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The Judea and Samaria Area (Hebrew: אֵזוֹר יְהוּדָה וְשׁוֹמְרוֹן, romanized: Ezor Yehuda VeShomron; [a] Arabic: يهودا والسامرة, romanized: Yahūda wa-s-Sāmara) is an administrative division used by the State of Israel to refer to the entire West Bank, which has been occupied by Israel since 1967, but excludes East Jerusalem (see Jerusalem Law).
In the 1994 Oslo accords, the Palestinian Authority was established and given responsibility for the administration over some of the territory of West Bank (Areas 'A' and 'B'). Samaria is one of several standard statistical districts utilized by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. [58] "The Israeli CBS also collects statistics on the rest ...
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.
King Ahab’s realm was in Samaria, what is now known by most as the occupied West Bank. The monarch coveted some land that did not belong to him, a vineyard owned by a man named Naboth.
Area C forms a contiguous territory on 61% of the West Bank, and is administered solely by Israel via the Judea and Samaria Area administration. As of 2015, it is home to 150,000 Palestinians [3] in 532 residential areas, and roughly 400,000 Israelis [4] in 135 settlements and more than 100 unrecognized outposts.
The Israeli 877th "Judea and Samaria" Division (Hebrew: אוּגְדָּת אֵזוֹר יְהוּדָה וְשׁוֹמְרוֹן, Ugdat Ezor Yehuda VeShomron; also known as the West Bank Division) is a regional division [1] of the Central Command. It is responsible for Israeli military activity in the Judea and Samaria Area.
The Democrats are particularly wary that Trump has tapped former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) — who opposes the two-state solution and has denied the existence of the West Bank — to become ...
There has been a general surge in violence across the West Bank since the Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Hamas militants on southern Israel, which triggered Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza and a wider ...