According to Peace Now, an organization that tracks the growth of the settlement enterprise, there were 141 settlements in the West Bank as of last year.

The U.N. human rights office said on Friday an Israeli plan to build to build thousands of new homes between an Israeli settlement in the West Bank and near East Jerusalem was illegal under internati...

"The UK strongly opposes the Israeli government's E1 settlement plans, which would divide a future Palestinian state in two," Lammy said, adding that "the plans must be stopped now."