Israel's security cabinet approved a plan to separate 13 Jewish settlements in the West Bank from their neighboring communities, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Sunday. The settlements ...

About 500,000 of these reside in the West Bank; the rest are in East Jerusalem. This means that around 10% of Israel's Jewish population resides in settlements deemed by the UN Security Council ...

The security cabinet has approved a decision to split off 13 so-called “neighborhoods” of existing West Bank settlements from their “mother settlement,” thereby turning them into 13 ...

"We continue to lead a revolution of normalization and regulation in the settlements. Instead of hiding and apologizing – we raise the flag, build and settle," said Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.

Israel’s security cabinet on Sunday approved a plan to separate 13 Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank from their neighbouring communities. In a post on X, Finance Minister ...

Israel's security cabinet has approved a plan to separate 13 Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank from their neighbouring communities, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says.

The West Bank, occupied by Israel since 1967, is home to about three million Palestinians as well as nearly 500,000 Israelis living in settlements that are illegal under international law.

Israeli lawmakers have repealed a 2005 act that saw four Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank dismantled at the same time as Israeli forces withdrew from the Gaza Strip. The neighborhood ...

The Palestinian foreign ministry condemned on Sunday an Israeli decision to recognise more than a dozen new settlements in the occupied West Bank, upgrading existing neighbourhoods to independent ...

Jihad Suleiman Al-Sawafta, 46, has lived on his farm in the occupied West Bank village of Bardala ... unlike officially recognized Jewish settlements, which tend to be larger, more organized ...