There's been fierce international criticism of Israeli plans to build more than three-thousand homes in a controversial settlement in the occupied West Bank. The country's far-right finance minister, ...

By Alexander Cornwell MAALE ADUMIM, West Bank/TEL AVIV, (Reuters) -Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced that work would start on a long-delayed settlement that would divide ...

Israel Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich boasted that the construction could thwart Palestinian statehood plans ...

The Israeli military has long allowed settlers to take land in the West Bank and to build on it. Israel's Finance Minister ...

The E1 settlement project would effectively make it impossible to create a future Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem.