Thousands of homes are to be built in the E1 area east of Jerusalem, in a move that will effectively divide the West Bank.

As diplomatic calls grow for an independent Palestine to be more widely recognized at the United Nations General Assembly, increased Israeli activity is undermining the viability of such a nation.

President Trump has made clear there will not be an annexation of the West Bank. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank. Nope. I will ...

Israeli government figures have called for a takeover of the West Bank after several countries, including the UK, Canada, Malta, and Australia, formally recognised the state of Palestine. On Sunday, ...

Bedouin families in a West Bank village are dismantling sheep pens and loading their belongings onto trucks as escalating ...

Fifty-two percent of West Bank Palestinians still support a two-state solution with Israel despite the war, as opposed to 28% who hope for a single Palestinian state from the Jordan River to the ...

Twelve European countries as well as Canada and Japan have condemned Israel’s decision earlier in the month to approve 19 new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank saying the move harmed the ...

Home to 2.7 million Palestinians, the Israeli-occupied West Bank has long been at the heart of plans for a future nation existing alongside Israel. The model is known as the two-state solution to the ...

The Palestinian community of Umm al-Khair was once a peaceful place, where Bedouin families eked out a living as goat and sheep herders roaming the rugged windswept highlands that offer panoramic ...

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank. Nope. I will not allow it. It's not going to happen. PFEIFFER: But for the 3 million Palestinians living in the occupied ...