In the last two years Israel has erected nearly 1,000 barriers in the occupied West Bank, restricting movement for Palestinians and severely hindering their lives, a local government body said.

Vice President JD Vance said a Knesset vote was an "insult." Secretary of State Marco Rubio planned to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later Thursday.

JD Vance slams Israeli lawmakers' West Bank annexation vote as "very stupid political stunt" during his visit, reaffirming Trump policy against annexation.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Israel’s parliament vote on West Bank annexation, saying the move was an “insult.”

In a whirlwind trip to Israel to help salvage Trump's ceasefire deal, Vance weighed in on Netanyahu politics and toured the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

AM Rubio says West Bank annexation would 'threaten this whole process' Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters that Israel's government vote this week to annex the West Bank would "threaten" the peace process,

Israel’s Knesset has advanced legislation that would effectively annex the West Bank, prompting rare criticism from the Trump administration, which says it does not support annexation. We get a report on the state of illegal settlement activity in the Palestinian territory from the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Jan Egeland,

The brother of the journalist Shireen Abu Akleh shot dead by the Israeli army three years ago alleges that new revelations from an American military officer who investigated her killing reveals a US cover-up.

Illegal settler attacks in West Bank intensified since start of olive harvest season in mid-October, Haaretz says - Anadolu Ajansı