WASHINGTON (AFP) — The White House on Thursday declined to comment specifically on Israeli plans to expand a settlement in the occupied Jordan Valley but

By VOA News United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed deep concern about Israeli plans to build a new settlement in the West Bank.

Israel has dusted off controversial plans to build the first new Jewish settlement in the West Bank in a decade, at a time when hopes for the renewed peace

Israel is close to giving final approval for the construction of new homes for Jewish settlers at Maskiot, in the occupied West Bank.

An Israeli committee has approved the construction of a new settlement in the occupied West Bank, according to an Israeli official.

AL-QUDS, July 24--The Israeli regime was set to expand an illegal settlement in the occupied Jordan Valley, an official with the Israeli war ministry said

Israel has approved the construction of a new Jewish settlement in the West Bank in a move viewed as a new blow to the peace process.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Defence Ministry has revived a plan it had shelved under US pressure to build a new Jewish settlement in the occupied West

By LAURIE COPANS AP Writer AP Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert gestures as he speaks with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, not seen, during a joint

AP JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel radio reports that Israel has given preliminary approval for the construction of a new Jewish settlement in the West Bank.

Jerusalem. An Israeli defense committee has approved the construction of 22 homes in a barely populated West Bank settlement, Defense Ministry officials

New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday Israel's intention to erect new Jewish housing in the West Bank would violate agreements reached

By MWC NEWS US Senator Barack Obama should put respect for human rights at the center of his forthcoming tour of the Middle East, Human Rights Watch said in