BRUSSELS, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on Thursday urged Israel to drop plans to advance settlement construction in the E1 area of the occupied West Bank, ...

JERUSALEM, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Wednesday he has approved the construction of 3,401 housing units for settlers in a particularly controversial ...

Before then, about 177,000 Palestinians worked in Israel. By the second quarter of 2024, the number had dropped to 27,000, the World Bank said. Many of the Palestinians employed by the Israeli economy ...