Where the high hills of the occupied West Bank tumble into the Jordan valley, half a dozen heavy Israeli diggers pound the ancient rocks around the Palestinian village of Bardala.

The occupied West Bank has been transformed by the rapid growth of Jewish settlements in land that Palestinians see as the heart of a future state.

The Biden administration warned Israel that their decision to stop issuing administrative detention orders against Israeli settlers suspected of attacking Palestinians in the occupied West Bank could increase violence in the Palestinian territory,

Advocates of Jewish settlement in the West Bank believe they have reason to celebrate after Donald Trump's election win.

The U.S. Treasury Department Monday imposed sanctions on Amana, Israel's largest settlement development organization, and its Binyanei Bar Amana subsidiary, calling the groups "a key part of the Israeli extremist settlement movement" and accusing them of supporting growing settler violence in the occupied West Bank.

The U.S. on Monday imposed sanctions on organizations and firms involved in illegal settlement development in the occupied West Bank, including a well-established decades-old group that has close ties with Israeli leadership.

Israeli settlers in the West Bank are optimistic about President-elect Donald Trump's support for annexing the territory. During his previous term, Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital and acknowledged Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights,

After a record expansion of Israeli settlement activity, some settler advocates in the occupied West Bank are looking to Donald Trump to fulfil a dream of imposing sovereignty over the area seen by Palestinians as the heart of a future state.