Israel gave final approval Wednesday for a contentious settlement project in the occupied West Bank that would effectively cut the territory in two, and that Palestinians and rights groups say could ...

Israel has finally approved a highly controversial project of building a settlement that would divide the occupied West Bank and isolate East Jerusalem. The Higher Planning Committee of the Civil ...

Israel gave final approval Wednesday for a controversial settlement project in the occupied West Bank that would effectively ...

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 ...

Israel approved a major settlement project on Wednesday in an area of the occupied West Bank that the international community ...

Israel gave final approval Wednesday for a controversial settlement project in the occupied West Bank that would effectively ...

Israel approves controversial settlement project in West Bank, cutting territory in two. Palestinians and rights groups fear ...

But a crucial roadblock — discouragement from the United States — was lifted last week when Ambassador Mike Huckabee said the United States would not oppose E1. Huckabee is a longtime support of ...

Palestinian hamlets are seen at the E1 area, between the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim and the occupied West Bank town ...

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 ...