Critics say the settlement would effectively cut the West Bank in two, undermining hopes for a contiguous Palestinian state ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel gave final approval Wednesday for a controversial settlement project in the occupied West Bank ...

A widely condemned Israeli settlement plan that would cut across land which the Palestinians seek for a state received final ...

An Israeli planning committee on Wednesday gave final approval to a controversial plan allowing new settlements in ...

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

The Palestinian Authority's Foreign Ministry condemned Wednesday's decision by Israel to implement the E1 settlement project ...

Location of E1 is significant because it is one of the last geographical links between Bethlehem and Ramallah.

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

The project, located in a tract of land known as E1 just east of Jerusalem, has been under discussion for more than two decades.

By driving a wedge through the heart of the West Bank, Netanyahu's government wants to kill the dream of Palestinian self-determination ...

Elsewhere in East Jerusalem on Saturday, the police said they had arrested 42 people connected to the Palestinian assailant in the attack on Friday night. An Israeli official identified him as a ...