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, ...

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

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

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