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, ...

CAIRO, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Egypt on Thursday condemned Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's approval of plans to build 3,401 new housing units for settlers in the occupied West Bank.

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 ...