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More than 310,000 Israelis live in settlements in the occupied West Bank and the number is constantly growing. Another 200,000 live in a dozen settlement neighbourhoods in east Jerusalem, which was captured by Israel in 1967 and annexed in a move never...
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JERUSALEM: An Israeli committee was on Wednesday to approve construction of 500 new homes in the West Bank settlement of Shilo and retroactively legalise more than 200 built without permits, a spokesman said. The committee "will meet today to approve...
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Palestinian protesters wear masks in the colours of the palestinian flag as they clash with Israeli troops during a demonstration outside the entrance of Ofer Prison near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank in support of a fellow prisoner who has ended... View Photo »
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The Palestinians have no interest in entering peace talks. I’m ready to travel now to Ramallah [in the West Bank] to start peace talks with Abu Mazen, without preconditions
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Aided by U.S. corporations like Motorola Solutions, Israel couples these settlements with an extensive system of controls over the basic freedoms of Palestinians. The occupation impacts all aspects of the lives of Palestinians living in the West Bank,...
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So when the Palestinians are ready to make peace with Israel, Israel will be more than willing to transfer water.” However, members of both groups said they agree that the lack of water is a serious problem for the Palestinians. “People in the West...
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Sari Nusseibeh Embraces One-State Solution with Civil, But No Political Rights for West Bank Palestinians
Tikun Olam
I can imagine this going something along the lines of counting Palestinian political votes in the same way African-American slaves were originally counted as a fraction of a person for the purposes of the political census. You could increase the...
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Jewish settlers use hammers as they build a makeshift structure at the unauthorised outpost of Mitzpe Avihai, also known as Hill 18, near the settlement of Kiryat Arba outside the West Bank city of Hebron February 21, 2012. Israeli authorities... View Photo »
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I am willing to get into the car right now and travel to (the West Bank city of Ramallah), but the truth must be told, it is Abu Mazen [Mr Abbas] who is the one who is not willing to meet
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The soldiers also attacked dozens of bystanders, and violently struck and beat a 15-year-old, youth identified as Issa Yousef Sbeih, before kidnapping him and taking him to an unknown destination. In related news, soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday at...
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Palestinian hunger striker held by Israel agrees to end protest, will be freed on April 17
Winnipeg Free Press
"The Israelis had no proof and that's why they've agreed to these four months," she said in a telephone interview. "He's shown by his steadfastness that we can be victorious." She laughed, and supporters could be heard ululating with joy in the...
About West Bank
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The West Bank (Hebrew: הגדה המערבית, Hagadah Hamaaravit, Arabic: الضفة الغربية, aḍ-Ḍiffä l-Ġarbīyä), is a landlocked Israeli administered territory on the west bank of the Jordan River in the Middle East. It was occupied by Israel after the conclusion of the Six-Day War of (1967). Full Article
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Israeli soldiers look down onto Route 60 which passes close to the Palestinian village of Beit Omar in the Israeli occupied West Bank, on February 21, 2012. The road is a main artery to and from Jewish Settlements and also leads to southern Jerusalem.
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Traffic is stopped along Route 60 which passes close to the village of Beit Omar in the Israeli occupied West Bank, on February 21, 2012.
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Relatives of Hamas MPs jailed in Israeli prisons Sheikh Mohammed Jamal al-Natsheh, Fethi Qaraawi, and Abdel Razeq Matar, brandish their pictures during the inaugural session of the new Hamas-led Palestinian parliament, the second since the establishment of the Palestinian Authority in...
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A huge portrait of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat dominates the scene in front of a residential building in the West Bank city of Hebron as Arafat's Fatah movement marked the 46th anniversary its creation on January 1, 2011. The secular Fatah movement was founded by the iconic...
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Palestinian protestors burn an effigy with a picture of al-Jazeera satellite news channel Director General Wadah Khanfar (top) decorated with Isareli flags during a demonstration in the West Bank city of Hebron on January 28, 2011 in support of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and against...
