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The West Bank (Arabic: الضفة الغربية, romanized: aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; Hebrew: הַגָּדָה הַמַּעֲרָבִית, romanized: HaGadáh HaMaʽarávit), so called due to its location relative to the Jordan River, is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip) that comprise the State of Palestine.
Violence has, meanwhile, soared across other parts of the West Bank. Around 60km (37 miles) south, in a Palestinian town called Funduq, local mayor Loay Taym echoes fears about Israel’s ...
Israel's economy was 10 times larger than the West Bank's on the eve of the occupation but had experienced two years of recession. The West Bank's population stood between 585,500 and 803,600 and, while under Jordanian rule, accounted for 40% of Jordan's GNP, [31] with an annual growth rate of 6–8%. [32]
The 1995 Oslo II Accord formalized the fragmentation of the West Bank, allotting to the Palestinians over 60 disconnected islands; [ag] by the end of 1999 the West Bank had been divided into 227 separate entities, most of which were smaller than 2 km 2 (0.77 sq mi) (about half the size of New York's Central Park).
Nearly 90 Democratic lawmakers urged U.S. President Joe Biden to sanction members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government over anti-Palestinian violence in the West Bank ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Israeli incursions in the West Bank Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present) West Bank Palestinian enclaves (Areas A & B) West Bank under Israeli control (Area C) Israeli-annexed Jerusalem / East Jerusalem See here for a more detailed map. Date 11 ...
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Israel has occupied the Palestinian territories (the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) since 1967.After decades of conflict, the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority was created in 1994 following the agreements of the Oslo Accords between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Israel.