Israeli Settlements

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Most countries view Israeli settlement activity as illegal and an obstacle to peace. Israel disagrees. Palestinians want an independent state in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.

Israel's Supreme Court has ordered the demolition of nine buildings in the settlement of more than 3,000 people.

A statement from the Israeli Defence Ministry, which administers lands Israel captured in a 1967 war, said the decision was meant to fulfill demand for housing and "return to life as usual".

A statement from the Israeli Defence Ministry, which administers lands Israel captured in a 1967 war, said the decision was meant to fulfil demand for new housing "to maintain regular daily life".

Prime Minister Netanyahu set for Sunday conversation with Trump.

Israel's mission to the United Nations said funding would be cut to U.N. bodies it described as "anti-Israel."

May's spokesman said that Israel had coped for too long with the threat of terrorism and that focusing only on the settlements was not the best way to achieve peace between Jew and Arab.

Israel is still fuming over the resolution approved last Friday by the United Nations Security Council that demands an end to settlement activity.

The president-elect's Twitter outburst is the latest in a string of aggressive foreign policy comments.

Prime Minister Netanyahu says he has already cut off funding to five U.N. institutions in response to resolution demanding an end to settlements.

The Israeli prime minister supports a measure that would legalize Israeli settlement homes on private Palestinian land in the West Bank.

Six Israeli clubs play in the West Bank.

Nations should protect protestors against the denial of Palestinian rights, Saeb Erekat writes.

The further absorption of Palestinian land leads to one outcome: the geographic impossibility of a two-state solution.

The U.S. State Department accuses Israel of no longer being interested in a negotiated settlement.

After the murder of a 13-year-old girl, two more stabbing attacks have taken place.

The settlements are largely considered illegal by the international community.

Encouraged by AIPAC, Congress has been conducting a quiet campaign in support of Israeli settlements.

The Israeli prime minister got what he wanted from Washington, but Israel's problems aren't going away.

Issa Amro is spearheading a non-violent resistance movement against Israel's settlements in Hebron.

"I frankly do not know if it is already too late," outgoing U.N. Middle East envoy Robert Serry said.

New report finds Israel authorised a total of 4,485 tenders in 2014 alone.

The diplomatic delegation was coming to inspect vandalism to Palestinian-owned trees.

The land in question was captured by Israel in a 1967 war and annexed to Jerusalem in a move never recognized internationally.

The administration should stop encouraging the Europeans to take a tougher line against Israel.

Jerusalem's municipal planning committee authorised 50 new housing units in Har Homa and 28 in Ramot

France called on Israel to "immediately" reverse a decision to approve the building of 200 new settlements in East Jerusalem.

A week ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered plans for some 600 housing units for Ramat Shlomo and another 400 for Har Homa, another East Jerusalem neighborhood, to be advanced.

Israelis are questioning the timing of more building permissions in East Jerusalem