Israel has placed the occupied West Bank under lockdown, sealing the entrances of cities and villages with iron gates and concrete barriers, as its forces bomb Iran.

Israel said the newly announced settlements in the occupied West Bank would include the legalization of outposts already built without government authorization.

Israel is embarking on the largest expansion of West Bank settlements in decades, its finance minister announced Thursday, a step meant to reinforce Israeli control of the territory. Bezalel ...

Israel authorizes highest number of occupied West Bank settlements in decades The top United Nations court ruled last year that Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territories is ...

RAMALLAH: Israel's government has approved 22 new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, its finance minister said on Thursday (May 29), a move that could deepen divisions with some allies ...

Israel's government has approved 22 new Jewish settlements in the occupied-West Bank, a move that could deepen divisions with some allies.

As settler violence increases in the West Bank, a night-watch group guards Bedouin homes from intruders.

Palestinian residents of the West Bank – an area less than half the size of Northern Ireland on the western side of the River Jordan – now number 3.3 million.

Even as the war in Gaza continues, Israel's prime minister says a "larger and more intense front could be opened" in the West Bank, where more than 40,000 have been displaced in the current operation.

Once rare, Israel's use of airstrikes in the occupied West Bank has soared since Oct. 7, 2023, stoking fears that it is deploying the military tactics there that it used in the Gaza Strip, some 60 ...

A record number of illegal settlement outposts were established in 2024 and the year saw an all-time high for land appropriation, the left-wing Peace Now organization reported in its annual review ...