Israel has given final approval for a controversial settlement project in the occupied West Bank in a significant blow to the prospects of Palestinian statehood. Settlement development in E1, an open tract of land east of Jerusalem, has been under ...

Israeli NGO Peace Now, which monitors settlement activity in the West Bank, said last week that infrastructure work in E1 could begin within a few months, and housing construction within about a year. Excluding east Jerusalem, the West Bank is home to ...

Türkiye on Thursday condemned Israel’s approval of a settlement construction plan in the E1 area of the occupied West Bank, warning that the move