JERUSALEM, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Israel on Tuesday gave final approval for a new settlement in E1, a highly contentious area of the occupied West Bank.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the more than 3,000 housing units scheme for settlers ...

In Al Eizariya, Mohammed Faroun sleeps on the floor of his shuttered café, waiting for Israeli bulldozers. His business, like ...

Settlement expansion is seen as a significant obstacle to peace talks. Israel occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in the Six-Day War of 1967 and has since built settlements widely deemed illegal ...

Israeli approval of the E1 settlement project in the West Bank has sparked controversy, with critics saying it threatens ...

In a reversal of past US policy, the State Department backed the E1 project connecting Maale Adumim to Jerusalem, calling it ...

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

Analysts warn E1 plan will fragment Palestinian lands, undermining the viability of a future Palestinian state.

Asharq Al Awsat France's Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday that the approval by an Israeli planning commission of a project to build settlements in the E1 area east of Jerusalem is ...

E1 project aims to split West Bank into 2 parts, cutting off northern cities of Ramallah and Nablus from Bethlehem and Hebron ...

Settlement committee rubber stamps 3,400 housing units, which finance minister says will leave 'hypocritical leaders in ...

Twenty-one countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Japan, and Australia, issued a joint statement on ...