West Bank

Feature Story Israel’s E2 Settlement Plan Advances, Threatening to Ghettoize Bethlehem

Like E1 east of Jerusalem, E2 will devour large swathes of the Palestinian West Bank.

Feature Story A Mobile Clinic from Jerusalem Delivers Lifesaving Diabetes Care to Isolated West Bank Villages

Bringing care from Jerusalem to increasingly isolated West Bank villages

Photo Over the Wall

The descent into Jerusalem

Interview Israel Relaunches Land Registration in West Bank to Strip Palestinians of Property

A bureaucracy designed to serve as a grand land theft

Blog Post Perspective: Our Shrinking Mobility—An Ominous Sense of Déjà Vu

A Palestinian Jerusalemite takes stock of Israel’s latest clampdown on the West Bank.

Photo Waiting at the Gate

The gate of an illegal Israeli settlement blocks Palestinian farmers from reaching their lands.

Backgrounder Bir ‘Awna: The Neighborhood Israel Snatched from Beit Jala

Israel tried to ingest the neighborhood and, over time, regurgitate its residents—with only partial success.

Photo The View from Battir

A scar on a bucolic ancient landscape

Feature Story Israel Fast-Tracks New West Bank Settlement, Its First in Years, on Ancient Battir Lands, Southwest of Jerusalem

A newly approved settlement southwest of Jerusalem would drive a stake through the heart of any future Palestinian state.