 750,000 Israelis live in 250 illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, built on land captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. The finance minister was granted sweeping powers...