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 U.S. Warns Travelers To ‘Exercise Increased Caution In Israel Due To Terrorism’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The U.S. State Department called on travelers to “exercise increased caution in Israel due to terrorism.” In an email to citizens registered to its Smart Traveler Enrollment Program, or STEP, the State Department noted that the security level of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza is at Level 2: Exercise Extreme Caution….
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Fast Forward Palestinian Driver Shot While Attempting To Run Down Israelis In West Bank
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian man was shot and wounded as he attempted to run over with his car Israeli soldiers and civilians waiting at a bus station in the northern West Bank. The Israelis were waiting at the bus stop at a junction just south of Nablus, near a military base, according to the…
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Fast Forward A Pair Of Brothers Was Behind Two Recent West Bank Shooting Attacks
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A pair of brothers was behind two recent shooting attacks at West Bank bus stops that took place four days apart. Asem Barghouti carried out an attack on Dec. 12 near a bus stop outside of the Givat Asaf settlement, killing two soldiers and injuring a civilian woman and another Israeli soldier,…
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Fast Forward Airbnb Denies Israeli Claim That It’s Reversing Its Settlement Ban
Update 3:55 p.m. Airbnb denied claims made by Israel’s Ministry of Tourism that the hospitality company was reversing its month-old policy of banning listings of properties in West Bank settlements,. After a meeting in Jerusalem on Monday between Israeli government officials and a delegation from the company, Tourism Minister Yariv Levin announced that Airbnb had…
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Fast Forward Arab Bus Driver Assaulted In West Bank Settlement In Likely Revenge Attack
(JTA) — Two men beat an Arab bus driver inside a West Bank settlement in what the alleged victim said was a hate crime. According to Israeli media reports, Thursday’s incident was among several involving settlers targeting random Palestinians this week, likely to avenge terrorist attacks. Nidal Alfakia was lightly injured in the incident, in…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Suspected Of Killing 2 Israelis Shot Dead By IDF
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Palestinian man suspected of killing two Jewish-Israeli co-workers at a factory in the Barkan industrial zone in the West Bank was killed in a shootout with Israeli forces who came to arrest him. Ashraf Naalwa, 23, was killed early Thursday morning after Israeli forces surrounded his hideout. He was armed when…
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Fast Forward 2 Israeli Soldiers Killed In West Bank Shooting Attack
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Israelis were killed and two seriously injured in a second shooting near a bus stop in the West Bank. The attack on Thursday morning occurred at a bus stop outside of the Givat Asaf settlement, about a mile down the same road from the settlement of Ofra, where in an attack…
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Fast Forward Israeli Troops Kill Suspect Of Terror Attack That Killed Newborn Baby
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli security forces shot and killed the son of a West Bank Hamas leader suspected of involvement in the shooting attack outside of the West Bank settlement of Ofra that left 7 injured and a newborn baby dead. Four other Palestinian men alleged to have been involved in the attack also were…
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