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Palestinians protestors burn a picture showing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) and Hamas leader Khaled Meshal during a demonstration in the West Bank city of Ramallah on January 28, 2011 in support of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and against the Al-Jazeera satellite television...
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Palestinian mourners pray near the body of Maher Qadus, 18, during his funeral in the West Bank village of Iraqi Burin on January 28, 2011. The Palestinian teenager was shot and killed by a Jewish settler, Palestinian security sources and witnesses said.
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A Palestinian man hits his shoe against the logo of the Qatar based Al-Jazeera satellite television channel placed inside the Jewish Star of David as Palestinians march in the streets of the northern city of Jenin, in the Israeli occupied West Bank, during a march to in support of Palestinian...
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A Palestinian militant from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades listen to a press conference in which they denounced the alleged major concessions made by rival Palestinian leaders during peace talks with Israel, on January 27, 2011 in the West Bank city of Hebron, following the release by Al-Jazeera...
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Palestinians attend a rally in the streets of the northern West Bank city of Jenin on January 27, 2011 in support of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas after al-Jazeera began publishing hundreds of documents exposing his government's negotiations with Israel. Abbas dismissed the leak of...
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Palestinian Athority President Mahmud Abbas (C) arrives at a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) executive committee in the West Bank city of Ramallah on January 26, 2011. Abbas dismissed on January 25 the leak of hundreds of secret files on Israeli-Palestinian...
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Correcting info in the caption A press photographer takes pictures of shattered glass at a Palestinian media centre in the West Bank city of Nablus after unknown men attacked its offices while a journalist was sending a live report to the Qatar based al-Jazeera satellite channel, on...
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Palestinian chief peace negotiator Saeb Erakat takes part in a demonstration against the Al-Jazeera sattelite channel in the West Bank city of Jericho on January 25, 2011. Erakat accused Al-Jazeera television of participating in a campaign aimed at overthrowing the Palestinian Authority.
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A Palestinian refugee sits outside a shuttered store during a strike in support of Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas in the Balata refugee camp in the northern West Bank city of Nablus on January 25, 2011, a day after it was leaked by the Al-Jazeera Arab television satellite station in revealed...
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Yasser Abed Rabbo, a senior aid of Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas, addresses journalists in the West Bank city of Ramallah on January 24, 2011, as Palestinian officials reacted with astonishment and fury after the leak of hundreds of secret documents, first published by the...
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Israeli soldiers look on as Palestinian farmers plant olive trees on their land in the Israeli occupied West Bank close to the village of Qusra, just south of the city of Nablus on January 23, 2011, following previous altercations with Jewish settlers.
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Israeli soldiers stand on alert at a checkpoint outside the settlement of Mevo Dotan, some 10 kms (six miles) southwest of the Palestnian town of Jenin in the occupied northern West Bank, after a Palestinian man was shot dead on January 20, 2011 in an exchange of fire with Israeli troops...
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev addresses reporters at the Jericho Museum in the West Bank Oasis town of Jericho on January 18, 2011.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev attends a press conference in the West Bank town of Jericho on January 18, 2011.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev talks to Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas prior to a joint press conference in the West Bank town of Jericho on January 18, 2011.
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas shakes hands with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev following their joint press conference in the West Bank town of Jericho on January 18, 2011 on his first visit to the occupied territories.
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas (L) and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (R) review an honour guard in the West Bank town of Jericho upon the latter's arrival from the Jordanian capital Amman across the Allenby Bridge border crosssing on January 18, 2011 on his first visit...
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Palestinians from the West Bank village of Nilin set fire on carton- made houses representing Jewish settlements with slogans in Arabic calling for the removal of settlements and asking Isareli settlers to leave their land, on January 14, 2011 during a weekly demonstration against land confiscation...
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Palestinian protester take cover as Israeli troops firing tear gas during a demonstration outside the entrance of Ofer Prison near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank in support of a fellow prisoner who has ended on February 21, 2012 a 66-day hunger strike over his detention without...
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