The long-delayed settlement project that would build 3,400 housing units for Jews on a stretch of land east of Jerusalem.

Foreign Minister Penny Weng has called on the Israel government to "urgently retract" a controversial plan for an Israeli ...

The foreign minister joins an international statement, with the UK and Canada, condemning Israel's plan to expand illegal settlements in the West Bank. Follow live.

Building 3,400 homes on the ultra-sensitive tract of land would make the creation of two states 'increasingly impossible'.

Israel is intensifying attacks on Gaza City, which it plans to seize, as world leaders condemn E1 settlement project.

And yet Mr Netanyahu seems intent on finding excuses and distractions to avoid making peace. He has not yet explicitly rejected the deal – but asked by Australian television if Israel planned to take ...