The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), a group of Arab and Islamic countries, and a coalition of Western nations, including the European Commission, have strongly condemned Israel's continued settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank

Israeli plans to press ahead with the controversial E1 development would effectively break the West Bank in two and make Palestinian statehood impossible, according to critics of…

The leaders of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, the Netherlands and Norway have urged Israel to withdraw a tender for 1,234 homes in the E1 settlement project, calling the…