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 Jewish Extremist Claims Firebomb Confession Was Coerced
The main suspect in the deadly firebombing of a Palestinian family’s home in the West Bank village of Duma said he was tortured during his interrogations and that is why he confessed. Amiram Ben-Uliel, 21, of Jerusalem, was charged in January with three counts of murder. Three members of the Dawabshe family — an 18-month-old…
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Fast Forward Another Suspect Arrested in Connection to Fatal West Bank Stabbing of American Citizen
A third suspect has been arrested in the stabbing attack at a West Bank supermarket that left a dual American-Israeli citizen dead. The suspect, who reportedly was turned away from the Rami Levi supermarket in Shaar Binyamin, north of Jerusalem, by a security guard, was arrested after the attack on Thursday, the Israeli media reported…
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Fast Forward 40% of New West Bank Settlement Building Is Beyond Security Barrier
Construction was started on 1,800 new housing units in Jewish settlements in 2015, with some 40 percent outside of the security fence, according to a new report. Included in the housing starts are 1,547 permanent structures and 253 mobile units, Peace Now said in a report released Sunday. Sixty-three of the buildings were public structures,…
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Fast Forward Jewish Jogger Stabbed Near West Bank Settlement
A Jewish-Israeli jogger was moderately wounded in a stabbing near a West Bank settlement. The victim was stabbed in the shoulder on Tuesday evening at the entrance to Neve Daniel in the Gush Etzion bloc and taken to a Jerusalem hospital. Israeli security forces were searching the area for the attacker, according to the IDF….
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Fast Forward Torahs Torched as Palestinians Raid Synagogue in Illegal Outpost
Jewish prayer books and Torah scrolls in a synagogue in an illegal West Bank outpost were burned by suspected Palestinian arsonists. The synagogue is located in the Givat Sorek outpost, established on a hill overlooking the site where three Jewish teens were kidnapped from a bus stop and murdered in the summer of 2014. The…
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Fast Forward GOP Senator Pushes To Allow ‘Made in Israel’ Labels for Settlement Products
A Customs reminder barring West Bank products from being labeled “Made in Israel,” has turned into a political fight with Republicans pushing forward a legislative measures in order to revoke the labeling rule. Arkansas Republican senator Tom Cotton introduced a bill that would scrap the Customs labeling regulation. Cotton’s move came following a reminder issued…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Opposition Leader Presents West Bank Pullout Plan to John Kerry
Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog presented U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry with a plan for an Israeli pullout from the West Bank. “Israels are killed in the streets and the world advances surreal initiatives and boycotts,” Herzog said in a statement Wednesday. “Disengagement is the only path to advance a two-state solution.” Herzog, who…
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Fast Forward Settlers Forged 14 of 15 Land Deals WIth Palestinians
Nearly all of the West Bank real estate acquisitions made by a company run by a pro-settlement activist were forged. The details of the transactions by the Al-Watan company, owned by the Amana housing company and run by director-general Zeev Hever, were broadcast Monday on Israel’s Channel 1. A full report was to be broadcast…
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