Despite President Donald Trump’s opposition to annexation, Israel has taken steps to expand control over the West Bank that experts say may lead to seizure of territory.

The land registration process will apply to Area C of the occupied West Bank, which is under complete Israeli control.

Israel will begin a contentious land regulation process in a large part of the occupied West Bank, which could result in Israel gaining control over wide swaths of the area for future development.

Ministers voted in favor of beginning a process of land registration for the first time since 1967, a week after approving another series of measures that drew international condemnation.

The Israeli government is moving forward with a plan to register territory in the West Bank for the first time since ...

Area C makes up around 60 percent of the occupied West Bank and remains under full Israeli civil and military control. More ...

Israel is resuming a land registration process in the occupied West Bank that critics say can shift large areas into state ...

Or is Israel just extending its sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria? What’s the difference between annexation and sovereignty? Annexing implies something is being taken from an established ...

Israel has explicitly declared its intention to confront attempts by the Palestinian Authority to register land,' a ...