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Smotrich: US supports Israeli West Bank settlement expansion - interview
In past efforts by Israel to expand control in the West Bank, the US has called for maintaining stability in the area, adding that US President Donald Trump has not backed total annexation.
Israel's Heritage Minister: Palestinians destroying archaeological sites like ISIS did in Syria
Israelis commit dozens of attacks against West Bank villages, burn buildings, vehicles
Arizona House affirms Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, to use terms in all state comms
Masked Israelis attack foreign activists, Palestinian farmers in West Bank
According to videos and witness testimonies obtained by CNN, Israelis attacked the foreign and Palestinian individuals with “thick wooden sticks almost like baseball bats.”
'No Palestinian state west of the Jordan River,' 63 Knesset members say
The 63 signatories are a majority of the 120-member Knesset and include prominent opposition members. Plans advanced for 5,300 new West Bank settler homes.
Smotrich: cabinet authorized 5 West Bank outposts, sanctions against PA
"The Security Cabinet authorized one outpost for every country that unilaterally recognized Palestine as a state in the last month," Smotrich said.
New right-wing central commander likely to be harder on Palestinian terrorism
Israeli settlers have accused the last few IDF central commanders of spending too much time cracking down on Jewish violence versus Palestinian violence.
IDF alarmed by standoff over West Bank funds, report says
Badeea Al-Dwaik, an employee at the Labor Ministry, said public sector workers were already receiving no more than 70-80% of their pay even before the Oct. 7 attacks.
How years of impunity for violent Jewish extremists in the West Bank led to current gov't - Report
In a New York Times report, the writer discusses the history of violence among Jewish residents of the West Bank against Palestinians and how it led to the emersion of their supporters in government.
EU condemns expansion of 'illegal settlements across the occupied West Bank'
"The European Union firmly condemns the announcement by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich that over 800 hectares of land in the occupied Palestinian territory."
Israeli settlements expand by record amount, UN rights chief says
The five-month-old Gaza war has put a renewed focus on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as foreseen by the Oslo accords from the early 1990s.
Abbas: PA will take charge of Gaza to prevent 'second Nakba' for Palestinians
In an interview with London-based Asharq Al-Awsat, PA President Mahmoud Abbas criticized Netanyahu and Biden, claiming "no real pressure" was exerted on Israel
IDF practices scenario of Palestinian being kidnapped by a Jewish settler
In the exercise, which took place in the presence of Yehuda Fox, the commander of the Central Command, fighters portrayed settlers kidnapping a Palestinian child.