Israel’s assault in Jenin and Tulkarem seeks to suppress resistance and tighten control amid a demographic crisis.

In the decades since, it’s built almost 150 settlements for Jewish civilians ... “The biggest trouble is that, when you look at a map, the West Bank seems like a contiguous piece of land.

About 500,000 of these reside in the West Bank; the rest are in East Jerusalem. This means that around 10% of Israel's Jewish population resides in settlements deemed by the UN Security Council ...

The settlements will ultimately be recognized as independent, he posted on X about the move, which follows the approval of tens of thousands of housing units across the West Bank. "We continue to ...

"And that is the road map has clear obligations on settlements, and that we expect ... Israel plans to construct 3,500 homes between the major West Bank settlement of Ma'aleh Adumim and Jerusalem.

The Palestinian foreign ministry condemned on Sunday an Israeli decision to recognize more than a dozen new settlements in the occupied West Bank, upgrading existing neighborhoods to independent ...