BRUSSELS, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on Thursday urged Israel to drop plans to advance settlement construction in the E1 area of the occupied West Bank, ...

CAIRO, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Egypt on Thursday condemned Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's approval of plans to build 3,401 new housing units for settlers in the occupied West Bank.

Smotrich’s settlement plans come as the international spotlight on Israel intensifies, with growing calls for a cease-fire in ...

A far-right Israeli minister has backed controversial settlement plans in order to ensure there is “nothing left to recognise ...

Bezalel Smotrich, who is sanctioned by Australia and the UK, says a controversial new development "definitively buries the ...

Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says he will approve thousands of housing units in a highly ...

It was not immediately clear if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu backed the plan to revive the long-frozen E1 scheme, which ...

Israel’s far-right finance minister said Thursday that a contentious new settlement construction in the Israeli-occupied West ...

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who has advocated for the construction of 3,000 housing units in the E1 settlement, said ...

The EU’s top diplomat urged Israel on Thursday “to desist” from a plan to build homes in a particularly contentious area of ...

Israel's far-right finance minister announced approval of the construction of a contentious settlement in the ...

The development would severely restrict Palestinians' ability to travel between the West Bank and Eastern Jerusalem and eat up large tracts of land in the tiny region.