Minister fetes 'historic' approval of controversial construction scheme in West Bank's E1 area, upending a decades-long freeze ...

An Israeli planning committee approved a highly contested settlement project in the occupied West Bank on Wedneday, according to the Israeli organization Peace Now, which had a representative at the ...

Israel approved a major settlement project on Wednesday in an area of the occupied West Bank that the international community ...

Peace Now, an organization that tracks settlement expansion in the West Bank, called the E1 project “deadly for the future of Israel and for any chance of achieving a peaceful two-state solution” ...

Construction in E1 is expected to begin immediately, while Ashahel’s plan reaches the deposit stage, a key step toward final approval.

Details of the operation remain scarce. However, the military says up to 50,000 reservists are set to be mobilized in early ...