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 Germany, France Slam Israel For New West Bank Land Grab
BERLIN/PARIS — Germany and France on Wednesday criticized Israel’s decision to appropriate large tracts of land in the occupied West Bank, saying the move violated international law and contradicted a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israeli Army Radio said on Tuesday the land was near the Dead Sea and the Palestinian city of Jericho….
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Fast Forward Obama Administration Raps Israel for West Bank Land ‘Expropriation’
JERUSALEM — The U.S. State Department criticized Israel for “expropriation” of West Bank land around Jericho and near the Dead Sea. The declaration turning the 580 acres of West Bank land into Israeli state land was signed by the Civil Administration’s Head of the Government Property on March 10 during a visit to Israel and…
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Fast Forward Israel Makes Massive New Land Grab in West Bank
JERUSALEM – Israel has appropriated large tracts of land in the occupied West Bank near the Dead Sea and the Palestinian city of Jericho, Israeli Army Radio said on Tuesday. Israel’s Peace Now movement, which tracks and opposes Israeli settlement in territory captured in a 1967 war, said the reported seizure of 579 acres (234…
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Fast Forward 3 Palestinians Killed After Gun and Car-Ram Attacks in West Bank
Three Palestinians carried out back-to-back gun and car-ramming attacks on Israelis near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Monday and were shot dead by the army, it said. Two of the Palestinians, armed with a handgun and an improvised machine-pistol, were killed after opening fire at civilians and soldiers who were waiting…
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Fast Forward Did Waze App Lead Israeli Soldiers Into Fierce West Bank Firefight?
A Palestinian man was killed and ten security officers were injured during the rescue of two Israeli soldiers who accidentally entered a Palestinian refugee camp after apparently being directed there by the Waze Smartphone app. The two soldiers, an army driver and squad commander who were in uniform and carrying ammunition, entered the Qalandiyah refugee…
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Fast Forward Kenya President Irks Palestinians With Visit to West Bank Settlement
Kenya’s president was validating Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem with his visits there on his first official trip to Israel, Palestinian leaders said. Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi said Thursday that the Palestinians plan to complain to the African Union and other regional organizations about Uhuru Kenyatta’s trip this week, The Associated…
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Fast Forward President Obama Signs Anti-BDS Bill — Won’t Apply to Settlements
President Barack Obama signed a bill that punishes the BDS campaign against Israel, but said he will not apply a segment that extends protections to West Bank settlements. The Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, aimed at removing unfair barriers to competitive U.S. trade, passed the U.S. House of Representatives in December and…
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Fast Forward Home of Ezra Schwartz Killer Is Razed by Israel
Israeli army bulldozers on Tuesday demolished the homes of two Palestinians who killed five people in attacks in the occupied West Bank and Israel last year, the military said. Mohammed al-Haroub shot at cars near an Israeli settlement bloc in the West Bank on Nov. 20, the military said, killing an Israeli, an American student…
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