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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Opinion Israel’s new gift to the far right could help end the Gaza war
Approval for a controversial new West Bank settlement might appease holdouts against a ceasefire
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Opinion Hamas should release all the hostages. But it’s foolish to think that would end the war
Israel's commitment to territorial expansion is what keeps the hostages in captivity
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Opinion A US official just made history in the West Bank — did he imperil prospects for peace?
Support for settlements is fundamentally incompatible with support for a democratic, Jewish-majority Israel
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Opinion A beloved peace activist was killed in the West Bank. Can his death finally teach us empathy?
Awdah Hathaleen was my friend. Here are the lessons, as a rabbi, that I'm taking from his life
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Opinion Americans keep getting killed in the West Bank. Here’s how the US could fight that awful trend
The US has no jurisdiction over settlers, unless they're American. And many of them are
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Fast Forward Mike Huckabee denounces killing of Palestinian-American in the West Bank as ‘terrorist act’
Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, is a proponent of Israeli annexation of the West Bank
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Fast Forward Family of Palestinian-American allegedly beaten to death by settlers in the West Bank calls for US investigation
The liberal Israel lobby J Street also called for a US-led investigation into the death
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Fast Forward Settlers set IDF security facility ablaze as scrutiny over settler violence in the West Bank mounts
The rioting comes days after armed Israeli settlers attacked two Palestinian villages
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