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 Palestinians See No Hope for Peace as Israel Votes
Palestinians expressed weary indifference on Tuesday as Israelis voted in an election set to produce a hardline government keener to expand Jewish settlements on occupied land than seek peace. “Regardless of who wins, the result is the same: Israelis want this land but not the people,” said Ahmed Amro, a professor at Al-Quds Open University…
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Fast Forward Israel Clears Palestinians From Second West Bank Protest Camp
Israeli forces removed Palestinian protest tents from land adjoining a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Monday, the second such camp to be torn down in a week. Palestinian activists had pitched tents near the village of Beit Iksa, northwest of Jerusalem, where residents face difficulty building homes due to Israeli restrictions and…
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Israel News Rising Chorus Backs Israeli Annexation of West Bank
Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been conspicuously silent during the election campaign regarding his plans for the Israeli-occupied West Bank. But some of his close associates have been very open about theirs. Despite their reputation as two of Netanyahu’s favorites in the Likud party, Yuli Edelstein, a Cabinet minister, and Ze’ev Elkin, chairman of…
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Fast Forward Israel Clears Tents From E1 Protest Camp
Israeli forces removed Palestinian protest tents on Thursday from land earmarked for Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, having evicted activists from the encampment earlier this week, police said. “The area was cleared of all tents,” said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. “There were no disturbances.” On Sunday, police evicted 50 protesters from the so-called…
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Fast Forward Jewish Extremist Settler Convicted in Murders
A West Bank settler dubbed “The Jewish Terrorist” by the Israeli media was convicted on Wednesday of killing two Palestinians in 1997. Yaakov “Jack” Tytell, a U.S. immigrant to a settlement in the occupied West Bank, confessed to the killings. Efforts by his lawyers, one whom quoted him as saying he had been on a…
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Fast Forward Bibi Fuels 300% Growth in Jewish Settlements
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has allowed a record level of settlement expansion since his 10-month construction moratorium expired two years ago, an anti-settlement watchdog said on Wednesday. The Peace Now group, publishing a report before Israel’s Jan. 22 parliamentary election, said construction of 6,676 settler housing units in the occupied West Bank was approved…
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Fast Forward Israel Blocks Palestinians From Returning to E1
Israeli police, using stun grenades, blocked about 50 Palestinian activists who tried on Tuesday to reoccupy tents they pitched last week on a patch of West Bank land which Israel wants for Jewish settlements. Israel has drawn strong international criticism over plans to build settler homes in the area, known as “E1”, which connects the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Settlers Confident of Israel Election Boost
Entrenched in what they view as their Biblical heartland, the hardline Jewish settlers of Hebron look forward with delight to next week’s Israeli election. Opinion polls forecast Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, already at odds with the world over Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, will easily win a third term in office, with coalition…
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