Israel’s approval of settlement in the E1 area between East Jerusalem and Maale Adumim has been condemned globally as a violation of international law.

UNITED NATIONS — Israel’s West Bank settlement expansion plan negatively affects Palestinians and increases the risk of displacement, United Nations’ (UN) human ...

Israel approved a major settlement project on Wednesday in an area of the occupied West Bank that the international community has warned threatens the viability of a future Palestinian state.

The Foreign Secretary criticised the approval of the E1 project as he warned it would 'critically undermine' hopes of a ...

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 ...

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 ...