Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images About 700,000 Israeli settlers live in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, according to the United Nations’ human rights office.

When did Israel take control of West Bank and Gaza? Israel first took control of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, the region's three Palestinian territories, in the 1967 Six-Day War.

Most Gaza residents are the descendants of Palestinian refugees driven to the enclave in a 1948 war. They harbor a deep fear ...

By Adam Rasgon Reporting from Jerusalem Two Israeli soldiers were killed in a shooting attack in the northern part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Tuesday as Israel pressed ahead with a ...

Two days later, Israeli forces with drones and attack helicopters descended on the northern West Bank city of Jenin ... as they made their way home to east Jerusalem from their daughter’s ...