By AFPCracks have emerged within Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hardline government, with a row over the demolition of a settlement outpost in the occupied West Bank testing the fledgling coalition.Netanyahu vowed in December to expand s...

At the peak of the second Palestinian uprising (intifada) in 2002, Israel decided to build a barrier wall to protect itself from suicide bombings and to prevent attackers from crossing into Israel from the West Bank.Twenty years after Israel’s cabine...

An Israeli settler stabbed a Palestinian to death in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the Palestinian ministry of health said.The man was "stabbed directly in the heart by a settler", the ministry said in a statement, identifying him as Ali Harb, 2...