Israel on Wednesday approved the construction of 3,401 housing units in E1, a highly contentious area of the occupied West Bank that critics say will effectively divide Palestinian territory and ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Israel has given final approval for a controversial settlement project in the occupied West Bank in a significant blow to the ...

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

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 ...

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