This is the Forward’s coverage of the West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel and a focus of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Fast Forward Top Palestinian Negotiator Lauds Kerry Peace Push and Blast’s Israel ‘Apartheid’
The top Palestinian negotiator with Israel on Monday threw his weight behind U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s bid to revive stalled peace talks, while describing the situation in the West Bank as apartheid worse than that suffered in South Africa. Kerry is due to visit Jerusalem and Ramallah on Thursday and Friday. U.S.-brokered peace…
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Opinion Kotel Miracle: No Stone Throwers Killed by Cops
There must have been divine intervention at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Friday, when no one was killed or injured by the volley of police fire that surely must have been unleashed at the rioters who threw stones at Jewish worshipers that morning. If memory serves, that is what the police do when people…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Quietly Puts Brakes on Settlement Expansion
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has quietly curbed new building projects in Jewish settlements, an Israeli watchdog group and media reports said on Tuesday, in an apparent bid to help U.S. efforts to revive peace talks with the Palestinians. “We see there are fewer approvals for new construction in the West Bank since President Barack Obama…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Parents Say Son Who Stabbed Jewish West Bank Settler ‘Did Duty’
Ali Zaghal read the mysterious text message early on Tuesday morning with dread: “Forgive me, brother.” Minutes later, his 21-year-old brother Salam stabbed an Israeli settler waiting at a traffic circle in the occupied West Bank, killing him before being shot and arrested by soldiers. While the family of the dead settler mourned their loss,…
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Fast Forward Israel Pushes Plan for ‘Greener’ Green Line
The Israel Nature and Parks Authority on Wednesday proposed to the High Court of Justice that the Defense Ministry erect a simple chain-link fence backed by security systems instead of the concrete wall the ministry wants to build near the West Bank village of Batir, south of Jerusalem. The ministry is planning the 500-meter segment…
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Fast Forward Frustrated Palestinian Youth Seek New Outlets To Push Change
Far from the children who beg for change from idling cars and the teenagers who hurl rocks at armed Israeli troops, a different spectacle of Palestinian youth is playing out in the ballroom of a luxury Ramallah hotel. Young contestants are gathered for a taping of “The President”, a game show that aims to select…
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Fast Forward Jewish Settler Stabbed and Shot Dead by Palestinian at West Bank Bus Stop
A Palestinian man stabbed and shot dead an Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the Israeli ambulance service and police said. It was the first time an Israeli has been killed by a Palestinian in the West Bank since 2011. Israeli media said the attacker was standing at a bus stop used…
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Fast Forward Israel Evicts Bedouins From West Bank Village
Israeli soldiers evicted several hundred Bedouins from a village in the occupied West Bank on Monday after the army declared the area a live-fire training zone. The residents of Wadi al-Maleh, a village mostly inhabited by shepherds in the arid area bordering Jordan, had almost all left their homes by an evening curfew and retreated…
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