Jerusalem -- No Other Land, a documentary about Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, has won the best documentary award at Sunday's Academy Awards. The film has been directed by Israeli-Palestinian activists. Shot in Masafer Yatta near the West Bank city of Hebron, the documentary follows a young Palestinian struggling...

UN Middle East envoy Tor Wennesland issued a warning on Monday against changes made by the Israeli government that will simplify procedures to authorize settlements in the occupied West Bank. The alterations, expected to expedite settlement expansion, have caused international concern.

The council stressed that the continuation of Israeli settlement activity endangers the principle of the two-state solution.

The White House said Thursday it is "deeply dismayed" by Israeli plans for a major expansion of settlements in occupied Palestinian lands. "We are deeply dismayed by the Israelis' announcement," Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. President Joe Biden's administration maintains its "firm opposition to the settlement expansion," she added.

The 15-member council is likely to vote on Monday on the text, drafted by the United Arab Emirates in coordination with the Palestinians.

Jerusalem--Cracks have emerged within Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hardline government, with a row over the demolition of a settlement outpost in the occupied West Bank testing the fledgling coalition. Netanyahu vowed in December to expand settlements across the West Bank, as he returned to power at the helm of...

Washington, United States— US Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed Sunday to oppose Israeli settlements or annexation in the West Bank, but promised to judge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's incoming government by actions and not personalities. Netanyahu is expected to return to power after sealing a coalition deal with the extreme-right...

Israel on Saturday condemned Norway's decision to label products from Israeli settlements with their place of origin. Norway's social democrat government announced its new policy on Friday, saying it was not enough to label products coming from the occupied territories as Israeli.

Israel's government suffered a defeat at the hands of the opposition Monday which voted down a push to uphold Israeli law in settlements on the occupied West Bank, posing a challenge to the ruling coalition. In force since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank the law, giving settlers in...

The US has said that it opposed Israel’s plans to build new settlements in occupied Palestinian territories after Israeli officials said they would approve 4,000 new housing units in the West Bank.

Israeli civil rights groups denounced a High Court decision that approved the eviction of roughly 1,000 Palestinian villagers to make way for a military training zone. Residents of eight villages had been in court for around 20 years fighting Israeli government efforts to evict them.

The homes of brothers Omar and Ghaith Jaradat and Mohammed Jaradat were demolished with explosives in Silat al-Harithiya village, near Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, by border police and the Israeli army.

The reaction comes after four years under Donald Trump in which the United States offered a green light to Israel's activity on occupied Palestinian land, with his secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, touring a settlement at the end of his tenure.

Israel has occupied the West Bank since the Six-Day War of 1967 and exercises full administrative control across much of the territory.